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sims_by_izza Dec. 2nd, 2010 11:59 am)
Yes, I'm sorry for the huge teaser. That darn teaser gave me trouble from day one and I finally gave up and let it stay this big. Making it smaller made it too hard to read/put as much text as I wanted. For the curious, the teaser models are each a randomly generated CAS sim - one from each template set.
Because these are such a huge project, as well as because they might be complicated for a first time template user to understand, there will be a lengthy body of text before the downloads. For seasoned template downloaders, any important pre-download info is in bold. For new-to-templates users, I recommend you read the text.
There is just one little thing I'd like to say to all involved in making this happen before I begin....
For sharing your wonderful, unique sims and giving me permission to turn them in to templates.
For the overwhelming generosity and support you have given to the project.
For those who took the trouble to retrieve lost sims on dead download links.
For those that went the extra mile to make exclusive faces for this project.
For those who were willing to allow the use of the most precious and personal of sims - their selfsims.
For the friendliness and good nature you've shown to a simmer you may never have heard of emailing you out of nowhere making strange requests.
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. None of this would have been possible without each and every one of you!
This is what all those WIP posts have been leading up to. It's here at last!
Five complete sets of default replacement face templates, using sims from all over the community. Available as complete sets and individually for those who like to mix and match.
I'm a mix-and-matcher myself. At any given time, I have a mixed bag from all the templates available in the community and I change them around as often as I change my underwear.... well, almost....
For those simmers who might never have downloaded default replacement face templates before, it's pretty simple. Either download a full set, or JUST ONE of the options for each face. You can only have one template for each face number in your game at any time. I've tried to make this very straightforward in that I have given my templates with the same number the same filenames as one another, so they will overwrite each other. To sum up, they're foolproof as long as you don't rename the files! I find a good way to keep track of what I'm currently using is to have a small folder with a copy of whatever the current templates in my Downloads folder are inside. That way it is easy to locate your current defaults if you want to switch.
There are all sorts of faces in these templates. There are created sims and born-in-game sims. There are sims with very strong features and sims with very soft ones. There are enough elf eared sims to please the biggest elf fetish. Please note that if you're an elf-lover, for all but a couple of the faces there is one elf-eared option, but you'll have to mix and match for an almost all elf template set. There are selfsims (including my own - I would never ask anybody to do something I wasn't willing to do myself!) There are even fictional characters. There are classically beautiful sims as well as quirky and interesting sims. For the alien templates (28), there are classic aliens and less conventional ones, as well as some human options for those who don't want aliens in their game. The elf template (26) features only sims with elf ears, however some are more extremely featured than others. Many simmers will recognize several of the sims in these templates. However, there are likely to be many the average simmer won't recognize. This is not an elitist template set. There are sims belonging to lesser-known and unknown simmers as well as the more well known, "household name" simmers. The biggest requirements for sims to be eligible for this set was an either born in game or created face (eg. unique) and an ability to look acceptable through all ages and both genders. There are more of my own sims than I would have liked, but I've tried to spread them out so that you don't have to have any of my own sims as templates if you don't want to.
One thing you will notice right away as you look through the previews is that these template sets don’t look like any previous template set. They are more like Maxis originals in that there are some faces with stronger features and sometimes unusual or unique features. However, unlike Maxis faces, they’re not ugly. I think they’re all beautiful. If you disagree based on what the media and popular culture has taught you about beauty, I’m very sorry. Nobody can or should live up to the standard of beauty the media promotes, which doesn’t actually exist in nature. Speaking for myself, my eyes could only be closer together if I didn't have a nose, as well as being deep-set and permanently squinty. I have such a high forehead that long Bettie Page bangs are necessary if I don't want people to think I'm balding. My ears are a little larger than normal and stick out more than I’d like. But that doesn’t make me ugly. That makes me unique, and I’d be lying if I said I thought I was ugly. That said, how many people apart from myself have read these words a million times when reading a legacy: “I am so marrying her in someday – I need that nose in this legacy!”?
Most of the faces are completely unedited, though there were a couple I had to tweak slightly in the toddler stage (eg. one looked fine in all other ages but their eyes disappeared in to their brow area as a toddler). I only edited the stage until it was acceptable, no more, no less. When somebody creates a sim (myself included) they often don't bother to check if that sim looks normal at all age levels.
