Beard progress, again-- and begging for opinions

[hat_plays_sims]

Well, if my luck and mojo holds out, there should be beards this weekend.

But okay, I'm doing this three ways: Unbinned, Binned, and Binned & Townie Friendly. I know what I'm doing for grays for townies, but I need a little advice on beards for TEEN townies. The thing is, I can't give you mix-and-match townie and non-townie for different ages, so my question is, should I:

A) Don't townie-enable any facial hair for teenagers.
B) Only townie-enable light facial hair for teenagers.
or
C) Just townie-enable all facial hair available for teenagers.

Teens don't get meshed beards, just the stuff painted directly on the face, like makeup. We're looking at five concentrations of stubble, and the basegame beards called Beard (which is a full beard, but a short full beard), Goatee, Mustache, Sideburns, Van Dyke (chin only), and Wispy (a lot like the goatee, but much lighter). If I had to pick which ones counted as 'light' for me, I'd go with stubbles one through three, the sideburns, the Wispy beard, and then I'd stare at the Van Dyke for a while.

I'm working on townie-enabling the meshed beards for now, since they don't have teen ages.

Comments

[the-isle-of-albion.blogspot.de]

Hm, good question that. I think if it was up to me I'd just townify the whole bunch, because while not every guy starts quite that early with the facial hair I have known a guy who had a full beard at 16, so... It would be interesting to me to see which teen gets what, too. Might be interesting for characterization even. Just my two cents. ^^


I'm just So. Freaking. Excited! about the whole project I can't tell you! Thank you ever so so much, Hat! I truly appreciate your amazing work!

- Ann

[hat_plays_sims]

My concerns mostly involve the two heaviest stubbles and the painted-on beard. They seem a little lush for boys just hitting transition. But thank you for the input! (My brother was one of those hairy teenagers, too. Sims are so bald by default.)

[eefje00704]

I'd go for only light facial hair as townie-enabled for teens.

[hat_plays_sims]

Noted! (It's one less step, it's just that I have to remember the step when I'm pasting and not just zone out and push buttons in time to my music.) Thanks for the input.

[dinuriel]

Hmm. Well, it's not going to affect me much either way, since I mainly use the game for staging shots and therefore haven't had any new Townies generated in pretty much the entire time my neighbhorhood has been around (unless a Townified beard could show up on a newly-grown-up teen? Not sure because I don't think I have any townified accessories or makeup to go by, but if that's the case, it's not like changing a Sim's appearance is difficult). If it's easiest for you just to Townify all of them, Townify all of them. I'm still just over the moon that you're making Pooklet'd facial hair in the first place. :)

[hat_plays_sims]

I don't know if facial hair will randomly appear on the teen transition... but I'm kind of hoping it will. It's one of those things that adds character, but that I never remember to actually USE. I'm gonna test the meshed stuff in Body Shop once I finish townie-enabling it; if it turns up on Sims when I hit the Change Age button, it should also show up on in-game Sims when they age up.

[dinuriel]

It should be interesting to see if that does happen. I grow up my kids to teen at the ridiculous young age of ten (I kind of get bored with the limits of child Sims, plus they're so short that it's difficult to get decent pictures of them interacting with adults even with SimPE's stretch values), so any boy who grew up with a full beard in my game would probably have to lose it, but I figure he'd be getting a full makeover anyway because I'm a control freak like that. But hey--maybe spontaneous facial hair will provide inspiration for his look when he's a little older. Like you said, it does add character.

[russianspidercat]

I vote for light beards townie-enabled

[hat_plays_sims]

I did some SimPE testing, and facial hair doesn't spontaneously show up on teens when they age up, just when they're generated as teens. I townie-enabled all the beards available to teenagers, but I'm including a guide on how to townie-disable things, too. (It's faster than townie-enabling.)