Custom sliders & custom skin, eyes, lips, etc.2). Realistic detailed skin replacement.3). Use the best lighting in-game from buydebug mode.4). Modeling pose packs.5). Take super close up picture of Sim's face, which makes the viewers focus on the Sim's face.Without photoshop, the Sim can be look good as it is in-game. Some creators have tendency to make their Sim creation picture looks 'artsy', 'cool', 'dramatic' or more attractive with effect, especially on their personal blog or Tumblr, they use photoshop. Nah, I don't buy it.
Everyone photoshops.I definitely agree with you on that and too much makeup! There's something vexing in downloading a sim and ending up with something completely different from what was in the pictures.
I frankly think creators should also show a picture of their sims without makeup.@BlueLeafeon To have good looking sims:. A good graphic card. Sliders, lots of it. OneEuroMutt has a great collection. Default eyes and skins because EA's default is something that needs to be erased.
Other defaults like eyebrows, beards and teeth. And a collection of good CCI don't use HD mod and my sims are good looking enough. Quote:@BlueLeafeon To have good looking sims:A good graphic cardSliders, lots of it.
OneEuroMutt has a great collection.Default eyes and skins because EA's default is something that needs to be erasedOther defaults like eyebrows, beards and teethAnd a collection of good CCAgain, seems like a lot of work. I don't really see the problem with eyes since, well, once you get out of the CAS screen you don't get to see their detail, but I have wished for better facial structures for my sims. Having everyone babyfaced is meh, and I have one character I actually can't make because she's supposed to look ambiguous and female sims are feminine by default.
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Yes, creating good-looking Sims needs a lot of effort. There is no such thing as 'good result in instant' in this world.
If you want to create anything with very good result, you have to thrown effort to make it.No need to photoshop. Photoshop is used to enhance the effect, not creating Sim from ugly to beauty in instant. The most important is how you sculpt the Sims to achieve the good-looking you desired first, then you can think about detail skin replacement, highest graphics setting, HD mod, lighting later.As an experienced Sim creator (my style is realistic one, not pretty dollish looking), there's some tips from me to make the Sims look good. My definition of good looking Sims is far from default EA's pudding faced syndrome.- Make your Sim having realistic proportion of human facial features. To have realistic proportion, install NRAAS Master Controller to adjust the slider range setting, set the multiplier for example 3 or 4 or so on, and custom sliders.
EA intentionally gave limited sliders to make the Sims look cartoon. Do not give up by EA standard.- To know better measure of realistic human facial features, you can create Sims based on real life people, for example, celebs or random people on Google images.- Practice creating Sims. More practice, the more experience you are to create Sims far from default EA's pudding-faced look, the better your Sims look are.- Release your imagination. Imagine your mini imaginary people, with physical features you desired, filled with personality, just like creating imaginary characters based on novel you read.- Make the Sims look closer to real life human. Determine their race, nationality, and unique part of their facial features. Google images can provide a lot of human variety in this world.- Do not follow generic beauty looking Sims with unnatural facial proportion.
Typical female Sims in Sims community is like this: Big barbie eyes, super small nose, default EA's fishy lips, super V-Shaped jaw, pointy chin, super feminine / anime face line. Do not fall with the typical 'sameness'. Best obs settings for recording. Different, unique Sims, realistic looking Sims will look stand out and 'wow' from those unnatural/plastic surgery generic beauty looking Sims crowd- Experiment with CC skin, hair, eyes, lips, makeup and pose packs. Yes, creating good-looking Sims needs a lot of effort. There is no such thing as 'good result in instant' in this world.
If you want to create anything with very good result, you have to thrown effort to make it. tl;dr.k I'm just gonna be honest and say that post felt a bit demeaning. But that was generally good art advice to people who aren't actually artists, and there's no way for you to know that I am one, so eh.No, there is no such things as a good result in an instant in THIS world, which is why we like to look to video games for that alternative. Unfortunately this is where games like Skyrim and Sims fail us with their. Stylistic choices.
Then we are forced to install mods just so that we can look at them without cringing. However, I haven't exactly found a singular mod for sims 3 that fixes everything I felt was wrong with it, unlike Skyrim. And I'm kind of afraid of utterly breaking things, as it is, despite having installed a number of mods to 'fix' some things that were really driving me nuts. (and I really need to go through and delete some stuff.)I don't really want 'realistic' sims. I want a character I can look at and go 'Wow, he looks nice.'
