Content of this tutorial:

1. What is a skin set?
2. Making a skin set with default meshes
3. Making a skin set with costum meshes
4. Assigning hands
5. Examples
6. Set Naming Guide
7. Testing
8. Credit

1. What is a skin set?

What is a skin set?:
Your sim can wear any outfit you choose in the 'make a family' screen or from the dresser. However, the formal wear, pajama, swimsuit and even nude is controlled by the game - boring...
A skin set is an outfit that comes with it's own formal, pajama and swimsuit, thus overriding the default outfits.
IMPORTANT: Skin sets do NOT work with Hot Date, Vacation or any other expansion pack that has buyable formal, night and swim wear. See the tutorial on how to do buyable wear instead.

There are two ways of doing skin sets: using the default meshes and using costum meshes. Using the default meshes that comes with the game is easier, plus you don't have to enclose the mesh in the zip file if you upload the skin to a web site. Using a costum mesh will allow more variation, but it is a LOT more complicated and you end up with bigger zip files for download.

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