CAS QoL improvements

"redrogue60;c-18085316" wrote:
My CAS improvements would be

• At this point it is quite improbable but I would have liked hair to have been divided by root, shaft and ends like in Sims 3 for maximum customization
  
• I personally would have liked Career Titles like Dr., Esq., The Honorable, Det., as Career rewards
  
• I think being able to set family relationships as follows Great, Great Grandparent, Great-Grandparent, Grandparent, Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, Uncle, Aunt, Cousin, Second Cousin, Step-Father, Step-Mother, Step-Sibling, Boyfriend, Girlfriend, Fiancé, Spouse, Child, Step-Child, Best-Friend, ex-spouse and roommate when making households that aren't related.
  
• I want family relationships to matter so that step parents aren't trying on a Woody Allen situation
  
• I'd also like to see a few generations of pets
  
• I'd like to see the Vampiric sire line
  
• I'd like Body Hair
  
• I would like outerwear to be divided between Cold Weather Gear and Rain Gear and worn appropriately.
  
• I would honestly love Costumes to be a Clothing Tab and I'd really love more of them
  
• I want Pet costumes as a separate tab
  
• I want Cold weather and rain gear for Pet outfit tabs
  
• I would like to set teeth with things like 1 gold tooth, 1 missing tooth, buckteeth, braces, grillz, to make rougher or more character looking customers
  
• I'd like the cane from Sims 3 back and not only do I want it for Elders but I want it for Imperious Vampires or gentlemen of swagger
  
• I'd like Vampire, witches, fairies etc. to have outerwear and underwear that looks like it was made for them.
  
• I'd like blood type for Sims and pets
  
• I'd like Turn Ons/Offs
  
• I'd like more preferences. Like Favorite Food, Book Genre etc.
  
• I would like heterochromia
  
• I would like current traits which are really preferences (like dog lover or vegetarian) removed and placed into preferences. I'd like more impactful traits in their place.
  
• I would like makeup and manicure to be set per outfit. Hair and Jewelry always too in all further iterations of the Sims
  
• I would like Masks to be a separate accessory from eyewear. Obviously you cannot wear a pair of glasses with a Bauta mask and that is fine. The simmer can adjust their styling accordingly.
  
• I would like to set rings per finger and I would like more of them. We need more fun cocktail rings and more gothic rings. Wedding rings should be a default ring on the traditional ring finger unless other wise specified.
  
• I would love it if Watches are subtlely different than other types of wrist wear in that Sims who are bored will check their watches when bored but only if they are wearing one.
  
• I agree with the person who wanted to layer facial hair. I want to have a Goatee AND sideburns. Why cant I make big mutton chop sideburns and a rocking fu manchu?
  

You have some very good suggestions, I will update the main thread next week!

"MilutinMujovic;c-18082435" wrote:

"Elliandre;c-18081854" wrote:
So many great ideas in this thread!
I'd really love 4 or 5 columns in CAS.
Infant life stage added. Even if the baby has to appear in a cradle, it would be nice to give the baby new clothes, edit the name, and age them up or age Sims down back to baby.
Separate categories for facial piercings and earrings.
Separate categories for sunglasses and eyeglasses.
I also really hope makeup will be changed to be copied/carried over from everyday to the other outfit categories.
Jewelry like rings to be copied over through all the categories, so I don't have to add the wedding rings manually across all the outfits.
Ability to edit a Sim to change their human/occult status and create ghosts.
Ability to layer multiple types of facial hair.
More hair colour swatches.
All hair styles available to all ages from toddler to elder.

I agree with almost everything but all hairs available would be weird. Imagine a toddler with a long female hair. They hair would've been longer than them, which would looks so weird. :dizzy:

:joy: The long hair is not that long, I think it would look really cute although fair point if it reached their ankles maybe .. but omg no that would be so cute haha

"DaniRose2143;c-18081210" wrote:
In addition to all these great ideas I'd love the ability to delete an item from within CAS while you're in there, the exact same way you can delete a lot or a sim in your library.

Sometimes I add a a piece of cc and it doesn't look as good in CAS or live mode as it did on the internet. Or far worse, after a while you just decide you don't want that dress, or eyeshadow, or whatever it is anymore. If the creator didn't include a name in the thumbnail now you have to try and guess which specific item you need to delete. If you have even a small mod folder, it isn't always easy finding that one piece.

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but there's an easier way to find CC you don't want anymore than just sorting through each file one by one. You'll need to download The Sims 4 Tray Importer, just google the name and it should be the first result.

Create a new household with sims of the appropriate gender/frame/age for the CC you don't want, and make sure there's no CC in any of the Sims' outfits (including hair, tattoos, skin details, etc).

Load them up with all of the CC you want to delete, then save it to your library.

Open up The Sims 4 Tray Importer and choose that household.

Click "CC" at the top. From here, you should be able to narrow down the list of CC in that family by Sim and CAS Part type.

Right clicking on each item listing should show you a thumbnail and tell you the file name. If you left click, you can choose "Show containing folder ..." from the context menu and it'll open an Explorer window with that file highlighted.

Delete the file. Voila!

This is also very helpful for finding broken CC. I'm not sure how it interacts with custom swatches through the makeup color sliders. Either way, it's easier than sorting through every single file in Sims 4 Studio.

"ClarisseTan7;c-18086728" wrote:
What is QoL?

There are lots of things lacking in TS4 CAS. No choice as to where to place tattoos. No choice as to where to place moles in the face. No body hair. Etc.

Quality of Life improvements. Basically making the user interface and some game options better and easier to use in order to reduce unnecessary clicks, etc.