More Awesome Than You!

Instead of the usual uglies and hatchet-faced sims, my game randomly spawned a gorgeous NPC. I nearly died of shock when I saw her. This is Dagmar Bertino, the mail carrier. The only things I've changed on her are her hairstyle (not colour, she came blonde), makeup, and changed to non-maxis eyebrows.

(http://www.digitalperversion.net/dagmarNPC.jpg)

This is probably the first genuinely attractive NPC I've come across. Have any of you had any good looking service people show up?

I've never had a sim that didn't have a default CAS face.... so no I have never had an attractive townie or serviceman.

Hmm, that could be it. I forgot, I downloaded some CAS face replacements that are a bit more subtle than the exagerated ones the game comes with. Thats probably why I suddenly got her.

D'oh, silly me.

She is very pretty. I love her eyes and eyelashes. Which replacements are you using?

The CAS replacements are these ones from MTS2. I am pretty sure anyway...

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=135121

I cant remember where I got the eyes, but the lashes are some Barcelonista made, also picked up at MTS2.

It's not a hack. Dagmar is in my neighborhood too.  She was fooling around with everyone all over town before I moved her in and found out she is a romance sim. All original except makeup and different Maxis hairstyle. Custom replacement skintone by Louis. But I have'nt touched her facial features, it was'nt neccessary. ;D


(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y295/kryptmoon/snapshot_ceba51cc_b12e23ec.jpg)

Last year when I was doing the Legacy challenge I discovered that Dagmar was quite lovely and had her marry my first generation Legacy sim. Marylena, the one that delivers groceries, is another quite pretty sim. Have yet to find a NPC guy that is attractive though, they all look like they got beat with an ugly stick or were victims of inbreeding.

I agree, Dagmar is actually quite pretty.  But she is one of the default NPCs that come with Pleasantview and isn't a randomly generated NPC, so she could have been made in CAS.  Who knows?  I think Robin the Cheerleader in Uni isn't bad looking, especially with a different hair style.  Too bad she has the cheerleader coding though, or I would have married her to one of my sims.  I just don't think I could put up with her cheering all the time, though.  ::)

Gordon Kim the light skinned guy, blonde hair and blue eyes  who delievers groceries in Strangetown and Cooper Rossi, a dark skinned guy, blonde hair and green eyes who delivers mail in Strangetown are quite decent looking. No extreme features. For more handsome townies, check out TSR forums. They have a lot of threads on the best looking in the default neighbourhoods.

WHEN are people going to stop hating on the inbred?  We have feelings too.  :'(

Feelings are for wimps.

Cooper the mailman is quite the hottie. He's dating one of the Singles sisters in my game. The only issue is, I kind of like having him as the mailman, but I hate, hate, hate the hairstyle he sports b/c of the mailman uniform - this ugly, ugly, gelled down, 50s loser type of cut. If he gets into the hottub or anything, he turns into quite the dork.

Oh, I have never done the Legacy challenge other then in Pleasantview and I don't play Strangetown all that often so I guess I never noticed. Might have to start a new Legacy in Strangetown then...although the thought of doing another Legacy challenge makes me kind of *gag*.

And my apologies to the inbred amongst us (persephone).  ;D

Question:

My poor, lonely legacy sim finally found a mate.  Only problem is it's Dagmar and she's wearing that ugly uniform.  Despite buying her new clothes and the likes, I keep seeing her in her Postal uniform on the control pane and the pic when the family is loadingl.  Does that ever change? 

Almost makes me want to nuke her and let him suffer.  Well, maybe not.

If you change have her change her appearance in the mirror, it will reset the thumbnail.

Very pretty Sim.  Did she get that hair because you have binned all your custom hair?

My young adult sim met this NPC bartender Knut Toyonoga  in college at a nightclub. Compared to all the fugly baristas, bartenders and D.J. 's in the game I was quite shocked. She promptly hooked up with him and moved in together after graduation.

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y295/kryptmoon/snapshot_b014cde7_30eff6ce.jpg)


I have always just played my own custom neighborhood since the beginning and have had NPC's like Dagmar the mailwoman, Kaylynn and Lucy the maids, Lauren Reeves the pizza chick, Demi the policewoman, Marylena the food delivery girl too.  I think that they are premade by Maxis sims that are randomly spawned throughout any neighborhood. If they could do that with the NPC's why can't they do that with the townies. Unique looking I can deal with..Unrealistically deformed looking is another story. :-\

He is a very pretty sim kryptmoon!

