Comments on: The Sims 4: Updated Height Slider Mod Now Available

By: Shadd

Shadd — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 21:13:00 +0000

Indeed. Always finding myself hovering mouse over unknown sims to see if they are teen, Young Adult, or Adult. Height would definitely have helped!

By: JackSawyerIsTheBest

JackSawyerIsTheBest — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 19:13:00 +0000

Yup me too, all I want is shorter teens. I liked how in previous iterations teens looked a bit more frail and a bit shorter than adults. I wish this was by default in the game because if you download this slider and change all your teens, you’ll have to change them back when they’re adults to make them taller (or not, of course if you want a short adult), one by one, otherwise your now adult sims will all be shorts! Too much hassle, IMO. EA, you so mean!

By: Brittany Prather

Brittany Prather — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:49:00 +0000

They can’t just simply recycle animations as they had to adjust them to the bones to be proper to work and among ALL the packs that we have now as we’re getting into 4 years that’s definitely a waste of time to be working on. I’d rather them funnel their resources (which are already limited) into something more useful than heights at this time. I’d like to see that in another installment with having a set height for adults and teens alike, but not this one.

By: Guest_ViviR

Guest_ViviR — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 21:55:00 +0000

They could always use the heights of: Child, (Preteen), Teen (altered height) and Young Adult/Adult/Elderly being the tallest. Hell they could make Adults slightly taller if they wanted. Using these heights they can easily recycle animations, while altering and adding animations. Like adult sims can use child height (little people) and add adult animations for romance and such. While the everyday animations like washing hands, washing dishes, sitting in chairs, shower/bath and such could still be recycled. Now kids by default don’t cook among other things so for this height there would need to be a lot of adding and altering of movements. All the animations are there they don’t need to create brand new ones just recycled altered ones. They could even bring back the stool animation for kids. The one they used to wash dishes with. It would be useful with counter animations.

By: elske

elske — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:25:00 +0000

so i downloaden the mod but it isn´t working, does anyone know how to install the mod

By: Shadd

Shadd — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 01:43:00 +0000

I could live with even just a couple of pre-defined height options per age generation, just to change things up a bit. Not necessarily looking for a slider, per se, but it would have been awesome if we could have had predefined tall and short options for teens and adults.

I hate to say I want to have all teens shorter than adults, because I know plenty of teens who are taller than the average adult. I just don’t know how else to differentiate sims 4 teens from adults other than height?!? They currently look so much the same when you see them walking around town. I didn’t have as much problems distinguishing teens from adults in sims 3…but I think the teens may have been slightly shorter?

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 22:39:00 +0000

You are right in that it isn’t necessarily complicated to do. The issue is that it would take a lot of time as they would have to make several versions of each animation, one for each available height; that is if we just got a couple height presets to choose from. If there was an actual height slider, the amount of animations they’d have to make would be insane. And let’s not forget to mention, animations between two Sims of diffetent heights. Yeah, a lot of development time would go to just creating all of the Sim animations in basegame and in each pack.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:09:00 +0000

I might try this.. I would love to have my teens shorter then the adults in game. 🙂

By: Brittany Prather

Brittany Prather — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:54:00 +0000

Think the only way different heights would work (maybe in the next installment whenever that would be) is to just have a set height for sims being tall and short. Don’t think I ever seen an actual game where a height slider had significant animations to tailor to them. ex. One character being able to kiss another).

Height sliders are definitely for the sake of aesthetic. I know some animations work well with them if it’s not a interacting with another sim (romantically, throwing a drink etc)

By: Meg Delvin

Meg Delvin — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:53:00 +0000

No one is commenting it, but you do it on the original engine BEFORE release and yes it is doable and its not as complicated as you think. The sims 4 was made on a really crappy engine due to the fact that the engineers had to rework everything after the simcity fiasco and had little time. Many of the decisions made were due to everything being poorly run and the poor engineers had to work with what they were given. Management in this game (specifically many of the producers) is poor……..How do I know this?(have an engineering background with a husband who is a game developer (lead engineer) for a major AAA gaming company (won’t say which one for safety).