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a recoloring tool for sims 4 is here!!
stickykisses
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http://simsvip.com/2014/07/27/the-sims-4-cas-recolor-tool-now-available/ wow :shock: This might change my opinion on whether to get the game or not. Maybe, have to think about it and learn more. But good news nonetheless! 
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EA in a nutshell...
Yep.
So true.
Why doesn't EA hire modders? I'll never know. Especially Twallan.
They'd rather modders fix their mistakes and messes for free is why.
Seriously. Over on their feedback thread for the CAS demo, the majority of people are asking for a color wheel..
I don't know all the logistics, but it seems like it's not as simple as you would think. Ever put a custom pattern in the game and try to adjust it in CASt? Sometimes it works, other times it's wonky. For example, I had a pattern that was green grass, but showed up as grey in CASt. I could lighten and darken it, but actually changing the color was not easy. There are even a few patterns included in the game that don't recolor properly.
If items are not programed with proper channels and layers, they won't color quite right. And EA didn't intend for them to be recolored.
What this tool does, is the same thing modders did for Sims 2, they gave you recolors to choose from, but it's not unlimited because that's difficult and needs to be there from the beginning.
I would love to know where Twallan has gone to these days.
Anyway, I'm very excited that recolors are possible and yet, still have to think about whether or not "investing" in sims 2.5 is worth the effort for me. I'm sure some other folks will decide that an external recolor tool is good enough for them and that's okay.
I hate recolors. I love the sims franchise.
I hate not trying out the game for myself even if it is awful. I love casT.
I hate having 50 gig of cc. I love sims.
So so awkward, such an expected dilemma. Otoh, didn't I realize that somebody would make something like this? I should have sorta expected at least an external recoloring tool and thought about how that would work out. I think maybe I'm just hyper. *cough and apologies* :P
Same here, I play the game how it was to be played. Since in past game mods break the game and makes patching the game harder too with official patches since the mod has to be patched too
What really bugs me about the loss of the color wheel and CAST is that the reason a lot of people think it was left out was because of performance. Looking at Sims 3 gives a lot of weight to that argument. A huge house with custom colored patterns and colors takes significantly longer to load and render than one with matching or defaulted patterns and colors.
What's annoying to me is that the way that Sims 4 is set up with the sectioned hoods and a semi-closed world - it would have been a lot less taxing on a PC to load and run a customized house or community lot than on Sims 3. Significantly so. The lot would have been smooth, playable, and would have given a lot of power to the creative types that flocked to Sims 3.
Instead, they killed everything.
You make an excellent point. With only a small amount of lots to load and not an entire world, you'd think customized stuff would load a lot faster. You'd think they could have implemented it and it would have run faster. I could see having fewer patterns to choose from, maybe less categories. Maybe just a color wheel. Something, not nothing.
I use a few mods but they are frustrating putting them into the game.
Exactly. Anyway, I need help. Somebody talk me out of buying the game. It sucks and I don't want to buy it.
I don't think you're alone in thinking this. Anyway, if this recolouring mod is for real I may end up getting a mod for the first time ever. That is, if I get TS4.
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That's what I think too. EA knows the modders love to do stuff like that so they takes advantage.
Too bad the modders can't make their own Sims game, they'd make a mint.
Although S3PE is not a mod, it's a program, (a package editor) its pretty easy to use. I've used it a few times.
I imagine S4PE is about the same.
It's a shame EA don't actually listen to customer feedback.
1) Don't buy games.
2) Pay modders to fix games people don't buy.
Hmmmmmm....
I wish EA-haters developed a brain.
What? They never said modding wasn't possible, or that we wouldn't be able to mod recolors? People have been doing that since TS1 for chrissakes.. What they said was.. with the way the game was created, they *will not, ever* be able to add CASt, or a color wheel.
But, of course.. third-party people have been cleaning up EA code for.. many, many years... just as Twallen... lol