Height slider♥

"liko211;d-845508" wrote:
Ugh imagine a short girl having to tiptoe to kiss her tall boyfriend or vice versa it would be so cool!

This is not how a slider would work.

What would happen is that the taller sim would just end up snogging the nose, or forehead of the shorter sim. That is the problem with sliders, they don't alter animations. Having a short sim go on their toes to kiss can only be done if an entirely new animation is created for the purpose.

The issue with having more height options is that it means more animations have to be redone for each height, which means the animators won't be working on new content, just redoing things that already exist, and wouldn't have to be redone if more sims were the same height.

Here's a bit of info on the topic of heights, as it relates to just teens in ts4.

http://simscommunity.info/2014/09/14/sims-4-simgurumarion-explains-teens/

the height difference meant that there was a not insignificant amount of animation on Sims 2 and Sims 3 that could not be shared for technical reasons. In those cases we had to duplicate the adult animation and hand adjust it for the teen. Each case of this is “invisible” content, in the sense that it did not add any more stuff to do or special behavior to the game but ate up valuable animation time. It’s hard to put a number on how much content we lost to this, but I can say with some confidence that teens in the Sims 2 and Sims 3 did have significantly fewer teen-specific interactions than we wanted to make for them because of the invisible work we had to do in order to support their size.

Personally, I think a height slider might be an idea for ts5, if they can impliment it in a way that doesn't mess with animations.