All of my various heroine meshes are based upon base meshes from the original Sims game. (I think - MAYBE one of them is a University mesh - but I don't think so). So, basically, any texture that works on a base game mesh can easily be converted in bodyshop to work on the heroine mesh. (I never created any custom skins for my meshes except for the black swimsuit and black bodysuit outfits - all the rest are just coverted game skins.)

Here's how to do it yourself...

1) Download one of the hundred nude skins that show up as clothes in your game.

2) Open up bodyshop and copy that nude mesh as if you were going to recolor it. Give it a project name like "BaseNude".

3) Find one of the skins for my heroine "swimsuit" mesh - (or get it here) - and clone it as if you were going to edit that skin. Give it a project name like "XenosNude".

4) In Windows Explorer, copy the images from your "BaseNude" project into the "XenosNude" project.

5) Look at the XenosNude project in Bodyshop again and it should now have a nude skin rather than the swimsuit or whatever other skin it originally had. (The swimsuit mesh and nude meshes are really the same thing within the game).

True, this won't actually replace the actual base nude skin for the sim, but they can wear this nude skin as underwear or sleepwear (if you check those off when you package the file in bodyshop).

This technique can be used for all of my meshes since I didn't remap anything - all base game skins can easily be converted to Heroine mesh skins. You can even take other people's skins that are designed for base game meshes (at least the several that I have already made) and apply them to my meshes, too.

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I still have my deformer presets to make new conversions for this game. It takes me about 40 minutes to convert a mesh. My main problem with these meshes (other than the lack of a replacement default nude for these) is that if I spend all my time making new meshes, then I don't have time to convert base clothes to apply to the meshes. IF someone feels like taking the initiative to convert some base game skins to apply to my meshes (no artistic talent required), then I could very well be inspired to rekindle this project and convert some of the base meshes that have been released more recently. There are a lot of new ones, but it's silly for me to spend 40 minutes per mesh if there is only going to be one or two outfits available for that mesh.

Soooooo - if anyone is into it, please do do some recolors. Once you have a half dozen or so, put 'em up somewhere. (I'm not sure you can submit files here unless you are one of the in-house posters, if not - MTS2 would be fine). Lemme know that you put them up and if you'll also do some converting for another new mesh, I'll let you request any of the other in-game meshes and I'll make the base for you. (Full bodies only - because the hips and abdomen sizes are changed, the heroine mesh doesn't work on Tops/Bottoms base meshes).

Sound like a deal?

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P.S. Persephone - you've pretty much already paid your dues on doing recolors, so if you have a specific mesh you'd like converted to the heroine mesh, lemme know and I'll make it for you. Other custom meshes that other people have made could probably work, too - but not ones that already have bigger busts/hips, etc. And, of course, we'd need permission from the mesh creator to be able to use it. I don't want to spend time making something I can't share with everyone.

I haven't had time to play with these meshes in almost a year now, but back in the day, I looked into this and it just didn't seem to be possible without reassinging ALL female base nude meshes to the heroine mesh... True, I haven't looked into it lately (time is short), but I'm fairly certain that it can't be done for the various reasons described above.

That's actually one of the reasons that I lost interest in the project in general - I didn't like the loss of "continuity/realism" whenever someone took a shower or whatever. Another reason was that there started to be plenty of other folks out there who were making new bodytypes - and were doing it far better than I. (I think these were actually among the first dozen or so meshes made for the game - there were only two or three of us doing it back then).

Anyway - as far as I know, there's no way to change the default nude skin for your sims wearing these outfits.

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Yay - even more clothes for my mesh! Thanks a bunch for sharing and I'm glad folks are finding use for this thing! Now I just need to find some time to do some other base-meshes into this bodystyle - maybe during Christmas week... (Fingers crossed)

Just found this thread in here - very nice work! Love getting new clothes for my old meshes! Thanks for sharing!

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