LGR - The Sims 4 Build Mode Gameplay Revealed
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Date: 2022-04-14
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lies
No CASt, no purchase. Period. End of story. Even though I'm primarily a builder in the Sims and have often tended toward doing far, far more of that than actually -playing- the game, and all those build options look awesome, not being able to do proper colour-coordination in rooms would drive me up a wall. It's not like it'd even be hard. I know their justification is -but, emotions are tied to colours-; I call BS. They haven't thought about it enough.
A colour has well-defined values. If you want to have each particular colour and brightness have relative emotional effects, just convert the value to HSL (which will make the data way easier to define for their purposes. What you essentially have to deal with at that point is a 3D data set; stick a max value for any particular emotional effect in that 3D space. Then you just find the colour in that 3D space, do a bit of vector math to figure-out its distance from the nearest emotional maximums, and use that to determine the emotional effect induced as well as its strength. And on top of that, even though this is potentially a lot of math that has to be done by the CPU, it doesn't have to do it in real-time. Everything that can be coloured in TS3 remains static when actually playing the game; you'd only need to compute all this information when switching to live-mode; a helpful tooltip to indicate that this is what the game is doing would keep players from wondering what's taking so long. (Rooms are also pretty well-defined and static, so you could do some elegant programming and add hooks so that you only do these calculations on rooms or sims that were actually changed)
It's not an -easy- problem to solve; hell, they may even need to hire a mathematician with extensive experience programming to help sort it out. But it's doable.
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No CASt, no purchase. Period. End of story. Even though I'm primarily a builder in the Sims and have often tended toward doing far, far more of that than actually -playing- the game, and all those build options look awesome, not being able to do proper colour-coordination in rooms would drive me up a wall. It's not like it'd even be hard. I know their justification is -but, emotions are tied to colours-; I call BS. They haven't thought about it enough.
A colour has well-defined values. If you want to have each particular colour and brightness have relative emotional effects, just convert the value to HSL (which will make the data way easier to define for their purposes. What you essentially have to deal with at that point is a 3D data set; stick a max value for any particular emotional effect in that 3D space. Then you just find the colour in that 3D space, do a bit of vector math to figure-out its distance from the nearest emotional maximums, and use that to determine the emotional effect induced as well as its strength. And on top of that, even though this is potentially a lot of math that has to be done by the CPU, it doesn't have to do it in real-time. Everything that can be coloured in TS3 remains static when actually playing the game; you'd only need to compute all this information when switching to live-mode; a helpful tooltip to indicate that this is what the game is doing would keep players from wondering what's taking so long. (Rooms are also pretty well-defined and static, so you could do some elegant programming and add hooks so that you only do these calculations on rooms or sims that were actually changed)
It's not an -easy- problem to solve; hell, they may even need to hire a mathematician with extensive experience programming to help sort it out. But it's doable.
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Udderly
As someone who got The Sims pretty much only for creating houses this is like a dream come true for me. Still, I'm not sure about the price and I'm still antsy about all the issues I had with The Sims 3 and random errors EA had no fix for and said they weren't even going to try to fix. This vid totally makes my panties wet, but will it be worth the frustration if I'm crashing every five seconds or if I can't save the house I just made because the game refuses to use any more space even though there is plenty of it on my computer?
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As someone who got The Sims pretty much only for creating houses this is like a dream come true for me. Still, I'm not sure about the price and I'm still antsy about all the issues I had with The Sims 3 and random errors EA had no fix for and said they weren't even going to try to fix. This vid totally makes my panties wet, but will it be worth the frustration if I'm crashing every five seconds or if I can't save the house I just made because the game refuses to use any more space even though there is plenty of it on my computer?
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Alfadragon
Am I the only one that noticed that the game didn't come with any type of personal transportation. Not a car was shown or displayed. I really do hope they move cars and automobile things to an expansion pack because that would crazy sims 3 shipped with cars in the base game but sims 4 doesn't! Someone needs to get fired
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Am I the only one that noticed that the game didn't come with any type of personal transportation. Not a car was shown or displayed. I really do hope they move cars and automobile things to an expansion pack because that would crazy sims 3 shipped with cars in the base game but sims 4 doesn't! Someone needs to get fired
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Mr. Kian
Trams, victorian-styled railings, a young goth family. I think we'll be seeing a return of Old Town from the Sims Unleashed! Since there's no Cassandra Goth, presumably this takes place after The Sims 3 and before the The Sims 1?
Regardless, I loved Old Town! Especially Claire Charming and her dog Luna: -D
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Trams, victorian-styled railings, a young goth family. I think we'll be seeing a return of Old Town from the Sims Unleashed! Since there's no Cassandra Goth, presumably this takes place after The Sims 3 and before the The Sims 1?
Regardless, I loved Old Town! Especially Claire Charming and her dog Luna: -D
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Saki
Oh wow. I was completely wrong. Last time I said I won't be buying cause it looks not good, but not the build mode I am interested. Plus I Sims are kind of growing on me, but still disappointed that the skin color slider has changed. It would be nice cause my skin color in those demos is not there: (
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Oh wow. I was completely wrong. Last time I said I won't be buying cause it looks not good, but not the build mode I am interested. Plus I Sims are kind of growing on me, but still disappointed that the skin color slider has changed. It would be nice cause my skin color in those demos is not there: (
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Edward
I think I REPEAT -I think- that the chair bring you to the furniture part of build mode and the room with the chair in the middle is probably that blueprint mode.
These are my thoughts feel free to share what you think it is with me if you so desire.
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I think I REPEAT -I think- that the chair bring you to the furniture part of build mode and the room with the chair in the middle is probably that blueprint mode.
These are my thoughts feel free to share what you think it is with me if you so desire.
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Tom
People complain about the graphics and textures but I would rather have a game that runs smoothly and feels like a game the sims 4 is also built on a new gaming engine which hopefully means smoother gamplay and no bugs
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People complain about the graphics and textures but I would rather have a game that runs smoothly and feels like a game the sims 4 is also built on a new gaming engine which hopefully means smoother gamplay and no bugs
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Raptorzesty
I'm not all that impressed. New games are coming out like No Man's Sky that blow my freaking mind and EA and Maxis is still slowing innovating a little bit at a time. The graphics actually got less realistic!
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I'm not all that impressed. New games are coming out like No Man's Sky that blow my freaking mind and EA and Maxis is still slowing innovating a little bit at a time. The graphics actually got less realistic!
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Lucca
I'm hoping for a mode where you can multitask. Imagine being able to both use the crapper, and use the phone, or eat while on the computer. It's crazy, but it would be hilarious if they added that kind of thing.
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I'm hoping for a mode where you can multitask. Imagine being able to both use the crapper, and use the phone, or eat while on the computer. It's crazy, but it would be hilarious if they added that kind of thing.
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queer
They nailed this at the expense of everything else. Was it worth it? I honestly don't know. I would be lying if I said right now out loud in public that I didn't spend 80% of my time building and creating sims.
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They nailed this at the expense of everything else. Was it worth it? I honestly don't know. I would be lying if I said right now out loud in public that I didn't spend 80% of my time building and creating sims.
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