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This is a complete set of faces and eyes replacement to improve maxis defaults. (Meaning, it is not intended to really change anything much, only to make it look better)

The skins are face replacements (not full skin sets) only, and are meant to be used with maxis defaults. They only change the area around the nose, and very slightly on lips and eyes.

The base replacement file (PART I) includes replacement faces for all 4 default skin tones, plus alien and zombies. (no problem if you don't have uni and/or AL, the extra texture won't affect your game).

There is also one set for each paranormal creature (PART II), but the actual face texture only changed in plantsims and genie. The rest only change the eyes to maxis-improved eye replacements, and are also faces only (not whole body skins), meant to be use with maxis defaults.

The eyes keep the same maxis original textures and color, but without fogginess. (Very similar to the Awake set, but even cleaner now). The replacement file includes the 5 standard eyes color in one file. NO replacement for alien eyes is included in either set, but you can use any other alien eyes replacement along with these. (As long as is a replacements for alien eyes only. Remember, you can NOT have two sets of replacement of the same kind together.)

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PART I - BASE

PREVIEWS

DOWNLOADS

Download eye replacements

Download face replacements

CREDITS

EA/Maxis for the skin/eyes textures used as base
Louis for the face blush
Ankiode for the nose shader
engram for the maxis edited skintones
duderocks for the face overrides package file

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VAMPIRES - Nightlife
(Being the vampire face an overlay, there isn't much to do with it, but maxis default eyes always look very blurry, so at least there's some improvement on that part)

Download Vampire Replacement

WEREWOLVES - Pets
(Werewolf don't need any change on the face, imo, and, though, I'm not too happy with these eyes, at least they match and look better that defaults. For the alien/werewolf I only changed the iris of the eye, to match the werewolf one, but the rest is black like in the original textures)

Download Werewolf Replacement

PLANTSIMS - Seasons
(Plantsims faces did change as all the regular ones, just like in the first set, so they have better detailing in nose and lips, than maxis defaults. For the eyes, I used a very similar yellow tone for both states, but is just a bit different between green and wilt. There's also a set with default maxis eyes, jic)

Download Plantsim Replacement
Download Plantsim Replacement (w/ Maxis default eyes)

BIGFOOT - Bon Voyage
(Bigfoot is really handsome as it comes, ;) but his original eyes are kind of a blurry-puke-like-greenish, so think a cleaner brown fits him better, tho I'm not totally happy with this color either...)

Download Bigfoot Replacement

GENIE - Free Time
(Just like with bigfoot I wanted to change the horrid puke-like-greenish on his eyes, but once I saw the texture I realized he could also get a light tweak on the nose too, so his face matches with everyone else. And just like with plantsims, there's is a file with the fixed face, but maxis eyes, jic)

Download Genie Replacement
Download Genie Replacement (w/ Maxis default eyes)

CREDITS

EA/Maxis for the skin/eyes textures used as base
Louis for the face blush
Ankiode for the nose shader
engram_au for the maxis edited skintones
kinemortophobia for many of the package files used for the creatures replacements.

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NOTES

Please remember that you can NOT have two replacement files of the same kind at one time (meaning you can only have one replacement for plantsim and one for vampires, etc.), and the eyes are included in the skin textures for all of the creatures (it can't be done any other way, jic). Therefore, if you like the plantsims and/or genie faces on these sets, but do not like the eyes, let me know and I can make you a new replacement with any custom eyes you want (or feel free to do your own with these textures, if you know how to. It's not hard to do with basic simpe knowledge). -- And just to be double clear, all the rest of the creature replacements (vampires, werewolves and bigfoot) only change the eyes for the sake of consistency, so if you use any other eye replacement, you won't need them.--

That this is the first time I've done replacement skins and put them up for public download, so please if you notice any problem let me know. (And jic images are posted on my LJ scrapbook, which is running very slowly lately, so if previews don't show up be patience and/or load the page again.)

CHEERS for all skin creators, because is a very tough job, imo. <3