Height
Can changing a Sim’s height please be a thing?
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@Bluebellflora
In my opinion the discussion still has to do with the amount of harddisk space that would be needed if height sliders would be part of the game itself.
I think you are trying to steer away from that part of the discussion.
Besides the round about 44 GB that the Base Game and all the Expansion Packs use on my Harddisk (I also downloaded the Legacy Edition, which is about 6.5 GB).
These files are stored in the Origin Games folder which can be found on the disk where the player wants them to be. (I store my games on a separate harddisk)
Perhaps it is my fault to think that most of the participants in this debat would know how much it would take. And of course this is a variable because not everybody has all the Expansion Packs.
I will answer your question about my user folder. In my folder I have 2.2 GB of Mods (including the variable Height Slider which hardly takes up diskspace) 1.5 GB of custom music, and most of the rest is saves (5.2 GB that is because i use al lot of different types of gameplay) Than 1.1 GB of Screenshots, small video's etc (The rest is neglectable) So this ads up to 8.4 GB. Together with the folder in which the Game itself is stored i get to round about 52.GB for all Sims 4 stuff
So, please tell me if you think that is a lot of harddisk space? Nowadays you can buy a harddisk of 4 TB. Hopefully you will grant me an answer as i answered your question.
And perhaps you will also be able to tell me why you think the whole Sims 4 game will not demand more computing power when the mentioned height sliders will be added to the base game?
I hope you can clearly see how much all the pack including mods already ask of my PC, which is not a standard run-of-the mill.
In my view, adding any height sliders to the base game will not demand a lot more diskspace.
Right, but you specifically said:
"My Sims 4 folder contains round about 10 GB. almost 1.5 GB is custom music and over 2.2 GB of the space is taken up by al sorts of mods and scripting etc. That boils down to 6.3 GB for all the Sims 4 expansion packs etc."
What is the relevance to packs in that statement? How do they make the Sims 4 folder larger? Sure they make the installed game bigger, that goes without saying. But you have just broken down that 6.3 GB and confirmed that your Saves folder takes up the bulk of it (5.2 GB) because of your gameplay style. That's not the packs adding more to the folder, it's you.
I'm not steering away from the height adjustment discussion, but I am asking for clarification on the above statement because it is relevant to hard disk space and apparent confusion as to what the user's Sims 4 folder contains.
Exactly how much more CPU and RAM do you think a machine will need to deal with different height sims wandering around? Or the ability to change height in CAS with a slider? Have you run performance tests with CC height sliders vs none?
- Sorry @Bluebellflora for the late answer but sometimes family matters need more attention than gaming or discussing/debating about it.
Just before Christmas last year my old pc broke down (motherboard failure) after some 5 years of heavy duty and hard gaming. On that pc the difference was round about 0.3 to 0.5 % extra use of CPU using two different types of height sliders against using none. Unfortunately i have no proof of it because those results were not recorded and i didn't test is on my new pc yet. But when i feel like it i might do it again just for the fun of it.
I guess the difference now will be even slightly less on my new pc because my last one had an i7 processor.
But as you might have seen in my earlier posts even with a i9 processor, the game uses already about 22% of CPU. I gather that with some lesser processors it will use up significantly more. How much more i don't know. But when you compare an i3 to an i9, I dare to say that an i3 will use up to 60% of its CPU and will heat up very quick.
The game uses round about 5 GB of RAM at the moment I took the screenshots to attach to my earlier post. This is including the two height sliders.
As @RandomBuzziness wrote the sliders use approximately 3 to 5 kb on harddisk space but i still think it might way through when the processor has to compute it for all the 120 Sims I play with. But than again, that is my way of gaming.
Thanks you @Psychotps for your edit! I also use mods (about 1.500) and animations (i really lost count how much but it is about 800 Mb) and as i already wrote it ads up to about 2.2 GB.
I still agree with @Ashleyc1144 so i just keep the Me Too and I very much like the suggestion of @BabiGrim that it would be nice to have more height differences when EA eventually launches The Sims 5.
I will end with a plea that i would also love to see the possibility of creating a kind of dissimilarity in a Sims face to make it look even more lifelike than it does now.
