Would you like separate clothes layers ? (Instead of top and jacket/sweater combos)

Yes, we could layer clothes in the Sim Creator that came with The Sims original game. I have missed that for a very long time. Add a sweater, a belt etc. Made some outfits worth the time of layering.

Can I choose my odd socks for my erratic sim? Can she wear them on her hands and use them as glove puppets? Could she get social skill off of them? ;)

I think I read somewhere that layering clothing wouldn't be an easy thing to program, but it already happens with some accessories...

Alpha layers. The best I can think of is Saints Row 2, which allowed the player to add different clothes in certain layers.
If you had four layers, you could add trousers in layer 1 and long boots in layer 2 and the trousers would be tucked into your boots. The other way around would have trousers over boots. The same for every other piece of clothing. You could wear underwear outside your trousers, a tee shirt on top of your jumper... the sky would be the limit. Once you had finished designing your layers you could compress them all together to a single skin to save on render time in game.

Having socks and shirt on layer 1 and trousers on layer 2 would mean the socks and shirt would be tucked into your trousers (being on the lowest layer). Add a jumper on layer 3 and it would be outside your trousers (being on a higher layer). Add a tee shirt on layer 4 and it would be outside your jumper... etc...

As for adding it into game? Anything is possible for a talented programmer...

"invisiblgirl;c-17022164" wrote:
I think I read somewhere that layering clothing wouldn't be an easy thing to program, but it already happens with some accessories. The problem is always clipping or what ends up on top of the other layer. I'm a scarf fan, too, like Simburian - essential about eight months of the year when outdoors, but also useful in my office, which is normally rather cold. (And I tend to buy clothes for comfort rather than style. Scarves are an inexpensive way to give myself a little more flair.)

There are a number of outfits in CAS that I would like but I don't like the top underneath, or the pants (in a full-body outfit). It was all designed as one item of clothing (it's not as if the shirt underneath actually exists as a separate item). And I do like to use the full-body outfits, especially for categories that aren't likely to be used much. (If I have a toddler who ages up from baby in Winter, it's unlikely that she's going to wear the swimsuit or hot weather outfit more than once, if at all.)

What makes me bang my head against the desk is when the shirt underneath the jacket is a different colour, and when I go to match a skirt or pants to the top, every swatch clashes with the shirt. (The jacket is white, the shirt is light purple. The skirt comes in black with a matching light purple, or white with a medium purple. Or comes in every colour except purple and plain white. Or white that is actually grey.)

I have downloaded some of the jackets as accessories, there are clipping issues but not with everything. I think the developers could solve that problem though.
See here, it's not great fashion, I was just trying stuff. Here with my sims Casey and Hailey who are sisters (Hailey is the younger sister, but you can't tell because all teens look the same age....). There's a weird shadow/stripe with the leather jacket, I don't know why.

Well, they already made it so that certain tops go into certain pants, and certain pants go into certain boots. It slightly changes the mesh of the top / pants as soon as you put on the pants / boots. Avoiding the clipping of more than one garment on top of each other should work in a similar way, no?

Not really as finding a week of clothes for my sims takes long enough as it is - I don't much care for anything that would lengthen that time every week when I change up their wardrobes. I have a lot of sims. Maybe just give us more color choices and that'd suit me a lot better.

"Dianesims;c-17023472" wrote:
there are clipping issues but not with everything. I think the developers could solve that problem though.

Making everything 100% compatible with a layering system isn't an easy problem to solve.
I think if they wanted a system like that, the entire clothes system needed to be designed with it in mind. It's too late now.

... the entire clothes system needed to be designed with it in mind.

It'd certainly make for a great new stuff pack! :)

"tommynocker001;c-17024830" wrote:

... the entire clothes system needed to be designed with it in mind.

It'd certainly make for a great new stuff pack! :)

If they would add extra swatches for curtains, carpets and bedspreads to it I'd buy it! :D

Yes please GIVE ME LAYER-ABLE JACKETS!! ?