EUARGH!

[BlueSoup]

I got the vampire skin (thanks Myth and GloamingMerle), and now my Sims are beautiful again.  Yay!  Thanks so much. 

[seventhson]

If the incredibly awesome GloamingMerle doesn't mind, I have the alien skin and PoliTech files and could send them/links to them to those who are lacking the wonderfulness. Because not having laverwinkle aliens is a tragedy, I am telling you.

[RainbowTigress]

It sounds like the skins are corrupt or missing for those sims.  I would download them again if possible.  I would also check in SimPE to see if the correct number of files shows up.  I had downloaded a purple skin on MTS2 that had a missing texture for the teen female face, and it showed up as the normal skintone.  I figured out that it was missing from the file, and I tried to contact the person who made it, but she never responded.  So I took one of the other face files that was similar and pasted it in...it looked ok but I never really used it.  It wasn't a default skin. 

Anyway, I have all three files, the alien, vamp, and better looking PT.  I can put them up using something like Megaupload.com, or anyone could, really.  It's not hard, and it's free.  The links will remain valid until no one downloads them for 30 days.

I love this alien skin, but for some reason it doesn't look quite as purple in my game as it does in other people's photos.  Any idea why?  Is it my video card?

[GloamingMerle]

Feel free to pass along those files any which way you please, as long as you give credit to me, and don't try anything dumb like selling it. 

The eyes and skin are seperate files, so don't forget that one if you actually have it.. Either way, the forum should be setup by tomorrow if everything goes as it should. *crosses fingers*

[veilchen]

*crosses fingers too*

I really need Reg's houses, I've grown addicted to them. I did the right thing for a change with your vampire skin, and got it while the getting was good. Next on my list are your alien items

[RainbowTigress]

I've uploaded the following four files to Megaupload for anyone who wishes to download them.  Let me know if you have any problems.  Hopefully it will work out.

DylanTK_DefaultAlienLaverwinkle.rar (6.88 MB)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0R093AH9

DylanTK_DefaultAlienEyes.zip (31.06 KB)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0HEDT6A9

DylanTK_DefaultPollinationTech.zip (84.7 KB)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IODCRX8E

DylanTK_DefaultVampirePaste.zip (1.57 MB)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UQK1YN5Y

[veilchen]

Rainbow to the rescue (again). Why don't we just do the right thing and re-name the cavalry the 'rainbow' instead :D

[RainbowTigress]

Rainbow to the rescue (again). Why don't we just do the right thing and re-name the cavalry the 'rainbow' instead

Awww, you're too sweet.  Just trying to help out.

[J. M. Pescado]

Is that sim in your avatar the Official Rainbow sim? I need a Rainbow sim to go with the Brynne sim.

[RainbowTigress]

Is that sim in your avatar the Official Rainbow sim? I need a Rainbow sim to go with the Brynne sim.

Nope.

[J. M. Pescado]

Well, where's the Official Rainbow, then? SimBrynne needs someone to whip!

[Brynne]

I whip Hook, now, remember?

[J. M. Pescado]

I whip Hook, now, remember?

We can do that, too.

[RainbowTigress]

Want a Twinkie, Pescado?

[Marg]

Thank You rainbow for uploading GloamingMerle's skin again.    I downloaded them again hoping I had a corrupted skin file.     I have gone through everything in my game to make sure I didn't have another alien skin default in there.   I actually deleted the first set of violetwinkle skins in the hopes there was something wrong with one of them.    I replaced them with the new files and they still aren't working properly.    I still have very pretty bi-color alien teenagers and adults.     Also I noticed when I was in game, one of my old pre-existing aliens walked by on the street.   They also have purple heads and green bodies.    I don't use SimPe so can't check the skins in there.    Thanks for trying for me and allowing other people access to these gorgeous skins. 

[RainbowTigress]

You're welcome.  That is certainly strange about your bi-colored sims.  I think I would try removing everything temporarily from Downloads and Saved Sims to some place outside of The Sims 2 folder, like the desktop, and then just putting this file only in Downloads.  Load the game up, then see if they look normal.  Don't save, just exit after checking them out.  If they look normal, then you have a conflict somewhere.  If not, then...I don't know what, LOL.  But at least that will give us something to go on.  I think it has to be a conflict somewhere.

[Ness]

Dylan,

love the alien skin now that it's in the game - my twin alien teen girls look so much more attractive now...  until one got zits...  the zits are still green!

any chance of that being fixed?

[Marg]

  LOLOL ness.   That made me really giggle.    Do the regular simmies in game actually do that?    I have never seen it in my game.   

 Marg

[Ness]

only teens - if their hygiene gets low...  doesn't seem to matter what I do, I can't seem to avoid it happening!

[Marg]

I usually run a fairly frantic simmie household.   It's possible I just didn't notice either.   I will have to pay more attention.    These colorful zits must look really pleasant on those nice skins.     (sorry, just the thought of having green zits makes me start laughing.  A little bit too realistic)

[RainbowTigress]

Man, that must be some awful stuff in those pimples to be green! LOL

Yes, the regular sims get zits, but theirs aren't green, just pinkish, normal skin color.  But they sure are huge zits!

[dusty]

only teens - if their hygiene gets low...  doesn't seem to matter what I do, I can't seem to avoid it happening!

Off-topic, but I have found my teens get many fewer zits (indeed, almost none at all) with JM's bathroom uses you hack installed.  It makes the teens shower more often than I could be bothered doing before I had it, and so keeps their average hygeine level high enough to avoid them.  It makes the whole bathroom using thing much faster too. 

[RainbowTigress]

I agree, dusty.  My sims will get them occasionally, but not like they used to, when they would practically have them their whole teenhood.  And the acne cream never seems to work.  Poor kids!

[GloamingMerle]

Oh yeah.. Green pimples.. I never really considered it that necessary.. But if you want, I'm sure I could whip something up. Personally, I think it's funny that they have bright green zits.. They are aliens after all.

[Marg]

  I wonder if someone would mind checking something for me.     I have not yet moved my Downloads folder and Saved Sims out of the game and restarted it to check these violetwinkle skins.      I have been using CleanInstaller to delete some stuff and get a little more organized before I do this.   While I was in there I checked the default violetwinkle skin with CI.    All but one of the views in this file were the correct color.  One was quite pink.   Definately different.   
  If anyone else has the CI and Dylan's default violetwinkle skin, would you mind checking it in the CI and see what you find.    I am not a creator and really have no idea what I'm looking at.    I still think I have something wrong with the actual file I have.