Most of these faces breed decently to each other (and in many cases far better than decently). Those few that really don't breed decently with one of the other faces have been given the same face number in different sets. Do not be afraid to mix and match, however. Many of these faces bred well with almost every other face across all sets, and when that was the case I threw them in a set randomly once important groupings were done.
The complete sets include a folder with previews of the low to middle range children of some of the faces in that set. I know for more common purposes people won't directly breed the template faces to each other anyway (eg. in a legacy situation) but some people will. I thought it better to show the less amazing outcomes of breeding, as it seems more honest than taking the most beautiful sim those two faces can produce and saying "this is what happens if you breed them every time".
For the mix-and-match simmers, there is a download link to a .rar containing a large selection of pictures of what can happen in breeding both within the sets and between faces that are in different sets to each other (though once again, all of low to middle range children). The link to this pictorial guide is located just after the last of the Alien options. I can already hear a few imagined cries of "But some of these sims are really pretty! Are you sure you uploaded the right folder?" Yes, it's the right folder. Like I said, most of these faces really do breed decently together.
I would like to point out that I took many more pictures than I've uploaded, but later deleted all but 120 of them for the sake of smaller downloads. Unfortunately, I did the deletions before the faces were organized in to sets, so some sets have more pictures of possible children than others (and I apologize that Set 3 only has one picture). I have, however, included the worst outcomes of all so that you'll know.
For the purpose of the offspring breeding project, I gave all sims my default S2 and the same set of blue eyes by Jesstheex (those particular eyes purely because they are the first "human" eye color in my eye bin and I didn't want to waste time clicking). The children are all CAS randomized children, not born in game children. Most simmers will already know that CAS randomized children are often less attractive than their game-bred peers. So the worst may never even occur, but it could happen. Anyhow, I thought it the best way to get worst case scenarios.
Each face (eg. face 1) has five options. Options A, B, C, D and E. The way I'm going to preview these is by face. So you will see all the Face 1 options first, and so on through alien. Click on the face preview picture to download that face (though I'd recommend opening the download link in a new tab or window). The faces are previewed wearing my defaults. Below each face picture is the credit telling you which sim the template was created from and who the creator was. If the face requires any extra files for it to show up/randomize/work properly, I have linked to them beside each face number. I couldn't see any policy regarding those files, and I didn't want to step on any toes, so they are just linked to.
I would like to apologize about the fact that the previews are not uniform in size. As the faces were different shapes and sizes, it was impossible to get them more uniform without ruining the proportions. I do not claim to be any good with Photoshop. At all.
After the individuals, the five complete sets are available for download. There will be a picture from the teaser image with the set number on it. Just click that picture to download. Set 1 includes all the Option A faces, 2 all the option B faces, and so on. There are previews in the .rar files as well.
All the way down at the very end will be a gigantic credit list for everything, as well as the general policy. Do please take the time to read it!
FACE 01 - HEART
Face One's elf eared option. This template was created using Taina Ugries, who belongs to Rhiannon Alexis.
This template was created using Althea, who belongs to Coldfire.
This template was created using Maggie, who belongs to Tranquilized.
This template was created using Lead, who belongs to Xie Belle.
This template was created using Chlorine, who belongs to Xie Belle.
FACE 02 - BASE
This template was created using Aimee, who belongs to Xie Belle.
Face Two's elf eared option. This template was created using Keeva Marcossi,who belongs to Mikelisryker.
This template was created using Jake Frost, who belongs to me. He has never been released for download before.
This template was created using Blanche, who belongs to Charterzard.
This template was created using Arden, who belongs to me. He has never been released for download before.
FACE 03 - ERUS
This template was created using Scotty, who belongs to me. He has never been released for download before.
This template was created using Dawn, who belongs to Jenfold.
This template was created using Syria, an exclusive face made for these templates by Mikelisryker.
Face Three's elf eared option. This template was created using Vada Fennell, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Mia, who belongs to Libertine.
Face 04 - EMED
This template was created using Fox, who belongs to Mikelisryker.
Face Four's elf eared option. This template was created using Cait Cole, who belongs to Rhiannon Alexis.
This template was created using Tantalum, who belongs to Xie Belle.
This template was created using Des Fennell, who belongs to me. He has never been released for download before.
