Feline Skins 2.0  

Update 10/23/22
Added some fittingly autumnal skin swatches; chocolate agouti was missing from the lineup for reasons I myself don't know, and has now been added for both the tiger and bengal patterns! I've also added two new chocolate tortoiseshell skins, for six new swatches in total. Screenshots have been updated with the additions.

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A set of HD, Maxis-adjacent skins and overlays for all your khajiit, cathar, tabaxi, broadway musical, and other cat people needs. Featuring an abundance of colors and patterns, a hand-painted fur texture that minimizes seams as much as possible and nearly killed my wrist, and a design that should work with a variety of face shapes and body types and still scan as feline. The skintones are categorized by pattern type in downloads for those who only want one or some of them, or you can download the all-in-one package, which includes all current skintones and is updated when new ones are added, on SFS via my tumblr (the file has gotten too big to upload here). All current skintones are more or less based on real cat colors.

Ideally I'd like to change the bengal markings to an overlay in order to have them change with age, and to optimize how they look on male and female meshes, but I was running into some pixellation issue so for now the markings are part of the base skin texture and there are some seams around the shoulders on female and child meshes. I'm working on the problem, but the seams aren't too noticeable unless you're zoomed in close so I'm uploading them as-is for now.

White Markings
For maximum variety, and in the interest of my sanity, all white markings are in the form of tattoos that can go over any of the base colors, and highly modular. You can mix and match from chest, face, and each individual limb to create a ridiculous number of unique individual cats, and there are also a few fullbody ones with larger amounts of white. They're not included in the all-in-one package so you'll still need to get them either way if you want white marks.

The eyes featured in most screenshots were also created by me and are linked under recommended CC.

Future Plans
I will likely be adding more skintones and white markings over time, possibly whole new coat pattern sets. I'm also entertaining the thought of adding a small set of fantasy colors in the future. I will also of course be working on that marking overlay problem, and if I solve that I'll be implementing markings that change with age and fit all the meshes better. I'm also going to see what I can do with geneticizing them.

Suggestions are welcome, but I can't guarantee that they'll be added (or when, if they are. I'm dong this in my spare time and it's a work-intensive project).