How would you scale the Sims 4 sizes? For example, how many metres, feet,inches, centimetres (whatever unit you choose) would you say ONE grid square is?Keeping in mind a adult SIM 4 bed is roughly 2 squares, a bit more than the height of a SIM. I'm just curious as to what the scaling is, my friend is an architect and designs houses irl and I would love to make some of his designs in game, but in order to do this to scale I need some rough idea of scaling in game vs real life.I understand that this might not have a 'correct' or right answer I'm just looking for individual takes and opinions or any links to information about this.

The scale never quite works out.

Well, let's think logically. A refrigerator takes up 1 game square, give or take. A real life refrigerator is about 30 inches wide (76 cm). So 1 game square should be approximately 30 inches in RL. With that being said. Sims themselves would be really tall if scaled to RL. A bed has 3 square footprint. Which makes it 90 inches long. A sim fills out about 2.5 squares I think. Which would make them about 75 inches (190 cm) tall.

I try to figure out the room sizes by remembering the amount of grid squares the furniture in game takes up.Here's an example:I start with the bathrooms first. B/c I know that a tub is two squares, I make that room 2 squares wide. Then I continue around the house from there. To make sure your house will have no mistakes, add up the sides, This house in total should be 16x12 squares. Don't know if this makes any sense but I hope that I helped some!

"PrincessVee;15632838" wrote:Well, let's think logically. A refrigerator takes up 1 game square, give or take. A real life refrigerator is about 30 inches wide (76 cm). So 1 game square should be approximately 30 inches in RL. With that being said. Sims themselves would be really tall if scaled to RL. A bed has 3 square footprint. Which makes it 90 inches long. A sim fills out about 2.5 squares I think. Which would make them about 75 inches (190 cm) tall. So that would make them about 6-1/4 feet tall. Yikes. Here's where it gets weird - with only four steps from ground to porch, how come the foundation is chest high? Wouldn't that make the foundation at least 4 feet high? (owww - this is a brain throb) - lol

"Jaline33;15632911" wrote:"PrincessVee;15632838" wrote:Well, let's think logically. A refrigerator takes up 1 game square, give or take. A real life refrigerator is about 30 inches wide (76 cm). So 1 game square should be approximately 30 inches in RL. With that being said. Sims themselves would be really tall if scaled to RL. A bed has 3 square footprint. Which makes it 90 inches long. A sim fills out about 2.5 squares I think. Which would make them about 75 inches (190 cm) tall. So that would make them about 6-1/4 feet tall. Yikes. Here's where it gets weird - with only four steps from ground to porch, how come the foundation is chest high? Wouldn't that make the foundation at least 4 feet high? (owww - this is a brain throb) - lolPretty tall by American standards but not so tall by, say, Dutch standards. :)

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PlumbBobbi
8 years ago
The scale never quite works out.
valerie1795
8 years ago
Well, let's think logically. A refrigerator takes up 1 game square, give or take. A real life refrigerator is about 30 inches wide (76 cm). So 1 game square should be approximately 30 inches in RL.

With that being said. Sims themselves would be really tall if scaled to RL.
A bed has 3 square footprint. Which makes it 90 inches long. A sim fills out about 2.5 squares I think. Which would make them about 75 inches (190 cm) tall.
x_Always_Heart_
8 years ago
I try to figure out the room sizes by remembering the amount of grid squares the furniture in game takes up.

Here's an example:

I start with the bathrooms first. B/c I know that a tub is two squares, I make that room 2 squares wide. Then I continue around the house from there.

To make sure your house will have no mistakes, add up the sides, This house in total should be 16x12 squares.

Don't know if this makes any sense but I hope that I helped some!
Jaline33
New Spectator
8 years ago
"PrincessVee;15632838" wrote:
Well, let's think logically. A refrigerator takes up 1 game square, give or take. A real life refrigerator is about 30 inches wide (76 cm). So 1 game square should be approximately 30 inches in RL.

With that being said. Sims themselves would be really tall if scaled to RL.
A bed has 3 square footprint. Which makes it 90 inches long. A sim fills out about 2.5 squares I think. Which would make them about 75 inches (190 cm) tall.

So that would make them about 6-1/4 feet tall. Yikes. Here's where it gets weird - with only four steps from ground to porch, how come the foundation is chest high? Wouldn't that make the foundation at least 4 feet high? (owww - this is a brain throb) - lol
aaronjc123
8 years ago
"Jaline33;15632911" wrote:
"PrincessVee;15632838" wrote:
Well, let's think logically. A refrigerator takes up 1 game square, give or take. A real life refrigerator is about 30 inches wide (76 cm). So 1 game square should be approximately 30 inches in RL.

With that being said. Sims themselves would be really tall if scaled to RL.
A bed has 3 square footprint. Which makes it 90 inches long. A sim fills out about 2.5 squares I think. Which would make them about 75 inches (190 cm) tall.

So that would make them about 6-1/4 feet tall. Yikes. Here's where it gets weird - with only four steps from ground to porch, how come the foundation is chest high? Wouldn't that make the foundation at least 4 feet high? (owww - this is a brain throb) - lol

Pretty tall by American standards but not so tall by, say, Dutch standards. :)
Jaline33
New Spectator
8 years ago
By Canadian standards it's not overly tall, either :wink: - at least, not for guys, and a lot of younger women are quite tall, too. I think I said, "yikes" too soon - it should have come after the outstandingly high foundation part. The only time I have seen such large foundations is if it's a half above/half below basement - and then it has windows. :smile:
ratsrbest
8 years ago
Well, that's done my head in for the day :smiley:

My bugbear at the moment is the (very large) size of the coffee tables. How big do they need to be?
Jaline33
New Spectator
8 years ago
Hahaha - definitely a lot of out-sized objects. I wouldn't mind the coffee tables being so big if they could hold more than 2 things - or 3 if one of them is a box of tissues. :smiley:
EmmaVane
Seasoned Veteran
8 years ago
Gurus confirmed 1 tile = 1 square metre on these forums a while back.
FKM100
8 years ago
For building I work on the basis of 1 tile = 1 square metre, but I know that is not really correct according to the size of objects in the game. Even a square yard would be too large, I think. A more accurate scale would be something like 1 tile length = 80cm (about 2' 7.5"), which is the width of a normal door.

By the way, if you look carefully, you will see that even though beds have a three-tile footprint, they are not actually three tiles long, but nearer two-and-a-half tiles. This would make them about 2m (6' 6") long in RL, which is a bit large, but still fairly realistic. The sims themselves are a little shorter than that - about 6'3" or 6'4" in RL, which is fairly tall by any standard, but not remarkably so. Even so, there are many objects in the game that are horribly oversized. The side tables and dining chairs are probably the worst of the lot. No-one I know has 80cm x 80cm side tables, or 60cm x 60cm dining chairs.

Getting back to building, though, I still find it easiest to allow 1 tile per square metre, partly because I am not about to do my head in with complicated conversions when I am following a building plan, but also because sims need more space to move around in than people do in RL. Similarly, when working with measurements of part of a metre, I find it better to err slightly on the side of generosity.