Skinning/Character Editors

These tools should work if you have The Sims or its expansions for the PC. They will allow you to create skins and characters for The Sims. To download the files, you may either click the ‘Download Here’ button to start the process or you may be directed to a specific site where you can download it from there. You can also view a larger picture of the program by clicking on the thumbnail image provided.

If you happen to come by a broken link or you see a tool that is not listed here, please use our contact form and notify us about it!

Before you download: We are in no way responsible for the patches or programs on this site in terms on how they may effect gameplay. All of the files hosted on our site are virus free so you shouldn’t experience any issues on that matter, however some downloads may modify how the game performs or a game’s files. For the most part, we may not be able to help troubleshoot any problems with programs and/or patches. Also, please keep in mind that these are incredibly old, so its possibly that they may not run on your current operating system and they are no longer supported by their creators. Thanks for understanding!

Base Skin Set

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Creator: The Sims Resource
Source: The Sims Resource

This file includes all the basic nude skin templates for creating skins. All sizes and skin tones included.

BCF2CMX v1.00

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Creator: Kelahn
Source: Kelahn

This program does not have a GUI. It is command-line based. BCF2CMX will convert a BCF to a CMX and vice versa. To associate BCF files with BCF2CMX (when you double click them, BCF2CMX opens automatically) just double-click on the file. In the ‘Choose Program’ Dialog, click the ‘Other’ button and select BCF2CMX.exe

BMF2SKN v2.00

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Creator: Kelahn
Source: Kelahn

BMF2SKN will convert a BMF to a SKN and vice versa.

Body Warp

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Creator: Keith Young
Source: Simprograms

BodyWarp is an easy-to-use basic mesh-altering program. It won’t perform intricate adjustments, but it allows you to alter a basic body mesh into a Sim. However, there is a drawback, it only works up to Hot Date.

Career Creator 3

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Creator: Tom Van Dijk
Source: Simprograms

This is the brand-new Career editing program created by Tom van Dijk. With it you can fully edit the careers in The Sims. It is supposed to work on all installations of The Sims.

You can change job properties, change job transfers and bonuses, change the icons of the career track, change the texts of the careers and exchange careers with your friends.

The only thing you can’t do is ADD new careers: you have to REPLACE existing careers with your own creations. This is because of the way The Sims works and there is currently no way around it.

Character Viewer

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Creator: Judhudson
Source: Simprograms

Here is one of my programs that I actually created. What it does is view character’s heads (thumbnails of their heads), shows there name, and their bio.

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files

CMX Maker

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Creator: James A. Sausville
Source: Paladin’s Place

This program will create error free CMX files and add multiple accessories to heads or bodies.

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files

Costume Shop

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Creator: Dr. Pixel
Source: Simprograms

Costume shop lets you to easily convert any of the clothing in your Costume Trunk into playable skins

• Requires The Sims and House Party
• No technical knowledge necessary
• Skins can be added to the game, or saved in a folder
• Skins can be converted to any clothing type

GrowUp

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Creator: Michael Meskers
Source: Simprograms

This program will turn your sim kids into adults! It does have a huge bug. Whatever you do, do NOT change the Thumbnails, because it will crash your game if you do.

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files.

NPC Replacer

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Creator: James A. Sausville
Source: Paladin’s Place

The NPC Replacer allows you to alter the appearance of an NPC as easily as you can change a sim’s appearance with my other programs. NPCs can use any body and matching skin along with any head. The program will even extract the NPC IFF files from the FAR files so that they may be editied.

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files

Puppitt

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Creator: Society Games
Source: Society Games

This interesting tool will let you create movies using characters from The Sims. You can create movies by selecting the body parts of the sim and move them in any way you want. As of now, Puppitt is only a Beta and it is constantly changing (as can be witnessed by the quickly increasing version numbers. In the future, it will hopefully work with The Sims 2, and will also view the existing animations from The Sims.

