If you have no interest in reading the essay below, I feel you. Please skip and go on ahead and vote in the poll. I’m sure you know what I’m getting at and that you know what you’re voting for.
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Are the white ceilings a Build Breaker? For me the answer is a profound and resounding YES.
After 6 years I feel my builds are still incomplete.
Yes there is awesome wallpaper, flooring, roofs, glass roofs, stairs, ladders, columns, basic coloured doors, pools etc…but one thing that’s still giving me the UUURPP moodlet….are those glaring white ceilings.
Many of you may not even notice the ceilings -good for you- but I believe there are plenty of builders and storytellers among the sim4 community that agree at some level that the white overhead ‘things’ in their builds do not make sense whatsoever, when using full Camera mode, First Person View, All Walls Up, or whichever way you would like to look at it. The ceiling that is.
Why extra bothered? Because of Jungle adventures. What does Jungle Adventures have to do with those white ceilings?
Well, IF you have Jungle adventures installed, I suggest you to take a vacation and rent a holiday home in the humid land of Selvadorada, stock up on a decent amount of Machetes at the Puerto Llamante, travel to the Belomisia trailhead and start to work your way through the tangled thicket of the jungle (and the entire bundle of machetes) until you find yourself face to face with an impressive ancient construction called the ‘Omiscan Temple’.
Go ahead, wander around the temple in say, First Person. Look up before you get too dizzy. What do you see? Exactly. Zero White ceilings. Instead, the ceilings are covered with shimmering ancient Omiscan stone blocks. I can almost smell the moist rock…
What was the reasoning behind colouring the ceilings in this particular location? For the player to feel completely immersed in the adventure...of course.
So why am I not allowed to feel just as immersed while having a rest in the wooden tree hut I spent hours breaking my back over, just to satisfy the little sim brats. I’m glad I have Spa Day installed because I need a massage. Just close the weary eyes and don’t look at the ceiling. Why can’t I enter the old family barn and look up at the spiderwebs dangling from the rotten FLOORBOARDS from the room upstairs? Instead I shrink away from the horrifying blinding white monstrosity that calls itself a ceiling…
Providing this kind of immersion for one building and not others is an inconsistency in design and aesthetics. Obviously it can be done.
Would you like the option to paint the ceilings of your builds for the effect of...well...immersion and completeness?
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For instance I built a shipping container home with several containers on top of one another, and while the sides and top of said containers look like metal, it’s all white underneath, which is very annoying as you can see it from under.
Another example : Doesn’t Judith Ward’s mansion look odd with plain white ceilings instead of fancy moldings ?
PS : Have you watched Lilsimsie’s video on it ?
Absolutely. To think a container can’t have a metal ceiling or a mansion can’t have moldings is beyond my comprehension. It also limits camera angles when doing screen captures.
I haven’t seen Lilsimsie’s video yet. Will definitely check it out.
All in all, I think it's a good idea. It would certainly be nice for those who pay attention to and care about their ceilings. Myself, I'm not really that worried about them. I have one or two houses where yes, I notice some glaring white (usually more around the edges of the roof) that I'd love to hide, but it's not a really big concern. So in general, I'd say yes, but then again, everything has an 'opportunity cost.' If you spend time implementing ceiling paint, you don't spend that time on something else. There are certainly other things I'd like to see more. But hopefully it wouldn't take too much effort. (No idea.)
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Pressed metal is pretty posh
And this straw stuff was pretty popular in the 70's
Same. It never really shows unless you are in first person mode or are taking screenshots. I still want it though, even if we only have basic colour swatch options.
Now that I think about it, decorating the ceiling is a dream of mine—or should I say, my teenage sims. I’m sure they’d love a boyband poster staring back at them when they fall asleep.
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If they come, they come. i will barely use this feature (just like terrain tool).
If it doenst come i dont really mind, since most of the time i dont even see or bother with it.
(I really think at this point they will come... lilsimsie GameChanger speaks about this issue all the time and gives feedback to it)
EA tends to listen to them or when it comes to general build/buy improvements + additions... I mean we just got ladders.)