![]() ![]() The system automatically updated screenshots about every 10 seconds, causing a sequence of pictures narrating a live user-driven story (often with the viewers' involvement), as they would ask the developers what could (and could not) be done in this mysterious in-progress game called The Sims. Notably, it was used for weekly streamed gameplays, among developers and fans at the SimCity website, prior to the game's release. It explains, in part, why the initial releases of the game made the inactive characters to slow down as the mouse pointer selected them. Pressing F7 as the cursor is positioned over a Sim, playable or not, causes some zoom-in rectangles to focus them, and a 320x240 JPG file named SimsWebcam to be created or overwritten, at the game's main directory. SimWebCam picture as it looks in the finalĪn undocumented snapshotting tool, commonly referred as SimsWebCam or stalker camera, exists in the base game, and was entirely removed for the future patched versions (that, including Expansion Packs).
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