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Alistu
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9 years ago

Shorter Teen Height Via Mods

This is more of a theoretical post than anything as, sadly, I do not have the required knowledge to follow through with what I am about to propose.

As we know, we will never officially obtain shorter teens in our games no matter how much we would like it or how often we ask.
A modder known as simmythesim on modthesims though has proven that it is possible.

He has created a set of custom sliders which can be applied to Sims once they have exited CAS for the first time and been placed in game. One of these such sliders affects height allowing for Sims to be made taller or shorter.
If you would like to take a look at the mods in question, you can find them here> http://bootstrap.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=571799

Simmythesim has sadly decided to discontinue the development of the mods which were looking extremely promising. They already worked.

What I was wondering was if the game was set up in such a way that would allow something similar to simmythesim's mod to be created to affect height and tied to a hidden trait that would be applied to Teen aged Sims?

The only thing that is really preventing me from using simmythesim's mod in my game is the requirement to manually apply the slider to the Sims you want to use it on. It would be great if the game could automatically apply the new slider to a set value once a Sim reaches the Teen stage and then have the hidden trait removed once they reach the Young Adult stage.

I know EA's official response is that they will not create shorter teens as that would require them to author a ton of new animations to specifically fit the shorter height but I can't see why. If you use the mods I link to here to make your Teens shorter, they all behave perfectly well. The animations play without issue and I never once, in my own game, came across any level of clipping any worse than what is already considered acceptable when Adult arms clip into bar surfaces and the like.

If their argument is that social interactions such as kissing would not line up then there really isn't an issue. Teens can't romantically interact with Sims of other age groups anyway and if all teens were the same height, this wouldn't matter at all.

I'll stop now, I can sense myself starting to ramble. Anyway, these were my thoughts on how to impliment a shorter Teen height via mods for those that want it.

10 Replies

  • Hey @Alistu, as far as I remember, I did add teen height being automatically set, however, they won't immediately shrink after creating them, they'll only shrink at 12 midnight (or was it 1 o'clock? I forgot.)
  • Really? Is that part of the gradual growth bit? I didn't install the gradual growth part because I didn't want my Sims to gradually grow, just for the teens to be at a set height shorter than the adults.
  • "Alistu;14791139" wrote:
    Really? Is that part of the gradual growth bit? I didn't install the gradual growth part because I didn't want my Sims to gradually grow, just for the teens to be at a set height shorter than the adults.


    Yeah, I lumped those two together for some reason which I can't remember.
  • Is that something I would be able to seperate out myself so that I could have shorter teens but no gradual height? Or would I need to know python scripting stuff?
  • "Alistu;14791718" wrote:
    Is that something I would be able to seperate out myself so that I could have shorter teens but no gradual height? Or would I need to know python scripting stuff?


    Sorry for the late reply, but yes, you do need to know python.
  • Aww nuts. It's like you're dangling a juicy carrot right in front of my face that I can just never reach.
  • "Alistu;14795779" wrote:
    Aww nuts. It's like you're dangling a juicy carrot right in front of my face that I can just never reach.


    How come? Anyone can learn python.
  • I find coding and its terms extremely confusing and difficult to understand. I am a very visual person.
  • So I decided to download python and have a look at it. I haven't got the faintest idea how I'm even supposed to use the thing. I wasn't expecting something that ran like DOS. I guess I'm too spoilt with programs that have pretty GUIs for me to click on.

    I only want to remove the gradual growth thing and set teens to a height of -50 as defined by simmythesim's mods.
    Simmy! Why did you have to abandon it as it was?!

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