Maxis will be adding 'at least a hundred new skin tone swatches in cool, neutral, and warm tones with a particular emphasis on darker skin tones,' they say. 'As we work on expanding skin tone variety, in this first step, we’ll be improving the blotchy artifacts and ashy appearance of darker skin tones on mid and high spec machines,' Maxis say, noting that the changes will, at that time, only be visible to those with 'Uncompressed Sim Textures' enabled in their game options.Ī bigger change for Create-A-Sim is coming in December. An October update will address existing graphical issues with darker skin tones while a later update in December will add one hundred new skin swatches and additional customization controls for Create-A-Sim. Maxis have given some new details on their commitment to fixing dark skin tones in The Sims 4.