See Them

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Creator: Dave Luv
Source: Simsky

See Them is a program intended for removing the censor (blurred Sims) in all TS1 versions – from the original game to Makin’ Magic / Complete Collection, in all language versions.

See Them doesn’t require any installation. Just click on the right picture (a naked Sim) – the program will find the game location by itself and will make required changes. If you want to turn the censor back on again, just click on the left picture.

Warning! See Them will allow you to see nude Sims. Therefore, you should only use this program if you are at least 13 years of age or older. Otherwise, do not download it!

Sim Attacher

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Creator: Simfreaks
Source: Simfreaks

This cool program will help you to attach any prop to any sim. Now you can have those really nice pair of glasses on all different hair styles! Your materialistic girl simmies can get those “chest enhancements” they’ve always wanted, and your guys can sport backward baseball hats, and cool visors. This program works on Windows 95/98/ME/XP. Also, you need to be subscribed to Simfreaks, it isn’t free. Brought to you by SimFreaks.com.

Sim Hack

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Creator: N/A
Source: Simprograms

SimHack is an utility that hacks into the game kind of, where you can change people’s attributes and other good stuff. It’s not tested with other versions of The Sims, so use at your own risk!

SimMetamorphoser

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Creator: James A. Sausville
Source: Paladin’s Place

This program is complimentary to SimWardrobe. SimMetamorphoser allows you to change all appearance parameters that SimWardrobe does not.

SimMetamorphoser allows you to do the following:

• Change a sim’s first name
• Change a sim’s head model and skin
• Change a sim’s gender
• Change a sim’s skin tone.

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files

SimPose

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Creator: Clive Pygott
Source: SimPose-ium for The Sims

SimPose-ium (or SimPose for short) is an animation editor for the Maxis/Electronic Arts Game ‘TheSims’.

SimPose-ium lets you display a number of Sims and to pose them in any desired position. It also lets you create key frame animations and display predefined sequences of animations.

After V6.1 it also allows you to display and edit any of the animations from the game, and load them back into the game. In the future you may be able to create new behaviors, but for the present its only allows you to change the animations assigned to behaviors already in the game.

As well as tweaking in-game animations, the main uses for SimPose are for creating still and animated Sim images for web sites (particularly for people making new skins and meshes) and creating story-boards and comic strips staring the Sims

The program as presented here is still work in progress, and bugs get fixed as they are reported. In general, the longer a feature has been in SimPose-ium, the more stable it is. Please accept any limitations and enjoy the program for what it does.

Sims BodyShop

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Creator: Bunny
Source: Bunny’s “The Sims” Page

BodyShop will allow you to alter any Sim in any Neighborhood. This October 2001 Beta version has some of the skin change features disabled since those sections have not been fully debugged.

Sims SkinCheck 2.1.4

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Creator: Bunny
Source: Bunny’s “The Sims” Page

SkinCheck will scan your “Skins” in the Skins folder and Textures folder. It also scans the Animation.far file, Textures.far file and any bitmap archives (.FAR) that it finds in the Textures directory. SkinCheck reports duplicate filenames, missing files and bad bitmaps.

Sims Skin Manager Plus

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Creator: Jfade
Source: DJS Sims

Sim Skin Manager Plus will do all of the following:

• Scan all the bmp files within a directory and move any that are of the wrong color depth or corrupt into the same directory as the program
• Scan all the cmx files within a directory to verify that they are structured correctly. Any that are found that aren’t structured right will be moved into the same directory as the program for you to check individually.
• Check CMX files 1 by 1 to see if there are errors in the structure, and if the structure is incorrect a suggestion to fix it will be made.
• Scan for associated files to ensure that all the cmx and their respective skn files have a bmp file. Cmx (as well as their skn) files that have no bmp files in there with the same number will be moved into the same directory as the program.
• Preview bmp files and delete or move any you don’t want into the same directory as the program.
• Individually check bmp files the ensure they are of the right color depth.
• Edit CMX files and save any changes you make to them.
• Convert any skin into a buyable skin – A new bmp file and new cmx file will be generated for you.

