New Way Of Creating Characters?

Hmmmm no thanks. That sounds like a potential mess.

I'd love a feature like this. As long as the traditional method was still available.

Yeah, it is novelty esque kind of like with Miis. I will never use it, and will not be granting camera permissions, but no harm no foul. *shrug*

But yeah, it would be crazy to get rid of CAS completely.

I think it’s a great idea!
I’m all for expanding the CAS interface and for getting new tools to play with.

Naturally it won’t replace current CAS, because we’d need to tweak stuff. Traditional style. I believe traditional style will become even more advanced for this to work. I hope so anyway.
I wonder how it will process drawings of characters. That’s something I’d be interested in, more than photos.
See with photo processing I’m just afraid my simself wouldn’t look as Dishy Dashing as he currently does. ?

A more important question: will this system recognize bodyhair? Probably not. All I’d get is a gentle error notification:

?‍☠️ ‼️BEEP BEEP! ERROR ERROR! ANOMALY DETECTED! CANT PROCESS THIS FURRY NONSENSE! PLEASE START OVER!‼️?‍☠️

I’ve seen this idea requested (not the bodyhair detection, but the photo scanning thingie) on this very forum not so long ago and I’m sure it’s something that will be utilized by plenty.

I hope the system’s AI won’t outsmart our sims though…

This is what I miss the most about the original Sims. I can't wait to try it out. I'm going to start collecting faces now that I want to use.

I haven't seen games using images to create characters in a game for a long time. I think I played an old sports game where that was a feature where you could use your camera and the result was not great. I wonder how improved it has gotten in 2021.

I'm not really interested in a feature like this... well not for the sims4, because I find it hard to create characters from other media in the sims4 because of the art style. It can be done but I often have to end up making them look a bit more like they are from a comic book.

I don't think they are planning to let this replace CAS either, it's probably going to be a feature either for the sims4 or for something else.

I wonder if this is for TS4 or TS5, or whatever it will be called. Kinda odd to me to be implementing this into a game that's going on 8 years old, even if it does have years and years left. Why didn't they do this from the beginning?

Anyway, definitely not something I'm personally interested in, I don't ever create my sim-self. But, I do know several people have requested this type of thing in various posts here on the forum and on social media, so hopefully it's done well and meets their expectations. (And, hoping even more that it's optional LOL).

I like the idea... not to use my image but to add characters from my favourite films and series. But i hope it's for sims 5 cause what would i do with the characters in sims 4? Too much work to get bored in one hour ?

I don't do simselves at all, but the concept sounds interesting for anyone who might want to use images of real people or almost-realistic people as inspiration for their sims. I would be one of those, but with one big IF. That is, if the system doesn't "simify" the source material in such a way that it ends up pretty much the identical art style of a sim one could create with a more limited CAS. In that case, I'd prefer the plain jane approach, because I'd be modding the heck out of it anyway.

"texxx78;c-18023781" wrote:
I like the idea... not to use my image but to add characters from my favourite films and series. But i hope it's for sims 5 cause what would i do with the characters in sims 4? Too much work to get bored in one hour ?

@texxx78 nothing since you no longer play Sims 4. ?
But according to the latest stats from EA 529 million hours were spent in S4 live mode in 2021 so plenty of simmers still playing who might appreciate a feature like this.