Masterpiece (almost) Impossible?
My sim wants to sculpt a masterpiece sculpture, but no matter how many times I make one, she never get one. She is lvl 10 in sculpting, has the Artisan crafter Lifetime Wish, and out of about 50 scul...
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There's a fundamental difference in how painting and sculpting are implemented in the Sims.
In Painting, you paint, and it doesn't matter what you paint, with the right skill and traits, you get a masterpiece. Big, small, genius, sim, anything can be a masterpiece.
With sculpting, you have a hidden "experience" counter with each PIECE, not material. The material only affects the time and cost, not the quality. The quality is affected by how many times you've made that specific piece.
I don't know what the counter is, but my guess is that it's around 10 or so. I made 3 masterpieces in a row with this once I hit around 10 so I think that's close enough.
If you just randomly sculpt, you'll spread your experience around and very likely never see a masterpiece as there's almost 100 unique pieces (not including materials).
Pick a piece (I chose a specific chair, because I wanted to furnish my house with them), and make it over and over, in clay (cheapest). The more you make it, the more valuable it will be, and eventually you'll start cranking out masterpiece chairs. Just that chair, if you start working on something else, it won't be a masterpiece unless you've made a bunch of it as well.
They're different skills with different paths.
In Painting, you paint, and it doesn't matter what you paint, with the right skill and traits, you get a masterpiece. Big, small, genius, sim, anything can be a masterpiece.
With sculpting, you have a hidden "experience" counter with each PIECE, not material. The material only affects the time and cost, not the quality. The quality is affected by how many times you've made that specific piece.
I don't know what the counter is, but my guess is that it's around 10 or so. I made 3 masterpieces in a row with this once I hit around 10 so I think that's close enough.
If you just randomly sculpt, you'll spread your experience around and very likely never see a masterpiece as there's almost 100 unique pieces (not including materials).
Pick a piece (I chose a specific chair, because I wanted to furnish my house with them), and make it over and over, in clay (cheapest). The more you make it, the more valuable it will be, and eventually you'll start cranking out masterpiece chairs. Just that chair, if you start working on something else, it won't be a masterpiece unless you've made a bunch of it as well.
They're different skills with different paths.
