Sims all look the same!

"Mikezumi;c-16808189" wrote:
Now this is a family that is completely pudding! Not a non-zero slider between them :# They are not ugly per se but death to genetic diversity if enough of them are allowed to breed in your save.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4411/35915260084_896cbdde30_b.jpg
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4405/35915257634_0e294bc53b_b.jpg
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4368/35915258594_aba6cf4cc1_b.jpg
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4332/36702622026_fe7e585a1c_b.jpg
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4368/35915255704_4c4c43f70d_b.jpg

Y'know, I thought at one point that the woman was pretty, but...now that I look at it...it appears that family is a bit on the Stepford'ish side. "We're allllll happy..." In fact it's a bit freaky. :D

@JoAnne65 Perhaps the comment was meant as an understatement. :smile:
The sim to the right has a very interesting face, those high set sleepy eyes reminds me of the merchant in Jan Van Eycks painting (he Arnolfini Marriage), and the angel curls are a nice touch :smile:
https://i.imgur.com/FrzGA4d.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ga4nuu7.jpg

I don't usually stay long in CAS, but this one I fiddled a little bit with:
dancing as a YA:
https://i.imgur.com/ILTC4J5.jpg

daydreaming as adult:
https://i.imgur.com/Cc9EOyO.jpg
She looks a little bit like my mother with different colours, I realised afterwards, especially the older version :smile:

When I was attempting TS3 tried all the sliders and what not available (tis a fine art in TS2), and they still look the same. Any differences I got were merely superficial. One of the root problems is that the human head is not a ball, but an ovoid. No way you can build a good house if the foundation is flawed. Suspect that to get any meaningful variations would require mods/CC.

"Oldeseadogge;c-16809565" wrote:
When I was attempting TS3 tried all the sliders and what not available (tis a fine art in TS2), and they still look the same. Any differences I got were merely superficial. One of the root problems is that the human head is not a ball, but an ovoid. No way you can build a good house if the foundation is flawed. Suspect that to get any meaningful variations would require mods/CC.

Wrong,sims heads are not one shape in 3,sims 3 head sliders include

For cheeks

Cheek fullness
Cheekbone height
Cheekbone Shape
Nasiolabial crease
Cheek jowls

Jaw

Jaw width
Jaw shape
Jaw Height
Jaw depth
underbite

Chin

Chin depth
Chin height
Chin scale
Chin underlip scale

Then with that globally

Face Profile
Head width
Face height


And 6 ear sliders


Also there are 12 different preset head shapes to start with


I do not use CC or sliders/mods this is a pic i took half hour ago of a sim I made the other day


https://i.imgur.com/zPhJQXJ.png

No CC sim "Ovoid" head shape

https://i.imgur.com/ow3Nfr2.png

There actually is a slider called "Head Shape" it elongates the head to make it ovoid. You use the initial shape selection and then go into slider to fine-tune it.

"Oldeseadogge;c-16809565" wrote:
When I was attempting TS3 tried all the sliders and what not available (tis a fine art in TS2), and they still look the same. Any differences I got were merely superficial. One of the root problems is that the human head is not a ball, but an ovoid. No way you can build a good house if the foundation is flawed. Suspect that to get any meaningful variations would require mods/CC.

When I moved from TS2 to TS3 I thought that sims' heads were too round. Of course this was before I started experimenting with sliders. Now, looking back, TS2 sims all look like sausage heads to me. They were charming sausage heads but sausage heads nonetheless ;) CC sims might have looked better but I wouldn't know because I didn't use CC back then.

@Auroraskies Yes, that's indeed the kind of eyes I wanted to achieve ;) Love that sim, she has a sweet face! One of the problems in the game for me is: what will she look like as a male. That matters, because the game copies features when they get offspring, so if she gets a son he will inherate some of her looks. I love that (it's part of the gameplay for me even), but it's also challenging because the game doesn't always 'translate' features all that well between genders.

"Oldeseadogge;c-16809565" wrote:
When I was attempting TS3 tried all the sliders and what not available (tis a fine art in TS2), and they still look the same. Any differences I got were merely superficial. One of the root problems is that the human head is not a ball, but an ovoid. No way you can build a good house if the foundation is flawed. Suspect that to get any meaningful variations would require mods/CC.

I don't quite follow what you mean, because you definitely can influence the shape of their head.


https://i.imgur.com/sM2QPe1.png

No need to stick to the ball shape.

Oh, ETA, of course I reacted first before scrolling and reading other comments first again :mrgreen:

@JoAnne65 Thank you! I think she's cute as a button. I don't mind the heritage, don't gender the sims more than termwise and with some vague cultural concept residue, but either way is fine :smile:
Here's a son of hers from a different save (she gets re-used a lot), with his dad. I'll post a picture once he's all grown up!
https://i.imgur.com/MBaIZ4z.jpg