Sims are holding books incorrectly

celipoesias

I've found a mod that serves to fix an error that in reality should be fixed by The Sims Studio.

Here's what was said by the creator of the mod:

I couldn't understand why the Spa workers could hold and read the Spa magazines without issue but when regular Sims tried, they would handle the book as if it was a thick book and it would stretch in their hands when opened.

It turns out that the Sims Team have got some of the tuning for thin books wrong and listed them as regular books in the game code instead.

Books in The Sims 4 can either be thick books or thin books. They are referred to in the coding as "book" or "bookThin" respectively. For most of the thin books in the game, the development team have forgotten to set the value to "bookThin" and instead left it as "book." This has the effect of
making thin books stretch to the dimensions of a thick book when opened and read, as well as meaning that Sims use the wrong hand carry pose.

This fix overrides the affected tuning to correct these mistakes. There are 14 tuning overrides in all, listed below.

The following tuning resources have been altered with this fix;
bookThin_Charisma_Advanced
bookThin_Cooking Advanced
bookThinRWCareerIntMag_01*
bookThinRWCareerAstrMag_01*
book_Herbalism_Beginner
book_Violin_Beginner
book_VideoGaming_Beginner
book_Programming_Beginner
book_Painting_Beginner
book_Piano_Beginner
book_RocketScience_Beginner
book_Writing_Beginner
book_Guiter_Beginner
book_fun_NoRetailDisplay**

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I'm very happy that in the modder community there are people capable of doing things like this, but I believe this error is something important that should be corrected by Maxis, because it is somewhat ... "grotesque", hehe.

Here is the link from the mod page:

http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=577644

Chazzzy

That’s an old mod so my guess is the team doesn’t care enough to be bothered to fix it.

celipoesias

Or maybe they just do not have knowledge of it, do not remember (I hope)