KIT - New Swatches Only

There are a lot of useless recolors though. They need to separate the countertops from the counters and the bedframes from the mattress and so on so that we can mix and match ourselves and with less space taken up by recolors.

"crocobaura;c-17984133" wrote:
There are a lot of useless recolors though. They need to separate the countertops from the counters and the bedframes from the mattress and so on so that we can mix and match ourselves and with less space taken up by recolors.

I really don't think that will happen anymore at this point. They made the wrong design choice in the beginning with restricting each asset to only be recolorable as a whole.

Sims 4 should have come with a color wheel, beds and mattresses separated, couches with pillows separated, and counter tops and counters separated. It should have also come with pools ghosts and toddlers ( which were added later ), and it still needs resl babies. It should have also come where you had to buy the pieces of outfits ( instead of getting them free ) which it didn’t, but they could always add a challenge for that like they did with food (simple living).

I think that it is only possible by recreate some items as follows:

https://twitter.com/thiredistia/status/1441766100794937348

It's ok that a lot of items has just a general swatches, buy beds and counters definitely need to have separate sections.

I afraid that currently EA has a restricion to implement only 12 swatches per item. In the most of cases it's not enough, especially that the colour choice is questionable in the most of cases. Look at DHD GP. In my opinion both kitchen sets and the sectional sofas could be awesome, but someone has chosen weird colour combos and this is sad because now we are stuck with that colours.

Well, I don't know. I prefer the kits with the "unique or different" cas, b/b or gameplay items. And I like base game objects and cas to come with new swatches for free. But yes in general a color wheel would be ideal. I have 3 Barbie's in my game and with a color wheel i could make everything pink and white, and sometimes with a hint of light blue.

I'm not sure if the game even allows for it. I have not seen any CC creator being able to do an object that has seperately recolourable parts.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for at and would love them to start with bed as I find those the worst.

I honestly think this could make people hate kits even more. At the very least they introduce stuff that I would consider new. To suddenly lock recolors that were originally free update content to paid kits would feel very scummy to me.

I will admit some people don't care about BB. I've even seen some complaints about getting free update content in general because of computer specs (boggles my mind).

I would not even consider myself what I have come to determine is an avid builder, but I do spend a solid third of my game time there and even upload some renovations to the gallery. I cannot say I want recolors locked behind kits or even necessarily a one off recolor kit.

I did enjoy the freedom of changing out the bedspread in Sims3. Being truly able to choose the style of bed, mattress and bedspread would be an asset. Tired of the same old, same old, you know?

While it would be cool to have item swatches by parts, it would take a complete overhaul of the item mapping to do it, not to mention having some way to select the different swatches separately. It's a major undertaking. Not saying it can't be done, but it would require a lot of work and would doubtless break tons of cc as well.

Regarding the color wheel, I get why people like it, but a color under a grayscale texture is never going to look as good as a full color texture, and tiling textures are always going to fall short when compared to the detail possibilities of hand painted textures. So, imo, Swatches are always going to look better in the long run, because they allow for those sort of details.

As for the original idea of a kit of only swatches... I'm going to have to be in the "No" camp. I like the idea of kits, and I wouldn't mind BB or CAS kits that were just 20-25 (or more) items in roughly the same category (clutter for a specific room/style, sleepwear, beds, curtains, jewelry, makeup etc.) as opposed to a bunch of different kinds of items on a theme, but a bunch of swatches for base game items as a kit - which a lot of people view as just money grabs or even just "overpriced" - would be a big time no-go from me. I don't know that I'd be actively mad about it, but I would actively see it as a waste of resources for the Kits team, and certainly would never get it out of principle.

I’m all for Create a Style Style Build Mode. If it’s not gonna happen (which I believe is most likely) I won’t be too fussed about it either. I can do with what we have and I spend a lot of time in build mode. I’d rather get the ceilings fixed. Many more swatches needed for those.

A Swatch Kit? Absolutely. DLC for DLC is something this community absolutely adores. It’d be such a genius idea of the studio to make us buy extra swatches for content that was shipped with Base Game or other DLC. We’ll all be sending the team boxes full of love heart candies just to show how appreciative we are.