Unobscured

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Screenshot Quality Guideline: Unobscured

Appears in: General Guidelines, and Lots & Housing

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Possible Assessments

Category	Title	Description
General Guidelines	Obscured	The view of your creation(s) is blocked in some way, either by objects, other sims, scenery, or by overly large CAS/Bodyshop items (like long hair, bulky clothes, or large accessories).
General Guidelines	Obscured - there's a lot happening	The content that's being shared has a lot of other objects next to it, making it quite hard to figure out what exactly is being uploaded. While this is fine for a thumbnail, the required images need to be just of your upload.
General Guidelines	Unobscured	There is nothing in the way of your creation(s) to prevent them from being seen. Perfect!
Lots & Housing	Obscured snow	In some or all of the required pictures there is heavy snow-cover obscuring the lot.

General Guidelines

In order to evaluate your creations, we need to be able to see them! Screenshots with obstructions make it difficult or impossible for us to get a good look, and more importantly, make it difficult for potential downloaders to see all of your hard work.

Examples of obstructions

Other sims, objects, build content, etc that is not part of the upload in question.
Overly large CAS/Bodyshop items that obscure the item you are uploading. For example, if you were uploading an eye makeup set, showing only pictures with sims wearing glasses would be unhelpful.
Overly large CAS/Bodyshop items that hide the shape of a pose. Poses and animations should be shown on sims wearing simple, form-fitting clothing, and without hair that covers their neck, back, shoulders, or chest.

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Examples

Correct

Why is this correct?

We can clearly see the front of the house without anything getting in the way!

Everything is visible, including the front door, and the landscaping adds to the image, instead of covering it up :)

Incorrect

Why is this incorrect?

While the cherry tree is lovely, it is completely covering the front of the house and makes it impossible for us to assess the quality of the build.

If the builder really wanted the tree in the front yard, we would accept an image without the tree obscuring the front view with a mention in the description regarding the location of the tree, and this screenshot would be considered an acceptable 'extra.'

Good example

Everything we need to see on this Sim is very visible. The clothing is form-fitting, and the hair is up away from the neck so that nothing is obscured. This really helps to show off the pose! :)

Bad example

Unfortunately, this image will not work because the skirt is covering the legs in such a way that we can't see what they're doing in the pose.

It's all in the details!

When taking screenshots for BodyShop or CAS items, it's important that we can see your entire creation.

This image is a good example because we can see the entire shirt, front and back! There's no hair covering the creation, and no objects are in the way. :)

We can't see all the details

Because this Sim has long hair, we wouldn't know if the top half of the shirt meets the requirements for approval.

Also, downloaders can't see all of what they'd be getting, and that's the main reason for uploading, to share with others.

Look! A rug!

* Why is this correct?*

We can see this rug in all it's glory! And, details! :) Nothing is on top of it to distract us from the content you're actually uploading ;)

Ah! So many objects!!

* Why is this incorrect? *

When sharing a rug, your first thought might be "ohh! I can show it being in use! :D", which is fine as a thumbnail of course, but when showing the object itself, it needs to be shown just by itself (or, to a point where the CC piece itself is covering the screen by 75% ;))

Another thing to keep in mind is that this can feel very overwhelming to downloaders, to a degree that they don't actually know what you're sharing.

Ohh! Pretty couch!

* Why is this correct? *

It's just the couch and us! :) We can see it in it's lovely state, without anything distracting us! And therefore also see the hard work you've put into making it!

what were they uploading again?

* Why is this incorrect?*

There's a lot going on here, thus making it harder to see what this couch really looks like in good detail :( Imagine, you're going couch shopping, all you'd do is of course look at the couch you're curious about by close up. Else it's super overwhelming and almost confusing to know what you're uploading. Remember, your images should always show what you're uploading in such a sense where if you didn't read the title or description, that you still know what it is :)

Tutorials - The Sims 4

Lots & Housing

Changing the in-game season for pics

Press Ctrl+shift+C to bring up the cheats console.
In the cheats console type either:
"seasons.set_season X", changing X to a number depending on which season you want. 0 for summer, 1 for fall, 2 for winter, or 3 for spring. or
"seasons.advance_season", which advances the in-game season by one. So it changes summer to fall, fall to winter, winter to spring, or spring to summer.

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