Height slider♥

I would like to see this feature in the game.

"Windely;c-14072489" wrote:
Yes, it would be cool, but they are not going to make it. All the interactions would be ruined.

Not all only some I use a height slider it only messes up things like kissing and picking up toddlers so those animations would have to be remade for those interactions.

"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.

"Dannydanbo;c-15796604" wrote:
A height slider will not work in this version because there are too many possibilities for varying heights. Three preset heights (tall, short and average) would be a workable solution. Then, animations can be easily made for each of the three heights.

Exactly!!!!

Basically what everyone is saying is correct. I will eat my hat if they add this to TS4. There is just no way.

Let's say they add "short, medium, tall" default heights, Let's assume they only do teen, Y/A, adult, and elder... that's still 3 x 4 = 12 animations for everything the sim does alone, and then sim-to-sim interactions is worse, because they have to mod short teen to short teen, short teen to medium teen, short teen to tall teen, medium teen to medium teen, medium teen to tall teen, tall teen to tall teen... that's 7 different sim-to-sim animations for teen-to-teen. Now we need short teen to short YA, medium teen to short YA.... It's a lot more than *just* 3 times the work. AND THEN your computer has to store all this information and retrieve it quickly enough to keep pace with what we expect from modern gaming.

But on the other hand, EA makes a "cost vs benefit" analysis to everything they program, I'm sure. So maybe, computers and programming techniques will advance to make the animations just a little easier to do, and higher-end computers will be cheaper and cheaper, and the community will have demonstrated that they want this feature so bad that EA will finally decide it's worth it? I definitely hope so, so I am holding my breath for TS5, which is still probably a few years away =) And if not TS5, then TS6...

So, it won't happen soon... but keep asking for it.

Yes! Anything to make characters more distinguishable and more life-like. Even if it's a preset and not customizable, it could still make a difference in play.

I hope this gets implemented soon. Then all my sims won't be the same height!

this feature should have been in the game no idea why they decided nnot to add it

> @BrokenChaos69 said:
> Height sliders would be nice but they're never going to happen officially in The Sims 4. Maybe for TS5 but they add a lot of extra work when it comes to making clothing, animations, etc.

i highly doubt there will be a Sims 5 at this point if they don't pick the game up first and make a sims 5 without fixing the sims 4 it will likely be bad if not worse and will lead to the sims series completely stoping meaning they woul have to give the rights to the game to someone else for it to have any chance of going on

They can do it but they wont.
The Sims 4 (despite what many say) has provided the highest quality sim content.
Clothes haven't been better (quality wise) and each one individually fitting to a sims unique body type. Its actually fantastic. But with they way things are going its hard to do. TS3 and TS2 had random derps in clothes and their quality.

TS4 now has feminine and masculine frames, good quality sim cosmetics and Toddler, Child, Teen, Young Adult, Adult, Elder life stages.
Height would certainly be hard to do, but its definitely possible in ts4.
They have approaches to it.

Optional is three heights to choose from or a height slider.
An optional three heights could let one simply choose out of three heights but it would very likely require a huge update.
On the other hand they could do a huge morph update and make sliders to lower height for waist and thigh and calf and arms.

I think its possible but probably is not going to happen.