Unfortunately, between the fact that sims has a very limited hair selection by default, the fact that I usually cannot find any good-looking hair that works, and the fact that EA's defaults are just.well, as you put it, 'doll-like,' I usually just go 'this is as good as it gets' and continue with the game. Because the alternative to baby-faced in EA's defaults are thin and bony. And that's just gross. D:Then I go looking for hairs for certain characters, and since the modders use custom stuff to make their sims look good, the hairs usually look awful in my game, haha. As far as I can tell, to really make a great sim, real or not, you need next:NEEDED:- Custom sliders (both body and face). I have almost all of the custom sliders in my game.
Both for sims and pets.- CC eyebrows- CC skinsOPTIONAL:- CC eyes- CC makeup (wich can also include a wide variety of face masks)- CC Hair- CC clothes and accessoriesI've been helping a creator to make a sim some time ago (mostly facial structure and custom sliders), and she couldn't have done it woithout CC eyebrows, nosemask, eyes, certain custom sliders and hairs. But she did not photoshop. As she wanted to upload the sim here, it's not allowed to photoshop the sim overview and comparison pictures. It's, however, required to get a great lighting so that your sim's facial structure is properly visible on pictures.BTW, the sim is an awesome replica of Tatiana Maslany, made by bellakenobi, here on MTS. @Wojtek I actually I wanted to say from long time ago, that I like your Sim creation a lot. I've observed your Sims in Pictures thread, I saw your Sim creations have 'type' that makes your Sims look stand out, memorable, screaming 'These are Wojtek's Sims'. The type of realism (you put attention to aging details and cheek jowls that others don't) you put in your Sims is what differs your creations from others, unique, not boring, and reminds viewers that being old and not pretty are normal part of real life.
Unique with no beauty standard does not equal to ugly. Better to create Sims with uniqueness than with generic beauty standard because in reality people are not all pretty with beauty standard. So do not let other people discourage you.I had feedback from Sims community that my female Sims look manly or look trans because of square jaws issues, while actually in reality women do have natural square jaws that still make people look those square jaws women as women. Probably the mindset of Sims community is unnatural super V-shaped jaws automatically regarded as feminine, while realistic square jaws automatically regarded as masculine.Kind of disappointed that Sims community adores plastic surgery/barbie/unnatural generic looking Sims closer to EA's default pudding face with beauty standard more than non-beauty standard unique, different, realistic looking Sims.
Here are examples of what I like.I usually Photoshop things to punch up the brightness because a lot of times, the in-game camera only uses about half of the available range.However, these two that I'm attaching did not need that customary up-punching. They are straight off the game camera. I run the game in a big (1920x1600) window and I have a graphics card that's OK with that. (When I'm doing a photo shoot, I go for high settings that I might not do if I were 'just' Simming.) The only processing that I did on these two was to reduce them to a size that's reasonable for attaching to this MTS post.The lighting, skins, clothing.
All base-game. Janet doesn't like make-up, so she says you'll just have to like freckles, that's all. I really do not think about 'making her look good', but rather, 'getting a good photo of her.'
One of these screenshots - the one with the pond, reeds, pampas-grass and all - is a custom world, done with much attention and love and that is why it's so very beautiful. But the other is Sunset Valley, and you know, it's not so bad either, is it?My advice: try thinking of what you're doing not as tweaking a game, but as photography, and see what insights come to you that way.
(For example: these screenshots are numbered 4848 and 6916, and they're not even very recent. So you can tell that I take a lot of photos. Lighting, pose, makeup, setting etc. But you really make everything come together at the moment you click the shutter, so, click it really a lot.). Must say, Nvidia has some great options when it comes to gaming!
I'm not sure with AMD but Intel seriously sucks XD But I must admit, it's not just photoshop that these modders uses, it's also having a HQ mod, which seems to make people think it got all realistic. Unless you would tweak a lot in the skin like Golyhawhaw does But that. Well basically makes your sims a bit more realistic but without editing your pics in PS it's. Well the scenery doesn't always get that realistic touch.Also, lighting seems to have to do a lot whenever your scenery would look a bit more realistic. But I agree with @rdeNoube! It takes a lot of pics to be like 'yas this is looks great!' As in photography ^-^That setting does make your bricks pretty realistic though!
I guess if EA would have edited that glow effect, things might have been looking a bit more realistic and if they made their wall and floor bump maps a bit more sharper. As for TS3 scenery, I don't think that can really be fixed entirely.