I second what Emma said. Wow! I'm going to quit having my sims avoid the bartenders.

What custom skin does he have Kryptmoon? I want it!

It looks like he has the Simcribbling replacements, which is also what my Dagmar has. But I could be wrong.

Blue, the hair didn't generate on her, she came with the mail carrier short ponytail / hat hairstyle. My townies have been spawning with binned hair though.

I honestly had never paid attention to NPCs and townies, so I didn't know which ones showed up in every game, and which were randomly spawned. I'm going to have to take closer looks at some of them, it is amazing that apparently maxis actually knows how to make fairly attractive sims.

I did that and now the screenshot when the family is loading is correct, but several Simdays later, she's still going postal in the control panel/taskbar.  Hmm... perhaps it's just a starrlingesque issue  :-\

I use SimCribbling by Louis default replacements. It is the same as my Dagmar above. I love it, it is so detailed and realistic. :)

It looks awfully shiny and oily, as is typical of "realistic" skins. Are normal people exceptionally oily?

I use them because I think they are some of the less oily/shiny looking ones out there. They also aren't hyper realistic, but well detailed enough to look nice.

But hey, if Pescado wants to play with barbies, who am I to stop him? :P

All of the "realistic" ones I've stumbled across, seeing as I don't exactly LOOK for them, are either exceptionally oily and shiny, or not-defaults, and I don't touch custom skins, they have messed up genetics.

Some people are exceptionally oily.  Peter Andre the questionable *celebrity* who originates from the Antipodes and now resides in the UK with his questionable *celebrity* wife, Katie Price aka Jordan for two

Yes, but "some" is not "normal". Obviously some people are oily, but why are oily people used as the basis for "realistic" skins? Surely most people are not that oily. If people were all that oily, we wouldn't have an oil crisis.

And acne med. companies would be richer?

Try using Baby Oil sometime. It feels wonderful and works wonders on old, dry skin. ::)

Baby oil doesn't truly moisturize the skin, though.  All it does is coat the skin, acting as a seal.  You should put it on moist skin, such as when you step out of the shower, to seal in the moistuer.  But just putting it on dry skin just makes it greasy.  :P

Oh definitely right after a shower. :)

I use http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=109741&highlight=default+helaene as defaults.

They are neither shiny nor oily, and they don't make male Sims look like they're wearing makeup. For that matter, they don't make female Sims look like they're wearking makeup -- I don't wear makeup, so why should all my Sims be stuck with it?

I don't like that set of hers too much (the eyes look kind of bagged), but she has another, newer set that's a nice matte with faint freckles that I'd love to try as a default set (though I quite like Louis's). I should request for someone to make defaults out of it. The only trouble with it is that the darker tones are a bit too red.

Same here -- of all those I've tried, I like these the best.

Wow, he certainly looks good but he doesn't need the blusher. The oily skin makes up for that.And JM, who cares about messed up genetics for cc skins. I can fix them in SimPE if I want to. I want my sims to have knees. The default skins doesn't have them.

off topic - what is the use of baby oil if its to act as a seal?  ??? In that case, it shouldn't exist because we should all use moisturer instead  :-\

If your skin is dry, then your skin lacks both moisture (water) and oil (to keep from losing moisture).  You need to replenish the moisture your skin has lost.  Water is what makes skin look young and fresh, and even older skin looks better when it's properly moisturized.  Smearing oil on top of your skin won't help put moisture into your skin's tissues.  But if you apply it to wet skin, it will help keep the water from evaporating from your skin.  The main ingredient in baby oil is mineral oil, which is the main ingredient in most moisturizers.  Moisturizers do a great job of putting moisture back into the skin and leaving a slight oil barrier on top of the skin to seal it in.  If your skin is on the oily side, you may not need a moisturizer, or you may only need light moisture.  If you have dry skin, you may need a heavier (oilier) base.  If you have oily skin on your face like me, you have to be careful not to use anything heavy because it will cause the pores to become clogged and then you break out.  :P  I do not use anything with mineral oil in it on my face, but my arms and especially my legs need a heavier moisturizer.

Baby oil was intended for babies, to protect their tender skin from wet diapers.  Vaseline does the same thing.  Obviously it has other uses as well.  After a shower it tends to work best, although I prefer lighter body oils if I use them at all.  If you apply it to the wet skin, then pat down the excess, it doesn't seem to leave such a tacky residue.  It seems to absorb into the skin better then, so you don't have to worry about leaving oily spots wherever you sit.  ;)