Forgive me if this is the wrong category for this type of thread

I made this thread just for fun, or people who know that default replacement should download for something that person does not like that comes in the original game, in my personal opinion I think this is one of the best default replacement.
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=161280
is a new skin for zombies, because originally comes seems to me rather a simple blue skin.

I'm anxious to see your opinion of course :D

Have you seen the default data base? http://sims2defaults.dreamwidth.org/

Best is subjective to personal taste. MY cc standards are very high and I still have too much. I like a cartoony game and prefer cc that is not too realistic, nor photoshoped unless a very small area by someone who is an artist. I like matt skins and very light natural makeup, I am very fussy on meshes. EG nothing painted on unless it's swim or undies, nothing that makes the crotch area look weird, the waist sucked in nor stuck on boobs. Stuck on boobs is my pet peeve. The fabric needs to falls across the bust as it does in real life not like spray paint. So a default has to look better than what the game already has.

That particular skin no I would not use it as it's not to my skin aesthetic, it's much too realistic and defined. That does not mean it isn't to your aesthetic though. If you like realistic use it. No need of our approval.

For me, Maxis Match FTW

I hate shiny, realistically-detailed Sim stuff because it just doesn't fit the surroundings at all. IMO, MM defaults need to really blend in with the surroundings of the game or they'll look horrible and out of place. I agree with Jo in all points. Default clothes should be better looking but not like your Sim is ready for the red carpet, Barbie's house, or the local brothel.

The best default replacement for me: http://modthesims.info/d/407673
No more sickly-looking teenagers.

The best Maxis Match are: You Are What You Eat -- 12 Delicious Skintones http://www.digitalperversion.net/ga...hp?topic=9469.0
The pics do not give them justice for they look way better in game.

That's an old zombie skin. The same creator (Navetsea) has a somewhat more recent one that that I think looks better or at least less blurry. I normally prefer a more cartoony look, but I haven't yet found any zombies that I like better. The overall "look" is at least as much due to the face mesh as the skintone anyway, in my opinion. I thought this zombie skin looked too pretty and didn't want it until I saw it in someone else's screenshot using a more "cartoony" looking face mesh. It looks much better in my game than I thought it would.

Navetsea's "F-INevolution4" supernatural skins (I'm only using the zombie skin from this set):
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=277157

For other skintone replacements, I use Phaenoh's wicked witch:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=307964

Treiale's good witch:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364833

One of these vampire combination sets by xSkyBirdx:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=452617

Pooklet's plantsim overlay:
http://pooklet.tumblr.com/post/9417...t-see-this-post

An alien by Pyxis at Garden of Shadows (I'm currently using the green one with the scales):
http://digitalperversion.net/garden...p?topic=21064.0

Werewolf by Leh at Garden of Shadows:
http://www.digitalperversion.net/ga...p?topic=10290.0

Be aware that if you use a custom werewolf skin replacement, you'll probably need Pioupiou's mod that fixes them in the game, otherwise the skin won't work properly.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...pic,6098.0.html

For normal human skintone replacements, I use Sleepytabby's "Imperfection" set, along with several of the other things she's made ("Natural Elements" eyes, "Unbeauty Parlor" for freckles, scars, etc.).
http://www.modthesims.info/browse.php?gs=0&u=8793450

I like looking at what everybody else is using in the picture threads. There's an amazing and wonderful variety of stuff out there - literally something for every Sims player! You just have to spend some time and effort hunting for it.

For humans I use defaults from this set: https://curiousb.dreamwidth.org/27051.html I think Beta, eta and lambda are my S2, S3 and S4. They are my favorite because they're not too shiny or too matte.
These are the eyes I use. https://curiousb.dreamwidth.org/25352.html#cutid1
Plantsims - https://hat-plays-sims.dreamwidth.org/870.html

I still haven't found a skin I like for the other lifestates. My preference would be for a range of alien tones that starts with a base green and goes darker based on the skintone of the father, but I guess that isn't possible. I'd want the zombie skins to take the Sim's original skintone into account too.

I would also like more cartoony skintones, that skintone of navetsea download it by the fact that the original made by maxis, seemed rather a simple blue skintone, as other skins, I always want to avoid skin shiny, as in men not fit and I do not like women as is. But one skintone who adores and still worshiping, are those of sleppytabby, I must admit that I downloaded realistic skintones, but to see it in my game, I have not left me satisfied, because in the preview of these skintones, use special models, and that appealed to me the fact that I thought would look that way with all my sims, but I've always liked the sims have similarities with imperfections and not perfections, the only one that left me satisfied is navetsea, the zombie skin.

