Matching swatches

Great video.

Homegirl was about to hurt someone over those windows! XD

But, yeah, I agree with a lot of the points in this video. In fact, beds and furniture with different colored parts are my pet peeve. In TS2, they had set swatches for each individual part that you could mix and match anyway you wanted. You want a bed to have the dark wood finish with a white sheet set? You got it! Want to change it later to a red one? Bam! You could do that too! In TS4, it's all-inclusive set swatches and you can't do anything about it and it drives me mad! I mean, they didn't even have the courtesy to give us, say, multiple swatches of each bed frame color with each of the bedding options swapped in. The amount of times I've had to settle for complimentary/contrasting colors because I couldn't keep a consistent color theme thanks to the "one swatch per combo" thing is just staggering!

"SimsLovinLycan;c-16878500" wrote:
In TS2, they had set swatches for each individual part that you could mix and match anyway you wanted. You want a bed to have the dark wood finish with a white sheet set? You got it! Want to change it later to a red one? Bam! You could do that too!

That's something I'd love to see come back. It provides just the right amount of customization, without the lag created by TS3's Create a Style and color wheel. And new swatches can always be added.

Some gurus actually liked and shared that video on Twitter, so there's hope that they know about our struggle. I've made an entire thread about this a while ago, with many of the same complaints, so I'll keep it short: Yes, I totally agree with everything she said there and hope we will get the TS2 system of mixing and matching swatches back.

Same here. As usual, TS2 got it way better than now, decent number of swatches that actually matched. Another problem on TS4 windows and doors is that there are single tile ones that take up two because they straddle, clicking onto the dotted grid lines not the solid ones. Allied to her complaint on TVs is that too many of the small kitchen appliances will go onto only certain surfaces, and not necessarily logical ones. Not only do they not go where you'd like, but there is nothing telling you what works. It's a royal pain trying counter after counter before you find the right one for that particular item. Speaking of items, why not food processors/blenders yet? Not even in the kitchen stuff pack. Oodles of coffee makers, but no processors. Makes no sense. Every relevant dev should be made to watch that video.

For those saying TS2 got it better...have you played it recently? Without CC? I totally love TS2...but I can't help but feel some people are looking at this aspect of it through rose-colored glasses. The thing that drove me the most insane (and drove me to use a lot of BB-mode CC) was the difficulty in getting rooms furnished and decorated in a way that looked matching.

Now..once you add CC into the mix, it's a different story, especially with CEP. But you can't really credit TS2 for it at that point.

Yes, I have, actually, and what CC I have is largely confined to clothing, hair &c., walls, and floors. While there is some furniture & deco, it is for either a Victorian or medieval house. Other than those special cases, I've found that game provided material back then was quite sufficient to give my sims an attractive, coherent home to live in invariably nicer than my own mouse-hole.

"Stormkeep;c-16884612" wrote:
For those saying TS2 got it better...have you played it recently? Without CC? I totally love TS2...but I can't help but feel some people are looking at this aspect of it through rose-colored glasses. The thing that drove me the most insane (and drove me to use a lot of BB-mode CC) was the difficulty in getting rooms furnished and decorated in a way that looked matching.

Now..once you add CC into the mix, it's a different story, especially with CEP. But you can't really credit TS2 for it at that point.

I think people are referring more to the level of customization offered there. Sure there were textures that didn’t always work together, but you could change different sections independently. So if you wanted to change the color of the bed frame you could do that without losing whatever fabric you chose for the bed. Same goes for most objects in the game.

In Sims 4 you have one swatch texture that covers the entire object. If you would rather have a different color bed frame, you’re going to change the fabric too.

I recolor things all the time for my own use, so the lack of swatches doesn't bother me since there's a way to do it yourself with s4s.

BUT, we do need all stair railings to have a matching rail and for all fences to have a matching door.

AND CEILING TILES

"DreamaDove;c-16887065" wrote:
I recolor things all the time for my own use, so the lack of swatches doesn't bother me since there's a way to do it yourself with s4s.

BUT, we do need all stair railings to have a matching rail and for all fences to have a matching door.

AND CEILING TILES

I don't care about the ceilings (I always had trouble putting tiles on them in S3), but I do get annoyed when I can't match door frames to windows, gates to fences and railings to stairs. (Also, railings should have a match in gates - the gate around my porch should match the railings on the stairs to the porch.) And interior doors should have a match with arches - if I'm using light wood for all my interior doors and want to add an arch to separate the kitchen and dining rooms, the arch inevitably has no match to the doors I've used.

If we just had, say, eight basic swatches across all wood items, it would help. Even four (light, dark, white and black), and then whatever additional swatches the designers might want to add. (And what is it with the blue? I've done some houses in white with blue doors and windows, and it's quite nice, but then you go to the foundations and exterior embellishments and roof bevels, and instead of blue, you've got green. Why???)