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EA went with the cheap-looking stupid 2D particle plants that many games make use of instead of going with traditional 3D meshed plants like TS2 and TS4 have. Not sure if EA's excuse for this was to reduce lag (probably), but if you not running potato from 2008, your computer can likely handle few hundred 3D plants as long as said plants are within decent poly range.I found out very recently that too many of those cheap plants actually produce more lag than meshed plants. I have a very large house (placed on a 64x64 lot) with a very large and luscious garden and I notice that there was a lag of 5 seconds when going into Buy/Build mode.
I deleted most 'EA' plants and replaced them with meshed conversions from Sims 2/4 and the lag went away. I tried the same in a test save on an empty lot. When you place around one hundred Sims 3 EA plants, the game starts to lag really bad. If I place one hundred meshed plants, there's no lag whatsoever. You really only need FPS limiter if you use AMD/ATI or Intel GPU card/chipset I think? With nVidia you can force V-Sync in Control Panel and set in-game refresh rate to 60hz in game display options.
That prohibits the frames from reaching higher than 60, or so it does on my computer.' Face mods' - The thing that will help you make decent looking Sims most of all will be custom sliders. There is good list of most common/popular custom sliders found.Also, if you want to use Sliders, I would recommend using Nraas MC (also the CAS version) because if you would go into CAS and try to use the game's sliders or even the custom ones, they don't slide due the limits the sims has (I think it was 100). If you only use Nraas MC you can expand that Limit too.
In CAS you can click on the option button with right click and there you'll have a menu with all these possibilities, then go to CAS max sliders in CAS (which is 100 in default, but you can set it to like 300 if you like). For in-game you could do it this way: City Hall or an in-game computer, NRaas MC Settings CAS Max sliders.
@Wojtek That aging detail. What a realistic appearance, because the wrinkles & white hair appearance adding more sense for aging SIms. I made some mid-adults to older adults (who have teen children) in game with subtle & realistic looking wrinkles to add more realistic 'older' appearance in the game, although I don't publish my older adult Sims in community.
I never like the unrealistic appearance of Sims who are suppose to be in the end of adult age and having teenage children with fresh 20's looking with no wrinkles. Default EA skintone is indeed shitty quality with bad cartoon looking effect on Sims, especially on the color of Sims lips, and no further detail.
That made the default EA TS3 Sims look Barbie and cartoony in the first place. The default EA wrinkles effect on default EA skintone? Bah, bad combination, looks too painted.If players get rid of that default EA skintone, changed with detailed CC skintone, Sims appearance will look so much better. It's very hard to get skintones that look good. The ones I use now are by Navetsea but some have too much definition, and not a single one has a realistic tone for darker Sims. It's just about impossible to make black Sims with these.Here's a few things I don't like:Default dark skin tone is too light (I made the head darker but half-arsed it)Skin looks too smoothToo much definition on the armsThankfully, most of my Sims look just fine.President Of The U.S.N, Sarah Jo FletcherFilm legend, Matthew HammingWriter, actress and overall hottie Holly Bridge.
Biggest problem with skin tones is that they not adaptive to Sims body shape, like our real skin in reality. When Sim becomes fat ass in The Sims 3 game, they retain their pecks and muscle definition form the time when they muscular instead of, well, becoming flabby and ugly. An attempting to avoid this may be reason why EA chose dull looking default skin originally.I know. My main two Sims (Holly & Amber) have slightly modified skintones for this reason. Holly's is a blend of two skintones since it looks better on her body shape. Amber's is also different but I can't remember how. I think I toned down the facial detailing a bit.I really should go fix those dark skin textures sometime - I'm too lazy to do it but it bothers the hell out of me everytime I see it in-game.
Biggest problem with skin tones is that they not adaptive to Sims body shape, like our real skin in reality. When Sim becomes fat ass in The Sims 3 game, they retain their pecks and muscle definition form the time when they muscular instead of, well, becoming flabby and ugly.
An attempting to avoid this may be reason why EA chose dull looking default skin originally.If you know how to mod a replacement mesh, this issue can actually be fixed with some effort.The game essentially uses four meshes (normal, fit, thin, fat) and extrapolates between them on the sliders. I was able to tweak these to make something a bit more realistic, but problems with the base mesh meant I had to stop.If you talk to Venus-princess-sims on tumblr, she can point you in the right directions.
