Hi everyone! I found a way to get a better angle for toddler pictures in the sims and I thought I'd share it!
(Please be aware that English isn't my native language so I might make a few mistakes in my explanation
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So have you ever tried to take a photo of a toddler and it looked something like this:
Or even worse - something like this:
And have you ever wished you could actually bring your camera to toddler height, similar like what we can do with pets? Or have you just wanted to make a ground-level photo in the sims? Well I found a way how to get rid of those awkward angles forever!
Step 1: make sure testingcheats is enabled and create a pool on your active lot. Even a one-square one could work.
Step 2: send your photographer into the pool.
Step 3: shift click on the ground where your photographer is supposed to stand. You'll get a "teleport here" option pop up. (WARNING! Doesn't work on carpets!)
Step 4: click on it. For whatever glitchy reason your sim is still swimming!
Step 5: don't move your sim anywhere (unless by teleporting). Click on your sims inventory, click on the camera and choose "take photo" or "take photo of".
Ta daa!
Beautiful, isn't it? Now we can finally see that cute toddler face!
Here are a few staged photos I managed to take from ground level using this cheat:
So many new possibilities
(apologises if this is a well-known hack, I figured I'd share it because I'd be very thankful if someone told me about it months ago
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Wow, that's a neat trick. I just thought I'd add that there is another way to do this as well. The game will actually save up to 5 camera positions that you can jump between while taking pictures with the camera. To set it up, you would go into "Cameraman Mode" by hitting the "Tab" key, then position the camera however you like. (For toddlers, the Q key will be your best friend-this is what moves the camera down. You can also zoom in much farther in this mode.)
Once the camera is in a position you like, hit "Control" and any number between 5 and 9. This assigns the camera position to that number. Now, hit "Tab" again to come out of cameraman mode and select your photographer Sim to take the picture. Once the camera interface comes up, hit the number you chose before without holding Control. (So, if you hit Control and 5, just hit 5 now.) The camera should jump right to the saved position, regardless of where your photographer is standing.
I'm going to need a entire tutorial on how you did that spooky day picture because.. wow.
Thank you for sharing!
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@purplestarz2006 what an interesting technique, I never knew about it! Thanks for sharing!
@simmer_jay the halloween pose was created using a custom posepack "Happy Halloween" by BommieSims (here's the link, you also might want to get the poseplayer mod if you haven't already). Same technique, placing a swimming sim in front of the kids and choosing "take photo"
The result I would've get without the hack:
The result I got instead:
Took a bit tweaking on how far my sim should stand (swim ) but eventually I ended up with this
I love this!
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