Play Style: Do You Play Close Up or At a Distance? Do You Pause Often?

[Esther1981]

Sometimes if I move my mouse closer to the scene, then zoom, I get better results. Have you tried that?

No, I didn't try that! Thanks! Llamamama no she's naturally green lol. 

[NeoFelis]

No, I didn't try that! Thanks! Llamamama no she's naturally green lol. 

I hope it helps. I think I've read somewhere that the camera in Sims 3 is harder to use than the one in Sims 2. I might have even read it here on the forum somewhere, but I don't recall.

[samoht04]

I just found out that when you press tab you can zoom in and out, you can get really up close to a sims face! 

[wildredchild]

Thank you for the tip!

[NeoFelis]

I just found out that when you press tab you can zoom in and out, you can get really up close to a sims face!  

If I'd known you didn't know that, I would've told you. Convoluted sentence there, huh?    I hit tab the first time by accident and thought, "Oh no! How do I get the picture to stop swinging around so crazily and get my Sims bar (or whatever it's called) back?" I don't know how I figured it out, but I did, and saw the potential for better snapshots right away. I rarely hit the C key without using it to position things as well as I can.

Like this:



"I have the strangest feeling that I'm being watched."

 

Just using this so I can try the insert image thing.  

Note: Obviously I'm doing something wrong. I thought I selected the right image size. Hmm....

Note #2: I just noticed it looks like his (Baxter Vincent from the da Vinci Challenge) leg was severed just below the knee.

Note #3: The point that I forgot to mention is that I chose the amount of space around the Sim intentionally, to add to the feeling that he's alone, yet feels like he's being watched.

No more notes after this!

[Saltypaws]

The in house imaging does not give the correct size, that is why most of us use photobucket.  It is a few more steps, but once you get the hang of it, it is quite easy.  I have used the tab key for ages, I just assumed people knew about, you can really get up close and personal with that key, lol.

[samoht04]

I knew about the tab key but not that you can zoom in and out, now I can take photo's easier, the only bad thing is that fish-bowl effect.

[trubble]

If you don't want the wide-angle lens effect you can just move the TAB camera in and out with the W and S keys or your forward and back arrows. Q and E change the height of the camera. A and D move you left and right (or your arrow keys). So you can get in very close to a sim's face without zooming.

[samoht04]

Yeah but that is also more difficult.

[NeoFelis]

The in house imaging does not give the correct size, that is why most of us use photobucket.  It is a few more steps, but once you get the hang of it, it is quite easy.  I have used the tab key for ages, I just assumed people knew about, you can really get up close and personal with that key, lol.

I was using Photobucket under NeoFelis2 (I had an account I couldn't access anymore, so when I couldn't remember the password, I had to give up my original; hate when I do that) and it's a couple more steps than the 'Add image to post' so I was really hoping I could get it to work. I still have the new account. I just need to buckle down, log in, and upload my pics I've taken to date into my Sims album, I suppose. If I do it in one session and then every five pics or so after, it shouldn't be too difficult. I got some nice ones of the birds in China, which look different than the ones in SV. Okay, I'm going off-topic here, so I'll stop. 

Oh, and I thought people knew about the tab key, too. I never looked at the section of the guide for first time players, so I don't know if it's there. I'm not even sure that's the place for it.