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Post by xerendipity on Dec 17, 2016 16:03:16 GMT -5
So, after all my newbie questions, and great guidance, here are some chairs I recolored to go with my 'designer' comforters. As I posted previously, I went a little recolor crazy and have 40 recolors of both the comforters and soon, the chairs - haha. I am looking for a good, really big pillow to match the comforters, but so far haven't found one. The blankets/comforters are Mysticrain's Fluffy Blanket TS2 mesh (converted by Lindseyxsims with some great recolors by Solorano) and they are big and fluffy so it has to be a pillow tall enough to be seen over the blanket and I'm not crazy about the recoloring options on the Fluffy Pillows. In any case, if anyone knows of a good pillow they can point me to, I would be very grateful. Or, I may just have to try my hand at meshing again and come bombard you with questions about that! :D Some of the details such as their designer labels are a little hard to see, so I'm thinking of making those bigger, but I want them to be realistic. All in all I'm pretty happy with them and just wanted to share some pics. I used ShinoKCRS's mesh of their "Elegant Bedroom Chair" which I think is one of the most beautiful chairs made for the game. I'm sure I'll be back with more questions because I have yet to try my hand at CAS recolors and really, maybe playing around with meshing. Lol. THANK YOU (will say it ad-nauseum) for the help provided, and in advance for future help, to the community, which is a treasure trove of information and helpful people. ------------------------------------- Oh, and suggestions on these are greatly appreciated. I noticed in one of the pictures that I need to rotate one of the seats slightly, but if you pick anything up please let me know.
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 14, 2016 19:14:20 GMT -5
Aww, thank you for taking the time to look at it. That is so sad though because I actually did look for the original conversion a while ago. I was curious about what colors it came in seeing as I really like the fluffiness of the mesh and use it a lot in my game, and alas, I couldn't find it. On the other hand, glad to know so I won't use the mesh any longer for recoloring although I think I'll keep these and the LOVELY recolors by selaronosims (SLRN) since they seem to not cause an issue in-game.
All the best, and thank you.
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 14, 2016 15:42:11 GMT -5
As .png, 512 x 512. Should I convert them to dds before pulling them in? ----------------------------- Okay, I tried with a .dds file, but the same thing happens. It happens at the point of clicking "Add Swatch" I think. As soon as I click on that, it adds a new one (copies one of the existing ones), but as soon as I import a texture to that one, the one it copied changes too. It may just be this one file though and I am using it because it is one of my favorite blanket meshes. I may try with another to see if it happens as well because as I recall, I had no problems with some chairs I did. I did have issues with another blanket but it was a different issue - haha - it may be user error - in that it didn't behave like a blanket any longer, but the swatches were okay. In any case, I truly appreciate the desire to help and I am willing to try anything and to learn. Many, many thanks!
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 14, 2016 11:18:21 GMT -5
I deleted it and started anew , BUT this is the new one. It happened again when I added a swatch, so in essence, I started over twice. It starts out with 27 swatches and I can change them, but if I add a new one, that's when things get wonky. On this particular one I just recolored the 27 swatches and saved it, but if I add a new swatch the problem happens again. Anyway, not sure if I shared this file correctly, but here goes. DropboxAlso, I have recolored chairs which work great, but I found that another blanket that I also removed and added swatches from lost its ability to go on top of a bed. (It just sits on the floor and even i I hit '9', it never seems to actually get lift off. I will make sure I am using the latest version of S4S and will go read the beginner tutorial again too just in case I am skipping a step somewhere.
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 13, 2016 18:18:59 GMT -5
Thank you for the quick reply! <3
Objects.
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 13, 2016 17:41:40 GMT -5
Hello. Hope everyone is well.
I just noticed an issue where I have double (or more) of the SAME recolors, while some of my other recolors are missing.
Example: (each letter counts for a recolor swatch) a b b c d e f are the swatches I basically imported over the ones that were there. I then ADDED a swatch 'g' and it "copies" one of my swatches so that 'g' now looks like 'd'. The problem is that when I import or assign a texture to 'g', not only does 'g' change, but 'd' does as well. :(
The only thing I can think of is maybe starting the project again, but I wondered what I am missing.
Thanks!
