All Around the World - 48 Non-Default Face Templates

[isbrealiomcaife]

What are non-default faces? They're face templates that don't replace one of the original Maxis 27 faces in your game. Will they spawn on NPCs? Absolutely. Is there a limit to how many you can have? Unknown. There really aren't that many non-defaults out there right now, so, while I'm inclined to believe that the only limit is what your computer can handle. I know that all of them showed up at the same time in BodyShop on my computer. I know that all of them work in all ages and that they don't cause crashes, at least in my game. As for why anyone would want 48 non-default face templates...I play a game with a 55 skintone set, a 92 eye color set (not counting the 7 alien eyes), and a few hundred Pookleted hairs (as in a few hundred meshes...), all in 16 naturals and 4 grays. Does that explain it? As for which sets these match, the set I started with is Pooklet's We've Got Obsessions (no picture available, but they can still be downloaded from Pooklet's archive), though they should also match Trapping's Permanent Features. As for why the previews are BodyShop, Dominiquex set the precedent there.

There are a few things I can't promise, though... When they do spawn on NPCs, they won't spawn at an accurate height, of course. In other words, if you want your Pigmys to actually be Pigmys, you'll have to use the stretchskeleton cheat. They also won't necessarily spawn with accurate skin, hair, and eye colors. In other words, you might end up with freckled, red-haired, green-eyed African types spawning in your game. I also can't promise that they'll breed well. When Sims have a baby, they don't go halfway between mommy's features and daddy's features. They get one Sim's forehead, another Sim's nose, etc. Drastically different cheekbones, especially, tend to cause odd-looking children, and this group of templates has very, very different features across the range, cheekbones included. That's just a limitation on the game itself. The other thing non-defaults fail to do is catalog their individual features, so I'm terribly sorry if you want to put the nose from "Central African" and the lips from "Melanesian" on the same Sim. Again, this is the game itself.

There are two extra notes of policy for these:
1. If you're going to do something explicitly racist or derogatory, I'd prefer that you didn't use them or, at least, don't link me to whatever you're doing. I do not support racist use of these. (Historically accurate or educational? Sure. Defamatory? Absolutely not.)
2. If you want to turn these non-defaults into defaults, be my guest. I will not be making any default faces of these or any others, so you're free to take these non-defaults (or any Sim I share for download, really) and turn them into a default face template, but please do give credit.

Disclaimer: I based these off of types listed in a book on drawing and tweaked them using photographs of people from those regions. They're not necessarily "pretty" and certainly aren't perfect. They're meant to be archetypes, not chariactures, and I've gone out of my way to try to make them accurate and not offensive. That said, I'm terribly sorry if you're offended by something (including my lack of visual arts skills) or if the [insert type here] doesn't look like your [insert relative here] from [insert place here]. All humans exist on a range of features, skintones, eye colors, hair colors, etc. Face templates are a starting point, not a be-all and end-all of a particular group of people, and I'm not trying to imply that all people from a particular area look exactly alike. (An example of this would be that my maternal grandfather's family, my husband's father's family, and the family of the violin teacher I had as a child all came from the same ethnic group...in fact, from the same small area of one country, yet none of these individuals not related by blood look remotely alike, despite all of them having features that are present in the archetype.)

As for why a certain group is not present, the groups not covered, such as "white American" and "black American" tend to have ancestry that's mixed between types that are listed and tend to have features that are virtually impossible to pin down as anything other than broad generalizations, such as "the average of all of the types present in the countries of origin common to that area." In other words, your defaults should cover them, as they're generalized. If you're curious as to why there's a historic type included alongside the modern type from the same area, I play a medieval game. The historic type is accurate to the period I play.

Yes, I know the term "Pigmy" isn't politically correct, but the trouble is that there's no other term that encompasses all of the groups of that type. The same goes for "Mongoloid," except, in that case, the other possible term, Asian, includes several other types as well. I've mostly used the terms that the drawing book I referenced used. (I swapped "Irano-Afghani" for "Persian" because it was close in meaning, not horribly offensive, and didn't include a hyphen, which could have messed things up in BodyShop...I wasn't sure.) And yes, I did have to lighten the skin tones of a couple of the types that tend toward the very darkest skintones so that you could see the features clearly. That's BodyShop lighting and a need to actually know what you're downloading, not me trying to impose a western beauty ideal or something. I also realize that some countries don't recognize certain areas as countries (Israel, Palestine, Tibet, and Kosovo, for example), while others do. That said, they're part of geography.

