Hey all. I'm trying to install Buhudain's "You Are Real" skin replacer. It looks gorgeous and I'm looking forward to using it in game. The only problem is that it isn't showing up in my game. I'm confident that my mod folder is set up correctly. I don't have any other skins installed nor do I have any duplicates of the "You Are Real" skins. I have deleted all of my cache files before trying... multiple times. I haven't tried installing them as non-default skins, as I would like to beautify everybody in my neighborhood.

Does anyone have experience with making this mod work, or default skin mods work period? I feel like I'm doing everything right but something is going wrong.

Update: I tried installing it as a non default skin as a temporary fix and that didn’t work either. Two custom skins showed up in CAS, but they were not new skins at all, just literal copies of the EA default.

Also I tried placing the skins in the Overrides folder on a whim. That didn't do anything, unsurprisingly.

OK. I'll take your word for it that the Mods folder is set up properly, with a working resource.cfg in it.

Did you clear your caches before starting the game?

I did, but that actually wasn't the issue. It turned out that the download actually just replaced the 3D map of the Sims' bodies, not the skin texture. So, this one was my bad. Always good practice to clear the caches though!

As an aside, I believe the skintone that Buhudain used in those previews (in addition to his You Are Real bump map revision) is by Navetsea - he has several skintones uploaded here on MTS .