How to make my objects see through (SOLVED)

hi! instead of modifying the current package you need to clone sn object that is closest to your project. in this case clone an object that already have glass. there's a base game plant that are a trio in glass little vases. try that one (sorry can't remember the name).

export the mesh and be sure that both yours and the original have the same amount of meshgroups with their respective cut numbers. all organized accordingly.

I can't really understand what's going on from the picture. would you share the package and blend files please?

I did Unwrap and this what it looks like in game. I don't know why the rectangular glass is still there I deleted it in blender but it showed up in game. I didn't merge the meshes so I don't know why it's still there

package file

Couple of things going on here:

1. The UV map you have now looks like this:




You can see that nearly all the faces of your mesh are mapped with space between them. That won't work right for a texture in Sims4. You're going to need to re-do the UV mapping.

2. You have tons of extra vertices in your mesh which seem to be affecting the unwrapping process in Blender. Select the entire jar mesh in edit mode then click "w" and "Remove Doubles" to get rid of the extra vertices.

3. You seem to have a duplicate, smaller mesh inside your main jar mesh to give the jar "thickness." If you want to keep this, you'll need to separately map the inside of the jar. You can also delete the interior mesh as it's not really needed for the effect of a glass jar in Sims 4. This will have the added bonus of reducing your polys to a more game-appropriate level.


3. Once you have removed the doubles, marked your seams as described in the tutorial linked above, and unwrapped again, your UV map should look like something like this (this is rough - will probably need tweaking on your part to get it where it needs to be):



The faces will be connected except at your seams, and your texture will lie nicely over your mesh.

4. The glass group in this mesh has a cut number of 2. Change the cut number of your jar mesh to 2.

5. That leaves the old EA glass group. It wasn't deleted in Blender as you said in your above post, and the .package wouldn't work if you had deleted it. As inabadromance said, you'll have to match the number of mesh groups and the cut values of the cloned object exactly if you want the mesh to work in game.

You'll need to change the cut number of the old, EA rectangular glass group to 1. This will be your solid texture group if you want something solid inside your jar. If you don't want anything inside the jar, delete all the faces in this mesh group except for one and resize that face as tiny as you can. Then it shouldn't be noticeable in game.

6. Then you're going to have to work on your texture and UV map. How this will work depends on whether or not you plan to add anything inside the jar. If you just want a clear jar, don't worry about changing or resizing the jar map. You can just use a grey texture with grey in the alpha layer and save as a DXDT5 .dds with alpha enabled. It will look like this in game:




Changing the grey value on the alpha will change the translucency. (a darker alpha value = more translucent)

If you want to add something inside the jar, I can give your further tips on making that appear correctly. Good luck with your project, and keep posting if you need more help

I did the UV as instructed in the video and I have the cut numbers and mesh groups the exact same but it only worked when I changed the name in bender of each mesh to s4studio mesh 0, 1, and 2. Here's what it looks like in s4s and in game. if you have more suggestions im open to hear them.

I LOVE IT! Are you wanting it to be perfectly clear and no opaqueness? I love it just the way it is. Funny how we are both having transparency issues...ugh

Great! A shortcut in blender for creating the gumballs is map the first sphere you created and make sure you get a good bake on it for your texture. Then, making sure the entire sphere is selected, use Shift+D to duplicate it. You can then move the sphere into position using the movement handles. You won't need to map the new spheres you duplicate as they will have the same UV map as the one it was duplicated from.

Also, to reduce polys, try to use a sphere with as few faces as possible. The default UV Sphere is 32 segments and 16 rings for a total of 980 polys. If you add many of them, the poly count goes up quickly. You can reduce the number of segments and rings in the "Add UV Sphere" window. Since they're so small in game, it won't be very noticeable.

You could even use an Icosphere instead. The default Icosphere is only 80 polys.