The Lower-middle class neighborhood located in New Oak Ridge (Newcrest).
Note: Just finished placing around the trees and adding the last details to these houses. This neighborhood is technically done, but I might just come back and add a few more details to the interior of these houses later... Unfortunately, my decorating motivation is low right now. 🥲
Adjusted Thumbnails for the Household Panel (incl. a version for shorter teens)
Some of this started off as an experiment following a chat in Creator Musings but a few people wondered if I can share it sometime, so here it is.
1A) Adjusted camera settings for kids and pets
This is just something that bothered me and it mainly affects thumbnails in CAS. There's a strong perspective view applied to the CAS thumbnails of kids and pets, which makes them look a bit distorted and the zoom is too close cutting off the face in some cases:
The adjustments are somewhat a compromise of CAS and in-game settings leaning towards the latter. The adjustments for human sims are also included for in-game thumbnails (due to some restrictions this is not quite possible for pets, but their in-game version looks fine anyways).
1B) Adjusted camera settings for shorter teens (tested with the Shorter Teens mod by Menaceman44)
Disclaimer that sims aged teen-elder use the same camera settings and there's no way that I know of to treat teens differently or assign different settings based on the height of a sim, if you use such a mod.
When you use a height mod, the sims faces will be cut off with the default settings.
My workaround here is zooming out to allow shorter sims to fit into the picture frame. It's not an optimal solution, but the only solution I can think of. Below a preview using the standard teen height (first row) and the "shortest" teen height (second row) from the Shorter Teens mod.
This version uses 1A) as a base, but zooms out more on human sims (pets have the same settings as in 1A).
Note: Also not optimal, but you can try making the UI bigger via the game accessibility settings to make the household panel incl. the thumbnails a bit larger if these settings make the sims portraits too small.
2) Angled Pose (made for Waffle ^^)
Waffle mentioned that we used to have angled pictures in the household panel (seems like this was the case until pets were added to the game). Below I tried to recreate the original settings (based on a very old blurry screenshot :P).
Below an example of how it looks standalone and with the camera settings 1A/1B.
The pose override is only for human sims, not for pets. I feel like the very different proportions and profiles of cats and dogs won't always look great when angled (and I suspect that's the reason this was changed when pets were added).
You can use this option in addition to the above settings or standalone. (This is a pose override, not an override for camera settings and can therefore be used independently.)
Download links are below the cut.
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1A) Adjusted camera settings for kids and pets: SFS | MF
1B) Adjusted camera settings for shorter teens: SFS | MF
2) Angled Pose: SFS | MF
Change log:
January 18th 2025: A mermaid specific pose was missing in the Angled Pose mod (only noticeable in CAS). Added it.
Notes:
Pick either 1A) or 1B)! Don't put both files into your mods folder.
You can use 2) in addition or standalone.
You need to delete the file localthumbcache.package to let the game generate new thumbnails. Otherwise you won't see any changes in game until the game needs to update the thumbnails on its own. (You should see the changes in CAS immediately, though.)
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