SimWardrobe

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Creator: James A. Sausville
Source: Paladin’s Place

SimWardrobe allows you to do the following:

• Select a body and matching skin for a sim’s normal outfit
• Select a body and matching skin for a sim’s swimsuit
• Select a body and matching skin for a sim’s formal outfit
• Select a body and matching skin for a sim’s pajamas
• Select a body and matching skin for a sim’s winter wear (Vacation)
• Select a body and matching skin for a sim’s high fashion clothes (Superstar)
• Select skins for a sim’s hands.

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files

Skin Doctor

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Creator: Dr. Pixel
Source: Simprograms

Skin Doctor is a very handy file manager for all your skin files. It does the following:

• Complete Skin File Checking – much better than FileCop
• Checks for all these problems:
• Bad Cmx files (crashing and invisible skins)
• Blank Face Icons
• All-Grey Skins
• All-Black Sims
• Bad Bmp’s (all white skins)
• ID Clashes (repeating or distorted skins)
• Replacement Skins
• Unused Bmp’s (missing mesh files)
• Works with just The Sims, and any or all expansion packs
• All your skin files are shown in sorted lists
• No more searching through multiple .far files and folders !
• Skin Doctor shows skins in all .far files and folders that the game uses
• Skins in user-created .far files are also shown
• Handy Search feature
• All lists shown can be saved for editing or printing
• Bmp and Cmx files can be copied to the clipboard
• All files can be saved to disk
• Skin files in .far’s are automatically converted when saved
• Unwanted Bmp’s and Cmx files can be removed
• Includes a full HelpFile

SKN & OBJ v1.11

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Creator: Kelahn
Source: Kelahn

Converts a SKN mesh to OBJ format and back again.

SKN Template Creator

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Creator: Kelahn
Source: Kelahn

With this utility, you can create an exact preview of where each face lies in a SKN file. Using this preview, it can be much easier to texture a model. It outputs the preview to the screen and in BMP format.

The Sims Character Makeover Studio

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Creator: Maxis/EA
Source: Simprograms

The Sims Character Makeover Studio lets you preview and select your own custom “skins” for Sims characters. It even let’s you view the game’s animation! It used to be on the Official Site, but they took it down due to a bug when you change the CMX files.

The Sims Edit 2

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Creator: N/A
Source: Simprograms

With this, you can change the sims looks, personality, skins, money, relationships and lots more. It does have it’s bugs, and one of them is that it doesn’t work with multiple neighborhoods. Also, this is the final version of the program and it will never be updated again. This has been tested on Vacation and works, but there may be some errors though, I’m not too sure.

The Sims FaceLift Gold

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Creator: Maxis/EA
Source: The Sims.com

FaceLift Gold gives you the ability to generate new heads and export them into the game. Make those families look just how you want them!

The Sims Make-A-Celebrity

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Creator: Maxis/EA
Source: The Sims.com

The Sims Superstar Make-A-Celebrity tool is for Superstar owners that wish to add some new Celebrities to their Studio Town area. Custom-create your own Celebrities today!

The Sims Make-A-Date

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Creator: Maxis/EA
Source: The Sims.com

The Sims Hot Date Make-A-Date tool is for Hot Date owners that wish to add some new townies to their downtown area. Custom-create your own townies today!

The Sims Sim Show

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Creator: Maxis/EA
Source: The Sims.com

SimShow lets you preview your own custom “skins” for Sims characters. Edit the skins in any paint program, then preview them using the SimShow tool!

Townie & Tourist Name Editor

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Creator: James A. Sausville
Source: Paladin’s Place

The Townie and Tourist Name Editor allows you to edit the lists of name that The Sims uses to generate new Hot Date townies and Vacation tourists. The name lists that can be edited are:

• Male Townie First Names
• Female Townie First Names
• Male Tourist First Names
• Female Tourist First Names
• Male Child Tourist First Names
• Female Child Tourist First Names
• Tourist Family Last Names.

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files