if we truly are getting an elderly centered pack next i NEED them to have a scrapbooking skill or at least a photo album. i can’t keep making secret basements in all my sims houses that they can’t actually access just to put all of the photos on the walls down there. the way they are stored in the inventory absolutely grinds my gears.
it doesn’t even have to be fancy. it could be simple, something similar to the collections ui, just to store and view each photo? maybe with the ability to put them into different categories where you can just look at in there or put in your sims inventory when you want to put them up on the wall or give them to someone. i’m BEGGING.
i’ve put too much thought into to this so i’ll just continue to rambling -
imagine if creating a photo/scrapbook was like making jewelry or knitting.
you go in and choose the cover from more and more options the higher your skill is
choose the emotion of the book (so that when sims look at it they can feel sad if it’s in memory of a past love one, happy if it’s just like a regular family album, maybe flirty if it’s a wedding album or like spicy photo book for your fiancé(e), potential to even make a burn book essentially where sims will feel angry, embarrassed (or playful depending on the child sim’s personality) for a baby book if your parents share it with guests or something, scared if it’s full of black mail idk lol, etc.)
maybe you could also choose who it’s for in this jewelry making style of interface
the amount and quality of photos could add to the quality of the scrapbook overall
maybe you can also store birth/marriage certificates, diplomas and drawing kids make so that you don’t lose them or just have to keep them in their inventory
include a school picture day or even just a “graduation photo” for elementary and high school like they have for college where you just auto get one without having to take it
your sim could get angry while making it if you get a paper cut from having a low skill, happy because you love crafting, confident because you are getting better at the skill. sad from remembering a loved one, etc
it can be kept in the book shelf or maybe a new item similar to the cook book stand could be added so it can be displayed
after it’s made you could look at it, add/take out photos, share moment with others, destroy because you and your partner broke up or something that could have a similar effect to crying it out when they are sad
a new tradition during holidays where you reminisce and look through photos books but child or teen sims could hid it because they hate that tradition or something
but literalllllyyy the only function i would care about is being able to easily store and view photos in game so you can have the option to just by a plain old photo album and store your photos in it, i dont even really need all the fancy stuff above if i can have this one thing lol
if i knew how to make a mod i would be unstoppable LOL
