But of course, visuals alone are not the reason why people still love TS3, and thankfully textures are easily moddable. So not only does TS3 have a game engine that was already sort of visually dated when it was released, but its default textures don’t give the game engine much to work with. Even things like hair sheen are still technically in-game, but too weak to notice during gameplay. They had ported over the sub-skin scattering from The Sims Medieval). ( Above left: TS3 default face skins, Above Right: TS4 default face skins, note how TS4 uses painted-on features to create a variety of facial defaults)Ībove, effect-wise, TS3 basically is the second from the left with worseĭiffuse maps, and basically non-apparent normal & specular maps ( it also really makes me wish And finally, toss in a broken townie generator that generates the same kind of round faces with almond-shaped eyes, and you get rubbery, uncanny-eyed sims everywhere- this is how pudding is made! On top of that, TS3′s default skin textures are not only much flatter in tone, but they also don’t have unique painted-on details like TS4′s- as a result, sims can look same-faced despite having different facial shapes. That of TS4 sims, yet a lot of that mesh detail gets flattened outīy the lighting. In fact, the geometry of TS3 sims is more or less comparable to Compare this to TS4, which fudges a far more centered shading on sims, and you get sims that look softer and better lit. I’ve always found that the main issue in TS3 is the lighting, which generally is fairly flat and even harsh in certain conditions- this results in sims looking Why do Sims 3 sims look the way they do, despite other contemporary games looking better? What exactly does pudding mean?Īnyways, here are some thoughts from a Mod the Simsįorum conversation- I confess to knowing no serious technical know-how, but these are observations made from a more artistic point of view! So I was wondering some time ago about the best way to improve theĪppearance of sims in TS3 without extensive post-processing, and I got thinking about the reason why Join me as I explore exactly why pudding exists, and ways to fix it! The Pudding Problem Part 1: Why Does Pudding Exist?.
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