I want to speak to your manager!!Kidding...but no really. Why do we have those markers, but it only works with 3 sims? I thought for sure it must work for as many as you have set out, right? Wrong! Who the heck made these decisions on these objects and why didn't they take into account people who play large families or even people that want to do photoshoots? I shouldn't have to download a poseplayer and tons of poses just to take a darn family photo! I'm trying to be patient here, but this has rubbed me the wrong way. All I wanted was a decent family photo. Why can't we just select the sims and click pose? At least we could have them stand on the spot and then pose them so the picture looks normal. I really dislike this. Anyone know of a mod that enables it for more than 3 or has a pose option on the sim?Here's the only kind of decent pic I was able to take of my kids...and it's not even good!https://i.imgur.com/ibKmOyV.png

You actually can use the markers for more than 3 Sims. Only 3 Sims will randomize their poses, but the others will stay on the markers. I've used this method for several of my large families. For example, here:https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TczJki1o4n0/XV6oP5nkxUI/AAAAAAAASI8/1hS1tNRnMtsOpqukp3QVhLOgqIPueRD8QCLcBGAs/s1600/41.pngThe three kids are randomizing their poses, but the elder and two toddlers are also standing on markers.

How do you get them to stay still on the marker? They start chatting and then they're looking this way and that and not at the camera. In my photo, the 3 boys are posing, but the girl isn't. She was looking all over and chatting with everyone so I had her practice singing and just managed to get her in a decent pose.

Ok...took matters into my own hands. It involved using Gimp and images I took in game. But now I have a much better family photo and it includes the parents.https://i.imgur.com/RDYWvOn.png

well have to agree we need better family and couple poses cause it do take ridiculous amount of work to get decent picture of sims together

Who needs a photo studio when you can just snap candidshttps://i.ibb.co/2cmdjZV/blowing-off-steam.png

Who In The Plum Made These Design Choices For The Photo Studio?

purplestarz2006
New Spectator
4 years ago
You actually can use the markers for more than 3 Sims. Only 3 Sims will randomize their poses, but the others will stay on the markers. I've used this method for several of my large families. For example, here:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TczJki1o4n0/XV6oP5nkxUI/AAAAAAAASI8/1hS1tNRnMtsOpqukp3QVhLOgqIPueRD8QCLcBGAs/s1600/41.png

The three kids are randomizing their poses, but the elder and two toddlers are also standing on markers.
MstyBL95
4 years ago
How do you get them to stay still on the marker? They start chatting and then they're looking this way and that and not at the camera. In my photo, the 3 boys are posing, but the girl isn't. She was looking all over and chatting with everyone so I had her practice singing and just managed to get her in a decent pose.
MstyBL95
4 years ago
Ok...took matters into my own hands. It involved using Gimp and images I took in game. But now I have a much better family photo and it includes the parents.

https://i.imgur.com/RDYWvOn.png
Simmingal
Hero
4 years ago
well have to agree

we need better family and couple poses cause it do take ridiculous amount of work to get decent picture of sims together
mightyspritesims
Rising Hotshot
4 years ago
Who needs a photo studio when you can just snap candids

https://i.ibb.co/2cmdjZV/blowing-off-steam.png
Karamazov123
Seasoned Hotshot
4 years ago
The group poses are so weird, too. It's like most of them don't even try and make the sims match or have a cohesive theme. Very few of them have physical interaction between the photos.

I sure hope we get more picture poses. But knowing how things work around here, they probably abandoned the concept and won't ever update it.
BettyNewbie1
4 years ago
Was wondering about that this other day. Took pictures of age groups; twins, teen and older child.
CAPTAIN_NXR7
Seasoned Veteran
4 years ago
@Mstybl95
I like the look of your sims! ??
Reaganbogan
Rising Novice
4 years ago
I hope we get better group pictures and romance poses in 2021. I don't think we have one pose with kids and adults like we do toddlers and adults...

I honestly wish for a rabbit hole photo studio and the sims came back with family portraits. Taking photos in the worlds with different settings is cool but tedious for large families and it still looks odd. @purplestarz2006 photo is about what I get, it doesn't look good to me in a framed picture on a sims wall with the sims spaced like that. Someone gets cut off or the detail is shot because the tripod has to be set further away. Every household I want I want at least one family portrait together and I think it would be easier if we got them in inventory like the graduation picture. No dealing with camera mode, which can be a stuttering mess going in/out too often.
SheriSim
Seasoned Hotshot
4 years ago
"Reaganbogan;c-17863538" wrote:
I hope we get better group pictures and romance poses in 2021. I don't think we have one pose with kids and adults like we do toddlers and adults...

I honestly wish for a rabbit hole photo studio and the sims came back with family portraits. Taking photos in the worlds with different settings is cool but tedious for large families and it still looks odd. @purplestarz2006 photo is about what I get, it doesn't look good to me in a framed picture on a sims wall with the sims spaced like that. Someone gets cut off or the detail is shot because the tripod has to be set further away. Every household I want I want at least one family portrait together and I think it would be easier if we got them in inventory like the graduation picture. No dealing with camera mode, which can be a stuttering mess going in/out too often.

I don’t like rabbit holes normally, but we already have cameras and can take pictures with them we like. So yeah, I wouldn’t mind a rabbit hole for a family portrait.... it sure would be a lot easier than trying to get them all together in a decent picture.