If you’re like me and are constantly working on different projects/learning new things/playing other games, you may have forgotten the keyboard commands for Body Shop when you come back to it. This is not a tutorial as such, just a guide on all keyboard commands that people can refer to (including me!).

F3

Free Camera

By holding down the left mouse button and dragging the mouse you can move the camera around the sim

By holding down the right mouse button and dragging the mouse you can zoom in and out

By holding down both mouse buttons and dragging the mouse you can pan around the viewport

Press F3 to get back to “normal” view

F5

Change viewport background, default is black

You can create your own background by making and saving a single colour or patterned background. Name it userBkg.bmp and save it to: \My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\. Any time you would like the default background back, remove your saved .bmp

Press F5 again to return to the original viewport

F6

Press this to put your sims in a different rigid pose where the arms are moved upwards at the sides. This is useful when creating skins to see the seams at the sides properly

Pressing any thumbnail or changing age/gender/bodytype will take your sims back out of the pose. Unfortunately, pressing F6 doesn’t work

F7

Zoom out to far view if you are in close-up mode

F8

Zoom in on the face of the sim, use F7 to zoom back

F9

Removes the interface and you see the sim in a full viewport. You can use the left mouse button (drag at the same time) to turn the sim around

Press F9 to get the interface back

Alt + Enter

Press these to go into full-screen mode (I love this!) and press the same to get back to the normal view mode.