This template was created using Liv Chambers, who belongs to Rhiannon Alexis.
FACE 05 - CBAN (note that Face Five does not have an elf eared option)
This template was created using Millicent Hodges, who belongs to Pooklet.
This template was created using Gallagher Fennell, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Susan Lambourn, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Sonny Chambers, who belongs to Rhiannon Alexis.
This template was created using Zooey Hart, who belongs to Rhiannon Alexis.
Face 06 - CMAS
This template was created using Maisie McDermott, who belongs to me.
Face Six's elf eared option. This template was created using Auberon Vertdubois, who belongs to Almighty Hat.
This template was created using Rupert Fennell, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Beatrice Yovetich, who belongs to Pooklet.
This template was created using Dusty, who belongs to me.
FACE 07 - EAFR
This face was created using Yuuki Cross, who belongs to Rhapsody.
This template was created using Nellie Frost, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Julian, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Leslie Fennell, who belongs to me. She has never been released for download before.
Face Seven's elf eared option. This template was created using Corrigan Moth, who belongs to Almighty Hat.
FACE 08 - EASI
This template was created using Alice, who belongs to Bunhead.
This template was created using Gallium, who belongs to Xie Belle.
This template was created using Kathleen, who is the selfsim of and belongs to Leenyland.
Face Eight's elf eared option. This template was created using Robin Goodfellow, who belongs to Almighty Hat.
This template was created using Oralia Vuorinen, who belongs to Kayleigh.
FACE 09 - CINO
This template was created using Wilder, who belongs to me.
Face Nine's elf eared option. This template was created using Mallebron Cobweb, who belongs to Almighty Hat.
This template was created using Norabelle, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Russet Fennell, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Natasha Fennell, who belongs to me.
FACE 10 - ESTE
Face Ten's elf eared option. This template was created using Becky, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Josie Ryan, who belongs to Rhiannon Alexis.
This template was created using Samantha, who is the selfsim of and belongs to TakingbackSAMANTHAx.
This template was created using Scheherazade, who belongs to Alleliua.
This template was created using Bodach, who belongs to Mikelisryker.
FACE 11 - CMAY
This template was created using Azaya, who is the selfsim of and belongs to Azaya.
This template was created using Sable McCarthy, who belongs to Rhiannon Alexis.
This template was created using Sharmaine Posey, who belongs to Stakeit-uk.
This template was created using Maximilian Sthal, who belongs to Nilou.
Face Eleven's elf eared option. This template was created using Rich Fennell, who belongs to me.
FACE 12 - EEAS
This template was created using Wia, who belongs to Anuvi.
Face Twelve's elf eared option. This template was created using Amaranta, who belongs to Brilliantcat.
This template was created using Malia Servus, who belongs to Boolpropbea.
This template was created using Arizona Eckert, who belongs to Rhiannon Alexis.
This template was created using Amanda Backman, who belongs to me. She has never been released for download before.
FACE 13 - ECER (note that Face Thirteen does not have an elf eared option)
This template was created using Copper, who belongs to Xie Belle.
This template was created using Flannery Lundgren, who belongs to Jesstheex.
This template was created using Mary, who belongs to Cosette.
This template was created using Onyx Siriocra, who belongs to Racetrackd.
This template was created using Achilles Fennell, who belongs to me. He has never been released for download before.
Face 14 - CTEU (note that Face Fourteen does not have an elf eared option)
This template was created using Addison Strange, who belongs to Pooklet.
This template was created using Archer, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Sunday, who belongs to me.
This template was created using LaLa Lemonseed, who belongs to Plumeria.
This template was created using Harlow, who belongs to Rhiannon Alexis.
FACE 15 - CETH
This template was created using Javier, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Tom, who belongs to Nilou.
Face Fifteen's elf eared option. This template was created using Ariel McGee, who belongs to Quellasims.
This template was created using Chloe, who belongs to Libertine.
This template was created using Moonbeam Frost, who belongs to me.
FACE 16 - EENG
Face Sixteen's elf eared option. This template was created using Grigol, who belongs to Garnet812.
This template was created using Carmelita Cave, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Logan, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Vivienne Claire, who belongs to Fivesims.
This template was created using Zero, who belongs to Jenfold.
FACE 17 - CARA
This template was created using Clotilde Douglees-Nelson, who belongs to Nilou.