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 13, 2016 3:01:54 GMT -5
Thank you so much for your kind reply! It is wonderful that there is a community such as this one. Truly, the game would be nothing without all of this. As for the package editing, I think my brain is on too much caffeine and little sleep because I tried, and it didn't quite work out. I will try again soon with a little more time. I grew discouraged (just a little though), because some blankets I recolored won't lift up off the ground. I'll come and tackle it all in a day or two. By the way, are you the Mr. S that creates and shares? If so, one of my favorite pieces was made by you. It is the Into The Future table from a package called ITFObjects. One time I deleted it because I did not know what the package was and spent an entire evening trying to find it again. Thank you for your contributions.
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 12, 2016 21:29:34 GMT -5
Hello again.
Pardon the questions, but I am on a coloring kick the last couple of days. I also did look through the Tutorial Index and many, many questions posted here. While I think that the reply might be hidden within a question somewhere, my apologies but I could not find what I was looking for.
Basically, I would like to know if there is a way to edit a .package file I created (recolored).
I would like to do some 'clean up' work to it in regard to custom thumbnails, etc. The closest thing I found was a tutorial and a couple of topics on Overriding, but not really sure if that's what I am looking for. I wondered if there is a way to pick the project back up once saved.
Thank you in advance.
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 12, 2016 18:52:13 GMT -5
Lol! I see. I feel like such a dufus thinking that I have actually been doing that, without realizing what I was doing. I kept [left-clicking] on the object and nada, so I right-clicked on the icon (or so I thought I was doing) when in fact, my clicking on the 'icon' probably only worked when it happened to be on the object. I'll be quiet now in case I confuse anyone else reading this . Easy enough though ... left click on object to move it. It was driving me crazy. THANK YOU. <3
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 12, 2016 16:43:09 GMT -5
Wow. THIS is something wonderful that was so desperately needed (EA makes such ugly content lol). I am about to test out my first "hidden" object and with that in mind, questions I had that may help another newbie, are: 1. Does it matter what you name it? No, but in just now doing my first one, I think I will start them all with "HIDDEN - [then object name]" 2. omg, OMG, am I screwing up anything? No. You are creating a new file, so you can always just delete it. Lastly, the completed file (if I did this correctly), is only 1kb. Yeay! ----------------------- And it worked like a charm! 5 done, hundreds to go ...
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 12, 2016 16:20:32 GMT -5
Thank so much for the reply inabadromance! (I love your creations by the way).
The clicking on the object itself doesn't seem to rotate it. It may be that my system I am on maybe needs a restart or something, but I really tried everything I could think of. It hasn't been turned off in a while so it may just be a weird glitchy thing resolved with a restart, but that would help so much in viewing it although I'm getting more adept at handling it with the little icon thing - haha.
Anyway, again, a huge thank you to the Sims 4 Studio creators for making such a neat program (and Orange Mittens for the tutorial).
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 12, 2016 11:00:54 GMT -5
Ooooh! I got it.
In case anyone else is stuck, you RIGHT click the little icon to the right and below the objects ... and drag.
Awesome.
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 12, 2016 10:42:45 GMT -5
Hello everyone! I have just started to recolor this weekend and can truly say I think I have gone a little color crazy. One quick question please ... I am in S4S and I am importing my new swatch, but I wanted a back view of my object so I clicked on the "L" in the little object window and sure enough along with a "U" it gave me a top/bottom view, but now I can't get back to the "L" view (I especially would like to see the back of the object too). Can anyone please help? Many thanks in advance!
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Post by xerendipity on Dec 9, 2016 23:47:07 GMT -5
Thank you so much for this tutorial. Everything was explained in great detail and it was easy to follow. I was lazy on my first try and just downloaded some cowhide swatches and a couple of them look great while the other two do not. I kind of expected this and will work now with laying them out correctly within the 'guiding' swatch. Anyway (I wanted to boast a little - but really, thank you for a great tutorial). My problem is that in game, there is the pink and purple question mark square UNDER the object (a chair). I'm thinking I am missing something to do with the shadow (maybe) somewhere along the line? Any help would be greatly appreciated! ------------------------------------------------------------------ EDIT. I got it. (Yay)! I had erroneously been choosing the shadow texture and was replacing it with my swatch instead of the texture I wanted to change. They don't look so bad. Weeeeee! Now I will fine tune them. Again, thank you very much for the tutorial.
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