Vitiligo is out! Heterochromia is next?

Mak27 · February 15

I believe heterochromia is a feature for Cats & Dogs.

Why not use the same for Sims?

crocobaura · February 15

Actually it would be nice to be able to paint our sims skins the way we paint the dogs fur. We would be able to paint all sorts of skin details, moles, birth marks, bruises, scratches and wounds, etc.

Mariefoxprice83 · February 15

I'm slightly annoyed that some of the skin details are locked behind the Growing Together pack. I might get it at some point but I'm not sure yet.

Thornwillow · February 15

@Mak27 i'd love but didn't they told us that they couldn't do heterochromia for sims because of the way they designed them? Something like their both sides being equal, i don't know... but i really hope they find a way out for this.

@Mariefoxprice83 Yeah, there's a lot of the same body mark set in the pack that we don't have in base game. I'd glady switch some birth marks with one set of body moles and freckles.

Mariefoxprice83 · February 15

I just remembered that the majority of scars are all locked behind packs as well. I have the vampire pack and Get Famous but not werewolves

LeGardePourpre · February 18

It would be amazing if it could happen in The Sims 4.

Abdulhamid Kircher

Cangwen · February 19

Seeing central heterochromia would also be great.

LeGardePourpre · February 22

My sims are waiting for it since the beginning

LeGardePourpre wrote: »

My sim Eiji want to move to Willow Creek, please bring his heterochromia eyes

LeGardePourpre · February 25

Some video games have heterochromic characters

Detroit : Become Human

Mass Effect: Andromeda

SERVERFRA · February 25

Heterochromia would be so cool in Sims 4.

There's actually a beautiful Actress, Jane Seymour that has that.

One of her eyes are brown & the other is blue/green.

I've never been able to make a proper Jane Seymour sim in my game because of that. My sim always had a pair of brown eyes.

Briana2425 · February 25

I would actually like that feature for the Sims also it will be a step closer to people feeling accepted and featured and seen in games.

LeGardePourpre · March 25

Heterochromia is also inclusive

Mekhi Alante

LeGardePourpre · March 28

Heterochromia could reflect the diversity available in our world

Hamudi Hassuneh

LeGardePourpre · March 28

Heterochromia affects 1% of people worldwide, that's a lot of people.

Kaine Buffonge

LeGardePourpre · March 31

It could also include sectoral heterochromia.

Dominic Sherwood

pvrescue1 · April 4

Mak27 wrote: »

I believe heterochromia is a feature for Cats & Dogs.

Why not use the same for Sims?

This is why:

LeGardePourpre · April 21

At least Paralives will have this feature

crocobaura · April 21

pvrescue1 wrote: »

Mak27 wrote: »

I believe heterochromia is a feature for Cats & Dogs.

Why not use the same for Sims?

This is why:

It's easy enough to move the mapping for the eyes and create separate texture maps for both instead of superimposing on top of another. If they make it so we could choose eye colour independently for each eye, they won't even have to rework the texture files.

pvrescue1 · May 5

The problem is that you'd (still) affect almost every custom eye ever created. If they made that change now, after almost a decade, imagine the can of worms they'd open, especially for modders. It wouldn't be worth it.

LeGardePourpre · May 5

Glowing eyes of vampire is a layer over the eyes. Why not use the same method on one eye ?

If CC creators can do it, there is no reason that Maxis couldn't do it.

pvrescue1 · May 5

Glowing eyes is a layer over... both eyes. Both eyes share a single space on the Sim texture map, as I showed above.
CC heterochromia involves creating a new eye mesh, putting it on top of one of the Sim's actual eyes, and assigning it a texture space separate from the actual eye space. Because the Sim texture map is quite small, the fake eye's texture could end up overlapping, or being overlapped by, an accessory or similar.
It's not impossible for Maxis to add heterochromia for Sims now – in fact, it's not even that hard – even though it'd involve modifying the texture space, which is precisely why (I believe) Sims 4 won't have it natively – ever – unless they want to tediously remap every eye they made and, on top of that, risk breaking every CC eye ever made.

LeGardePourpre · May 5

Opacity is available, the glowing eyes are only the iris surfaces.

So by reducing the UV map of one eye in order to be in the invisible area out of the iris surface, it would show only the iris of the other eye.

pvrescue1 · May 5

That's… not how that works.

LeGardePourpre · May 5

Okey dokey

LeGardePourpre · May 8

Heterochromia has been added to inZOI wishlist, I hope this feature will be added.

LeGardePourpre · May 10

Life By You will be able to color the eyes separately

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Vitiligo is out! Heterochromia is next?

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