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Beardedgeek72
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6 years ago

Why deliberately avoid matching cabinets and kitchen furniture?

Seriousoly, this irritates the heck out of me every time i try to build:

FIrst of all there are a number of base game items that just were never inteded to match, where the devs must have deliberately avoided matching sets. Especially telling because a number of the high end items like dining tables that never came with matching chairs, and high end stoves that don't match anything else.

Then you have the weird phenomenon that almost none of the counters match any walls. And that includes expansions, too. Very very few counters actually go with walls at all. Or window frames.

And then of course you have a few that don't even match themselves. The industrial ones, whatever they are called have a set of cabinets that goes with them that does not match at all, neither color swatch OR shape OR style matches, at all. Why?

And then over all there are too many yet too few swatches for wood. Why why are there like 7 different variations of Birch that doesn't match eachother? Like the "birch swatch for this couch does only match the other birch swatches from the same pack but nothing else in the game, even if they too are suppsedly birchwood"?
How hard is it to actually remember what swatches you used last time?

Sorry that I come off grumpy but it seems like the devs go out of the way to AVOID matching things.

Edit:
Forgot showers. Can someone explain the deliberate choice of making matching sink - toilet - bathtub sets and NOT match the showers??????????????????????

33 Replies

  • Personally I prefer the white of the cabinets, as it’s really white, while the counters are greyish.

    "Beardedgeek;c-17712742" wrote:
    "Dianesims;c-17712737" wrote:
    Here's another one. I know my game is not on high settings but still :

    https://i.imgur.com/TB8tcSL.png

    And the Cool Kitchen Stuff counter has a white swatch, but it's more grey and it doesn't match the cabinet.

    https://i.imgur.com/hdcnqfW.png


    And it ALL boils down to laziness. Because that's the only reason other than deliberately making them not match.
    The reason is that they have lazily not changed the surface on one of the items so it is more reflecting than the others, and just added the same color value on top.

    So, again, laziness 100%. OR again they are DELIBERATELY making things not match.


  • "Dianesims;c-17712794" wrote:
    Personally I prefer the white of the cabinets, as it’s really white, while the counters are greyish.

    "Beardedgeek;c-17712742" wrote:
    "Dianesims;c-17712737" wrote:
    Here's another one. I know my game is not on high settings but still :

    https://i.imgur.com/TB8tcSL.png

    And the Cool Kitchen Stuff counter has a white swatch, but it's more grey and it doesn't match the cabinet.

    https://i.imgur.com/hdcnqfW.png


    And it ALL boils down to laziness. Because that's the only reason other than deliberately making them not match.
    The reason is that they have lazily not changed the surface on one of the items so it is more reflecting than the others, and just added the same color value on top.

    So, again, laziness 100%. OR again they are DELIBERATELY making things not match.




    Well the reason still stands :)
  • I think the problem with the kitchen cabinets and counters not matching has to do with the shaders they assigned to them. Counters use a counter shader which allows them to remain a consistent color when placed together and not affected too much by lighting (you know how if you place 2 items side by side, one will always appear a slightly different color because of where and how the light is hitting it).

    Cabinets don't use the same shader so it makes the cabinets appear a different color.

    Applicances also use occluders, which casts a large shadow on the cabinet it's under which also affects the color.

    I found this out when I recolored a kitchen and my cabinets were not showing up in the game as having the same color as my counters, even tho I made the textures exactly the same.

    I was able to correct my kitchen recolor by changing the cabinet shader to a counter shader and then it matched perfectly.

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