"ScarletSimEater;c-16737338" wrote:
"Hermitgirl;c-16736591" wrote:
Well people may think it's shallow and that's their issue.. but the way I would suggest pulling it off is to just animate around the implement needed for a physically disabled sim to be mobile.
I think you are drastically underestimating how much time and energy it would take to animate around the issues. Animations are one of the more complex and involved steps in making any video game. I wouldn't be against including it if some programming fairies left a drive full of animations lying around, but tying up developers on mobility animations means that they're not working on other things.
Oh no, I'm not dramatically underestimating anything. I very well know it would take a huge amount of effort and time to do this and do it right. I've said this before. Just if you are talking about a wheelchair bound sims you would deal with transfers for everything... toilet, bed, chair, couch, bathing needs ect... You would have to leave some things out probably. Like they might only be able to use a certain type of shower in this game. I've transferred plenty of folks in my time and had to anticipate those needs.
Then of course you go beyond just needs into other activities, some might be limited. People brought up things like playing the guitar. There would have to be a lot reworked so they could do this from their position. They would have to look into romantic animations. It would be a huge undertaking. It doesn't mean some of these animations couldn't be applied to sims that aren't disabled though in many cases.
I'm not against it because of that just as I wasn't against toddlers even though I rarely use the little buggers personally.
I'm sorry the idea of putting effort into this bothers you.. it just does not bother me. I'm team all things. I want all that can come and be animated for this iteration. We don't know what they have planned long term, we don't know their budget, we don't know how long this series will last. It's all speculation on our parts. Can working on one thing delay another.. I'm sure it could. Will it cancel out that they other will never happen... umm we don't know but I'm banking on getting what I want out of this series, because I have so far.
I would appreciate it if you don't assume what I think in the future by the way. You'll probably be wrong.
