Do you like what "paint from reference" paintings look like in the game?I totally hate it! They look so grainy and low quality! I wish they were more like oil paintings or like paintings in Sims 2. Something like this would do. http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2012-09-29-dargie-thumb.jpgI wanna be able to paint portraits without them looking like a low quality 0.5MP photograph Why couldn't they look like these portraits? (I found this photo on the internet. I don't know who the owner is.)Also, I just thought of something... We don't really have an option to paint a portrait of someone. We only have an option to paint from reference. And it's really hard to position a sim, that you wanna paint, right.

I love paint by reference. And I don't mind their graininess.http://i.imgur.com/dv0Tn1C.pngTwo of my sims painting each other.

I'm not a fan of them and do wish they were better.

I know! they look like Photoshop filters instead of real paintings, I wish these were like the ones in S2.

I wish they could at least give as a different filter.

I also wish that they looked better. Like, Sims can already paint in impressionist styles. If you want them to paint that way, choose that style of painting. Or give people the option to have it be a normal painting. I know that Sims can take pictures of themselves and that's a way to get those images into the game, but if I'm doing a Legacy, it'd be nice to have a giant wall of Sim paintings. I know I used to do that in TS2/TS3. It's cool to see the progression of the Legacy through paintings. But I'd like to be able to actually.....see the people of the legacy, not have to squint at some grainy mess.

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Risakisho
10 years ago
Same, I love painting in real life and loves making my sims paint. When they paint by reference it really doesn't look like a painting at all...which is disturbing to me as an artist haha. Like alejandro15039 said it looks like Photoshop filters rather than the Impressionistic style...which is sad because I love the Impressionistic style...but it's not a really job well done. I just wished they could have given more option what style to use when painting a reference. Water color? Oil Pastel? Acrylics? Oil painting? I just wish we had more variety when it came to painting.
TygerNight
6 years ago
I utterly despise how reference paintings turn out. It's not like my Sim sees that grainy, blurry, overexposed garbage. I love to document my twins as they grow up (and nearly all my Sims' pregnancies produce twins), but PBR is GARBAGE. I wouldn't hate it so much IF it was tied to the artist's skill but it's not. Caleb regularly turns out 'masterpieces' that look like vomit and I hate it. PLEASE, PLEASE GET RID OF THIS, EA! I'm on a PS4, not very tech savvy and I want the trophies so no, I DON'T want to have to use a cruddy cheat to get quality paintings. ???
xijet
6 years ago
I've been thinking about this forever too! I HATE the grainy texture. I wish it could be replaced with brush strokes or something of the like. I never use paint from reference because of the grainyness... If it's supposed to mirror real life portraits it does a terrible job
amapola76
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I hate that they are so grainy. I thought it was something that would hopefully improve with skill level, but even my maxed-out Artist sims still paint them that way.
Simmingal
Hero
6 years ago
hate the grainy texture too

first time i made painting from ref I thought it was bugged and graphics died but apparently no it just looks so out of place and id rather have something similar to those beautiful sim mona lisas
logionX
Legend
6 years ago
Scumbombo made a mod where you have the option to remove that filter from paintings, so you can paint paintings from references that looks just as clear as photographs. https://modthesims.info/d/602945/set-filters-on-paintings-by-reference-v4.html make sure you download this mod and the xml injector mod linked in that page.
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6 years ago
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