Coat -> Fur Shape -> Advanced Mode then play around with the sliders to get the shape, length, and texture that you want. Make sure your graphics settings are on high or you probably won't see much of a difference.

Oh those? Those are the sliders which made me miss TS2 textures :S

Although I did just go and have a quick play around again to, make sure I was fully seeing everything and to be sure my graphics were nice and high, and while I still don't think they're very good, I can see where EA were coming from and the potential these sliders have to be great...but, the textures are only available when a fur shape is chosen, you can't just have a dog who is curly all over evenly, and the waves aren't very wavy, they more closely resemble 80's crimping. (Which can work for certain dogs XD) (And the fur density one is a bit creepy, it looks like spikes...)

But I suppose that is more to do with the fur shape options than the sliders, as it stands I still miss the crispness of the textures from TS2, and that you didn't need a fur shape to make them work, but I'm hoping that when the full game is released either more options will be available (It seems like some more obvious sliders options in body shape were missing - like feet size and tail width etc.) or it will be possible to create custom fur shapes.

Thank you though, I would have spent ages obsessing about where the texture options were

Though, with all the little thins like this which I think could be done better, but are still good, there's only one thing which I actually have real a problem with - no third height.

same price i was able to get it for at our local gamestop here in the US...barring location, "farmerphil" might want to look into why it was so exspensive

overhere in Holland its Okt 20.
so just 10 more days!!
i'm gonna have so much fun reading you guys opinions!

Thus begins the LONGEST week of my life.

And the longest MONTH (Skyrim in 30 days!)

I just realized - we can now make effective ZOOS. *rubs hands together and plots*

Or... or... a 4-H display at a County Fair! Wait, that might get complicated. Eh. Didn't someone make a Ferris Wheel?

In Poland it's October 21...

Hopefully you can score an American copy on the 18th....

I just saw a thing for the consoles about 'Karma powers' and how one of the options was transmogrify - turning a cat, dog or sim into another species.

Is there any indication if somthing like this will be in the PC version, either as a LTR or potion? It would be wonderful, and it seems a little strange that they'd leave something like this out of the PC version.

I just think it'd be fun.

Well Karma powers are not in the PC version... so probably not. I think the list of LTRs was released a while back.

Next part of Sims 3: Pets screenshots collection from SimsPlanet2 Forum!

OMG, a picture of a dog scratching furniture. I almost managed to forget about that.

Console versions are really different games than the PC versions... a lot less open-ended, more directed gameplay. They also don't have EPs: Pets is a standalone game on consoles. AND: they aren't getting horses So you can't really directly compare em.

Is there confirmation on how many puppies/kittens are born when a pet is pregnant?

The XML says a maximum of 4 in a litter, so it can be 1,2,3,or 4. Pregnancy duration is 48 hours. There is also an extra thingy typed in: <!--Chance you get 2 [or 3 or 4] offspring that share the same egg--> which I presume to mean that some of the offspring may be identical twins.

Is that XML in the Demo?

I think now we get Sims 3 Pets, even before playing it. Too much info spoiled. In one side, I don't like it. In the other side, I am too curious...

There is a GameplayData.package file that came with the demo, yes.

I WANT PETS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

Just being polite =D

I wonder if pets will look pregnant or not? It's probably not; they didn't in TS2, after all.

I wonder, If Sim will be ablle to ride a pregnatnt mare :P

And will a pregnant sim be able to ride at all? They couldn't clean kitty litter boxes in TS2, wonder if that restriction's in as well (tough on any single moms out there!)

Edit: Haven't seen a screenshot of this before -- the horse race interface at the Equestrian Center (in Dutch, from SimsNieuws: http://translate.google.com/transla...de-door-xelles/)

The game comes out in two days! I cant wait to see what neato CC sliders can be made for Pets. I think the first animal I'm going to make is Weregurumon

That a nice touch of realism about the pregnant sims and litter boxes, I didn't remember that.
I know my sister loved being told that by her doctor, thinking she could get her partner to clean it out, instead they just got the cats to go outside.

I really like that Race interface. It looks good.