RANDOM SIM GENERATOR: TS4 EDITION (click here!)

I sometimes have trouble coming up with unique sims to populate my town as townies/NPCs for my main sims to interact with. The ‘Randomize Sim’ button almost always produces very odd and (to me) unusable sims, and let’s face it, I lack the imagination to come up with 20+ townies from scratch.

So I made a generator for that! This generator will produce very simplistic but helpful ideas for a sim upon the click of a button. It includes the basics (such as skin and eye color) and also 2 defining traits (the rest can be up to you) and 2 suggested favourite colours (for use in their clothing/makeup/etc). It also picks a defining feature of their face, so that you can have an idea of where to start on their face sculpting. I’ve found it immensely helpful already.

Here’s two examples of what it can generate:

Sul-sul! My initials are IY. My skin is light/tan, my hair is red and my eyes are hazel. People would say that my most defining feature is my big nose. My favourite colours are white and green. My most defining traits are Gloomy and Clumsy. Will you make me in Create-A-Sim?

Sul-sul! My initials are BG. My skin is medium/dark, my hair is brown and my eyes are blue. People would say that my most defining feature is my chubby cheeks. My favourite colours are teal and black. My most defining traits are Romantic and Bookworm. Will you make me in Create-A-Sim?

Some details/tips:

I have intentionally made alien skin/eyes and unnatural-coloured hair (listed as ‘a nonstandard color’) more rare than natural varieties. You are more likely to roll a realistic sim than an alien sim, this is simply my preference.

I have made unusual initials more rare than common initials. For example, ‘X’ will roll far less than most of the rest of the alphabet (but it’s not impossible!).

Most EP-specific traits have been omitted. And the ones that are there, if you don’t have the EP simply re-roll and use one of the newly-rolled traits. Of course, EP-specific traits can always be chosen by you on your own regardless of what the generator says!

Of course, these are just starting points and ideas for a sim! If you don’t like certain colour combos (red hair, alien skin and purple clothes? yuck) just forget about ‘em and use the rest of the things you enjoy about the generated sim. Or, re-roll!

Oh yeah, and…

Feel free to edit the source code to suit your own needs if you wish! Maybe you want to make a berry-sim specific one, or omit/add more traits, or make aliens more common? Go nuts!