What's your opinion on custom gallery poses?

I don't care one way or the other really, I recently used a pose for a Sim that I have played for a while, the pose was great. He looks good in game and in the pose.

I have downloaded some that look amazing in the pose, and awful in game..so you never know what you're going to get, till you download it and try it.

I think they look ridiculous, to be frank.

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I don't think they should be flagged as CC, since there's no CC on the actual sim. I like custom poses only because the default Maxis poses are so bad. All but one or two of them have very goofy expressions with super raised eyebrows. It is a common complaint that custom poses make sims look better than they actually are (and I do sometimes agree), but I think the default poses do just the opposite - they make your sims look worse.

Since I don't use the gallery for sims, I voted that I don't care because ultimately, this isn't something that affects me.

However, if I were someone who did frequent the gallery looking for sims to download, the custom poses would annoy me. I think what a lot of people don't realize is that part of the process of making these poses is literally editing the base sim mesh, moving the facial bones wherever the creator pleases without discretion. The faces are manipulated in a way that you will never see in CAS or in the game, so you're being presented an image that is different than what you will actually get. Sometimes the difference is only minor, but other times it'll be worse.

The default poses might be kind of goofy and cringy, but since that's the way the sims look and act in the game it's a lot more fitting. They present what you will actually see when you're playing with that sim.

Some of them look pretty nice and natural and others?

Mostly overused and you see nothing but the same ones on the front of the gallery page for whatever is popular at the moment. Too model like really. I don't think it should be flagged as CC, especially if the sims themselves don't have any CC on them.

Definitely could use an official update to gallery poses to have a few more on hand.

Sometimes I use them, other times I don't and it doesn't bother me when others use them

they annoy me because they make the sims look fake.

Some look real, others look stupid, most are the same pose used over and over.

Most of the time they make the sim look totally different than they do in CAS (or in game). It's the angles and expressions. Sure, they catch the eye but they aren't always accurate so I tend to pass over them.