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There is a GraphicsRules.sgr file with the Demo files which, I say, appears to be the file from the complete game. The file has the graphics settings/options and all the other stuff which is in the Options menu, similar to this file in TS3. There is some interesting stuff in it.

setProp $ConfigGroup RenderLimitFrameRate 100

I don't really know, but this is presumably to prevent that issue in Sims3 with some graphics cards running at 600 FPS or whatever.

option UIMute
setting $Off
prop $ConfigGroup UIMute 0
setting $On
prop $ConfigGroup UIMute 1
end
setOption UIMute $Off

Presumably this above is to turn off the mouse-click sounds when playing, to silence the UI; I don't know what else this would be. This option isn't in the Sims3 file.

option NPCReplacement
setting $Off
prop $ConfigGroup NPCReplacement 0
setting $On
prop $ConfigGroup NPCReplacement 1
end
setOption NPCReplacement $On

This must be the NPC sim or household being moved into an empty house when a family dies out (the entirety of their story progression, besides the aging). So it appears to me anyway that this can be turned off if one wants.

option ShowModListStartup
setting $Off
prop $ConfigGroup ShowModListStartup 0
setting $On
prop $ConfigGroup ShowModListStartup 1
end
setOption ShowModListStartup $On
option ScriptModsEnabled
setting $Off
prop $ConfigGroup ScriptModsEnabled 0
setting $On
prop $ConfigGroup ScriptModsEnabled 1
end
setOption ScriptModsEnabled $Off

Wow! They formally acknowledge the existence of "mods"?

There are also options for online stuff: ShowOnlineNotifications, AutoReconnect, OnlineAccess, and DisableComments. I think these are Gallery options and all of them can be turned on or off. So in theory, if one turns these all off, the next time one starts the game the Gallery will be turned off, it won't be turning itself on automatically every time one fires up the game.

I was actually wondering about that. I don't have the demo, but I wondered if it could fry a graphics card or not. I was going to make sure vsync was turned on in my Nvidia control panel, just in case, whenever I do get the demo.

Having a separate expandable window with the old silders would be the best thing, but even just a little box somewhere discreet that displayed the name of the facial stucture you had highlighted would be helpful so you could memorise it easier instead of blindly clicking to get 'that spot on the nose'. Also would help people communicate their ideas and feedback more easily if someone needed help creating a sim.

I know I usually complain about EA but they've done a very good job with how the sims (Sims themself, not the series) look.

I just watched SimsVIP played the CAS DEMO and there IS a UI sound volume setting in the option menu...
There's also a Vsync and Laptop Mode option too...

SimsVip asked this in her interview with graham. He said, they support custom content and mods, and you could see in the gallery, if something needs/was done with mods or cc. From the interview transcript:



What you found, might be related to that.

My only two complaints about the demo (which I just played for five hours):

1) The push-pull "tactile" system isn't as easy as it looks. It takes a lot of getting used to, and doesn't work very well IMO.
2) This is easily fixable with CC, but oh my god...the eyes look TERRIBLY cartoony, and make the faces look totally bizarre. The only good eye color is the darkest brown...for some reason that one looks realistic, but the blue one, for example, is just bright, bright blue with a ring of black around it...

Okay so my informant spy snitch friend kindly provided this insanely detailed systematic list of ALL the sliders that can be found in TS4.

Body sliders:
- Neck width
- Shoulder width
- Upper arm thickness
- Lower arm thickness
- Upper leg thickness
- Lower leg thickness
- Foot size
- Chest tilt (posture)
- Hip width
- Waist width
- Butt size
- Tummy size
- Chest thickness/barrel chest (male only)
- Chest width (male only)
- Breast size (female only)
- Breast perky/sag (female only)

There is also a general fat/thin slider and a muscularity slider, which affect all body sliders as well as the body texture overlays.

Face Sliders

Oh, wow, thanks for posting this! I read in the official CAS lessons that some options are only available from a sideview. They said belly size is one of those. I think, butt size, too.

