Re: Adding height to The Sims 4 or maybe it will be a Sims 5 edition
@SimmeringPassion @PenguinFoop The mod I use is the Height Slider by GODJUL1. This mod links the foot slider in CAS to directly change the height of a Sim, i.e. bigger feet means taller Sims, smaller feet means shorter Sims. I can't post a link in this forum the this mod can be found at the Mod the Sims website. The file-size isn't very large (2.78 kb) and using it does not seem to slow my game down at all & and my FPS rate is pretty much the same when I use this mod as in test saves where I don't. I like for the Sims in my game to come in all different shapes, sizes, and colors, and this mod definitely does affect every Sim in my game, including NPCs, randomly-generated townies, everyone except for pets.
I am no expert at all when it comes to coding, but much of the height-related compensation for tall Sims interacting with shorter Sims already seems to be either in the base game or in this mod itself. I'll use a modded version of the base game Goth family to provide some examples of what I am referring to:
In this example I have made Mortimer taller, not like freakishly tall but taller than average, while I have made Bella shorter than average by about the same amount (using the MC CAS module of MCCC to assign a number value to a foot size with a range of +100 to -100 and with 0 being the default size of an un-modded Sim, I have made Mortimer a +20 and Bella a -15).
For most interactions the animations look pretty good and there is definitely seems to be some kind of compensation for their different heights going on here. When they hug you can see there is a clear height difference but the interaction looks fairly natural. When they hold hands their hands appear to meet rather than the taller Sim having his hands much higher than the shorter Sim (like they were playing patty-cake or something). You can also see that Bella is reaching up to massage Mortimer's shoulders rather than having her hands somewhere further down on his back.
The animations look very normal when either of them interact with items around the house. A short Sim (Bella) interacts with the stove to cook some grilled cheese (yum!) and a tall Sim (Mortimer) washes his hands in the sink to get ready to eat those tasty grilled cheese sandwiches.
For their daughter Cassandra I made her even shorter (her foot size is a -20 using MC CAS). Since her mother is still a young adult I wanted Cassandra to appear to be a young-ish teen like maybe 15 years old or so. There is a significant height difference between her and her father. In a vanilla no-mod game they would be the same size, yet she definitely appears to be tilting her head up and looking upward to his face when they chat. She gets her dad the old electric hand buzzer trick (I can't believe he fell for that one!) and their hands are at the same level. Dad forgives her and gives her a loving hug and the animation looks fairly natural. Cassandra also interacts just fine with items around the house.
So anyway, this mod isn't perfect. When a tall Sim kisses a short Sim their lips don't quite line up. Even then it's much closer than it would be without at least some height compensation going on and it's not all that noticeable unless you are looking close. I haven't created any extremely tall or short Sims but if I did I expect the animations would look less and less natural as the size difference gets greater. The other odd thing with this mod is their Sim avatar portraits in the lower left corner of the UI are a bit off for either very tall or very short Sims, though this doesn't really affect game-play at all. I expect if EA ever added this feature to the game that their version would be more polished; however, until they do mods like this is all we'll ever have.
P.S. Just word of warning, I have not yet updated my game for the Dec. 7th game patch so I am not certain if this mod is still compatible.
