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2 Creating a Sim/Family:
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The Sims 2 see the introduction of a much more advanced Sim editor for the
creation of your Sims. This means not only you can customise your Sims to look
more like yourself and your friends, it means the Townie Sims are also very
different.
The new Sim editor allows you to personalise everything, not just the hair color
and clothes of your Sim. You can change the eye color, facial aspects (eg nose)
and make-up.
Tip - Don't get to hung up on the make-up and hair color, as this can be
changed anytime throughout the game by using a mirror.
When creating your Sim, the first thing you will need to do is create the Family
name for the Sim, this should be fairly simple, although, if you are like me,
this will take about 20 minutes.
After the Family name is done, you will have to give your sim a name, again very
easy to do, and the is half an hour of game play take up, for me anyway.
The rest of the set up is very straight forward, select the gender and age of
your Sim to be.
Select the skin color and the Weight.
After that you have the Sim biography. Now, you can skip this, as I have leant
to do after finding that I have been on the game for over an hour and are still
trying to make my first Sim.
Tip - If you are the kind of player who like to take chances, you can get the
game to make a Sim for you. Press the dice icon, which is found at the
top of the screen, and then you have a new, randomised Sim. Good Luck.
After you have finished with the basic of making your Sim, you can now add your
own personal touches. The first option you will have now is the option to change
the shape of your Sims head. The options here will depend on the basic
selections you have made for your Sim, the age, skin color and gender of your
Sim. Select the head shape that you want you Sim to have.
Next is the hair color and style, as noted earlier this can be changed at any
time in the game, so you can skip over this section.
You will now have the option to change the smaller details of the face.
Starting with your base selection here you can change this using the sliders on
the bottom of the panel to give your Sim the look you want.
After you have worked on the face, you now have the option to change the Brow.
This is done the same as the face by selecting a base option and then using the
sliders to give your Sim that extra touch up.
You can now change the color of your eyes, which can be changed though out the
game. You still have the sliders at the bottom to work on the eyes a little
more.
The same can now be done for the nose, month and chin. Have a good play with the
sliders as these can add a lot to the final look of your Sim.
You should now your Sim looking just the way you want, you can set up your make-
up options. This section allows your Sims blush, Eyeliner, Eye Shadow, and
Lipstick. You can skip right this section, as this can be set and changed at any
stage in the game.
The next section is for your Sims other looks, Costume Makeup, Glasses, Eyebrow
style, stubble and Beard or Moustache. Again this section can be skipped.
The last section in your Sims creation is setting what clothes you want you Sims
to wear. You have the option to set your Sims clothing for Everyday clothes,
Formal, Undies, PJs, Swimwear and Athletics. This are the clothes that your Sim
will start with. Check 6.1 for more information about clothes.
That almost completes the creation of your Sim, as there is still one last
section to go. And that is setting the aspiration and personality of your Sim.
At this section you have the option of the Five Aspirations, Family, Romance,
Fortune, Knowledge and Popularity. For more information about aspirations see
section 1.4.
After you have selected your Sims aspiration, you can set there personality. A
Sims personality is made up of five parts, Neatness, Shyness, Laziness, Playful-
ness and now nice your Sim is. For more information about your Sims personality
see section 1.3.
What options you select here will have an impact on your Sims Zodiac sign. You
can also select a Zodiac sign and use the default personality for each sign. You
can see the table under section 1.3.1 for the default personalities for each
Zodiac sign.
Once this is done, your Sim has been created. You can now continue with the game
or make up some more Sims for the family.
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