I wonder (new swatches)

I really hope they get the matching wood down. I did a build today and was dying over the mismatched wood. I didn't think about having differences in the bedding or things like changing the structure's color vs. the fabric or pattern. That would be really freaking cool.

I'd just really love to go back to the sims 2 swatch system. I also have to agree with herdarkpassenger; so many of the side tables and bedstands don't match and it's very frustrating.

I'd love to see them do 20 set wood swatches, and use only those wood colours going forward, and change all the previous items to only have those colourways. That, and allowing you to alter both the wood and fabric on beds, chairs, couches and even the counters. Just again, 20 or so wood colours for the cabinets going forward, and seperate counter tops. It would make it SO much easier.

"munroele;c-17078569" wrote:
I'd love to see them do 20 set wood swatches, and use only those wood colours going forward, and change all the previous items to only have those colourways. That, and allowing you to alter both the wood and fabric on beds, chairs, couches and even the counters. Just again, 20 or so wood colours for the cabinets going forward, and seperate counter tops. It would make it SO much easier.

That would be ideal wouldn't it? 20 might be a bit ambitious but even if we had 5 matching swatches across these items I'd be happy.

Also I really want all doors and windows to match, I get so annoyed when I want to have specific windows but can't use them because they somehow never have the same browns or plain white/black.

No, I don't think they have went back and made something that was not recolorable now colorable. That's a lot more work than just adding swatches to predetermined parts of an object or clothes that were recolorable from the beginning of their creation. It's double, triple work to do that. Example, of a shoe, toe tip was not recolorable, will it now be recolorable?...no. But heel was recolorable so yeah, a new color for a heel. See there, it would be way too much work to rework what isn't recolorable. New bedspread, maybe, but not a change to a bedframe if it was never recolorable before, unless that became a 24/7 passion project for someone.

Do I think a light pink skirt is now going to match (shades) of a pink top? No. But I think that top might come in yellow. See, there it's a big difference, and I'm not so sure anyone is going to be over the top with excitement when they see what I mean after the release of these recolors.

"Cinebar;c-17080293" wrote:
No, I don't think they have went back and made something that was not recolorable now colorable. That's a lot more work than just adding swatches to predetermined parts of an object or clothes that were recolorable from the beginning of their creation. It's double, triple work to do that. Example, of a shoe, toe tip was not recolorable, will it now be recolorable?...no. But heel was recolorable so yeah, a new color for a heel. See there, it would be way too much work to rework what isn't recolorable. New bedspread, maybe, but not a change to a bedframe if it was never recolorable before, unless that became a 24/7 passion project for someone.

Do I think a light pink skirt is now going to match (shades) of a pink top? No. But I think that top might come in yellow. See, there it's a big difference, and I'm not so sure anyone is going to be over the top with excitement when they see what I mean after the release of these recolors.

I think with this update you are right in saying that we are likely to just get new recolours, but I think this alone opens up the possibility of more complicated swatch overhaul in the future

The devs need to introduce a way of allowing us more creative freedom beyond 5-10 swatch options, and while I'm not expecting a colour wheel a more advanced system would be welcome

I hope they do that, because the bed stuff not matching is really annoying.

And speaking of beds. I hope a lot of those new swatches are for the toddler beds. If we can't get new beds for them in the packs, I hope they'll at least give them a lot of new swatches with cute designs from this update. But I fully expect them to totally ignore the toddler objects so I won't even get my hopes up.

Everyone has been hoping it's matching wood swatches, and I have no idea why tbh. I never have an issue decorating, not everything has to be so matchy-matchy. Are your real life homes filled with nothing but the EXACT same wood colour?

Now bed swatches I can get on board with. Beds are extremely limited. Doors and windows as well. A lot of the base game stuff can be difficult to use.

Either way, I'm excited to see what they've done. :)

I build empty houses to upload to the Gallery nowadays after Simmers complaining about missing toilet rolls etc. Now they can put in their own furniture!

Very little of my own furniture matches in real life, even several shades of white. I call it eclectic, ie: style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources. :)

"BrokenChaos69;c-17080521" wrote:
Everyone has been hoping it's matching wood swatches, and I have no idea why tbh. I never have an issue decorating, not everything has to be so matchy-matchy. Are your real life homes filled with nothing but the EXACT same wood colour?

Now bed swatches I can get on board with. Beds are extremely limited. Doors and windows as well. A lot of the base game stuff can be difficult to use.

Either way, I'm excited to see what they've done. :)

It sort of matters down at the furniture store when you walk into the show rooms. The coffee table, end tables and the couch wood all match. It looks odd indeed to have a pine (blond) colored end table with a mahogany coffee table. :p