Clipping or Floating

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Quality Guideline: Clipping or Floating

Possible Assessments

Approvable	TS4	TS3	TS2	Title	Description
				1	In one or more poses there appear to be significant issues with the sim(s) clipping or floating.
				5	There are no major issues with clipping or floating in these poses. Nice!

General Guidelines

When making poses, it's important to avoid major issues where parts of the pose are either clipping (going through things in a way that should not be possible) or floating (not making contact where they should). The most common issues of this kind include:

Parts of the sim's body pass through or cut into other body parts. For example, if you made a pose that was supposed to have the sim's hands resting on their hips, but instead the hands disappeared into the sim's pelvis.
Parts of the sim's body that should connect do not actually make contact. In a "hands on hips" pose, this would be the hands appearing to hover next to the sim's hips instead of actually touching them.
The sim's feet (or any other body parts meant to support their weight) either floating above the ground in-game, or sinking through the floor. This, of course, does not apply to poses where the sim is meant to be fully off the ground, like jumping or flying poses.

These issues often look bad when taking pictures from some angles, which may make your poses less useful and attractive to downloaders.

In some cases it's impossible to prevent all clipping. This can be especially true when sims are wearing bulky clothes, have very long or full hair, or have body types other than the game's defaults. However, it's important to try to minimize these issues when possible.

Tip: When making poses in Blender or Milkshape 3D, always make sure to have the feet of your sim standing right onto the grid. This way, you'll always be sure they will be right on the ground in-game.

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Examples

Correct

Our sim is standing with her feet firmly on the ground, but not disappearing through the floor. :)

Sinking

It looks like as if our sim's feet are being eaten by the ground!

Floating

Our sim appears to be levitating, very slightly, above the floor, noticeable thanks to her shadow.

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