#testing stuff

[paluding]

Taking the 4t2 concept too far. Yup, that's the Sims 4 face converted to The Sims 2, in all its blurry glory. Well, just a quick and really messy conversion, to be more precise.

Yet another Sims 2 face experiment I tried. Full disclaimer: nope, I will not finish this project. This was just a fun one day experiment I tried, because why not.

I made a ton of mistakes in this process, will definitely learn from that. Speaking of which, did you know you can make Shape Keys (Sims morphs) from rigged meshes in Blender? That's in fact the excuse I took to practice and learn in this little project. Sims 4 faces are rigged with joints, contrary to the Sims 2 faces which are animated with morphs. It was actually way easier than I anticipated.

The reason it looks so blurry is because I figured if (and a big if right here) this project was worth working on, maybe keeping the UV map mostly intact would help when transferring textures from TS4 to TS2. That's why it looks so pixelated. It's the original UV face map squished to fit into the TS2 mapping. I have to say, as uncanny as it looks and, even with the limited amount of morphs I made, I... kinda like it? But yeah honestly this is not worth it at all. It would require replacing all base face meshes, default replace all the Eaxis face templates, remake all the face sliders for these new meshes… All of that, but also for every single age and gender. Basically replace the whole Sims 2 face system! And then you would realize skins, makeup, eyebrows, and any face overlay would need to be adapted as well. So uh… that ain't happening, no thanks. If anything, it'd be better taking the original Sims 2 faces and making a couple changes here and there to improve their geometry. Better eyes, noses, ears, mouth, remove the original eyelashes and make them as optional accessories… As much as I love the iconic low poly Sims 2 faces, I still think there's quite a lot of room for improvement.

Well, that’s all for now! Here you have a couple extra screenshots I took in game, as a reward for reading this random ass post lol.

[sun-citadel]

ORIGNAL / COPY

[that-fox-thing]

Happy Father’s Day

[r3db3ans]

I like the golden color on this, it's warm

[mspoodle1]

I swear I feel like I'm playing a different game...Modders are giving ts3 the lift it needs.

Absolutely amazing! @arro-now

[dayumli]

Drawing my faves until I am actually able to draw.

[lyntarts]

he’s actually my weef weef puppy boy

[cualquiere]

[deaddriv]

🤏 Saru

[bossfight-messages]

hmm

[n1ghtpers0n15]

I tried sketching digitally just to see how it would go, it’s not bad I think I could’ve done better on the lil noodle and the scales on the big noodle but the shading ain’t horrid, am EXTREMELY in love with how the big one’s eyes turned out.

No detailed background cuz I was getting really tired at the end and everything surrounding my canvas was extremely bright against the dark background making it hard to see what I was doing, turning the tablet’s brightness down didn’t help cuz it just made the background darker, eck

I should probably sketch the background first before adding characters next time

[paluding]

Oooh 👀

[youdonthavetocallmedarlinnn]

[rakimaiirisa]

[lilludoodle]

Im still not good at making a ref sheet look nkce without doing too much... oh well.

Trying out having my characters being stored at least somewhere, starting off with refsheet.net

Looks great but gonna start off small h

In other news, decided to start calling my blueysona Belial. Anyone can toss up possible nicknames for her :3