On average, how long do you spend in CAS making 1 sim?

Honestly, no idea. I only have one custom slider, and as I have an idea what they do nowadays, it takes me less time than last year. Starting with someone else's sim or a pre-made from the game cuts off even more time. For some sims, it only takes as much time as the clothes take to load. Needless to say, female sims take much longer because they already have so much stuff for them without adding anything custom (scroll... scroll... scroll...) :wink: .

When I'm finally in CAS, I do spend a lot of time! A sim considered middle class will have 4 daily outfits and 3 of the rest.
I do try to spend less time, since I hate not finishing the family in one game - but sometimes, I just don't have the time! On the other hand, I'm not good at making male sims, so they normally take less time.
But if I need a play-test sim, I just let the dice decide and do some minor touches. :)

"figgy;c-17899195" wrote:
... I wonder if there's anyone else who spends more time on creating dogs than their human sims?

I have honestly never tried to create a pet from scratch in sims 3; just like what @Pary said, I myself am an animal person IRL, but for some reason can't grow attached to any of the virtual pets in the game like I would to my sims. I had played around with some of the cool tools exclusively available for CAP and used them to edit a pet already generated by the game but that was about the most effort I was willing to pour into making a pet, which I seldom do. Don't get me wrong, the tools are very neat, and I feel happy for whomever finding CAP fun :)

"Pary;c-17899879" wrote:
... However sometimes, the tweaking of a sim to get what I am envisioning, takes SO LONG and I can be in CAS for hours ( not all at once ) so I have to save the sim to work on for another day.

P.S - and then nearly all of mine turn out looking like relatives of each other anyway. It's maddening!
Also I love your avatar. Again.

:)

Yes, that part I highlighted, I definitely agree with. I have sometimes become visually-exhausted of staring at the same face for an extended period of time that I figured the face sculpting should continue some other time; and then the next time I return and see the same face I was working on last time and say to myself: "Wow, how did I think this nose looked okay, I should fix it now." It's happened to me way too many times. :D

Aww, thank you again, for your kind words :blush:

Probably anything from 10 minutes to an hour depending on how important I plan the sim to be. Most of the time is spent on facial features, and a little bit on clothes if I have a specific idea.

For clothes, a lot of the time I just go with what the game already suggested, with some minor tweaks.

I have over 300 custom sliders, so of course I have to go through each one to see how it alters my sim.

And if I’m making a sim based on the likeness of someone, I have to get it as close as I can and sometimes that can take at least 2 hours, lol.

It depends, but on average it takes between 15-20 minutes to create one Sim

I don´t look at my watch when playing, or when I spend my time in CAS.

The time I spend on one Sim depends on for what I create it. If it is just a Sim which has to fullfill a certain role I just randomize a Sim and style his clothes.
If the Sims has a more permanent or important role, I create it from the scratch and be very perfectionist about the face and the clothes.

I have had sims that only took minutes (not counting the time it takes to dress them) :p Most of my other sims really don't take very long (less than half an hour) but undergo minor tweaks over the years as my style changes or as I add more custom sliders to my game.

"Mikezumi;c-17900084" wrote:
I have had sims that only took minutes (not counting the time it takes to dress them) :p Most of my other sims really don't take very long (less than half an hour) but undergo minor tweaks over the years as my style changes or as I add more custom sliders to my game.

They sure look fine in their birthday suits. :D

I don't know anymore. I stopped timing myself about 3 years ago.