Maxis Improved - Eyes & Face Replacements - Part I
This is the first part of 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 (in this post) 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)
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.)
The replacements for all paranormal creatures are in Part II.. :)
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_au for the maxis edited skintones
duderocks327 for the face overrides package file
NOTES
P/N: This is basically the same skin I posted previously (on a f-lock post jic), but I think (and hope) the quality is better now (at least, it looks so to me). Initially I was using engram's edited skintones for the texture, because her blend was close to perfect for me (expect for the eyes and a bit too shiny for my taste), but I was very unhappy with how the detail around the nose turned out, so this time I decided to use Louis face blush directly (just altering the tone to match maxis skins). I think it works better now, tho, must say that the texture on the nose is very hard to get right. The lips are the same as before (from engram's skin, and she used Louis blush as well), but I fixed the mouth corner just slightly to make it less notorious. The eyes are also very slightly fixed to soften the smudginess around them, but I didn't use any extra texture there. strange_tomato recommended me leh's eyelids, but I couldn't make it match right and didn't like the results. Also tried with a few other skins, but couldn't like anyone enough at the end, so I just left it like that.
Also, I should warn 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.
JIC, for the few who D/Led the skins before, you'd have to replace the file, but keep in mind that this set doesn't include plantsim as before. I'll be doing separate sets with and without new eyes for them this time, but they are almost done, so it'll be posted pretty soon.
And CHEERS for all skin creators, because is a very tough job, imo. <3
(ETA: With LJ current problems, it took me forever to get this up and my scrapbook is barely working, so hope no one has problems seeing the preview images. If so let me know, I could move them to PB or something)