I've also tried to be as culturally sensitive as possible when taking preview pictures while still allowing you to see the entire face of the Sim in question. In other words, the types that are native to majority-Muslim countries have men with beards, but not meshed beards, so you can see the chin shape clearly, and the women of the same archetypes are wearing the clubkitty hijab and non-revealing clothing. On the other hand, there are some groups (in particular, the Ainu, the Inuit up until very recently, and some Polynesians) that practice facial tattooing, and some African types have ritual scarification traditions. I haven't tried to represent those because either accurate CC doesn't exist or they would obscure the features too much to get an accurate preview. In the case of the teeth filing done by Pygmies, the previews are mouth-closed, though I did make a toothmask version of Trapping's pointy teeth that can be used for the purpose. The Asian types are shown without eyelid masks. This is mostly to show the actual shape that those hide, but if you're intending to use them, you'll likely want to find a set that matches your skinset of choice. Maxis eyebrows were used for much the same reason.

I'm sorry that was so long. It was just too important to put behind a cut.

And yes, I really will laugh at complaints about racism or sexism, and I'll probably fall off my chair laughing if you try to claim homophobia from these simply because I included a group that tends to have a religion that doesn't approve of homosexuality or something. I've gone out of my way to be as accurate and as sensitive as I could be when making these, and I've included a disclaimer for a reason. If people can't be mature about them, I will not hesitate take them down, though I'll likely continue to share them by request.

If you're wondering how long it took to make these... I got the idea for the project in the summer of 2011. I had to completely fail twice, once in the 2011 and once in 2012, before I was able to actually make these work. I started work on them in June 2013, and I finished in early March 2014, a week shy of nine months later. As for how long it took to make each template, once I got the hang of it, the SimPE work took under an hour, but actually making each face took a lot longer. Some types seemed to fly by, but others, especially the first few African types, gave me no end of trouble. (I'm just monumentally bad at making accurate African noses.)

Design Credits:
Pooklet, for the templates that provided a springboard.
Dominiquex, for the tutorial I used for the SimPE work.
Joumana Medlej, for her "Drawing People" ebook that provided the research necessary to make these.

Preview Credits:
Hair - Almighty Hat (and one by me, on female AustroAboriginal)
Eyes - CuriousB
Skin - Pooklet
All clothing shown in the previews is Maxis.


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Previews:
Bantu (Zulu, Herero, etc.)
Central African (Congo, Guinea, etc.)
Ethiopid (Amharas, Gallas, Sidamos, Somalis, etc.)
Khoisan (Khoi, aka Bushmen, and San, aka Hottentots)
Nilotid (Dinka, Shillouk, Kalenjin, Luo, Maasai, Nuer, Turkana, etc.)
Pigmy (Mbuti, Biaka, Baka, Twa, etc.)
Sudanid (Hausa, Wolof, Bambara, etc.)


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Amazonian (Yanomami, Terena, Rikbaktsa, Tupi, etc.)
Andid (Quechua or Inca, Araucanians, etc.)
Central Amerind (Hopi, Maya, Aztec, etc.)
Inuit (Inuit, aka "Eskimos")
Margid Amerind (Sonara, Shoshone, Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, etc.)
Pacific Amerind (Tlinkit, Chinook, Navajo, Apache, etc.)
Silvid Amerind (Iroquois, Mohicans, Delawares, Algonquins, Sioux, Powhatans, Massachusetts, Micmacs, Shawnees, Illinois, Ottawas, etc.)


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Ainu (Northern Japan)
Indonesian (Indonesia, Malaysia)
Japanese (Japan, except Okinawa and parts of Hokkaido)
Mongoloid (Mongolia, Korea, Siberia, present in Japan)
North Chinese (Northern and Central China, especially Manchuria)
South Chinese (Southern and Central china, including Miao)
Southeast Asian (South and East coast of China, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Okinawa, Laos, Cambodia)
Tibetan (Tibet, Sikkim, Bhutan)
Turkic (Tatars, Uzbeks, Uyghurs, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs)


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Alpine (France, Switzerland, Austria, South Germany, North Italy, the Tyrol, Hungary, Slovenia, Poland)
Armenian (Armenia)
Baltic (Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Germany)
British Islander (England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northwest France, Northwest Spain)
Greek (Greece, Anatolia)
Mediterranean (Italy, South France, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, the Balkans, Croatia, Montenegro, Cornwall)
Nordic (Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium)
Saami (also known as Lapp, Arctic Scandinavia and Finland)
Slavic (Poland, Russia, Ukraine, East Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia)


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North Indian (Pakistan, Northern India)
Roma (also known as Gypsies, nomadic group found worldwide)
South Indian (Southern India, Sri Lanka, Tamil)
Vedda (highland forests of Sri Lanka


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Previews:
Arab (Historic), (Modern) (Arabian Peninsula and the gulf states, historic type still found in Yemen)
Berber (North Africa from Western Sahara to Lybia)
Egyptian (Egypt. Copts are closest to ancient.)
Levantine (Druze, Maronites, Mutawali, Alaouites, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan)
Mesopotamian (Iraq, ancient Sumeria)
Persian (Iran, Afghanistan, Punjab, Kurds)
Tuareg (nomadic Berbers in North Africa)


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Previews:
Australian Aboriginal (Australia)
Melanesian (Papua New Guinea, Fiji, etc.)
Negrito ("Asian pygmies" from Philippines to Papua New Guinea, Andamanese, Semang, Mani, Aeta, Agta, Ati, etc.
Polynesian (Hawaii, Tahiti, Bali, Bora Bora, Samoa, Easter Island, Maori in New Zealand)

Comments

[wakahisadmanami]

I only have one word to describe these: WOW. I applaud you. Amazing. I've been waiting for these since I first saw you mention them and I'm stunned.
Wonderful work!