I'm no fan of, EA. But seriously, people really need to learn to separate the corporation from the employee(s).

Not only is this childish, but if this person continues down this path, it will soon be considered Cyber Bullying...which is a crime.

Think it's really time for some people to take a deep breath and get a grip.

Yeah, that's correct, some of the body sliders only work in profile, others only straight-on. Try to grab the tummy in profile and you adjust the sim's belly. Grab the same spot straight-on and you adjust the waist width instead. The body sliders are apparently fairly intuitive when it comes to whether or not they work straight-on or profile and there's no detail/regular mode, unlike the face sliders which are just...

Very true. I always forget to pay the bills too because I never had to check a mailbox either. Though, I now live in an appartment building so there actually -are- mailboxes downstairs, but I still never check it unless I know something's coming. Otherwise I just let my boyfriend get the mail.

All hail the mighty power of pixel power... I doubt any of the guru's are phased by this person.

This would explain some of the SNAFUs I've seen in some Lets Plays. One in particular wouldn't allow the person to adjust the tip of the nose. He wanted it to go up so the nose looked less like a beak, but after fudging around with it for a solid 3 minutes or so, the person gave up and moved on to something else.

I've seen the same thing happen with eyebrows, ears and other facial features from others.

Take something simple like a slider and make it a miserable tool which leaves all sims looking like clones. Another thing that is constantly being bitched about with Sims 3 and yet I'm seeing it all over place with TS4. Males either have a square jaw or the face is somewhat heart shaped. Female sims are the same way and all of them have chipmunk cheeks.

That's probably a matter of not being in the right mode - there's detail mode and regular mode for faces, and what is in which one has some overlap and looking at the full list, IMO, has very little logic involved. You really have to memorize what sliders are in what mode, what place, and whether or not the sim has to be straight on or profile to access the desired slider. In the process of making that list, several "new" (previously unknown) sliders were discovered because... Why would you click on the cheek to adjust the jaw, or the inner eye corner to adjust the eyelid? Or the forehead to adjust the lower face width? Madness.

I actually did get an email saying Sims 4. But it was from Amazon, not EA. I brought some Sims 2 Gamecube games there a little while ago and now I'm getting recommendations for TS3 and TS4.

I agree! It's alot easier to make unique sims (Except their clothing because no color wheel), but otherwise making sims look different is really easy and it's alot easier making people from around the world!
Some of mine:

You and that other poster got me wondering about this, so I tried to recreate a TS4 sim in TS3 (using CC) to see what I thought. I don't want to start up that argument again, as I agree that it really is just a matter of personal preference, but I thought you guys might be curious. I know she's not perfect, but it's good enough to compare I hope.

Absolutely.

They did the same thing with the accessory catagory. Instead of putting necklaces in with watches, bracelets, ect... one has to go to the face section. (?) I'm not positive which one they are in, but necklaces are not where they should be. It is almost as if they put on blindfolds and threw a dart at a list to see where to plunk items.

If your idea of good is Saturday morning cartoons, then yes. Every single image I've seen of TS4 sims shows me just how crappy the game is going to be. I have yet to see a single TS4 sim where the body parts are proportional to each other the way real human bodies are.

Here's an odd, random thought: Are there any BOOKS in the game?

With the news that newspapers are gone and Sims have all "gone digital", I'm starting to question everything.

One thing can be said for CAS: It is apparently very easy to make androgynous ladies with the new sliders:



Don't think it'd be quite so easy with the men all being so square-jawed and hard-faced but... I guess we'll see as more sim pics crop up.

ETA:

Bit more difficult to make an androgynous man, I guess mostly due to lack of good hair, the slider limits, and just the textures being distinctly dude-like. Also there's no makeup for guys besides eyeshadow and liner.

I think you did a good job with the comparison. When I mentioned chipmunk cheeks, I'm referring to the cheekbone area. In TS3 that area can be altered with sliders so the sim doesn't look like they have excess amounts of fat in that area.

It isn't important, just a observation. Maybe when people learn how to use the new sliders this issue will go away. *shrugs*