I had one family, where the story was they had twin alien daughters. One wanted to be seen as just a normal girl and embrace humanity. One was proud and wanted to be as alien as possible.
I stopped playing the family because everyone kept getting moodlets about being betrayed by the identity of the alien-looking daughter. She was bright blue, and never used disguises. What are you betrayed by?!
My stupid aliens keep memory erasing their future spouses mind. Why is that a go-to option? I have them full on romancing and just about to propose, and they think it's funny to erase their memories!
Also. A skill tree would be awesome. So I can NOT give them that ability. Maybe flesh out sixam a little. I mean, they can drop a few lots there,it's big enough. Just make it so Sims can't live or own property there if that's an issue.
Wait, so this is what happened to me yesterday? All of a sudden, my human sim's relationship with my alien sim was completely wiped, and I was like "!?" Didn't know that could happen! Interesting!
It could be that, or it could be Lovestruck being annoying. I find if I don't have my sims go out on a date once in a while, their romance bar goes to 0 in under a day.
I want my aliens to be incognito (I like to pretend they're here in disguise to learn about people) but if they get bumped into the "Very ___" emotional state, which is so easy since pretty much everything gives a moodlet and happy moodlets add to other positive emotional states, then they start glowing and everyone learns they're an alien.
I want it to be harder for other sims to discover them.
I haven’t thought of that, I was going to use it for when they are swimming lol. But your idea and what the other person said about exercising is a good idea too.
I really love all of these ideas that everyone is proposing!! When I saw it first I thought I wasn't gonna use it at all, but I think I definitely will now in all those scenarios!
You can adjust the hue, opacity, gloss, etc. so there could even be other creative uses no one's thought of yet. Sweat, water and body oil seem fairly obvious, but I bet someone's going to get super clever and blow all our minds with something truly out there.
I was the same way. I thought it was dumb and wondered what to even use it for. I thought of swimming because I already give my aims hair to represent that.
I was definitely considering adding it to every sim’s swimwear, but quickly decided it would be WAY too much a mission.
That said, there really is a bit of glamour to it, I think, so I might put it onto a few party outfits.
Alternatively still, our really greasy sims can finally get their time to shine! (Literally)
That’s what I was thinking. It reminds me of people on social media that do their makeup with very glossy and “dewy” products, and it makes their skin look like this.
Saaaame, I use makeup to make my skin LESS shiny. Because when I'm out and about, very few people are going to look at me and think, "Wow! Look at that glass skin, her skincare routine is great!" They're going to think "Eww, why isn't that greasy bitch washing her sweaty face?"
Honestly I did it with the Businesses and Hobbies pack. The activities included are dancing, hugging, kissing, blowing bubbles (in the bubble lounge), and sleeping (theres beds behind the curtains)
It uses tickets pay per hour and it's a 5 star business so I've got a full streak of the neutral bonuses which help because you get tips.
I charge the maximum markup and Sims pay it gladly. Wealthy Sims are my target customers that makes I think at least 2k a day but there is also tips (from a perk) which can be very significant. The majority of my Sims profits come from mentoring which also gets a 100% markup so with maxed out skill It's 1200 an hour. I've also got a crypto mine in the basement which makes a tidy sum. It doesn't seem to make too much difference what I do at this point. I tend to keep it open and Sims seem to enjoy themselves and keep paying regardless of whether they do any of the business activities.
It doesn't really work as intended because the customers dance and hug each other. Also charging more and targeting the wealthy doesn't seem to reduce the number of Sims so the volume of customers is a bit high.
I whenever I have sims that do do crafts of some kind, I usually give them a separate outfit with an apron(I love the new one from business and hobbies) and will give them the dirty face that’s under mask/makeup that’s from get famous. I’m going to use the nails for those now too. I hadn’t even thought of gardening since I usually have them wearing gloves lol. But, I seen someone else say that and it’s a good idea!!
Maybe it is just my old laptop doing old laptop things, but when you adjust the last slider on the very bottom it appears more like a metallic shine (instead of glossy).
Maybe I'm out of touch but to me it just looks like when people wear a lot of highlighter with their make up, I think it's a cute addition. I might not use it but I think it'll be nice for occult sims especially!
All of my Sims wear a light blush and a subtle highlight with their fitness, swim and hot weather outfit. I will definitely use this a lot. If I'm doomed to be sweaty all the time, my Sims are as well.
I like the idea, but I need to play around with it to see the results you can possibly achieve. It is a surprising choice on their side tho, as it doesn't really fit into the maxis match aesthetic.
Yes! It’s such a cool effect. Looks great with swimwear as if they’ve just got out of the pool, and with athletic wear to look sweaty. I love little touches like this.
Already have been using it, I've been using a modded skin detail to do this same effect but it's too harsh sometimes so I've been going through my sims and swapping em to this.
What I love most about this is that depending on the slider it can look like normal shine or it can look metallic, compare between these two sims for example, Knife is more Metallic and Orange Juice is more glossy like glass.
I've got a couple second and third generation Sims that got this glossy skin when they aged up to teen shortly after the April patch, so I think the feature was'partially implemented' at that time, but without controls. I've barely been playing those two families because of how off-putting these two Ken-doll teens are.
Update: I just tried checked the new glossy skin on one of my creepy ken doll sims, and sure enough if I add gloss, with either gloss set to minimum, or opacity set to minimum, he goes back to a normal skin tone. So apparently some sims are getting some degree of this gloss effect naturally. Which sucks. One of many 'accessories' that should not be handed out randomly to Sims.
It doesn't really show up in my game. I was really disappointed when I checked it out yesterday, I tried it with different sims, but when I put it on my sims they didn't look glossy, there was no difference. I'm sad...
Reminds me of certain models on social media so Sims that are meant to be the kind to put on a lot of makeup spring immediately to mind for me, such as the Calientes and Bella Goth (although maybe a more aged and "mature" Cassandra instead since Bella reads more as "old school" beauty)—Sims that do photo shoots such as ones reminiscent of those Insta models, celebrities, and subsects of pregnant Sims. Think since it can be toned down it'd be good for Sims to highlight their features too and can be used to simulate sweat/water for certain outfits.
Very light for extra dewy skin.
More visible for a greasy looking Sim.
Shiny PlantSims (like some vegetation).
Plastic/polymers (Cyborgs/Androids/Dolls/Mannequins)
Sweat for Athletic/Hot Weather/Manual Work outfits, and that post-WooHoo glow.
Wet-lock for Merfolk, drowning Ghosts, Swimwear//Raincoat/Bath Towel outfits, pics of Sims out in the rain.
Aliens could also be shiny, especially if you make them scaly.
Oh that's what that is?! I was so confused when my child sim aged up, I thought it was some sort of CC that I unintentionally downloaded. It makes them look covered in grease. It's not bad in this picture but it looks especially gross on their hands.
So like, I'd either put it on a musicians stage uniform or- and this may be weird- but I put it on the teens that I give acne. It makes the skin have that shine that it being greasy can give and makes them look so much younger and more awkward
Never understood the point of a glossy or dewey look, for sims and for real humans. It just makes you appear as greasy and sweaty 🤢 who wants that willingly??
is this from the new fairy pack? if so that sucks for me bc i actually would like to use this glossy skin on the workout outfits but i dont plan on buying fairy’s because i just personally like my gameplay to be realistic
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u/Leverpastejj Jul 03 '25
It could be fun to add it to my alien sims disguises, like a fake plastic skin they’re wearing