How do you create your Sims?
What inspires you when you are making your Sim in CAS? Do you try to create yourself as accurately as possible? Or, do you try to create someone who looks like you, but maybe has qualities you wish yo...
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What inspires you when you are making your Sim in CAS? Do you try to create yourself as accurately as possible? Or, do you try to create someone who looks like you, but maybe has qualities you wish you had?
I tried to make my Simself as accurate as possible. I gave her traits and an aspiration I felt were close to my own. However, she's a YA version. I don't play with her. She was just made for fun and a couple contests on the forum.
Do you create new characters who are nothing like you?
All of them sans my Simself are mostly nothing like myself. Some of them might have similar traits or aspirations though since the choices are somewhat limited.
Do you make your favorite celebrities or characters from novels?
Back in TS2 days I made two Sims from one of my favorite books as an example couple for a contest on my forum. For TS4 I've made two celebrities; Adam Lambert and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz movie. I don't play either one though.
Adam lives in my custom template that I use to start every game play save as a 'Not In World' townie. I see him as a food stall vendor, detective, waiter and he sometimes shows up at festivals and parties. The Wicked Witch was never put in the game, she was made for a ROM giveaway contest.
Do you like to create mostly supernatural Sims?
Not mostly, but I do enjoy playing with many vampires, spellcasters, aliens and mermaids in my game.
How do you choose the clothes?
It depends on what they'll be used for in the game, their traits and personality. The majority of my Sims have a favorite color, so I'll choose clothes that way for them too.
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For general gameplay saves where I don't have anything specific in mind except for gender (I try to keep it even, but do play more male Sims for some reason), I'll open CAS, select the gender, and then start by spamming the random button until I find a Sim that I like their general look. From there I'll start massively tweaking their physical appearance and choosing their wardrobe.
Their traits, aspiration, walkstyle, voice, etc. comes next, and lastly I will use the randomize button to choose a name. Sometimes I'll have a name already picked out, but that's rare. Their name can take a long, long time because by now I've developed a head canon for who they are and try to reflect that in their name. The entire process can take anywhere from an hour to several hours to make one Sim.
Happy Simming! <3
I tried to make my Simself as accurate as possible. I gave her traits and an aspiration I felt were close to my own. However, she's a YA version. I don't play with her. She was just made for fun and a couple contests on the forum.
Do you create new characters who are nothing like you?
All of them sans my Simself are mostly nothing like myself. Some of them might have similar traits or aspirations though since the choices are somewhat limited.
Do you make your favorite celebrities or characters from novels?
Back in TS2 days I made two Sims from one of my favorite books as an example couple for a contest on my forum. For TS4 I've made two celebrities; Adam Lambert and Margaret Hamilton as the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz movie. I don't play either one though.
Adam lives in my custom template that I use to start every game play save as a 'Not In World' townie. I see him as a food stall vendor, detective, waiter and he sometimes shows up at festivals and parties. The Wicked Witch was never put in the game, she was made for a ROM giveaway contest.
Do you like to create mostly supernatural Sims?
Not mostly, but I do enjoy playing with many vampires, spellcasters, aliens and mermaids in my game.
How do you choose the clothes?
It depends on what they'll be used for in the game, their traits and personality. The majority of my Sims have a favorite color, so I'll choose clothes that way for them too.
* * * * * * * * *
For general gameplay saves where I don't have anything specific in mind except for gender (I try to keep it even, but do play more male Sims for some reason), I'll open CAS, select the gender, and then start by spamming the random button until I find a Sim that I like their general look. From there I'll start massively tweaking their physical appearance and choosing their wardrobe.
Their traits, aspiration, walkstyle, voice, etc. comes next, and lastly I will use the randomize button to choose a name. Sometimes I'll have a name already picked out, but that's rare. Their name can take a long, long time because by now I've developed a head canon for who they are and try to reflect that in their name. The entire process can take anywhere from an hour to several hours to make one Sim.
Happy Simming! <3
