"Writin_Reg;c-16763326" wrote:
"Sigzy05;c-16762415" wrote:
"Stormsview;c-16754214" wrote:
One complaint I do not have is building in sims 4, Sims 4 building is easy, we can build anything, We do need some features but even pre-teens can build on the sims 4. So I think they made it easier but they just did not add all the features, we still get by just takes a bit of creativity.
I disagree. Building in TS4 is easier, but the tools are less flexible and do not allow you to build anything, at least not properly. TS3 did though. I could build anything there, and there was so much variety of build/buy architectures and styles with the color wheel it was the best by far. TS3 build mode wasn't hard, you just need to learn how to use the tools, a lot of people want to instantly make houses, sometimes they end up looking like pre-schooler drawings. TS4 is only getting terrain tools after 4 years. Content/new features are really slow for TS4.
That is because Sims 3 had a Build world complete program (CAW was a light version of the Maya Plug in called Build world) in it - that Sims 4 does not. Sims 4 is more free hand building and requires tools not in the game like Build world 3.4 or 3.7. The program to build is in the devs not in a program in the game. The tools depend on what tools and talent they have not a program.
Like wise Sims 2 utilized Sims City 4 programming to build their maps and roads - for people who did not have Sims City 4 they could use the template provided of the worlds the devs had created already for the game (empty versions) to make new worlds but if you had Sims City 4 you could build your own as that is what Sims 2 used.
Sims 4 has a program that allows you to build a building - period, and another that allow you to build a Sim. But it has no package program for you to build a world or to even build outside of a lot because there is no singular world or map building program for that purpose in this game. You cannot do what those games allowed if the tools and programs to do those things do not exist for your use in the game. So it does not matter what Sims 2 or 3 allowed if those programs are not available for this game and engine.
Why was the decision made not to include this type of program then? I really appreciate your information, I am (and have been) just trying to understand why Sims 4 is so lacking in all areas for me.
