Are slider mod necessary for downloaded sims?

[ihatepizza210]

Most sims I have seen that I'd like to have in my game have a note that says something like "Such and such slider mod is necessary to make this sim look right" and others will say that the slider mod is only necessary if I plan on changing the sim in CAS or the features will snap back to ugly. So my question is, if I don't plan on changing anything about the sim's features after I download it, are the sliders really necessary? I'm not good at making sims, so when I download one that I like, I don't plan on making changes to it cuz I suck at it. So are the sliders only necessary if I want to change it? Or do I have to have them just to make the sim look the same from the start?

[tomomi1922]

I highly believe that those sliders are needed. In fact, you can download sims without sliders and see if they do come out right. It won't go burst or anything, worst case is sims don't just like they were advertised.

TS3 doesn't save sims like an existing map of polygons. It saves by remembering the exact values of all sliders written down into a list (and saved to a file called .sim). So each time you call up those saved sims, TS3 basically recreates the sim right in front of you in split seconds. So what if these downloaded sims have a setting of "Pretty nose=1.55" for example, and when you load this sim, TS3 can't find what slider "Pretty nose" is, so it will ignore it. Thus, your sims will end up looking like something else, sometimes deformed and hideous.

Correct me if I am wrong, but this is how I understand saved sims work.

[Illu]

From my experience, Tomomi is right if custom sliders are used. That said, it's something you can fix yourself easy enough by tweaking. If it's just a slider limit hack though, they seem to come out alright.