It's nice when you find a default you really like. I haven't had a zombie in game for years since I dislike them and I can't say I like any zombie skin simply because I dislike zombies. I have a vampire overlay although I haven't had a vampire in years either. I have a witch overlay, a default alien skin and defaults of the four standard skins. More than skin are eye defaults, I find those to be the most important followed by my baby bottle default. After that would be the defaulted hair and clothes, especially for maxis careers. I have never found a Doctors one I like though. I do have a lot of defaults all up. Even more in my medieval game.

I'm not Maxis-match, which seems to be the far more popular style these days, so I doubt that the BodyShop defaults I use would be of interest to most.

So, I shall heap love on curiousb's neighborhood terrain defaults: http://curiousb.dreamwidth.org/28103.html :D

http://www.medievalsims.com/forums/...php?f=73&t=8295
I really really REALLY loved this when I found it because I hate hate HATE the idea of rotting decaying zombies, so icky icky yukkk. I played around with idea of zombies just being sick sims, but for me the skintone for zombies is either much too dead or much too skewed to one particular tone. So... since they're brought back partway, having them stuck in a stone golem really appeals to me, somehow. Reminds me of Alphonse in FMA. THAT I can suspend belief for much more easily than I can for 'undead' (at which I scoff).

Funny, I just downloaded a default replacement for those horrendous "slinky" long skirts.
http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=550669

I use this one http://redsims.tumblr.com/post/9165...no-see-but-as-a but those are nice too. I often find that some things have more than one nice default while other things I can't find a single good default of.

I'm definitely all for the cartoon-y style. I'm just a sucker for lots of colours. I've also got to second curiousb's neighborhood stuff. I have to say though, I absolutely love this skin default. I do think it's my favourite default so far, especially with the non default bonus stuff in with it.

More stuff: Bedding defaults, Painting defaults, Make-up default, Default faces, Eye defaults, Eyebrow defaults, PT defaults, Pet eyes, Supernatural skins, Date roses, Roof Trims

I definitely hoard defaults. XD

I use that alien spot skin. I think I didn't use the regular ones as defaults because the sk1 was too pale. I had a lot of trouble finding a set where sk 1 was not too pale. I like my sk 1 to look more like sk 2. I think I am using some skins that were tweaked by Leah.

Where do you get most of your clothes and skins? Sounds like some kind of stuff I would like...

Well for a start make sure to join Simscave, I check the updates there every day or so. http://simscave.mustbedestroyed.org...php?board=172.0

Also check out the now closed Trapping crushes http://trappingcrushes.tumblr.com/

The data base is also good at finding blogs you might like. So you see a default you like, go check out the rest of the blog as they often have other things.

While all kinds of cc gets posted you will soon find creators you like. Skell, Rented Space And DeeDee are three of my favourites.

My default skins are PeachT Special needs. http://vintageporcelainpuppets.tumb...forever-about-2 Naked fat male sims have a tire around the middle though. You would only see that if you have no blur though.
This is my married in Cow wearing sk4- I think?

I also have 2 or 3 genetic skins sets so it could be one of thsoe as they do pop up on NPC's. Actually the more I look at it the more I think it isn't my default lol.
A maxis hair I happen to like although I would not mind a texture if I could find one. Default eyebrows.

This might be it

Fakepeeps's baby outfits

I can never settle for just one baby outfit anymore now I've got Chris Hatch's mod. XD

Oh yeah, I have a whole wardrobe of buyable baby clothes, including some of Fakepeeps made buyable. I changed to a naked baby default so even the poorest parents are forced to buy the baby some clothes. Babies don't come out wearing Carter's after all.

This isn't what you were talking about for an alien skin, but you might find it interesting anyway. The colors are sex-linked: males are green and females are grey.
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=514012

I don't think zombie skintones work the way you mean. If I understand what I've read about it correctly, the same single skintone is used for all zombies - it's a full opaque replacement skin, not an overlay, so it can't take the sim's original skintone into account (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong about this). This is one reason why it took me so long to find a zombie skin that I like. One skintone has to look right for both sexes and all races and too many of the zombie skins I found looked to me like dead white people.

Fortunately, most of the other supernatural sims (vampires, werewolves, plantsims and witches) are overlays and it's possible to adjust their opacity so the sim's skintone shows through it. My human sims come in light and dark shades and now if they become supernatural characters, there will still be a variety. My plantsims don't all have to be the same shade of green anymore!

I agree with those who write that the best default replacements are really subjective. What one person considers a great one, another may consider terrible.

