A question of style
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009How should Sims look? As I’ve said before I’m not heavy on the use of custom content overload. But I’m also totally not original, and will just randomise most of the time. It’s trickier to roll for style, though.
What should dictate style? I’ve started thinking about these things, TS3-wise:
- Traits - obvious things, like an evil Sim will wear black, or an outdoorsy sim will wear shorts and skimpy clothes to soak up that sun. Slobs won’t really care what they look like, etc.
- Interests - rather more abstract. I actually looked at Interests for inspiration in TS2 quite often.
- Fashionable friends - Sims will copy the style of their best friends if they are popular. (Here’s my hoping that Sims 3 socialising will be more clique-y like real life, so we can have real social groups. It was always a bit more detached in TS2)
One thing I started to randomize in TS2 was baldness and glasses. A nice touch of realism. Basically at each male Sim’s age transition (or when I get around to playing them) I would roll for baldness. The older they are, the more likely they are to go bald. Same for glasses.
The fun part is deciding how they will cope with their baldness. Some might shave their heads. Others may wear hats. Some might choose the combover! Again, this is based on their pre-existing fashion tendencies and what I think would suit them. Similarly for glasses, choosing the type of glasses they wear is based on their personality and fashion ‘set’.