I've been thinking about downloading one for more diversity, but the animations make me reconsider, so I'm wondering what everyone thinks.

Haven't tried it w/ TS3 yet but I'm using a height slider in TS4. I suspect there's not that much of a difference between the two games using this type of mod. The animations are of course affected and will not line up perfectly (as you mentioned). I only make slight adjustments avoiding major height differences. How noticeable the in-game animations will depend on how much you use the slider.If you're using it with custom poses... I've heard you can use OMSP (One More Slot Please) to line up the poses better... but don't quote me on that. :p

I only use it sparingly. I’m obsessive enough in my gameplay that the wonky interactions due to the height differences bother me too much. I mostly use it only if there is a reason behind it or for story purposes. For example, I use the slider on my werewolves to make them some of the tallest sims in the neighborhood.

Yes! It does goof up the animations between sims sometimes, but I don't care. Very tall sims clip or stick out when under the bed covers. I've got gentle giants dating and partnered with short sims. Kissing is a mess, they keep hitting each other's necks, noses, or foreheads, and a few other interactions like that end up out of alignment, but I would never dream of letting such get in the way of true love. Besides, it's not polite to stare. :)

I use them to adjust heights of child sims as they get older and to shorten a newly aged up child to reflect the height a three year old should be as that's how they are when they age up from a toddler.I also want eight year olds to be taller than a three year old so even if they dress the same you can still tell which one is older by height.

No. I can't stand the messed up animations. They're bad enough as it is sometimes lol, I don't need to make it worse.

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jillbg
7 years ago
@Deshong04 I use cmar's sliders and have MC. Could you, please, tell me how to get numbers on the sliders? It would facilitate things... :)
WatrDragon
Rising Newcomer
7 years ago
Don´t like the messed up animations. It´s bad enough, if you want to stage a romantic date at the beach and the sims keep kissing each others chins and stuff, because of the uneven terrain. :D
I really would have liked it to be included in the game though, but of course it would have been very difficult.
Deshong04
7 years ago
"jillbg;c-16868483" wrote:
@Deshong04 I use cmar's sliders and have MC. Could you, please, tell me how to get numbers on the sliders? It would facilitate things... :)

NRass > Master Controller > Settings > CAS > Show Numeric Slider Value

I think that's the correct.
jillbg
7 years ago
@Deshong04 Thanks! :)
Mikezumi
7 years ago
I think the misaligned animations would upset me too much. Besides, when it comes to my sims, I only see their faces and height is unimportant. Having said that, I am quite short so it might be fun to reflect that in my SS since she rarely has romantic relationships so the animations wouldn't matter.

@jillbg I also have a thing for tall men! The men in my life have always been at least a foot taller than me :) Then what did I do? I went and married and 5'10" shortie! LOL Still, he was 9 inches taller than me so I guess it's relative ;)
jillbg
7 years ago
@Mikezumi I'm happy as long as I can wear heels and stay "short" which can be difficult as I'm 5'57! :)
MissBeehavingSim
New Spectator
7 years ago
I've never tried them purely because of how they mess up animations
TadOlson
7 years ago
Here's why I use height sliders as I don't want children to stay the exact same hight for six years as they are three year olds on entering the child stage and they move on from it on their ninth birthdays.
Spoiler
Here's an expample of height sliders on two children.The older one is eight while her little sister is three.The taller one is older while the smaller child is the youngest.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5647/30300169394_184a88b8f7_b.jpg
Side view showing the height difference in the two children.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5460/31121016365_9761b7d5db_b.jpg
studio09
7 years ago
I use the height slider by Cmar now. You can adjust height up or down. I use it to make the male sims taller, a little for some and a lot for others.

I originally used an old one by Delphy that could only be adjusted up. I would not recommend that one. If you made your sim very tall their feet would twitch. Unfortunately if you download a sim whose height was adjusted using that slider the sim's height is taller in your game but you can not adjust the height back to normal without also having that slider.

ETA: So I have both sliders in my game but I only use the old one to put that slider back to zero on sims that have their height adjusted using it.
DonroaAkashu
New Spectator
7 years ago
Not at the moment playing vanilla, no, but that would be one of my first modifications. Always towering over people in real life this really is a big part of social interactions and I miss it reflected in the game; chopped up animations exist in real life too (and no pun intended).