I learned that Portraits are not in The Sims 4 during my time at Creator's Camp. However: I also learned that the barriers to putting them in are not nearly as large as, say, toddlers or pools. And that they would come in as a possible mod. As the Creator of the Legacy Challenge, I'm putting out a formal request for a modder to mod back in portraits. If you are able to do this, I will incorporate your mod into the Legacy Challenge rules and feature you/your site/your other mods in countless places and make sure that credit to the modder is well established.
I realize people won't be able to work on full game mods until after release, but if you have created a portrait mod, know that I would be eternally grateful and direct all Legacy Challenge Players to your mod, once I test it and confirm its functionality and stability.
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Portraits and a family tree are two of the items I would like to see EA provide to it's loyal following in a free update.
They left out the family tree to avoid having to store the data and increase load times.
They redesigned Painting and forgot portraits? No, again, it's all about avoiding problems down the road after a few EPs with data storage.
The whole "sim poses and painter paints what they see in-game" thing would be... a hard or impossible mod to make, I would think But never say never till we see the code, I guess
As for this:
EA devs have put plenty of things in the game that had already been done by modders. There's zero evidence that they have ever taken into consideration modders' activities, except possibly as an indication of what features would be popular.
I'm not quite sure how to take this comment...
While EA does state that the support modding and that they like the mods that they have seen (meaning content mods, not gameplay mods), there is no way that the existence or lack of any specific game play mod is going to influence what their money people decide about EP / DLC items.
EA has morphed into a company that is all about the repeat business of their game players. Even if modders to create a perfect example of some feature that is missing, EA will not change their plans.
Not only that, but I personally get far more pleasure from modding the game and making tools for others to mod with than I ever get from actually playing the game. So your fantasy about modders abstaining from modding cuts into my pleasure of the game.
Since my actions as a tools developer and modder are going to be totally ignored by EA anyway, why should I limit my fun just because of some group of features seems to be missing?
Developer of Sims 4 Modding Tools -- Sims 4 Stuff n Things
Okay, good idea; Thumbnail Camera(s) or CaS Thumbnail Camera(s) these are called. It's worth looking into.
I see nothing wrong with modding the game the way we see fit. For some of us, be it the tool creators, the modders, or the CC makers, we all enjoy the game on different levels. We all toy with the game to make it our own and share this with everyone else to make it THEIR own game.
Sims is all about your own personal fantasy or ability. EA is not going to give everyone what they want and that's where we all take over. So to say we shouldn't Mod is taking away our fun. Well put granthes.