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Post by technoangel on May 17, 2018 15:06:44 GMT -5
![]() So I started my first modding, starting out easy with a simple hair recoloring. I wanted strawberry blonde-ish haircolor but i couldnt find anyone who made the color i needed throughout all the expansion etc. so had to make them myself. i chose a small handful of hairs i wanted recolored, one was a maxis/EA hair from pets expansion, all the others were CC made by other creators. (I realise most dont want their Things recolored without permission, but this was entirely for private use, so figured its okay?) i recolored the Maxis one, looks good in Sims 4 Studio, looks good in CAS as well as mid gameplay. HOWEVER, those CC ones, with the base game textures (Clay like textures) gain a sort of Shell, or skin ontop of the hair In-game. They look fine in S4S and CAS, but ingame… when i zoom in, i can see how the texture is supposed to be underneath the weird 'skin'. When i recolored i used gimp 2. I made a layer on the .dds file, colored the layer giving it the haircolor i need, merged the layers into one, saved and did my thing. i followed a youtube video's steps carefully. but the color of the layer, its like it is the layer from gimp laying on top of the CC hair in-game... the hair and texture is perfectly fine underneath, becoming visible when zooming in.. its simply covered by the same color as i used on the layer. I would post Pictures, but ive never written online threads asking for help before, and can apparently not upload the Pictures directly, only via links, so dont know how it Works. I hope someone can help soon…. I tried a couple of Things hoping it would Work, but...  PS. I searched online for a long time looking for an answer, and all i find is the typical "laptop settings" issues, and i just want to point out, that is not the issue i have. the hair bug looks very different from the "laptop setting" issue. annablu, thanks for the image tip, here you go: imgur.com/ezcTfx4 - the "skin" imgur.com/3GTZyxs - zoomed in on sim / skin fades imgur.com/00rsfgP - maxis hair working fine |
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Post by Memphis Creations on May 17, 2018 18:00:25 GMT -5
cc technoangelCheck out annabluu her tutorials, she has tutorials on both maxis match hair and realistic hair. Which btw as far as i can tell your issue lays with, as they are both created in a different way. |
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Post by inabadromance on May 17, 2018 20:37:07 GMT -5
hi! alpha hairs just like any other CAS item needs to have an alpha channel (or transparent parts in case you're saving as png). since you're working with dds already, be sure to maintain the alpha channel and save as dds dxt5 with alpha.
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Post by annabluu on May 17, 2018 21:50:34 GMT -5
it'd be helpful if you would share a picture of the problem. you can do this by uploading it to sites like imgur.com and pasting the link here. also it would be helpful if you could share the package and blend file.
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Post by technoangel on May 18, 2018 0:30:47 GMT -5
I went to annabluu's page looking for the tutorials referred to by EsEmNL, but i could only find how to make hairs from scratch in blender. Im still getting used to the page here, so forgive me if it is right under my nose and i fail to see it XD
also, inabadromance, when making these i was pretty sure everything was still transparent when in gimp. I could still see the light and dark grey Square transparency indication behind the image, and like i said, followed instructions on a maxis video and a CC hair recolor tutorial. But obviously i missed something, otherwise i wouldnt be having this problem, lol.
how do i post .package file and blender file? (blender as in the .dds i use in gimp?? or the original mesh by the respective creator??)
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Post by Memphis Creations on May 18, 2018 6:16:50 GMT -5
I went to annabluu's page looking for the tutorials referred to by EsEmNL, but i could only find how to make hairs from scratch in blender. Im still getting used to the page here, so forgive me if it is right under my nose and i fail to see it XD also, inabadromance, when making these i was pretty sure everything was still transparent when in gimp. I could still see the light and dark grey Square transparency indication behind the image, and like i said, followed instructions on a maxis video and a CC hair recolor tutorial. But obviously i missed something, otherwise i wouldnt be having this problem, lol. how do i post .package file and blender file? (blender as in the .dds i use in gimp?? or the original mesh by the respective creator??) What annabluu means is the .blend file. If you have not extracted that before, open your package in sims 4 studio, then go to the tab "mesh", make sure LOD0 is selected, then hit the Export button, it will export the mesh out of Sims4Studio, and will create a .blend file, just save it with a name and in a location you can easily find (like Desktop), and then make it available for download and place the link here, so people with the right knowledge can help you sort your problems  And why is suggested to look at her tutorials, is maybe you could find a step that wasn't explained in the other tutorial, which might have been the step you missed or where it may have gone wrong. The tutorials here are very well explained, and even tho you are doing a recolor, and anna's tutorials are for making it from scratch, there are steps in it that will always help you, as making your own diffuse files for said object, which is basically the foundation of recoloring Hope you can solve your issue |
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Post by technoangel on May 18, 2018 15:32:08 GMT -5
I finally found out what went wrong! I have the newest version of gimp, and when i click "export as:" that Little window comes up. I knew "Generate MipMaps" was supposed to be on, but the program marked it as on and off with similar gray colors upon clicking. So MipMaps ON was light gray and MipMaps OFF was white-ish. I thought it was the oppisite, so everytime i exported, it was without Generated MipMaps. Those that worked was random clicking on settings (since i didnt know what i was doing at the time) so had it on.
Thank you everyone so much for taking the time to help me out, you taught me many Things i'll be sure to remember! May you all have a great day, and happy modding! :D
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