This template was created using Celeste Nelson, who belongs to Nilou.
Face Seventeen's elf eared option. This template was created using Mona Black, who belongs to Greymanticore.
This template was created using Samara, who belongs to 6akalaka1.
This template was created using Eulogy, who belongs to me.
FACE 18 - CAUS
This template was created using Josie Cave, who belongs to me. She has never been released for download before.
This template was created using Brigitte, who belongs to Nilou.
This template was created using Flamingo, who belongs to me.
Face Eighteen's elf eared option. This template was created using Night Siriocra, who belongs to Racetrackd.
This template was created using Shadow, who belongs to Mikelisryker.
FACE 19 - CCEL (note that Face Nineteen does not have an elf eared option)
This template was created using Joanne Fennell, who belongs to me. She has never been released for download before.
This template was created using Lion Fauna, who belongs to Dorkasaur Sims.
This template was created using Platinum, who belongs to Xie Belle.
This template was created using Harper Brockel, who belongs to Quellasims.
This template was created using Adam, an exclusive face made for these templates by Nilou.
FACE 20 - CIND
This template was created using Anneliese Marcossi, who belongs to Mikelisryker.
This template was created using Ticky Telling, who belongs to Pooklet.
This template was created using Dan Cave, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Lady, who belongs to Kiara.
Face Twenty's elf eared option. This template was created using Eysling, who belongs to Amaryll.
FACE 21 - CPER (Please download argon_archfix.rar if you don't have it already)
This template was created using Eleonora, an exclusive face made for these templates by Nilou.
This template was created using Cysteine Urea, who belongs to Lillany.
This template was created using Liam Nelson, who belongs to Nilou.
This template was created using Jamie, who belongs to Libertine.
Face Twenty One's elf eared option. This template was created using Hutch Serafinowicz, who belongs to Xie Belle.
FACE 22 - CMED
This template was created using Molly, who belongs to me. She has never been released for download before.
This template was created using Vivacia, who belongs to me. She has never been released for download before.
Face Twenty Two's elf eared option. This template was created using Star Marcossi, who belongs to Mikelisryker.
This template was created using Ketla Langstaff, who belongs to me. She has never been released for download before.
This template was created using Carrie Fennell, who belongs to me.
FACE 23 - CPLA
Face Twenty Three's elf eared option. This template was created using Briary Peaseblossom, who belongs to Almighty Hat.
This template was created using Xanthic, who belongs to Mikelisryker.
This template was created using Harper Black, who belongs to Simbic.
This template was created using Kiki Sukaserm, who belongs to me. She has never been released for download before.
This template was created using Stella Arquero, who belongs to Rhiannon Alexis.
FACE 24 - CPOL
This template was created using Addie Landon, who belongs to Kayleigh.
This template was created using Storm King, who belongs to Charterzard.
This template was created using Izza, who is the selfsim of and belongs to me. She has never been released for download before.
This template was created using Tiang, who belongs to Anuvi.
Face Twenty Four's elf eared option. This template was created using Iseult, who belongs to Anuvi.
FACE 25 - CSLA (Please download argon_archfix.rar if you don't have it already)
Face Twenty Five's elf eared option. This template was created using Kor'a Lys, who belongs to Boolpropbea.
This template was created using Tottie, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Emele Fillon, who belongs to Le-plat-du-jour.
This template was created using Heather, who belongs to Xie Belle.
This template was created using Nathalie Marcossi, who belongs to Mikelisryker.
FACE 26 - EELF (Please download Randomize_26EelfArch.rar if you don't have it already)
This template was created using Lankin Oren, who belongs to Almighty Hat.
This template was created using Edvige Stuart, who belongs to Nilou.
This template was created using Llama Fauna, who belongs to Dorkasaur Sims.
This template was created using Willow McGee, who belongs to me. She has never been released for download before.
This template was created using Ainsel Mustardseed, who belongs to Almighty Hat.
FACE 27 - ETGE
This template was created using Octavius Fennell, who belongs to me.
Face Twenty Seven's elf eared option. This template was created using Titania Underhill, who belongs to Almighty Hat.
This template was created using Vergil, who belongs to me.
This template was created using Tokyo, an exclusive face made for these templates by Mikelisryker.
