Why can't we change height?

If anyone should be shorter than adults, it's middle aged and elder sims.
Teens should be tall. Girls usually reach full height by 14-15, and boys a little later, 16-18.

I’m going to say it’s for two reasons...

1, EA is a cheap company and will cut corners where ever they can to save spending money on development.

2, The game was rushed and released way before it was ready.

The Sims 3 has shorter teens and they work fine. Either EA is to cheap to pay for animations or the team were to lazy to bother and as a result we have teens that are barely any different from young adults.

The main reason we don't have height sliders has less to do with capability than with what they chose to do. The current animations are built-in and tied to a single model. For example, hugging. Each model has several hugging animations, targeted to suit sims of various life stages. What they should have done is place mapping points on each model (such as joints, fingertips, etc), then have the animations be a separate routine that interacts with TWO models, initiating a single animation, ensuring that corresponding mapping points on both models meet.

Hey everyone!

As this thread had been inactive since 2017 and as there have been more recent discussions on this topic, I'm closing it as per our necroposting rules.

Thanks,
Leeloo