Post by orangemittens on Apr 5, 2016 11:24:08 GMT -5
Introduction
This tutorial will show you how to make your own custom tinted pool water.
What you will need
Sims 4 Studio
A color picker that shows RGB data - there is a useful one HERE at W3schools.com that I used for this tutorial.
Instructions
1. Open Studio and select Floors under the Build button.
2. Click the Build button.
3. Type the word pool into the search bar and select the first pool water on the thumbnail list.
4. Click the Next button. Name and save your new poolwater.package in your projects folder.
5. When your item opens on the Model Viewer page click the Warehouse tab.
6. Click the MaterialDefinition line on the left and then click the Edit Items button in the Material section on the right. This will cause the Editing Items box to pop up.
7. Go to w3school.com or a similar site and select your color. Divide each of the numbers for red, green, and blue by 255 to get a decimal value. These numbers are typically listed in RGB order as they are at this site. For the pink color chosen here red has a value of 255, green has a value of 77, and blue has a value of 196. Dividing each of these numbers gives me 1, 0.3019, and 0.7686 for red, green, and blue respectively.
8. Back in Studio enter the numbers you calculated into the red, green, and blue fields in the Editing Items pop up box as shown. Red goes into the [0] line, green goes into the [1] line, and blue goes into the [2] line.
9. Click the Save button.
NOTE: your new color will not show in the model viewer because pool water is tinted using a shader rather than using the diffuse texture. Studio's model viewer updates to show changes to the diffuse texture but not to shader data so your changes in the shader data will not be reflected on the Studio tab.
You can save the .package and test it in the game or you can return to the Studio tab to change the swatch and catalog thumbnails first. In the game your pool water will have the tint you selected.
This tutorial will show you how to make your own custom tinted pool water.
What you will need
Sims 4 Studio
A color picker that shows RGB data - there is a useful one HERE at W3schools.com that I used for this tutorial.
Instructions
1. Open Studio and select Floors under the Build button.
2. Click the Build button.
3. Type the word pool into the search bar and select the first pool water on the thumbnail list.
4. Click the Next button. Name and save your new poolwater.package in your projects folder.
5. When your item opens on the Model Viewer page click the Warehouse tab.
6. Click the MaterialDefinition line on the left and then click the Edit Items button in the Material section on the right. This will cause the Editing Items box to pop up.
7. Go to w3school.com or a similar site and select your color. Divide each of the numbers for red, green, and blue by 255 to get a decimal value. These numbers are typically listed in RGB order as they are at this site. For the pink color chosen here red has a value of 255, green has a value of 77, and blue has a value of 196. Dividing each of these numbers gives me 1, 0.3019, and 0.7686 for red, green, and blue respectively.
8. Back in Studio enter the numbers you calculated into the red, green, and blue fields in the Editing Items pop up box as shown. Red goes into the [0] line, green goes into the [1] line, and blue goes into the [2] line.
9. Click the Save button.
NOTE: your new color will not show in the model viewer because pool water is tinted using a shader rather than using the diffuse texture. Studio's model viewer updates to show changes to the diffuse texture but not to shader data so your changes in the shader data will not be reflected on the Studio tab.
You can save the .package and test it in the game or you can return to the Studio tab to change the swatch and catalog thumbnails first. In the game your pool water will have the tint you selected.
