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The best part ofThe Sims 2is spending all that time in Create A Sim (also known as CAS) to make the perfect playthings. The potential is limitless as you can mold them into whomever you’d like, whether a friend from work or a complete stranger. You can even recreate your favorite fictional character and live out your lives together!
We’ll break down everything you’re able to do in The Sims 2 Create A Sim menu, as well as how to reenter this mode later to alter what your sims look like. Here’s everything you need to know to start designing your sims!
How To Create A Family
When you enter a neighborhood,select the icon with several peopleon it. From there, select the plus icon next to the list of families in the bank. You’ll enter the Create A Sim menu, where you can create one family at a time.
It’s important to note thateveryone in the household will have the same last name. This is different in the University expansion, whereeveryone shares a household name, but not a surname. The first thing you can do isselect the icon on the far leftof the screen, the one witha profile and a plus sign.
Here you cancreate a sim, a dog, or a cat!
Step 1: Name, Age, Gender, Skin Tone, Fitness
The first steps to creating a sim arepicking a name and an age group. You can’t have a household without an adult, so it’s important toput at least one adult or elderin the family. You canchange the genderof your sims directly underneath the name text box.
Unlike the Sims 4, there areonly two gender optionsand not a lot of customization between them, unfortunately.
Additionally, you canselect their skin tone and fitness. There are only two body types: fit and fat. While there areonly four skin tonesto choose from, you canadd custom contentto create more oruse cheats to access locked ones, such as thealien skin, zombie skin, and mannequin skin.
In the neighborhood menu, use Ctrl+Shift+C and type ‘boolprop testingcheatsenabled true’ into the box, then press enter.
When you enter Create A Sim,use Shift+N to unlock moreoptions.
For a faster creation, you canrandomize or select a premade simat the top of the menu. You can alsoadd a bio by selecting the note optionat the bottom!
Step 2: Heads
Select thebubble with the number twoin it to browse throughsix pre-made head options. These vary in features andchange depending on the gender and skin toneyou select, so feel free to select the head you like, then go back and change the skin tone for more customization options.
Step 3: Hair And Face
In the next bubble, you cancustomize the head and hairof your sim.One hair applies to all outfits, unless you select the option on the left-hand side toset hair per outfit.Otherwise, you can scroll through all the Maxis hairstyles, all of which come infour colors: black, brown, blonde, and red. Beside these four colors is the custom content option for anything you’ve added to your game.
Underneath the hair option areseveral highlighted portions of a sim’s face. These show the aspects of the face thatyou can edit. you may alsochange your sim’s eye color here, though there are only five options:brown, light blue, dark blue, grey, and green.
Under each section of the sim’s face arepremade options and sliders. Play around with them to create a unique sim all your own!
If you max out all the sliders, it may render your sim unplayable. This is a rare bug, but it can happen.
Step 4: Makeup, Facial Hair & Glasses
With the makeup section, you canadd blush, eyeliner, eyeshadow, and lipstick.You can alsoequip jewelry by selecting the gem iconjust above the makeup brush.Full face makeupcan be found below the brush, under theclown makeup icon.
Glasses are also availablefor your sims, as well asseveral eyebrow options. If you have a male sim, you canchoose between several facial hair stylesas well to don the perfect mustache and beard.
Step 5: Clothing
Clothing is broken up into seven categories, meaning you can designa total of seven outfitsfor your sims to alternate between. The categories are as follows:
Step 6: Personality & Aspiration
Finally, you may design a personality for your sim. There are two main features here: aspirations and attraction. There are six aspirations to choose from:
Additionally, you’ll get to select their star sign for them, which affects their traits. At the start, you have 25 points to assign to the traits. Below are the traits and what they impact in-game:
Sloppy
Neat
Sloppy sims are content to live in their own filth while neat sims often clean the house and take enjoyment from it.
Shy
Outgoing
Shy sims take longer to open up to others while outgoing sims can be too loud or brash in conversations.
Lazy
Active
Lazy sims live in a relaxed state and don’t need much sleep while active sims are always on the go and need more food and rest to sustain them.
Serious
Playful
Serious sims prefer to use logic and have meaningful conversations while playful sims like to be silly and entertain.
Grouchy
Nice
Grouchy sims are sore losers and like to tease others while nice sims are kind, compassionate, and positive.
After you’ve designed a personality for your sim, it’s time toassign their turn-ons and offs. These are thetraits your sim will be more attracted towhen searching for a romantic partner. you may choosetwo turn-ons and one turn-offfrom the following list:
Only sims who areteens or olderwill have turn-ons and turn-offs.
There canonly be eight sims in a household, so choose who gets to live where wisely!
How To Make A Baby In Create A Sim
In Create A Sim, you candesign a child based on the two adultsin the family.One must be male and the other must be female, otherwise the baby option will be greyed out.Select the pacifier to randomly generate a childfrom the parent sims. You canspecify the gender and ageas well!
You can evenmake the ‘child’ an adult or elder, but then you won’t be able to assign the child relationship to them and their parents.
After you’re happy with the randomly generated child,select the check mark to begin editingthem as you would normally.
How To Assign Relationships In Create A Sim
Before saving your family and leaving Create A Sim, you’llwant to assign relationshipsbetween each sim.Select the family tree iconto view each sim’s portrait.Click and dragthem to each other to bring up a list of their possible connections,including roommates, siblings, spouses, etc.
All children must be assigned to an adult!
Youwon’t be able to change these familial relationships later, so it’s important to start off on the right foot. You alsowon’t be able to edit the family after they are saveduntil you put them in a household, sodouble-check before returning to the neighborhood!
How To Make Pets In Create A Sim
In the same way you can create a sim, you canalso create dogs and cats. The options are much more limited here, with only the ability tocreate an adult or elder. However, there are dozens of breeds to choose from!
You can evencreate the coat patternfor the pet if you want to try something new!
Once you’ve selected the look of your furry friend, you cangive them a unique personality and star sign. Their traits aredifferent than the ones for sims, but have the same idea. Pets can be agenius or a doofus, hyper or lazy, independent or friendly,aggressive or cowardly, or a pigpen or finicky.