This template was created using Keira Frost, who belongs to me. She has never been released for download before.
FACE 28 - ALIEN (Please download Randomize_AlienArch.rar and Argon_alienarch.rar if you don't have them already)
This template was created using Stu-Pot, who belongs to Wolf Isa.
This template was created using Nancy Screw, who is the selfsim of and belongs to Powerslave.
This template was created using Kristian Isa, who is the selfsim of and belongs to Wolf Isa.
This template was created using Poppy Greenwood, who belongs to Simbic.
This template was created using Stella-Spawn, who belongs to Xie Belle.
Well, that's all of them. Couldn't choose? That's okay - remember that all five complete sets are available below.
DOWNLOAD THOSE BREEDING PROJECT PHOTOS If YOU WANT
And now for the full sets:
Set 1 contains all Option A faces.
Set 2 contains all Option B faces.
Set 3 contains all Option C faces.
Set 4 contains all Option D faces.
Set 5 contains all Option E faces.
Credits/Thanks:
Katu-sims for writing this great user-friendly tutorial on creating face templates.
SimPE for giving me the tools to create these templates.
AllenABQ for most of the template files (though I did edit Spookymuffin's where AllenABQ had missed an age category).
Terrakosmos for the alien template files and the files that add alien and elf faces to the townie pool.
Argon for the file that unhides the alien faces and the file that fixes faces 21 and 25.
And of course, the wonderful simmers who alowed me to turn their faces in to templates, in alphabetical order:
6akalaka1, Alleliua, Almighty Hat, Amaryll, Anuvi, Azaya, Boolpropbea, Brilliantcat, Bunhead, Charterzard, Coldfire, Cosette, Dorkasaur Sims, Fivesims, Garnet812, Greymanticore, Jenfold, Jesstheex, Kayleigh, Kiara, Leenyland, Le-plat-du-jour, Libertine, Lillany, Mikelisryker, Nilou, Plumeria, Pooklet, Powerslave, Quellasims, Racetrackd, Rhapsody, Rhiannon Alexis, Simbic, Stakeit-uk, TakingbackSAMANTHAx, Tranquilized, Wolf Isa and Xie Belle.
If I have missed anybody, please let me know straight away. It wasn't intentional!
Policy & Guidelines:
They're face templates, so a policy in general is very hard. However, there are sure to be people downloading something like face templates for the first time who will need to be told certain, should be obvious, truths.
1. These templates are the faces of sims belonging to your fellow simmers. Most of these simmers, myself included, have a NO TSR, NO PAYSITES and NO EXCHANGE policy for their sims. Therefore, I strongly advise people not to use randomly generated, unedited template sims from these templates as models or sims for download on the aforementioned sites.
2. It is not good form and is generally frowned upon in all decent simming circles to ever upload a randomly generated template sim and claim you made it yourself without working on a facial sculpt yourself to make that sim unique and therefore your own work. Uploading legacy spouses who are template sims is usually perfectly acceptable if they're popular in your posted legacy, however. I shouldn't have to say this, but it does still happen in the community, so I have.
3. Do not reupload these templates, either as individuals or in sets, anywhere! Don't claim you made them either. Most of these sims may not be my own but I worked very hard to make them in to templates! They are freely available on both my Livejournal and Dreamwidth. They're not going anywhere and they will always remain free. This doesn't apply to people whose sims I used for the project - you guys already know that it's okay with me if you upload your own sims' templates on your journals or similar with credit and a link back here for the rest of the templates.
4. One thing I would like to strongly point out is that I had written permission from each and every one of these simmers to use their sims for this purpose. If you're planning to make a set like this one, with faces by other simmers, you should most definitely gain their permission first. Some people will refuse you and they have every right to do so. It has been my privelege to work with other people's sims - NOT my right!
5. I'd like to stress that these face templates are in no way a replacement for the real sims by these simmers. Having other people's characters in your game is way more fun than having templates made from them. I fervently hope the sims used for these templates will continue to get as many downloads as they previously have and that the worst this project does is make those particular sims more popular for download, not less. Incidentally, I highly doubt that a sim using one of these templates would be Pixel Trade compliant.
And finally... If you find that I have made any mistakes in creating any of these templates (though I'm fairly sure I've caught and fixed any errors) please tell me about it right away so that I can fix it!
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