Portrait painting
witch:
I guess it must be free will off, once the picture frame appears, the sim to be painted is not positionable anymore. Edit: JM's 'Procrastinate' would work as well./Edit. No, the sim doesn't have to stay once the 'c' to take the snapshot is pressed. The advance pictures showed a sim posing whilst being painted but I think that is misleading.
I've managed with the zooming for portraits, although I find using the keyboard is jumpy, zooms out or rotates too much just from a mere tap on the keys.
Since the original poster's question has ben answered, on a similar topic I'd like to ask a question about taking photos with the career reward camera. Do you just take photos and sell them? How do you see them? What's the point of poses if you can't capture them?
Kitiara:
You can actually capture them. My success at doing so has been rather sporadic. Maybe someone else knows exactly when you have to grab it?
If you grab the picture at just the right moment before it is sold, you can hang it on the wall. I haven't played with this much. It seemed more trouble than it was worth, so I just paint pictures.
Katze:
I have one portrait done its a nude but the sim that painted it did't like it. ;D
He doesn't mind woohooing with her all the time. I have it hanging on the wall and every time he sees it he goes like yuck.
C.S.:
If you meant you wanted to keep the photos you take, I thought you could just go into Buy mode and grab it out of the camera? Zoom in closer and you'll see a piece of paper sticking out of the side. I take photos of sims and put it on end-tables next to their beds, just to personalize the room a bit. The photos fetch a maximum amount of 100 simoleans whether you sell it in Live mode or Buy mode with creativity skill maxed.
As for painting portraits, I make use of the career reward camera to make sims pose for variety. For example, I select Mortimer to paint the portrait of Bella, when they got to the easel and the red rectangle frame comes up, which pauses the game, I hit 'P' or '0' on the keyboard to un-pause the game, select Bella as the active sim and cancel the 'Be painted' action from her queue - this doesn't cancel out the red rectangle frame or affect the painter's action queue, just so long as you don't accidentally press 'C' to take the snapshot or cancel the wrong sim's action queue. Are you guys following? So then I make Bella go to the spot I want her to pose at, click on the camera, choose from the variety of poses (sit on the ground, hands crossed, hands on hips, lay on the ground, monkey pose etc etc), and select one, then center the red rectangle frame on her and zoom to the size I want, wait for her to make the expression I want then hit Pause again so it doesn't change, then finally press 'C' to take the snapshot and Mortimer will start painting. Bella doesn't even have to stay in that pose, I cancel the pose from her queue and let her do something else. It works both ways with freewill on or off. Hope this makes sense to you guys :P.
RainbowTigress:
That sounds great, CuriousSpurious. Also, the keys for raising and lowering camera height in Camera view are Q and E. Z zooms in, and X zooms out. You can use A, S, D, and W to move around or use the arrow keys.
As for getting stuck in a top down view, it is not necessary to go back into camera view to fix. If you have a mouse wheel, you can press it and rotate the view, or you can hold the control key and the right mouse button to do the same. I never got the mouse wheel button to work until I removed my Logitech mouse drivers, but I put them back in because the wheel didn't work quite right in my browser, and I liked the additional functionality. So I just use Ctrl + right mouse button in the Sims. I'm actually quite used to it now.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page