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Easy!:D1.) Take a photograph of yourself with no hair on your face at all (pinned back or whatever) from directly the front of your face, not tilting WITH GOOD LIGHTING. Try not to smile, just have like, a normal facial expression (unless you like to make your sims smile).Got the picture?2.) Take another picture the same, but only this time, take a picture of your profile (side of your face). Just so in game you can turn your sim to make sure it looks like you from the side, because sometimes you can make a sim that looks EXACTLY like you from the front, but from the side its like, WTF is that?Now, head to CAS.3.) Choose your weight that fits your size first! Weight also affects the look of your sims face.4.) Make sure you have the photographs downloaded on your computer, I usually take mine with my webcam. Or, if you don't want to use photo's then just keep your webcam opened (if you have one).But I definitely recommend having photographs for a straight on reference.5.) Make sure your sim has a hair that is out of its face (like up in a bun or bald) similar to the one in your reference photo.6.)Begin sculpting your sim through each category to the point where it looks as perfect as you can get it. You may want to check out these mods to get your facial shapes exact:7.) Choose the clothing/make-up/hairs/brows you'd like, and browse some websites such as this, TSR, etc.
And you should end up with a very nice looking you-sim.Hope that helps!
Each Sims installment also comes with numerous expansion packs, game packs, and stuff packs that allow the player to further customize the life of their Sims. For Sims 4 expansion packs, players are allowed to pursue new careers in social media or build their own retail store or restaurants, which wasn't available in the past franchise. For its game packs, players are not only allowed to go on vacation, but also create paranormal Sims!However, what really makes every The Sims game a fun is all the crazy things you can do with your Sims.
With the touch of a few buttons, you can turn around the life of your Sims completely and watch them go ballistic or be absolutely horrified with the sudden changes. And that is exactly what this article is all about, trying the 15 craziest cheats you can do in the game and how to do it.We’re not just talking about the favorite “motherlode” cheat or postponing their birthdays, so they can enjoy more time in each life stage. We mean really crazy stuff like forcing a Sim to get pregnant or instantly killing a Sim out of too much embarrassment. Just don’t forget to hit the save button before trying the cheat so you can quickly go back to their normal life after.
Via Sims.wikia.comJust like in real life, Sims can die from accidents, hunger and old age. But did you know that a Sim can also die from too much work, getting electrocuted and even embarrassment! Yes, they can also die for that reason and it can be triggered with the keyword “sims.addbuff buffdeathelderexhaustionwarning” for over exhaustion, keyword “sims.addbuff buffdeathelectrocutionwarning” for electrocution and keyword “sims.addbuff buffmortified” for embarrassment as you control the Sim you want to use it on.However, the keyword for over exhaustion can only be used on elders while the keyword electrocution will only work when the Sim repairs an electronic item after inputting the keyword. Of course, you can still do the classic death due to hunger that is triggered by using the keyword “sims.addbuff buffmotiveshungerstarving”.
Via forums.thesims.comGiving birth to twins or triplets is a must-experience in The Sims 4. However, wouldn’t it be more fun if your Sims can give birth to quadruplets or more? Good thing there is also a cheat for this and you have the option to choose how many children your Sim will give birth to.
Just input the keyword “pregnancy.forceoffspringcount (simID) (count)” and add the number of children you want the Sim to give birth to.Just make sure the number of children you choose does not exceed the maximum number of members allowed in one household or you will experience stability issues. Each household can only have a maximum of eight members, so the Sim can give birth to as many as seven kids when she’s alone in the household. Via sims-online.comAside from making a Sim into a vampire (which we'll cover later), you can also temporarily change them into a ghost. This can be triggered by using the keyword “sims.addbuff Ghostly” in the cheat console. And if you’re looking for a bit more fun, you can also make the ghost Sim appear to be pregnant from the first to third trimester, and even do a fake birth. Unfortunately, no babies will be born using this cheat.To activate these cheats, input “sims.addbuff BuffPregnancyTrimester1”, “sims.addbuff BuffPregnancyTrimester2” and “Sims.addbuff BuffPregnancyTrimester3” to make the Sim pregnant from the first, second and third trimester, respectively.
And to give the fake birth, input “sims.addbuff BuffPregnancyInLabor” in the cheat console. The best thing about this cheat is that it’s only temporary, so you can bring the Sim back to their original form anytime. Via carls-sims-4-guide.comOne of the craziest things you can do in Sims 4 is to turn your Sim into a vampire. However, it’s not really as easy as you think because players need to do a series of tasks before they can reach the grandmaster level.