[isbrealiomcaife]

Thank you. I was attempting to post them on GoS, but as soon as I went to post...boof! Site's down. They'll get mirrored there as soon as I can get on to post.

I do have plans to turn both Pooklet's and Trapping's defaults into non-defaults. (And those won't take 9 months because it's about 20-30 minutes per template just to throw it through SimPE. The thing that took so long with these was the fact that the faces had to be made and had to be accurate to something.) I also have some plans to make elves if Almighty Hat can figure out how to flag them so they'll show up in BodyShop and CAS without spawning on townies. (I'll probably release two versions of elves, one that spawns for those who play all-elf hoods and one that doesn't for those who only use them for supernaturals.) I'd also like to make an equivalent of Alfred Askew's cyclops in a style that matches the Pooklet and Trapping faces, but I'd like to make one left-eye blind and one right-eye blind. That requires MilkShape, though...

[wakahisadmanami]

Great ideas; I'm looking forward to seeing them!

[slig]

Set the flag value to 0x00000008 for a face that won't spawn on townies but still shows up where it should, revolvertrooper did this on some of their templates and it works fine in my game, you can get files here to compare if you like - http://www.mediafire.com/?h00i4worlai7h#h841iq3y4tk2z

And thanks for these templates, they're useful. :)

[isbrealiomcaife]

I think that was Hat's guess. We just hadn't had a chance to test it. We were looking at DavidR57's DR set from MTS.

Download?

[honeybunny211]

How do you download? I really want these!

[harpers_child]

these are awesome. i'll probably not use them all (machine limitations) but choosing which will go in is going to be hard.

[isbrealiomcaife]

If you want advice on which to pick and which to skip, you might want to consider what type of game you're playing. If the setting you use isn't likely to have very many Pigmys or Inuit, then those might be the ones to cut. On the other hand, if all of the default templates you use look very much the same and are getting dull, you might want to go for some of the more unusual types that you don't typically see represented in the basic faces. If it's a legacy you're going for, pick them by similar-ish features, especially cheekbones. When breeding Sims, the child has a certain number of features, some of them mom's and some of them dad's. Usually, this is not a problem, but if mom has really low cheekbones (and her eyes are lower to match), and dad has high cheekbones and high eyes, mutant children can result on the random roll.

[cynnix]

Thank you isbrealiomcaife, I can't wait to get them in the game! The previews look amazing :) They were definitely worth the wait.

[isbrealiomcaife]

That means a lot. It really does. I'm glad I was able to post them while you were on one of your swings of not being on hiatus. There should be more non-defaults to come in the future, though they won't take nearly as long because there's very little cultural sensitivity to worry about with elves, and converting other peoples' defaults into non-defaults is cake because it requires zero artistic ability on my part.

[sillysoraya]

These are awesome :D Do they just go in your downloads as normal? cheers!

[isbrealiomcaife]

Yes. Just like any other download. I haven't compressed these, but it shouldn't be a problem if you do.

[shadowfell_sims]

These are amazing! I've been wanting a more diverse group of Sims and have been cherry-picking my defaults from multiple sets to great annoyance - this will be extremely useful for more options. THANK YOU!

[isbrealiomcaife]

Non-defaults aren't super difficult to make. You can turn any pre-made Sim or default template into one relatively quickly. Dominiquex's tutorial is awesome. (The thing that took me so long was actually modeling the faces.)

[pnkpnthr334]

These are beautiful! Thank you so much for all of your hard work!

[croiduire]

I realise that three years on is very late to comment, but I really want to say thank you. These are beautiful, and perfect for the vacation locals I'm working on.

[harpers_child]

Thank you for these. I'm getting a new game running after a few years away, and stuff like this is just gold.

[pebblerocker]

I needed the Polynesian template a few years back, but here I am to get the whole set. Thank you, I'm so glad they're still here, because they're still getting use!

Identification

[austin_space42]

Hi!

Sorry, I'm new to the Sims 2 modding community and I love this idea so much! Very cool.

I was curious if there is a way to identify which face is which in CAS? I definitely want to use these, but maybe I'm missing something that could help better identify if I'm looking to make a specific Sim.'

Hope you read this! I know I'm late to the party.

Thanks!