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If we do have a Sims 5, should they add a height adjuster in the base game (or in a pack)?
LeanneStrong57
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I mean, we already have special adjusters for skin tone and color, muscle mass and tone, facial features, weight, and other physical features. The only thing we do not have is a height adjuster. I might want to make some of my sims short and petite, while I might want to make other sims tall and heavily set.
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The sims uses pre-defined animations, they do not use procedural animations unfortunately. All sims in their age category are the same height, so like when sitting, there are butt and foot targets on each sitting surface for each lifestage ..... toddlers, kids, and adults.
well that's on sims 4, but sims 5 could very well be coded differently, they could rig the animations in another way to match any height or add height presets. a lot of people has been looking for a height slider in previous sims games, it would be great if devs consider adding it to ts5
edit: if it's added i think it should come into the base game, be available for all the players.
if there's something sims 5 needs to change is separating features into many packs like in ts4.
yes, it's profitable for ea but it's annoying for pretty much everyone else.
It will require a bit more work when it comes to animations but a lot of animations should still work fine, I use a rather simple height slider mod which scales sims down in the sims4 and it works pretty well, I have very few clipping issues.
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Let's say you have a tight fit between a couch and a chair or even a counter, why does it never bother anyone that any Sim may clip through those to get between them and cross a room etc.
But if we were going to stick with exact animations (and no cliping) then a thin Sim could slide sideways through a tough spot and or a large/heavy Sim would get stuck....or couldn't get through easily. So, I don't understand Maxis excuses when it comes to height because they don't seem to think about the stuff I do. And we know it would be expensive but so was a new, improved CAS.
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Thats the way I see it too.
Too few people understand the extra work the variations are likely to add to the production of the game.
For those who don't get it, here's a simplification of what we're talking about.
With adults (teens and elders) having just one height, the interaction for something as simple as a hug will have, just for the adults:
Adult - Adult
Adult - Child
Adult - Toddler
With short, medium and tall height variations just for adults that becomes:
S Adult - S Adult
S Adult - M Adult
S Adult - T Adult
S Adult - Child
S Adult - Toddler
M Adult - S Adult
M Adult - M Adult
M Adult - T Adult
M Adult - Child
M Adult - Toddler
T Adult - S Adult
T Adult - M Adult
T Adult - T Adult
T Adult - Child
T Adult - Toddler
It's pretty clear why TS4 has the teens the same height as the adults and elders.
Some people might think it's because the developers are lazy, but others can see it's because repeats of the animations for different heights would come at the cost of other content.
This. I definitely want height differences but the adjustments the devs would have to make with the interactive animations is too much. Instead of sliders, I propose three height presets from teen to elder. It's still more work than they do now with heights, but having 3 set heights limited to the older life stages would be more beneficial to the devs than sliders.
Sims 5 needs to push the envelope...and not stick to the "lowest common denominator" for programming. It's time to see just how good Sims 5 can get in terms of gameplay as well as graphics.
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I agree that it would be problematic, especially for "clothing" the Sims. People don't realize that so many of the things like "height sliders" have far more implication for how their computers run than something like sliders for colors. And even those can really add to the computer's work load, which is part of why they left out the Create a Style that many of us adored from TS3.
As it is, there are a number of people I've seen posting in the help section complaining about the lag in *this* game since they added platforms. For some it has become unplayable. And to anyone who would say "we shouldn't be held up by those who have older machines", EA *can't* think like that or they can't expand the business to give us more of the other things that we all want.
We're not getting any of the stuff that we want now... case in point, Journey to Achoo. ~gesundheit~ What makes it any different now instead of "pushing the envelope" in development.
I don't agree with dumbing down games to cater to market share. Pushing the envelope in game development is what gets people to jump on the gaming bandwagon.
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Definitely don’t think height sliders are necessary... at all but if we do get them someday cool.