Sim-painted portraits are a red, grainy mess
spambi:
Whenever my sims paint a still life or portrait, or take a picture of someone with a cell phone, the result is red and grainy. Does this happen to anyone else?
Screenshots taken with the ingame camera turn out fine. Here's a screenshot of a portrait of one of my sims painted by her daughter, whose artistic skill is level 9 --
Alex:
Well I haven't had one turn out red, but it turned out looking awful. This was supposed to be my Emperor sim's grand evil portrait.
My sim also had very high artistic skill. Part of me suspects this is a "feature."
Grumblesnort:
I think it's supposed to be "artistic" in style, instead of the nice photo-quality paintings we had in TS2. My sim has maxed out Artistic skill and ended up with the monstrosities below. You're lucky that yours came out bright enough to tell what they are. It seems to zoom in and out as it pleases as well. I set up the shot of the daughter playing chess to include part of the table and her upper body. In the resulting painting, you can't tell what it is unless you already know what it's supposed to be. For the toddlers, I set the camera exactly the same to get mostly just the upper body. The results would be almost obscene if you could even see them.
Oh, the kids look blue because they are. They take after their alien mother with blue skin and green hair. Maybe that's why their portraits are all grainy. We can't be having clear evidence of aliens lying around!
Toddler portraits:
Daughter playing chess:
idtaminger:
It's a "feature". The game puts the portraits and still-lifes thru a filter so they'll look like paintings as opposed to a screenshot, and it actually works nicely with well-lighted objects - I ended up w/ a painting w/ a nice Edward Hopper vibe - but it's god-awful for portraits and usually makes the subject sim look like a blotchy orange mess. It'd be awesome if there were a way to turn off the filtering just for portraits.
Alex:
Quote from: idtaminger on 2009 June 21, 15:34:47
It's a "feature". The game puts the portraits and still-lifes thru a filter so they'll look like paintings as opposed to a screenshot, and it actually works nicely with well-lighted objects - I ended up w/ a painting w/ a nice Edward Hopper vibe - but it's god-awful for portraits and usually makes the subject sim look like a blotchy orange mess. It'd be awesome if there were a way to turn off the filtering just for portraits.
I wondered if that was the case.
I second the optional filter idea.
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