Sim Height.
I would like Sims to vary in height. It's kind of boring when all adult Sims are the exact same height, to be honest.
Forum Discussion
"Gullveig;15592030" wrote:
@TJKazuha09 Why are you tagging an amateur like me for this...
but either way. Yes, from what I know... it's possible. They just have to change the way an animation sync, but I think they might want to compress the file size since animation targeting and rigging might be so much more complex than the current one. The only way to keep it sync is to give limitation on the height difference.
I'll give an example. Skyrim is where you can see proof of animation between 2 different height characters in game sync. Different races have different height, yet their animation can sync almost accurately and also... uhm.. their...modders... are able to sync the animation as well. If it wants to be done in sims game, they will need to add tags on characters with specific height.
Let's say: Character with height 1-3 tagged as Short. Character with height 4-6 tagged as Normal, Character with height 7-10 tagged as tall. Then after that... well.. idk, maybe their dev know more than me, they might have to add special interaction between characters or to simply add new rigging to fit the height difference. But I still think it's possible with more effort.
I don't think that a game like Skyrim has the same kind of interactions between the characters (even though I don't play that game).
But we know from TS2 what the problem is because in TS2 there was a code which made it possible to stretch our sims. It was only a cheat code and it wasn't meant to be used in ordinary play. But it could be used to temporarily change the height of a sim for screenshots.
If we attempted to play with stretched sims then the problems immediately were there: the sims kissed the air above the head of the other sim or the other sim's stomach. If they gave something to another sim then it didn't hid the other sim's hand. And so on. So the problem with different heights is that interactions between sims won't work anymore. All the interactions would have to be made in a different and much more complicated way.
But in war games characters usually only shoot at eachother. So different heights therefore aren't a problem in such games.
