Useful CAS psychology.

[gottogog]

I probably spend 40% of my time in TS3 actually playing with my sims. The rest of the time, I create things. I'm not at all good with houses, so if I'm playing the sims, you can typically find me in CAS. When I first started playing around with CAS, I got quickly frustrated, I wanted to make a vampire character, but none of the default faces were threatening. As soon as I took a look at the advanced face tools, I was extremely intimidated; not because of the sheer amount of tools, but because I had no idea which tool did what. I had no idea what raising the nose of my sim would do for his overall appearance.

Psychology has always interested me, and I like to apply it to my everyday life. I did some research on the internet and found some very helpful links on facial body language and color psychology. 


If you like to make a wide variety of sims, I think these links will be quite helpful, especially if you want to make evil or threatening sims. The default faces are cheery and kid friendly, not at all befitting a serial killer.

Enough talk, here are the links.

http://changingminds.org/techniques/body/parts_body_language/face_body_language.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html

[bshag]

Interesting...thanks for the links got!

[igzigpuff]

Thanks for the links, useful information whether you are creating a Sim or dealing with RL.   I suppose you could make a Sim who's looks clearly convey they are evil, but sometimes evil/bad lurks under the guise of innocence, which can be scarier.   Like that old movie "The Bad Seed" she was all sweeeet and innocent, but sooooo evil!