Point me in the Right Direction

[MistyBlue]

I've been looking for a simple tutorial for making custom skintones...actually, I just want to make a skintone I already have available for all ages and genders. I've searched MTS2, TSR, and here, but all I'm finding is creating default replacements which is not what I want. Is it idiot proof, just cut and paste? Well, any help is appreciated.

And, does anybody know how to do default clothing mesh replacements? I want to make the maid and social worker uniforms into a different maxis outfit.

[blubug]

If you want to make custom skintones, not default, just go in to bodyshop, start a skin project, cut and paste, color in, a little photoshop tweaking. It IS dead easy. I did it in my first week of bodyshop.
As for mesh replacements, I have noo idea

[tIIsuggas]

This is ironic

I have just finished a tutorial on basic skin re-colouring.  The resulting skin tone in the tutorial is green, but could very easily be another colour.  It does not replace defaults.  I used a free paint programme called paint.net, but if you are familiar with another programme, I suppose you can adapt it to yours.

The link is in my signature.

It hasn't been tested by anyone yet, so feedback is appreciated.

[seapup]

Paladin has a neat little program over at http://www.simwardrobe.com/ called NPC replacer that may do what you're looking for.It's under sims2 - programs.

[MistyBlue]

Thanks for pointing me in different directions.

I know about paladin's npc replacer, but that replaces the whole npc, I just want to do the outfit. I hate that the maid looks like she's coming over to do the husband instead of the housework and the social worker looks as if she lives a life of celebacy. It's alright, I'll figure it out.

About the skintone. Does that work for all ages? I have the skintones already...from the simsi, but he seems to believe that his models will never have children, especially the opposite gender. I would be ok with it, but he uses maxis skins and I find those horribly ugly. I'm just trying to make his fabulous skins available for all ages. Silly me, I thought I could just cut and paste, but all the faces and bodies are different sizes.

[Orikes]

Not Sims, but a relevant comic considering the last post and topic...

http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=84