I was wondering this for quiet some time now which one is more popular in the community. If you download cc hair, do you prefer Alpha or Maxis Match?
As for me, I prefer Maxis Match by a mile. It looks better with the art style of the game. Alpha hair looks out of place for me. In fact, the only alpha hairstyle I have in my game was needed because I wanted the clayified version of it, which requires downloading the original one.
Which do you prefer?
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CC Hair: Alpha or Maxis Match? 105 votes
Alpha (realistic looking hair)
Maxis Match (same texture like maxis hair)
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I have quite a bit of TS2 textures converted for The Sims 4. It doesn't bother me to have clays and alphas in the same world.
But for me, I'm just too lazy with keeping track on all of the CC I would have to download and check on regularly to keep up to date, to make the game more realistic or change the art style.
The most I've done is download more ponytail CC. Unfortunately, I can never find any Maxis Match male hairstyles that I like :(
Anything else alpha that isn't hair just seems so fake with little to no texture on most of them. Didn't think photoskinning was still a thing. It's still terrible and probably the laziest way in making skins and so called 'realistic skins'.
Know it's just a matter of what you like more, but that 'hyper realistic' skins just creeps me out.
@LadyKyn I can't agree more! Every time I see sims with hyper-realistic looking cc, especially skin tones, I get totally creeped out. It's uncanny valley for me like nothing else. I don't know why, but something about it just seems "off".
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Photoskinning just shouldn't be a thing. Thought that method would of died out. It feels like the head is photoshopped on except it's a photoskinned CC. Anytime I see this it always celebrity related.
Edit: Chucked the pictures under a spoiler in case someone doesn't like looking at them.
I think clayified is like the worst though, it's like some strange medium inbetween that just doesn't work for me
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why go into a topic asking about CC just to tell everyone that you don't use any?
anyway, I prefer MM !
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