I have gone through dozens of default skins over the years, and my favorite is still this one. I prefer semi-real. And I still like Ephemera-base skins, even though the creator has long moved on from Sims 2. I use Forest for S4. It can be difficult to get a sharp, non-blurred S4 skintone that is darker than Maxis'. I also like that the belly buttons and noses look good on these. On many defaults, I feel that the nose is over-emphasized or the belly-button is strange-looking. I'm still sticking with block feet, by the way. Same reason as the infant clothes below.

http://digitalperversion.net/garden...p?topic=17876.0

This may be Sims 2 heresy, but I cannot stand the servos in the game. While I'll use the trick to change them into a more android-like creature, if they revert for some reason, at least I can stand these defaults that make them more doll-like:

http://simmiscellany.blogspot.com/2...ent-servos.html

I use overlays for vampires and witches. I'm not fond of the green skintone for the evil witch, either. The Wizard of Oz is a classic film, but that doesn't mean I want my evil witch to look like a darker version of the Wicked Witch of the West. I did replace the skintones for zombies, aliens and plantsims (I'm not on the computer that has them right now ... sorry!) I should add that I like non-Barbie skintones (Bits on the top only. Painted-on appendages on the bottom can look ... weird. There are other ways to fake bottom appendages. )

I've replaced the game's eyes, eyebrows, glasses, makeup, the zits (my teens do not need to look like they have some sort of nasty disease when they break out) the baby outfit (still at one ... I'm trying to keep my Downloads folder down) and at least a third of the Maxis clothing and hair (probably more). Oh, and several buy items. I would have to make a really long list to include these, though, and this post is long enough!

One example of an outfit I replaced is the AF clown suit. It's the middle one here. (For some reason, it's not showing up on Moogle's page.) I like the harlequin look a whole lot better than the clown look. I'm still looking for a male replacement.

http://sims2defaults.dreamwidth.org/171824.html

And the propeller hat for AF (why ... just why is there a propeller hat?) ... http://le-plat-du-jour.livejournal.com/55170.html

For AM ... http://theseredshoes.dreamwidth.org/1662.html . It's a hat. It's just not the silly propeller one!


EDIT ... Default face templates! That's another thing. I replaced all but a few of those, mixing and matching templates from at least four creators.

Thanks for the link. No, Zombie skins definitely don't work the way I want them to, which is why I'll never find a skin I'm truly happy with. I'd like all the life states to retain traces of the original Sim.

Best defaults? for me aesthetically I would like to have a mirror image of eduseo or Essa's game because they have such a cohesive look to their stuff i'm always waiting for new screenshots of their game to drool over.

What I currently use though is a different story.

Skin
Lilith's Apple Pie V1 normal defaults (the default database dead links so had to default the custom set myself)
Lilith's Apple Pie V2 Supernaturals (Plantsim, Zombie, Alien, werewolf) I don't normally play most supernaturals but wanted to have a semi matching set.
Navetsea Transparent Vampire because my vamps should be true skinned while drinking true blood (amiright?)

Add me to the list of people irked that s4 sims who are vamps or zombies should not suddenly become some odd color and lose their identity. Though I do think that for zombies I'm just going to go the route of finding a similar style demonic skin and just say they're resurrected demons.

Eyes
Lilith Polaroid Light Set because they compliment her Apple pie skins so well. Haven't settled for an alien default yet because can't decide if I want some color, plain black or blind.

Face Templates
Trying out Becca's Masquerade set right now though I never get any sims to generate in the townie pool with the new faces to ever see what defaults I have so who knows LOL. I should just leave the maxis ones what with my 200+ and growing custom sim folder and the regular townies to populate my hoods I never really need townies but I just cant stand to see a maxis one if a new one happens to generate.

Hair texture
Poppet, though I do think I'm going to have to play with the texture a bit for a bit more natural highlighted definition but I do love the colors amnd they contrast/compliment Apple Pie very nicely.

Aliens
BO Multi PT#8 is my standard go to. Ideally I would love to get non CC versions of Almighty Hats fairies as the alien pts but just haven't gotten around to the all time consuming task of making my own pt mod with those sims.

I'm really sorry, that picture did not put me, what happens is that I went to an internet cafe and I made an account here to a friend, and this friend is not very friendly to say, because he was looking for a picture to put your avatar in the profile of the, and I saw that you could not when I was on my computer just got the time to use the computer, and I remain open account modthesims, and I thought my friend would not do something like this, but when I went I did not realize that me something, in this way, which again asked the computer and change the photo, told me on facebook I change the photo and I told him I did not care, provided they do not offend, and later on go back to connect, and the photo I had (a doll that was a gif) it was not there anymore, and with your comment I realized that troll put that picture of hitler. and now I realize I get me a message telling delphy that violates the terms and conditions, this is my fault for not seeing that picture put and leave open my account, do not throw the blame on the troll Please, this is my fault.

Sorry for the bad english, I use a translator because I was in a hurry.