The maximum level allows the Sim to unlock secret skills and abilities for vampire Sims, so it's really worth trying.It's a good thing there’s also a cheat for that and it's “stats.setstat rankedStatisticOccultVampireXP 1486,” so you don’t need to do all the work to get there. And if you ever get bored, you can also instantly kill the vampire Sim through the power of the sun with a cheat. This can be done by selecting the Sim and using the keyword “traits.equiptrait VampireSun”. Via sims.wikia.comHiring a maid in the game can be a bit expensive, particularly when you’re not using the “motherlode” cheat. But did you know that there’s a cheat that makes a Sim automatically behave as a maid? Yes, such a cheat exist and it's “sims.addbuff NPCMaid”.
Upon using the cheat, the active Sim will automatically do anything that needs to be cleaned like doing the dishes, cleaning the bathroom, and just about anything that needs to be cleaned. And when there’s nothing left to do, the Sim goes back to their normal self.This cheat is best used when you don’t have a maid and you’re about to throw a birthday party, wedding, or just have a few friends over. And once that’s all done, you can easily bring the Sim back to normal with the keyword “sims.removebuff NPCMaid” as if nothing has changed.
Via simcitizens.comModifying a relationship is one of the most used cheats in the game. Not only will it help increase your Sim’s social bar, but also help them improve their career level. However, another way to use the modify relationship cheat is to make two enemy Sims into instant friends or lovers.However, doing this cheat can be a little bit tricky. You first need to enter the cheat “modifyrelationship John Doe Jane Doe 50 RomanceMain” on the selected Sim which represents the John Doe. Then change the active Sim to the second Sim, the Jane Doe, and use the cheat keyword again. It is important to know that the cheat will only work if done on both Sims.
If you want the Sims to be instant friends instead of romance, just change the word “Romance” to “Friendship” in the keyword. Via plumbobturnslegacy.blogspot.comOnce you get the Get to Work expansion pack for your Sims 4 game, you can use cheats that will make your Sim sick for some hours. This includes coughing, sneezing, being dazed, and a lot more. The good thing about these cheats is that they only last for two to three hours, so it doesn’t really make any permanent changes to your Sim.And if you want to do something crazier, you can also make your Sim giggle and itch for three straight hours.
Just imagine how funny it would be if you did that on their wedding day! To try this cheat, just use the keyword “sims.addbuff Gigglymild” to activate 2 hours of giggling and “Sims.addbuff Gigglysevere” for 3 hours. For the itch cheat, just change the word “Giggly” to “Itchy.”. Via simsvip.comImproving the relationship of your Sim with other Sims is crucial for success in their careers.
However, sometimes, the amount of work to do that is just too much, so you can just modify their relationship using a cheat for instant results. But unbeknownst to many, there is also a cheat that will instantly make them friends with all the Sims in the game, including their ex, enemies and even the dead! Aside from having exceptional social skills, this will also result in a Sim crying over a dead Sim they have never met.If you’re up for a trick like this, you can try it by using the cheat keyword “relationships.introducesimtoallothers.” As soon as you use it, you will see all your social relationship improve, whether they’re dead or alive. Via YouTube.comAfter getting the Parenthood expansion, you can activate different cheats that will alter the behavior of a kid or teen. This includes making them clingy, picky, loud, mean, distant, and even very rebellious! Each trait is completely different, so it’s worth trying each of them just for the experience.
One trait that’s worth trying is the rebellious one, as it really makes it hard for the parents to handle the kidsTo try this cheat, you can use the keyword 'traits.equiptrait ChildhoodPhaseClingy' and just change the last word to 'PickyEaterA', 'Loud', 'Rebellious', “Bear”, 'MeanStreak', and 'Distant' to try the other traits. However, the clingy and bear trait will not work for teens, while the distant trait doesn't work on children. Via YouTube.comProbably the craziest thing you can do in the game is to spawn fire to different Sims or things in the game. This includes making a Sim combust anytime and removing the default timeout after a recent fire incident so the fire just keeps happening. This means your Sim will spontaneously be on fire and can die if you don't have a shower nearby.Another alternative is to randomly set fire to a spot close to your Sim that will not affect them or the objects near it.
It's a way to see your Sim panic without risking their lives. To use the first cheat just use the keyword “sims.addbuff BurningLove” and “Sims.removebuff BurningLove” to remove it. As for the second cheat, use the keyword “objects.gsicreateobj 0x0000abd9.”.
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