Not so random randomness
SaraMK:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 April 23, 16:44:58
On the subject of non-random randomness, I'm having a tiny-eye outbreak. It actually started before my latest custom neighborhood while still using the normal face templates. All NPC's spawned with what I call tiny eyes. Basically, they are squinched looking. Face shapes were still variable, as were other features. I then started a new custom neighborhood with the clean templates. I got some template replacements before spawning townies. The templates look fine when I choose them in CAS, just one or two with tiny eyes but that's normal. Still, almost every freaking townie has tiny eyes. Rolling for a random sim in CAS gives me all tiny eyes.
The way you describe this, it sounds like you may have downloaded sims that are facial templates. There are no default Maxis face templates that have disproportionately tiny eyes, but these downloadable sims do.
Check this thread: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7828.0.html
Zazazu:
Quote from: SaraMK on 2007 April 23, 17:42:26
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 April 23, 16:44:58
On the subject of non-random randomness, I'm having a tiny-eye outbreak. It actually started before my latest custom neighborhood while still using the normal face templates. All NPC's spawned with what I call tiny eyes. Basically, they are squinched looking. Face shapes were still variable, as were other features. I then started a new custom neighborhood with the clean templates. I got some template replacements before spawning townies. The templates look fine when I choose them in CAS, just one or two with tiny eyes but that's normal. Still, almost every freaking townie has tiny eyes. Rolling for a random sim in CAS gives me all tiny eyes.
The way you describe this, it sounds like you may have downloaded sims that are facial templates. There are no default Maxis face templates that have disproportionately tiny eyes, but these downloadable sims do.
Check this thread: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7828.0.html
Hmm. The only sims I've downloaded before I noticed a tiny-eye outbreak have huge anime eyes. However, there's a couple of other sims I have showing as downloaded that I'm honestly not sure of the origins. I never remember downloading them because until three weeks ago I'd never consciously downloaded a whole sim (seemed a waste of my already wasted space). I don't need the ones I downloaded on purpose anymore as I've already used the in-game, so I'll try deleting all custom sims tonight and see if the CAS roller will give me something more normal. I'm thoroughly sick seeing those nearsighted-like simmies and the Oversoul has been working overtime killing off ugly progeny of my big-eyed/tiny-eyed couples.
SaraMK:
If any sims came with face templates, there is an easy way to check.
Create a male adult sim. Click the #3 button in CAS. This is where you can edit specific parts of the face. Click the picture that shows the full face. If there is anything there before the heart-shaped face, you have downloaded a sim that is a facial template.
Do the same for a female adult sim.
Zazazu:
Yeah, the only sim template I had was one of myself from a year ago, far as I could figure. Normal eyes. However, I glanced through my CAS templates again and noticed a whole bunch of squinched ones towards the back. It was Doc Doofus's set, which doesn't have too many previews to look at beforehand. I'm now using another new set...Selzi's from MTS2, and my random rolls were looking a bit better. Not as big as I generally prefer my eyes, but at least I could see the things. At least I have one drop dead gorgeous townie that came out of the whole episode...Doris Drake. My current playable girl went a little ACR crazy and decided to bork her while she was visiting.
SaraMK:
Yeah, default replacements can be hit or miss. I finally made my own because most of the ones up for download had something wrong with them, like they didn't include both the regular and the high-res versions, or the creator stuck too closely to the Maxis prototypes. I just hated the Maxis faces so much that I wanted to get as far away from them as possible. Plus I cannot stand the awful weird eyelash bar that people insist on using on every sim... drives me crazy. Unfortunately after playing with my set for a while I realized that it, too, has serious flaws. The sims are basically all beautiful white people. No variety. At all. I feel a bit uncomfortable with the whole thing now. Originally I just used a bunch of downloaded sims from MTS2, Insim, Lyran... I picked them because I thought they were cute, and didn't realize how bland my set was becoming as I was making it. I will have to replace a few of them when I feel up to doing something so tedious again.
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