S,HWC Character Heights and Body Types

[strange_tomato]

I was recently asked on Tumblr to give details on how I see the heights and body types of characters in Strangetown, Here We Come, and I thought I'd share them here too. Some of these details have been given in the story itself, but some haven't (like Buck's height, I think

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[anonymous]

How come you don't stretchskeleton the Sims?

[strange_tomato]

[anonymous]

Oh, haha. I always thought it was odd that the animations never worked with Sims of different heights. Since with some animations, such as slow dance, holding hands, and caressing, the bone joints clearly link up with the correct area of the receiving Sim, so I thought it wouldn't have been impossible to get the animations to link up that way.

Well, whatever, this is lazy EAxis we're talking about. :P

[anonymous]

Kind of unrelated, but do you think the aliens have body hair?

[strange_tomato]

In my version of things, they don't. I see them as having hair on their heads, based on P.T. No. 9 and Stella, but not much else. Hybrid sims are also usually quite hairless, with some exceptions (like if they get it more from the sim side of their genetics).

That's why I never put any facial hair on Johnny. If I used body hair overlays (and I probably won't ever, just because sims in TS2 don't naturally come with it and none I've seen have felt that Maxis Match to me), I would definitely give the Grunts body hair, but Johnny wouldn't have any.

[anonymous]

Second question, do you think aliens have freckles? I gave some to PT9 and Chloe. I think they look quite cute with them. :D

[strange_tomato]

I don't know if I have a strong opinion on that. I didn't use freckles on the Strangetown alien sims in SHWC, but I could just as easily seem them with freckles, given how light the alien skintone is and how there's so much sun there. I do use freckles on sims sometimes, and if I was starting the story today, they might have ended up having them.

Freckles are cute. I like them, too. :)