Create Own Clothing and Hairstyles

The old sim games would come with a separate program that helped you put your own images on clothes and such. It was so easy! Why is there nothing like that for The Sims 4?

Oh, man... the geometry issues... the clipping...

I mean, hair front and back as two separate meshes, that I can see working as hair is basically a wig you put on the digital doll.

But jackets over any top, layering tunics and dresses over jeans?

Not happening in sims 4.

From everything I've seen, to do layered clothing would require an entirely new mesh system for the Sim. Something closer to the Poser/Daz Studio model, and even that is a royal PITA to kitbash layers together without helper morphs and magnets. Heck those differences are part of why I haven't investigated making real custom content - new meshes - very seriously. (That and I really don't want to learn Blender. My knowledge of Hexagon isn't solid enough that working with Blender won't mess me up.)

Be able to put the pretty tops with any jacket/sweater without a mod/mcc.

Assuming you mean something like being able to lengthen hair in CAS with sliders, that’s probably gonna be one hell of a task to program. Imagine the clipping issue

That would be custom content. Though it could be possible to have hair and bangs and all that separate and can choose what to add on your sims. I doubt it would be possible now and can live without it as long as we got different choices; but it would be neat to see,

TS2 came with a piece of software called BodyShop, that allowed players to make custom skins, eye colors, hair colors, makeup, and recolors of existing clothes. Now, for TS4, you have to download piece of third-party software called Sims 4 Studio to do the same thing. It's a real shame that they didn't give us a TS4 version of BodyShop, because I loved using it to put custom graphics on clothes and make crazy hair colors in TS2, and TS4's clothes do have...limits...when it comes to color and pattern choices.

"Simmingal;c-17262178" wrote:


:joy: I mean you could change bangs separately from rest of hairstyle
the wording :sweat_smile:

I know, i'm just kidding. ;)

You'd need to add separate layers (in cas and - more important -on the sim-model in game) for bangs, tails, main part, probably sliders, for length, curlyness and whatnot, new cas build-a-hairstyle categories, test for clipping, hats and other issues. Theres a ton of work involved, nothing you'd do on the go.

I also wish they would invest more money in gameplay and especially innovative design, but maybe thats a company DLC they didn't buy ;) The Sims franchise is marketing wise a cash-cow for them.

Look how difficult it seems to implement that sims can interact with each other playing games like fetch, frisbee and so on again. It's something that fans have been begging for for ages.

"Marduc_Plays;c-17262163" wrote:

"Simmingal;c-17262106" wrote:

they could make smaller categories like ''front hair'' ''backhair''

But..but I dont want sims to have backhair XD

that would require a total rework of the way CAS works, and they won't change that, i fear, or we would at least have the colorwheel back by now.

:joy: I mean you could change bangs separately from rest of hairstyle
the wording :sweat_smile:

i just feel its much smaller revamp than colorwheel though since technically its not new mechanics
its just making things into separate objects instead of one object to match as you like

but true, still its just a small dream they'll probably never make happen for ts4 since its ''too much work''

"Simmingal;c-17262106" wrote:

they could make smaller categories like ''front hair'' ''backhair''

But..but I dont want sims to have backhair XD

that would require a total rework of the way CAS works, and they won't change that, i fear, or we would at least have the colorwheel back by now.