Are the members fond of shiny-skinned supermodel types and effeminate males? Bug-eyed aliens and doll-faced vampires? What's considered gorgeous at one site may get a lukewarm reception at another. Before uploading your beloved creation to a fan site, consider the culture of the site. If that experiment yields frightening results, make your custom Sim's features less exaggerated.ġ0. Clone your Sim in "BodyShop" and see how your Sim would look with one of the default mouths or noses. The NPCs' faces are based on the defaults. If your Sims add a lot of non-playable characters, or NPCs, to their gene pools, make sure your custom Sims have features that will blend well with them. Even if you don't care about what others are doing with their Sims, you might get inspired.ĩ. In "The Sims 2" community, they change often. Just as in real life, standards of beauty change. There are lots of excellent tutorials out there. Join a "Sims 2" fan forum and study trends in Sim beauty. This is NOT a tutorial, just my notes on Sims 2 skins in the hopes it may help someone understand a little more. Body Shop also allowed the Sims and content created in it to be. Custom content and Sims created in Body Shop can be placed into the game through Create a Sim. It can be used to create entire Sims as well as custom content for Sims. It is formally known as 'CaSIE' (Create-A-Sim Independent Editor). Look at your Sim from all angles by pressing F3 in "BodyShop."Ĩ. Darren Futa: The Sims 2 Body Shop is a stand-alone tool for content creators to design unique and diverse sims that players will be able to use in The Sims 2 and can offer to other players. Body Shop is a tool that came with The Sims 2. In "BodyShop," look at how your new Sim looks as a male (or vice versa), as a teen, etc.ħ.
Every Sim you create includes a male and female version of its face in its genetics. This Video will show you the basics of the Sims 2 Body Shop.Regarding the persistent question on how to get Body Shop:Go to Start, All Programs, EA Games, Si. Simmers often wonder why their supermodel females and chiseled males spawn mutant children. Start with the upper features (eyes, brow area) and work your way down.Ħ. Don't go overboard, or all your Sims will look alike.ĥ. Soften the sharp edges of one of the default faces by blending it with a softer face. Use the Face Shape heading in "BodyShop" to blend two default features or faces. If you want realism, make the eyes smaller, narrower, higher in the face, and closer together than the defaults.Ĥ. You can make a decent Sim in less than five minutes, but give yourself at least a half-hour.ģ. I, for one, cannot live without the "eye squint less/more" tool.Ģ. Also, "BodyShop" offers a few tools for tweaking Sim faces that are absent in "CAS". "BodyShop" offers a couple of big advantages over "CAS": You can clone your new Sims and upload them to the dozens of "Sims 2" fan sites. A new version of it comes with each new expansion pack. Use "BodyShop" to create your Sims instead of building them in-game using "Create-A-Sim" ("CAS"). When I decided to try my hand at the tedious task of replacing all the default faces, I discovered that you can make any one of those archetypes into something lovely - or at least tolerable - by following a few simple guidelines:ġ.