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Why again no CAST?
Gruffman
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I would argue that the best feature from Sims3 was the CAST, the ability to alter the color and texture of ... well, anything ... clothes, wallpaper, rugs, chairs, beds .... All done with a color wheel to select the color, and various templates for designs, geometric shapes and whatnot. It was the best feature of the game (although others will still argue that it is open world, with CAST in second). We were told that due to the limitations of the Sims4 game engine, CAST wouldn't be possible in the Sims4 universe (and no, I don't have the exact wording on it, don't want to try to even look it up).
All was well and good until Cats and Dogs were released ... with all things, CAP. I be confused.
CAP has a color wheel, it allows us to alter our pets. We can change the color, add shapes, patterns, designs, in various mix-matched colors on the fur and can customize our pets to our hearts content. And yet, we can't do that for our sims? We can't add streaks of color into their hair, we can't add patterns to their clothes, we can't change the color of the drapes ... but we can to our pets.
How can we have CAP, but we can't have a version of CAST?
All was well and good until Cats and Dogs were released ... with all things, CAP. I be confused.
CAP has a color wheel, it allows us to alter our pets. We can change the color, add shapes, patterns, designs, in various mix-matched colors on the fur and can customize our pets to our hearts content. And yet, we can't do that for our sims? We can't add streaks of color into their hair, we can't add patterns to their clothes, we can't change the color of the drapes ... but we can to our pets.
How can we have CAP, but we can't have a version of CAST?
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At the very least, I'd love more colors for hairs. There's really only one color blonde that I can stand.
But I can't begin to tell you how happy I would be if they added even a basic color wheel for hair, clothes, etc. #StrawberryBlonde Power
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I was thinking that the other day. I feel like it would be easy enough to add that painting tool to the hair so we can change the colors and add highlights where we want.
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You know I never liked the highlights in sims 3. They never looked like I wanted it to lol I always felt like it needed more freedom to choose where and how many highlights.
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Oh wow! I didn't even think about that point of view! My reasons for being upset due to this alleged "realism" excuse EA pulled out of their toilet paper was because it was considered to them unrealistic to control a pet to make it spontaneous or whatever but it's considered ok to control a person as if that's realistic too! And if they actually think that then someone needs help! But now you gave me a new way of thinking. While EA did indeed claim wanting realism for pets then how come we can create a metallic dog/cat who look like they were born from a freakin tin can at Goodwill! If realism was truly a concern then how come Simmers are able to paint a green dog that could pass as a walking mascot advertising for a can of green peas. I might need to start taking in my vegetables to process that strange outlook! Just why? I don't get EA! My creative freedom for animals is now taken away because it's realistic to have a clownish looking dog with rainbow fur and a cat that has been stamped and stenciled so many times I would keep her away from the post office to avoid going through that again! Like really. Sigh.
Exactly. I can't begin to tell you how many cc hair recolors i have due to not even being able to choose the correct highlights, as a strawberry blonde, my hair has a slight redish highlight to it, so highlights would be a godsend. It would defiantly bring me back to CAS more.
I think at the most, they could give human sims some color palettes instead of swatches, but that would be it.
I admit that the transgender patch was well-received. However, I have to wonder if a color wheel patch wouldn't have possibly been even more popular. So many have been asking for it since the very beginning.
But the CAS elements for the transgender patch have the same basic structure. I suspect that the structure of pets had to be different from the ground up so that that overlay is possible over the body. The closest equivalent I can think of would be if we could paint the skin or (maybe) hair of Sims. But I suspect that that would break our existing saves and earlier saved Sims.
I do think that an outside-the-game tool to make new swatches for ourselves would be awesome, though. Something that would be compatible with the current system, sit outside it, and be built to be more intuitive that what we can currently do with Photoshop + outside Simmer-build tools.
It would also be good for making tattoos or doing slight changes in skin color.
Like you could make a sim with vitiligo if you wished, or with birth marks or different types of freckles.
You could even make the aliens look more alien with cool skin markings or have fun really really customizing the vampire sims
Oh that is an awesome idea! I'd love using the stamp tool for making tattoos. Can they please make it happen XD
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Like Cameron said, I wish we at least had TS2 style where you could choose multiple swatches for objects.
I love CASt so much
That literally makes no sense! They built the game up to include it? Why not do that with TS4 then? They had to build that up from nothing too, you know.
I’m personally over a colour wheel, I barely used it in TS3 anyway BUT it’s a massive slap in the face to those who do want one. EA constantly just lie. “No we can’t do a colour wheel for ts4” /putscolourwheelinanexpansion... lol and people are *still* falling for it.
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Also Build mode could use a color wheel as well.