Imagine this, right. You get these facial recognition tools all over the place these days for security and even social networking sites seem to recognise you. Now imagine this. You have a proper CAS in TS5. Have all the cool features such as we have had in the past few days but also an option (and it should be an option) to upload your own pictures from somewhere and for the game to actually 'Simlify' them. Cool? For some players who want to make themselves or their friends then it could be fun. Add your friends in the Sims and make some cheeky edits. Want a celebrity in your game? Get a picture of them and you could get a Sim of them straight up. This could be a cool feature! Thoughts?

I wouldn't use it myself, I don't play simselfs or any other real person (And in fact turn facial recognition off of all social media as well, despite not uploading photos of myself anyways haha) But if it's totally optional then, yeah, why not? haha!

I mean, it all depends on what EA does with that facial data.Is it entirely user-side, or is it like the telemetry data Origin is always collecting?I barely trust Facebook with my personal information as it is, I don't know if a company like EA, which is hardly benevolent, is really a corporation I want with even more personal data on me than they already have.

"@ClarionOfJoy;c-17567776" wrote:I don't make my sim self in any of my games, but why not? Sounds like a nice option! I remember The Sims 1 had something like this where you can insert a face photo in an external create-a-sim program.Yes I used that before :smile:

It sounds like it could be a lot of fun to play around with, I remember having fun making Mii's on the Nintendo DS using a similar process. My main concern though is if they made the Sims look too realistic to match the photos. I really prefer the cartoony look of the Sims 4 because I find more photo-realistic videogame and animated people to be really creepy and they end up looking really terrible the older the game/movie gets. (An example is Polar Express, it makes me really uncomfortable and I can't watch it)

I don't know about this. Facial recognition is something I don't care for at all, anywhere. Privacy is important even when out in public. It's one reason I can't stand phone cameras, people should have to ask 'May I film you and put you on FB or Youtube'. However, I wouldn't mind if they brought back photoskinning so we can take a photo and of a real person and paint that onto a Sim head. I wish TS1's feature had been included in the later games, think how much better we would be at doing that if we had kept that up and improved our skills after all these years. ETA: But I never build my 'simself' that's too much voodoo, nor anyone I actually know. :o ETA: I don't even like to see a real person's picture as their real avatar photo. It's too weird when you know they have people tweeting out to you, a PR person and it's 99% of time not the actual person...like a celeb or someone. I have never liked to see the person's real face staring at me. lol No, go back into the shadows and remain autonomous. lol

Should facial recognition tools be used for TS5?

SimAlexandria
5 years ago
I wouldn't use it myself, I don't play simselfs or any other real person (And in fact turn facial recognition off of all social media as well, despite not uploading photos of myself anyways haha)

But if it's totally optional then, yeah, why not? haha!
kwanzaabot
5 years ago
I mean, it all depends on what EA does with that facial data.
Is it entirely user-side, or is it like the telemetry data Origin is always collecting?

I barely trust Facebook with my personal information as it is, I don't know if a company like EA, which is hardly benevolent, is really a corporation I want with even more personal data on me than they already have.
king_of_simcity
5 years ago
"@ClarionOfJoy;c-17567776" wrote:
I don't make my sim self in any of my games, but why not? Sounds like a nice option! I remember The Sims 1 had something like this where you can insert a face photo in an external create-a-sim program.

Yes I used that before :smile:
Felicity1169
5 years ago
It sounds like it could be a lot of fun to play around with, I remember having fun making Mii's on the Nintendo DS using a similar process. My main concern though is if they made the Sims look too realistic to match the photos. I really prefer the cartoony look of the Sims 4 because I find more photo-realistic videogame and animated people to be really creepy and they end up looking really terrible the older the game/movie gets. (An example is Polar Express, it makes me really uncomfortable and I can't watch it)
Cinebar
5 years ago
I don't know about this. Facial recognition is something I don't care for at all, anywhere. Privacy is important even when out in public. It's one reason I can't stand phone cameras, people should have to ask 'May I film you and put you on FB or Youtube'. However, I wouldn't mind if they brought back photoskinning so we can take a photo and of a real person and paint that onto a Sim head. I wish TS1's feature had been included in the later games, think how much better we would be at doing that if we had kept that up and improved our skills after all these years. ETA: But I never build my 'simself' that's too much voodoo, nor anyone I actually know. :o ETA: I don't even like to see a real person's picture as their real avatar photo. It's too weird when you know they have people tweeting out to you, a PR person and it's 99% of time not the actual person...like a celeb or someone. I have never liked to see the person's real face staring at me. lol No, go back into the shadows and remain autonomous. lol
Cinebar
5 years ago
"SquirrelTail15;c-17570852" wrote:
So long as they are honest about what's happening to the data, I won't mind too much - but I'm still gonna read that privacy policy down to the last infuriatingly tiny letter. It would be kinda cool though - I suck at making simselves.

No one ever is are they? Google just got hit with another suit though people had set their settings not to spy on them and or to share that personal info or give away and or share that personal info.
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"friendlysimmers;c-17575547" wrote:
i think thats a great idea and would be easyer making or simselves in the sims5 but how would it work for those that do not have webcams on there pc would they have to use there ipads iphones to take a pic and then upload on pc?

I'm just thinking sims will end up looking weird, like those photoshopped sims we have now. The skin on the face will probably not mach that on the body, and the face will look weird depending on the conditions you took your picture in.
Marduc_Plays
5 years ago
Hell no. That would be wrong on so many levels involving security and privacy.
SimmerGeorge
5 years ago
Am I the only one who doesn't care if EA has pictures of my face?
cb2342z
Seasoned Spectator
5 years ago
While provided, what I use for the base of my Sims is the stuff that was publically available in the first place; and I know it will make that a lot easier. I am critical of the technology's security, privacy, and opportunity for misuse. And for all we know, it's simply not a local feature on my PC. Knowing EA, they'd keep anything uploaded for "analytics"; and we know how common data breaches are these days. It's part of the reason I personally don't use online banking.