Sometimes I wonder why every pack and every collection in the game has their own swatches and patterns. If EA has whole patterns and swatches from base game, previous games and now, CC creators, why they can not just use the same, basic palette for every item? Some swatches can be exclusive for specific pack, but the basic swatches should be the same. Look for added furnitures made by Peacemaker and HeyHarrie. Their furnitures match for every style. Why? Because that items have a lot of different swatches!Peacemaker_ic on his blog, has "ready-to-use" patterns I assume that EA has something similar:https://64.media.tumblr.com/62912b992da1a1a055b68345daedbe50/tumblr_nw18vj27fd1s4yxajo2_r1_1280.pnghttps://64.media.tumblr.com/81976e6a46781b4a5b92bd7b241cda1d/tumblr_o42893vvUq1s4yxajo2_r1_1280.pnghttps://64.media.tumblr.com/975796357d83ac6c7f0e734914acce33/tumblr_p5ruq1v38J1s4yxajo1_1280.pnghttps://64.media.tumblr.com/1733b36b7816e0015a2781a26c0d416d/tumblr_p5s12hN63y1s4yxajo1_1280.pnghttps://64.media.tumblr.com/ef0c66367211c36f5b7cc86a6ec02ab7/tumblr_pjt8slFK8U1s4yxajo1_1280.pnghttps://64.media.tumblr.com/5845399cb9bc2be5478d911928a14087/tumblr_pjt8tfskep1s4yxajo1_1280.pnghttps://64.media.tumblr.com/90c5866979f6f67436835bc4a40d0d33/tumblr_pjt8zojWx21s4yxajo1_1280.pnghttps://64.media.tumblr.com/679c43d5ed10a06f3fdbdc9295eccc64/tumblr_pjt8uvm2IH1s4yxajo1_1280.pnghttps://64.media.tumblr.com/1235f9b672ab5713ee3cffd2a5daa1f0/tumblr_pjt8w6BGgk1s4yxajo1_1280.pnghttps://peacemaker-ic.tumblr.com/TS4ObjectDownloadsFor me, wood swatches 1 and contemporary swatches should be the base. EA should focus more for sectional and customable items over the number of objects. For example, sectional simple sofa with 30+swatches instead of tones of weird couches and armchairs.https://64.media.tumblr.com/024bc4cf8543ec86d170f477c7104b41/tumblr_pxt9hcLN3B1s4yxajo1_1280.png

They should definitely have a limited number of wood swatches, and a set of metal swatches, so that different sets can be used together. I don't mind the wide variety of fabrics but matching woods drives me nuts!

Maybe it's because in real life, unless you buy all of your furniture from the same set, at the same store, at the same time, it won't match.Maybe it's because in real life, no two wood grains look alike.Maybe it's because if everything looked identical, it would look really fucking boring.Have you ever built a house in The Sims 3 using the same texture for everything? It's the blandest bland that ever blanded.

It would be great if we could have that many swatches, but I think the bed frame should be separated from the bedspread snd pillows. Same with sofa’s chairs, and curtains . And then with each pack add new special swatches for all beds, sofa’s, chairs and curtains.

I just wish we had a plain black swatch for everything, not a "here's a brown that looks black but it's really just a dark brown." Same thing with a plain white swatch. They've done a little better but a lot of stuff is "here's a white but it's really a light tan." Especially frustrating with sets of items that have a good color scheme but you can't change the wood color.

Well I'll have to disagree a bit because i very much hate to see modern shapeless items in my game i want more items that go in my spoopy mansions = dark color swatches and shapely antique furnitures and interesting patternsthat being said i wouldn't mind couple customizable sofas with huge swatch selectionand id surely love to have dark wood and black and also dark fabrics for everything

Swatches - Lets talk about that...

16 Replies

KaraGaelford
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I really like your idea in principle, I've always thought something like this would have been a good idea from the start, particularly when they took out the colour wheel, but I very much doubt they would adopt this practice retrospectively. I also suspect that the reason some items in the game have such few swatch options is to keep the game's digital load lighter, but maybe I'm wrong.
Daephene1
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
They should definitely have a limited number of wood swatches, and a set of metal swatches, so that different sets can be used together. I don't mind the wide variety of fabrics but matching woods drives me nuts!
kwanzaabot
4 years ago
Maybe it's because in real life, unless you buy all of your furniture from the same set, at the same store, at the same time, it won't match.
Maybe it's because in real life, no two wood grains look alike.
Maybe it's because if everything looked identical, it would look really fucking boring.

Have you ever built a house in The Sims 3 using the same texture for everything? It's the blandest bland that ever blanded.
SheriSim
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
It would be great if we could have that many swatches, but I think the bed frame should be separated from the bedspread snd pillows. Same with sofa’s chairs, and curtains . And then with each pack add new special swatches for all beds, sofa’s, chairs and curtains.
eternalrainn
4 years ago
I just wish we had a plain black swatch for everything, not a "here's a brown that looks black but it's really just a dark brown." Same thing with a plain white swatch. They've done a little better but a lot of stuff is "here's a white but it's really a light tan." Especially frustrating with sets of items that have a good color scheme but you can't change the wood color.
Simmingal
Hero
4 years ago
Well I'll have to disagree a bit because i very much hate to see modern shapeless items in my game i want more items that go in my spoopy mansions = dark color swatches and shapely antique furnitures and interesting patterns

that being said i wouldn't mind couple customizable sofas with huge swatch selection

and id surely love to have dark wood and black and also dark fabrics for everything
Simmingal
Hero
4 years ago
"Chazzzy;c-17876039" wrote:
Sidenote, I never messed with the patterns in the color wheel back in TS3.

and btw i used colorwheel and create a style ridiculous amounts in ts3 cause the basic colors and patterns on items were just awful but i wouldn't need them if they'd just make everything goth house furniture match in swatches
AmeliaTorn
4 years ago
While I do wish that there were some uniformity for swatches, specifically: black and white for all the items in the game, things that come with patterns also to come without and v/v, the worn furniture to have a pristine counterpart swatches as well, to have a completely uniform palette across all packs that works well for all styles would be extremely difficult to do.....at best it would be too matchy-matchy and that tends to look extreme cold and not lived in to me, for me in particularly sine I play rotationally and manage many households in one save, it would inevitable make all houses look and feel the same, I'm afraid.

For me the furniture you have mentioned does not match for every style at all and that's exactly because they have a fixed stylistic color choice, it's a very specific aesthetic that doesn't branches out anywhere, no matter how many different patterns or colors it has. I'm not saying it's ugly or anything like that, it's just has a very specific brand/identity, so idk....
elliebreton
Legend
4 years ago
I don't mind things from one pack not matching things from another pack, but I do wish they'd match stuff from the same pack!

How many times I find a missing swatch (furniture from C&D, I'm especially looking at you!) and it's so annoying.

One thing I do wish had a lot more swatches is the darn rocking chair, which literally goes with nothing.
Brd709
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
The colour wheel from The Sims 3 was the best design tool in the game. I could replicate colours from pictures of rooms in houses by using the eye dropper and then punching in the RGB numbers so my rooms looked accurate as possible.