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6 years ago

I found a way to take better toddler photos!

Hi everyone! I found a way to get a better angle for toddler pictures in the sims and I thought I'd share it!
(Please be aware that English isn't my native language so I might make a few mistakes in my explanation :relieved: )

So have you ever tried to take a photo of a toddler and it looked something like this:
https://i.imgur.com/zNru6PI.jpg

Or even worse - something like this:
https://i.imgur.com/iec1MdP.jpg

And have you ever wished you could actually bring your camera to toddler height, similar like what we can do with pets? Or have you just wanted to make a ground-level photo in the sims? Well I found a way how to get rid of those awkward angles forever! :smiley:

Step 1: make sure testingcheats is enabled and create a pool on your active lot. Even a one-square one could work.
https://i.imgur.com/MflJItE.jpg

Step 2: send your photographer into the pool.
https://i.imgur.com/z0bP8ct.jpg

Step 3: shift click on the ground where your photographer is supposed to stand. You'll get a "teleport here" option pop up. (WARNING! Doesn't work on carpets!)
https://i.imgur.com/l44rsDz.jpg

Step 4: click on it. For whatever glitchy reason your sim is still swimming! :open_mouth:
https://i.imgur.com/2bOCLge.jpg

Step 5: don't move your sim anywhere (unless by teleporting). Click on your sims inventory, click on the camera and choose "take photo" or "take photo of".
https://i.imgur.com/4CEucV0.jpg

Ta daa!
https://i.imgur.com/1uwRo7W.jpg

Beautiful, isn't it? Now we can finally see that cute toddler face!
https://i.imgur.com/kkfsKQa.jpg

Here are a few staged photos I managed to take from ground level using this cheat:
https://i.imgur.com/Q7kitm6.jpg

So many new possibilities :)

(apologises if this is a well-known hack, I figured I'd share it because I'd be very thankful if someone told me about it months ago :blush:)

13 Replies

  • Wow, so many responses, thank you all so much! :open_mouth: <3 I'm glad the hack became handy for so many people, feel free to share your pics using it! :relaxed: I'm very photo obsessed in the sims, all of my sims have maxed out the photography skill and are constantly snapping family pictures up to the point where there's no space on my walls to hang them :D and I've learnt a lot of tricks throughout the months, like always taking big sized photos and then sizing them down for better quality, downloading custom photo frames because the in-game ones are rather bland or using custom poses to make them feel more real :)

    Here are just a few examples of my photo walls, feel free to take ideas:
    https://i.imgur.com/FtvBZj7.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/UKyIEuI.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/e3cHxIX.jpg

    https://i.imgur.com/7rvBUlW.jpg

    @purplestarz2006 what an interesting technique, I never knew about it! :open_mouth: Thanks for sharing!

    @simmer_jay the halloween pose was created using a custom posepack "Happy Halloween" by BommieSims (here's the link, you also might want to get the poseplayer mod if you haven't already). Same technique, placing a swimming sim in front of the kids and choosing "take photo" :)

    The result I would've get without the hack:
    https://i.imgur.com/sCmWXAC.png

    The result I got instead:
    https://i.imgur.com/mNPu4tB.png

    Took a bit tweaking on how far my sim should stand (swim :D) but eventually I ended up with this :)
    https://i.imgur.com/zlcFEEm.png

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