Mostly the clay style since it matches Maxis, but I have found a few Alpha ones that blend in. It's mainly the wispy hair in Alpha styles that stand out to me. Cute irl, but just doesn't go with the game. I love smooth bangs or chunky hair pieces though.
I like both, and I have a mix-match of both in my game, I don't mind to be honest. For me it really boils down to the hairstyle more than anything, some custom content hair are too fancy and glamorous for my average sims. I only keep some fancy ones for the rich and famous sims, that's about it. There's no need for normal average townies to walk around with ridiculously fancy hairstyles and updos.
For TS4? Absolutely clay. It actually matches the rest of the game. It's cartoony, which is exactly what I need. Also, on the CC creator side of it, it's just much easier to mesh all kinds of clay hairstyles.
And when everyone has clay hair, nobody does. That is, it just passes as the style of the game, it looks fine. But if you put a single sim in there with alpha hair, things start to look wrong.
Alpha really only worked in TS2 and TS3 anyway. Clay hairs would look incredibly out of place in those games.
I can't stand clay hair or maxis clothes. And even some furniture and such. I give all of my sims and townies makeovers with alpha cc. And all the houses have alpha cc including floors and walls. I wish I could delete most of the maxis things in my game and replace them with alpha.
I prefer alpha in my own game bc I love the cartoony style, but when someone else has gone to the effort of making everyone in their game alpha, it's super pretty!
An aside: I'm pretty new to cc. If I wanted clay hair in more colours than maxis offers can I download that somewhere, or would I have to download loads of seperate re-colours? I want long, messy, lime-green hair specifically and maybe some proper-white hair.
I cannot stand anything copy/pasted from photographs in my game as it looks cheap, so I don't like alpha-anything in my game. As for the hairs, same deal - alpha hairs do not have a very defined form/shape so it looks bad.
I prefer alpha in my own game bc I love the cartoony style, but when someone else has gone to the effort of making everyone in their game alpha, it's super pretty!
An aside: I'm pretty new to cc. If I wanted clay hair in more colours than maxis offers can I download that somewhere, or would I have to download loads of seperate re-colours? I want long, messy, lime-green hair specifically and maybe some proper-white hair.
You can look up recolors! There are plenty of recolors floating around for maxis-match hairs. I know I've seen lime green and white around somewhere.
Oh, that brings me to another point too: Alpha hairs usually don't use maxis-match swatches at all. Which is lame, since I like to flip through the hairs while keeping the chosen hair color intact.
Also, I like the unnatural colors. Alpha stuff seems to be geared towards realism-simmers in general, so most of the swatches will usually be realistic natural colors, from what I've seen. So if I ever want fun-colored alpha hairs, I'd probably have to recolor it myself. Which is lame.
Clay/Maxis Match! I do use some Alpha (like my avi) but not fully Alpha, maybe two (on a v rare occasion, three) items per sim if I'm using alpha. I'm going off a bit but for example if I own alpha clothes its most of the time trousers and I don't have branded things in game. I play sims to not think about life and have fun, not to bring reality into it!
I don't use Alpha hair on my everyday sims, I use it most of the time when I just make random townies or people for CAS challenges
I don't mind Clay (I use it mostly for toddlers), but I definitely prefer Alpha. I find that Alpha and Clay hair both have some beautiful hair styles that suit a variety of different sims, so they're both awesome imo
@rosenero10 That sim is stunning!! I’ve tried to get make-up like that for my sims, but it never works out because I just don’t really know much about make up irl. Do you have any tips or anything that may be able to help?
I like a mix of both, though I generally prefer alpha. Like another person said earlier, I tend to use clay on toddlers and some children because I feel like clay is very cutsie and I like having cute toddlers.
I can't stand clay hair or maxis clothes. And even some furniture and such. I give all of my sims and townies makeovers with alpha cc. And all the houses have alpha cc including floors and walls. I wish I could delete most of the maxis things in my game and replace them with alpha.
Well, I mean, that's what hider mods are for, yeah? I love costume hider mods. I don't need sims running around in hotdog suits. Ever.
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I prefer alpha for sims 3.
I can't find an interest to go back to vanilla gaming. Sorry. I know there are many who only play vanilla. I just can't.
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Then again I prefer the maxis match style in my own game.
And when everyone has clay hair, nobody does. That is, it just passes as the style of the game, it looks fine. But if you put a single sim in there with alpha hair, things start to look wrong.
Alpha really only worked in TS2 and TS3 anyway. Clay hairs would look incredibly out of place in those games.
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An aside: I'm pretty new to cc. If I wanted clay hair in more colours than maxis offers can I download that somewhere, or would I have to download loads of seperate re-colours? I want long, messy, lime-green hair specifically and maybe some proper-white hair.
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You can look up recolors! There are plenty of recolors floating around for maxis-match hairs. I know I've seen lime green and white around somewhere.
Oh, that brings me to another point too: Alpha hairs usually don't use maxis-match swatches at all. Which is lame, since I like to flip through the hairs while keeping the chosen hair color intact.
Also, I like the unnatural colors. Alpha stuff seems to be geared towards realism-simmers in general, so most of the swatches will usually be realistic natural colors, from what I've seen. So if I ever want fun-colored alpha hairs, I'd probably have to recolor it myself. Which is lame.
Clay wins.
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I don't use Alpha hair on my everyday sims, I use it most of the time when I just make random townies or people for CAS challenges
Well, I mean, that's what hider mods are for, yeah? I love costume hider mods. I don't need sims running around in hotdog suits. Ever.