Gradual aging

That would be awesome, but I doubt it could be added into the game. I know very little about development, but it seems like an awful lot of work.
Worse, I don't think the devs would even want to it, in sims 3 pregnant sims saw their bellies gradually grow, now they just pop... we'll probably have to wait for sims 5 to have that sort of feature, maybe...

great idea however, it will probably be too much work for EA and too expensive.. the same excuse for toddlers and teen heights

We have asked for that for years and once got a big explanation about why it could not be done in a pc game and open ended like Sims is. Something about needing a massive super computer, They even said with that type of pc it would still be virtually impossible to synch up all the things sims do together as every height has it's own set of movements for everything - plus on each sim that programming for all stages has to be on every sim - never mind the clothing is another issue as attachment to meshes can either be attached to stretch vertically or attach to stretch horizontally but can not be made to go in both direction - so if you have various height sims that slowly changed it would not work with changeable clothing. Ben Bell gave a long speech on it on a an 8 or 9 part You tube presentation before Sims 3 came out.

Oh...
Well do you think its ever going to be possible? Maybe Sims 5 or 6?
I mean video games do some amazing things now a days, and computers are so much better than they were even just 5 years ago.

Teens, YA, Adults, and Elders are all the same height. They can't even do 'stepped' aging, let alone do what you're asking (which would be very cool, btw).

"Writin_Reg;13655384" wrote:
We have asked for that for years and once got a big explanation about why it could not be done in a pc game and open ended like Sims is. Something about needing a massive super computer, They even said with that type of pc it would still be virtually impossible to synch up all the things sims do together as every height has it's own set of movements for everything - plus on each sim that programming for all stages has to be on every sim - never mind the clothing is another issue as attachment to meshes can either be attached to stretch vertically or attach to stretch horizontally but can not be made to go in both direction - so if you have various height sims that slowly changed it would not work with changeable clothing. Ben Bell gave a long speech on it on a an 8 or 9 part You tube presentation before Sims 3 came out.

I wonder how long EA will continue to refer to 'eight years ago, we couldn't do X, so it's impossible now''? I agree, the animations and (I suppose) CPU overhead would be issues. But clothing? Seen the clothing go 'both ways and more' in other programs. Of course you'd have to use better models. But eight years later? Come on.

I love it when people make the excuse of "it can't happen because it's too hard", yet a dedicated modder managed to create a mod for it in TS3 and, minus a few clipping issues, it worked. It worked WONDERFULLY.

A single person managed to make a mod that had Sims slowly growing every day. A single person made a mod that had adult Sims' hair slowly turning grey with the passage of time. Imagine what an entire team could do.

"brookesaywhatx;13657414" wrote:

"mizuru007;13657317" wrote:
I love it when people make the excuse of "it can't happen because it's too hard", yet a dedicated modder managed to create a mod for it in TS3 and, minus a few clipping issues, it worked. It worked WONDERFULLY.

A single person managed to make a mod that had Sims slowly growing every day. A single person made a mod that had adult Sims' hair slowly turning grey with the passage of time. Imagine what an entire team could do.

"It's too hard and expensive" are words straight out of a guru's mouth. People aren't just saying that to bash EA.

But they're taking out of the context in which it was spoken, which was about having to make choices within a particular budget on a particular deadline.

"GreenDay;13657397" wrote:

"mizuru007;13657317" wrote:

A single person managed to make a mod that had Sims slowly growing every day. A single person made a mod that had adult Sims' hair slowly turning grey with the passage of time. Imagine what an entire team could do.

:o this is something that I've always wanted in the Sims series... why have I not heard of it until now?? What is the mod called?

The site has started to refuse to tell me when people are addressing me in comments! Cool!

Anywho, this is the aging one: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=517293
And this is the growing one: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=490536

Again, both made by a single person! One person did what the team says is too difficult to do! With no budget whatsoever!! Money and manpower aren't feasible excuses!!

@Uzone27, yeah, I think people would prefer a new stage in life than just gradual aging - like people calling for something to bridge the gap from Child to Teen. It feels a lot less important than other things.