Height Diversity

Version: 0.4.0
Tested with game version: 1.129.39.1030

What it does

• Automatic heights. A Sim gets the height for its age and gender as soon as it appears in the world, so a save created before you installed the mod and the NPCs around your Sims are covered too, and it gets it again every time it changes age: teens get the teen height, and young adults, adults and elders get the male or female height for their gender. An elder keeps the height of its gender.
• Children, toddlers and infants are not affected.
• The same three heights are also available in Create A Sim (CAS) under the Forehead category, so a Sim can also get its height while you edit it. A preset belongs to one age and gender (teen, female, male): the game offers the one that matches the Sim you are editing, so CAS is not a free height choice.
• Back to the original height. A fourth preset in the same Forehead list restores the game's own height while you are in Create A Sim, so you can compare your Sim with and without the mod. It is a compare-only preview: as soon as the Sim enters the world, the mod applies the height for its age and gender again, so the reset never lasts outside CAS.
• Every preset has an icon in CAS, so you can tell them apart at a glance: the three heights share one preview and the "back to default" preset has its own.
• Each height changes the Sim's overall height without deforming the body, and the Sim keeps it through save and reload.

The mod looks at one Sim at a time as it appears instead of running through the whole neighborhood on load, so the cost stays out of the way.

Requirements

• DLC required: None (base game only).
• Script mods allowed in Game Options: Yes.

Installation

1. Copy LyzerVice_HeightDiversity.package and LyzerVice_HeightDiversity.ts4script into your Mods/ folder.
2. Enable "Custom Content and Mods" and "Script Mods" in Game Options (they are two separate options).
3. Restart the game. Heights are applied automatically as your Sims appear in the world and as they change age; in CAS the preset for the Sim's own age and gender is available under the Forehead category.
4. Updating from an older version: delete localthumbcache.package from Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/ before starting the game. It is a thumbnail cache, not a save. The game keeps CAS icons there, so without this step the new preset icons can stay hidden.

Compatibility

• Conflicts: other mods that change how tall Sims are (other height mods) — do not combine.
• Patch sensitivity: the heights rely on game internals that can change with a patch.

Known issues

• A werewolf in beast form has no human body to carry the height, so the mod leaves that form as it is; the Sim gets the height back in human form.
• Changing the previewed age inside CAS does not change the height there. The Sim gets the correct height as soon as it is in the world.
• The "back to default" preset only lasts inside Create A Sim. As soon as the Sim is in the world, the automatic height for its age and gender applies again: the reset is a preview, not a permanent choice.
• If the presets show no icon in CAS, delete localthumbcache.package from Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/ and start the game again.
• All Sims share one set of animations, so Sims of very different heights can look slightly off together in some interactions; adapted animations are planned.

Uninstallation

• Delete LyzerVice_HeightDiversity.package and LyzerVice_HeightDiversity.ts4script from your Mods/ folder. The game starts without errors and the Sims return to their default height; the presets disappear from CAS.

License

Free to use in your game, your saves, your videos and your streams — credit Lyzer Vice and link back to the original download. Please do not reupload the files or place them behind a paywall.

Full terms: Lyzer Vice Sims 4 Mod License v1.0. The release zip ships the same full text.

This mod is not affiliated with, endorsed by or supported by Electronic Arts or Maxis.