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I have just noticed probably the most stupidest thing in my view revolving around pregnant female sims besides the all the bugs in this game. I'm not sure if this goes for the male pregnancy mod as well. But WHY on earth do pregnant female sims have no bottom part to their stomachs? I kinda find this a little bit odd not only because it looks funny but the fact that it's unrealistic! was EA just too darn lazy to fix it? This will probably no-doubt be fixed when someone can figure out how to create a whole new pregnancy mesh for the Sims3. I'm hoping that this will be fixed soon. I might include a screen shot later, not sure if I will though because most of you might have seen it already..  :-\

Screenshot is here: http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/2673/screenshot5ydv.jpg

Maybe I'm missing something but I could swear my preggo sims have had normal tummies (nothing missing).  I'd love to see a screenshot of this so I can know what to look for in my game.

Try having your sim plan a different outfit. Some of the clothing doesn't have a pregnancy morph. Any of the dresses that double as nightgowns will work, as will most tracksuit type outfits.

I've tried that too, but it's grayed out.. and you would have thought EA would have used a pregnancy morph for all the separate tops to go along with the bottoms but I guess they didn't.

Wait... this is news? I've never seen pants with a pregmorph. You'll notice that even in the game's opening movie, the pregnant Sim does not have a bottom to her belly.

I keep my pregnant Sims in dresses.

Me too. I remember the first time I played and surely enough there was no bottom pregmorph happening. I switched to a dress and keep it that way for my sanity.

One of my sims wore a sweatshirt and jeans during her pregnancy, but because the sweatshirt covered her entire belly, it didn't look strange at all. Then again, I play zoomed out, so it's possible that I just didn't notice any weirdness.

You found that to be unsettling? Get the blur remover and put your pregnant Sim in the shower - then come back and tell me how she takes the baby off when she washes.

What do you do to control their wardrobe?  I plan plenty of maternity freindly outfits beforehand hoping the sim will use them instead -  but each and every time, it lands me with this randomy generated crap.  It's great if it's the dress, but I get the jogging suit more often than not. 

Usually the formal outfit is just the regular sundress so I just have her change to formal.

That really annoyed me, too. I mean, sure, it's blurred by default, but at least in TS2 they had a naked pregnant morph. It strikes me as even lazier this time because they ought to know the blurs would be removed first thing the community did, but I really shouldn't be surprised, should I...

Mine definitely does the same thing if my sim is wearing shirt and pants (jeans or jogging pants) which is slightly annoying since the jeans and jogging pants are considered maternity wear.

I was wishing that same thing when pregnant. How fortuitous that EA thought of saving their poor Sim's sanity.  ;)

My sims either keep a part (or all) of their pre-pregnancy outfit if it's one of the pieces of clothing with pregnancy morphs, or they switch into an outfit that's sort of similar to what they were wearing. The ones that were wearing pants switch to a pair of pants, the ones wearing a dress to another dress.

I don't have access to my game screenshots at the moment, but I can post some pictures later on. Among the pieces of clothing that do have pregancy morphs are the T-shirt-over-a-long-sleeved shirt top, the skinny jeans, the jogging pants (and the matching top), and the spaghetti strap dress, at least. If you dress your sims in those before they switch to their pregnancy clothing, they should keep that same outfit during the pregnancy, also.

But the skinny jeans and the jogging pants will not have the pregnancy morph, just the shirt.

Now that I think about it, my sim might not have been wearing the dress I picked out for her when she started showing... I haven't played TS3 in a few weeks... lack of cc and mods have regressed me back to the safety of TS2 for the the time being.    Anyways, I'll try again next time I play.  Maybe someone will make pregnancy morphs for more outfits in the meantime... a nude morph would be great.  Lazy tards at Eaxis... and here I thought my opinion of them couldn't possibly drop any further.  Do they want us to hate them?

True, I said it wrong. I was trying to explain which clothing can be worn during pregnancy, but not all of it has the correct morphing if you look closely.

