Maxis Match vs. Realistic Custom Content?
There is an on-going rivalry between "maxis match" and "realistic" custom content styles. Maxis match is just what is sounds like; cc made in a way that looks like it was created by EA/Maxis for the g...
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> @Vondiita said:
> Same reason as you pretty much. I wouldn't mind realistic
> looking CC if it fit with the rest of the environment but
> that's not the case.
Well ...2 my opinion, this is the best reason to not prefer realistic but things are changing :wink: I do not write this to promote the k-hippie team stuff, but we just finished the replacement of more than 300 maxis terrain and floorpaint files to give a coherent matching between the realistic style we prefer much much far beyond the cartoony style ( too childish and facebook styled to me )
The good idea could be a "consensus" : realistic enough to not be ridiculous but not too much to keep the coherence of all this :)
> Same reason as you pretty much. I wouldn't mind realistic
> looking CC if it fit with the rest of the environment but
> that's not the case.
Well ...2 my opinion, this is the best reason to not prefer realistic but things are changing :wink: I do not write this to promote the k-hippie team stuff, but we just finished the replacement of more than 300 maxis terrain and floorpaint files to give a coherent matching between the realistic style we prefer much much far beyond the cartoony style ( too childish and facebook styled to me )
The good idea could be a "consensus" : realistic enough to not be ridiculous but not too much to keep the coherence of all this :)
