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

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PhantasmKiss
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
"Brd709;c-17876696" wrote:
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.

I did this too!

And just because things match doesn't mean they have to match exactly. I looked up trending color palettes too, or made someone's shirt the color of their eyes, then made it just a bit darker or a bit less vivid to set things off.

Feel free to ignore the next paragraph:
I realize we're not getting a color wheel for Sims 4, but I agree that if furniture had a same-white, same-black, same-lightwood and same-darkwood, that would be a start. I want to use furniture from different collections, but something needs to be similar for unity. In real life, my bookcases and tv stand are not exactly the same color, but they have the same undertone, and they look good together. The bookcases are large and simple, and impressive for that reason, but the tv stand is more visually interesting. They work together, and most of the furniture in the Sims 4 does not, so I have to use the same things together over and over. They give us more objects, but they aren't versatile because nothing matches. It drives me batty! Here's a cookie for reading this, thanks.

TL/DR: It would be easier to mix and match if different styles came in similar colors. I'd love a small base palette, please.
Nielsern75
4 years ago
And here I was, thinking it was about wrist watches. xD
EA_Leeloo
EA Staff (Retired)
4 years ago
Hey there! FYI: I moved this thread to the Game Feedback section. :)
SEREFRAS
Legend
4 years ago
I wish the Sims 4 would have lots of color swatches for hair, clothing & objects. Oh well. :'(
SimChic1000
4 years ago
I don't understand why they didn't go TS2 route where you had some more control over swatches. You could choose things like the bed frame color and sheet/pillow colors separately.
MikkiMikkiMikki
4 years ago
I think it makes sense to have a certainnset of base colors that all similar items come in, in every pack. Because right now, for example, everything comes in white, but they're all different shades of white, and it's so annoying. I don't need all wood to have the same texture, but sometimes it's almost impossible to match some things, or find like one small accessory that matches, because those base colors aren't the same. It's been a peeve of mine since I started playing. I mean, try matching windows and doors; I always tend up using the same ones because they go well together ?

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