I put them in a maternity outfit of my choosing before they realize they're pregnant. If I do that, they'll stay in it.

They also aren't pregnant when they bathe. ;) check it out. xD

Some examples of the pregnancy outfit changes from my game:

The shirt obviously stayed the same, the pants changed to the skinny jeans:

(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8986/pregnancyoutfit02.jpg) (http://img441.imageshack.us/i/pregnancyoutfit02.jpg/)

The shirt again stayed the same, the jeans changed to slightly different ones (the skinny jeans like above):

(http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6703/pregnancyoutfit01.jpg) (http://img18.imageshack.us/i/pregnancyoutfit01.jpg/)

The dress changed to a different one, the socks, unfortunately, stayed:

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4120/pregnancyoutfit03.jpg) (http://img12.imageshack.us/i/pregnancyoutfit03.jpg/)

One of my less successful outfit changes (eww):

(http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2454/pregnancyoutfit04.jpg) (http://img441.imageshack.us/i/pregnancyoutfit04.jpg/)

nekonoai - a whole one page to scan and you can't notice previously mentioned information? *sheesh*

Oops. Did I miss that? LOL My bad. It's an off day. I'm not feelin the best and I'm stuck at work because SOMEBODY asked the boss if they could go home sick. That's the last time I even bother telling her I'm sick. She always ends up going home that day, leaving me here by myself feeling half dead.

/rant

Yeah, that yellow dress. 

The sim I play the most always wears dresses, so it was her I designed a maternity dress for using the yellow dress mesh.  It looked nice, and I was content.  :)

If memory serves me correctly, she still changed back to the yellow dress, which I loathe, btw....and even more so now that I've noticed this: D:

What is it we're meant to be looking at?  ???

Oh. I fail at basic observation.

Yeah, I hadn't noticed that until now when I started editing the pictures. Yikes.

I keep forgetting that you can't change prego outfits and typing "dresser" only to get a hanging loading screen and have to terminate the program without my data being saved  >:(

Thinking of making a ton of orphans for adoption instead just to avoid this.

Good lord, so that's why my pregnant sims always looked weird. Some things are just beyond lazy. What, is getting the bottom half of your fetus going to be a feature of the next expansion pack?

The jogging pants look fine to me.

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/KarateKari/preggo.jpg)

Oh, malformed preggo belly and poorly executed clothing meshes happen to everyone's sims? I thought maybe it was a crazy graphics malfunction caused by my lunatic decision to put my video card in danger of meltdown by running the game with high settings on a laptop. I should have know better and assumed EA being lazy.

Half belly, disappearing belly and gravity defying dresses are great, but I'm partial to the ultra-thick bedsheets that swallow sleeping children. So much of this game looks so bad in closeup views.

You're telling me. Have you seen the floor borders? They are pink and yellow!

Yup. The edges of the walls in cutout view aren't looking so good either, but again, I thought it might be a video card issue on my end. The horror indeed...

I had a pregnant sim laying on her bed reading and looking at her from a view at the foot of the bed I could see right through her to the bedding.  No sim skin at all between her top and pants.

I think she was wearing the zippered sweat top and sweat pants.

 
 
That's because the top is her skin.  It would be cool if they were actually wearing the clothes, but sort of pointless since we're not supposed to see inside the shirts to began with.  Baby's are another example.  If you view them from the right angle, you'll see that they're missing the lower half of their body. :D

You would think that after all of EA's ranting about the custom ability of TS3, that you would be able to choose your preggo sim's clothing. What a lazy bunch of programmers.  ::)

I know, right?  We can't even use create a style to fix the horrible default color combinations. 

So could we please come up with a list of all clothes that can be used as maternity? It would be nice to know what my options are so I can pick appropriate clothes beforehand.

Are these the only choices?

Tops:
Short sleeve Tee over long sleeve shirt.
That fitted sport coat type thing.
Track suit top.

Pants:
Sweat pants
Skinny jeans

Outfit:
Spaghetti strap nightgown