Plumbbob
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The plumbbob is the object Maxis selected to place over sims' heads to indicate that that sim is selected. It was originally going to be a house shape, as seen in the The Sims intro.
[edit] In The Sims
In The Sims, the plumbbob is a 12-sided, opaque 3-D figure that fades from green to red depending on the selected sim's mood.
[edit] In The Sims 2
In The Sims 2, the plumbbob is a 30-sided, 124-polygon, transleucent 3-D figure that fades from green to red depending on the selected sim's mood, and turns white if the sim has platinum aspiration. Unlike the The Sims version, though it has another part that consists of a 2D plane with 2 transleucent images of the shine, which also change color accordingly. The UFO version (plumbobUFO_tslocator_gmdc) also has a "door" for cinematic birth sequences. See a video of this in action. The actual plumbbob file can be found at C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\Sims3D\Objects03.package when installed regularly, and can be opened easily with SimPE as plumbob_tslocator_gmdc.
 A plumbbob in The Sims 2 |
 The The Sims 2 UFO plumbbob mesh as seen in MilkShape 3D 1.8.2 |
 The The Sims 2 UFO plumbbob mesh as seen in MilkShape 3D 1.8.2, door moved to show feature |
[edit] In The Sims 3
In The Sims 3, the plumbob seems to have become more simple. As in The Sims, it is again 12-sided, but this time it has a background-distortion effect that makes it seem even more like a crystal or glass object.
