New Way Of Creating Characters?

if we could use existing image of anything that could be fun like say turn picture of avocado toast into a sim if only it has recognizable face

or tbh id probably use it to more easily add premades from older games

but i feel like this is one of those extra things that sure fun but at cost of what

like i don't think this is exactly the thing game desperately needs and its probably quite pricy and oh the other things they could do with the money...

"EliteGirl;c-18023747" wrote:
No thanks. I would rather keep “Create A Sim” than have some feature that is poorly made. .

I don't think anyone is proposing to get rid of normal create a sim but if they were then obviously id rather have normal create a sim because I'm definitely not gonna want to make every sim like this

For me
1) it's another small ring about a fact that sims is heading in development route to "always online social/avatar simulator" rather than a "full PC life simulator". And I'm strongly and actively against this course of action. But I practically can feel upper management picturing Sims in Metaverse and drooling...
2) I do not even want to think about this used in conjunction with the mod you can not name... This could and would be bad.

Such technologies are fun novelties but also can turned problematic if not managed right. And I'm not convinced in abilities of EA to manage anything right.

"VeeDub;c-18023787" wrote:
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.

The system would have to do something like that, I have attempted to create sims from characters from other media and games but it just doesn't work unless you are very good at CAS... It's always something missing, often because other games and media have different art styles.

I hope that they are also investing in letting us create different characters that we want in more detail because that's what I prefer. I get better results when I am working with the tools that I am given rather than trying to create an exact look from another source.

The sims for me have always been about living different lives, not my own or someone else specifically because that can often not be achieved without limitations anyway.

I love this idea.

"logion;c-18023847" wrote:

"VeeDub;c-18023787" wrote:
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.

The system would have to do something like that, I have attempted to create sims from characters from other media and games but it just doesn't work unless you are very good at CAS... It's always something missing, often because other games and media have different art styles.

I hope that they are also investing in letting us create different characters that we want in more detail because that's what I prefer. I get better results when I am working with the tools that I am given rather than trying to create an exact look from another source.

The sims for me have always been about living different lives, not my own or someone else specifically because that can often not be achieved without limitations anyway.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm thinking, too. I don't want real people in my game, famous or not. But sometimes inspiration strikes when I see a certain type of appearance or expression (on real or virtual people in various media), and I want to try and capture that same general idea, but not necessarily that same thing in an identical way. Sometimes I can get close with the CAS in Sims 4, but I rarely get exactly what I wanted, and I never have without CC to help a bit. The devil is in the details, as they say; and I mean that in a creative way, in case anyone here is unfamiliar with that saying.

"Harukotyan;c-18023827" wrote:
For me
1) it's another small ring about a fact that sims is heading in development route to "always online social/avatar simulator" rather than a "full PC life simulator". And I'm strongly and actively against this course of action. But I practically can feel upper management picturing Sims in Metaverse and drooling...
2) I do not even want to think about this used in conjunction with the mod you can not name... This could and would be bad.

Such technologies are fun novelties but also can turned problematic if not managed right. And I'm not convinced in abilities of EA to manage anything right.

Good points. This could be especially problematic if they used this features with pictures of celebrities, and then tried to release *special* gameplay videos of them using that unnamed mod...I smell a lawsuit :D

It's a fun little feature, but similar to first person mode, it's just a novelty that people will quickly forget about.

"bixters;c-18024096" wrote:

"Harukotyan;c-18023827" wrote:
For me
1) it's another small ring about a fact that sims is heading in development route to "always online social/avatar simulator" rather than a "full PC life simulator". And I'm strongly and actively against this course of action. But I practically can feel upper management picturing Sims in Metaverse and drooling...
2) I do not even want to think about this used in conjunction with the mod you can not name... This could and would be bad.

Such technologies are fun novelties but also can turned problematic if not managed right. And I'm not convinced in abilities of EA to manage anything right.

Good points. This could be especially problematic if they used this features with pictures of celebrities, and then tried to release *special* gameplay videos of them using that unnamed mod...I smell a lawsuit :D

Yeah. It could be useful (I like @Simmingal’s idea of using it to recreate premades from older games), but the creepiness potential is worrying.

I don't see how this would effect celebrities. There are tons in the gallery that look exactly like the real celebrities in sim form. I have some of them. They even have cc skin that's practically copy pasted from a celebrities head. Looks like a sim walking around with a png photo attached ????
And in 7 years no one was worried about a lawsuit.
This new tech, from my understanding, is not changing the artsyle of the game to look hyper realistic. A sim will still look like a cartoon sim. It's just going to make it easier to make a simself or whatever picture you use. Cuts down hours in CAS.
But no matter how accurate a sim looks to a human in features they still clearly look like sims.
And there was no mention of traditional CAS being replaced.

@LeGardePourpre What new face details?

I found this idea kinda ... not my thing when Daz added FaceGen to the base program. It's not going to be my thing in The Sims either. I don't play Sims to play out my fantasy life, so being able to be super accurate about creating my simself isn't appealing to me.

But if they add it, they add it. Not like I have to use it.