Painting portraits at university

[Morgan]

One of my sims has the option of painting portraits or still life at
university. I decided he should paint a portrait of the girl he'd like
to date. Well, she wouldn't come stand next to the easel the way kids do
when their parents want to do portraits of them. So I ended up chasing
her all over the dorm with the frame until I found her sitting in the
cafeteria doing an assignment. Well, the next time I wanted him to work
on the painting, the only option I had was "scrap this painting." I
assume that's because the subject was sleeping. I hope that she only has
to be awake, and maybe in the dorm, not at class, for him to continue
painting, rather than in the same place he started. The kids never had
to be standing next to the easel for the parents to continue painting
those portraits. Has anybody else every tried this?

Morgan

[Maxon]

Well, if he's painting a still life (the one with the frame), he's not
really painting her but the picture you took so he should be able to
continue. I always do my portraits that way so I can pose the sim who's
painting is being done - usually sitting in a chair though sometimes
lounging on a sofa. The only thing I can suggest is that in the meantime,
someone else has come along, scrapped HIS painting and then started their
own. You get the option 'scrap this painting' on it's own (with no other
options) when a sim goes to paint and there's already someone else's
painting already on there.

Either that or there's been a corruption of the painting function for that
picture and the tag assigning it to your sim has got lost. I think the
first option is more likely.

Best wishes
maxon

"Morgan" <morgans@nospamzoom-dsldotcom> wrote in message
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[Morgan]

Maxon wrote:
> Well, if he's painting a still life (the one with the frame), he's not
> really painting her but the picture you took so he should be able to
> continue. I always do my portraits that way so I can pose the sim who's
> painting is being done - usually sitting in a chair though sometimes
> lounging on a sofa. The only thing I can suggest is that in the meantime,
> someone else has come along, scrapped HIS painting and then started their
> own. You get the option 'scrap this painting' on it's own (with no other
> options) when a sim goes to paint and there's already someone else's
> painting already on there.

I don't have any other sims at that dorm, so it would have to have been
an NPC that scrapped his painting and started his own. But I can see
that it's still the picture he started. He got far enough along that I
can recognize that.

> Either that or there's been a corruption of the painting function for that
> picture and the tag assigning it to your sim has got lost. I think the
> first option is more likely.

So maybe this is what happened. I can't remember whether I'd saved the
game, exited the lot and come back to it or not. I've got a few other
sims from this family at college, so I've been going around the colleges
checking on them.

Thanks,
Morgan

[Lerren]

[deletia]

if you "paint still life", then it doesn't matter whether the sim in the
picture is still there (still at the house, still alive, whatever.)

HOWEVER.

If you "paint portrait of...", then the sim must be there, and free to
go stand in the general direction of the easel.

~SL