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Post by eronoel on Mar 15, 2016 20:15:49 GMT -5
Ah,yes I did use the cliptool (I followed your tutorial ). Okay, good to know! thank you
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Post by eronoel on Mar 15, 2016 11:26:40 GMT -5
So I am working on an item that is part-sims 3 conversion and part self made. The part I got from the sims 3 user (aminovas, who has a generous TOU) has this this weird orange cross in it. Since I am a blender nooblet, I am not sure what it is... if it is important or what. I was wondering if anyone here knows what it is? and if I should just leave it (what I was planning on doing) or delete it.
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Post by eronoel on Mar 14, 2016 21:48:11 GMT -5
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Post by eronoel on Mar 14, 2016 21:43:01 GMT -5
Link to Pure Water post on tumblr; includes more preview picturesDownload Paintings
Name: Pure Water - Watercolor Paintings Cost: 352 Mesh by EA/ Texture by me Credits for paintings go to: 1) Kira 2) Charles Vaughn 3) Agnes Cecile 4) Jane Freeman 5) Unknown 6) Jill Krafsig 7) Prafull Sawant 8) Unknown 19th c. artist 9) Joe Cartwright 10) Sharon Lynn Williams 11) Tony Conner (see tumblr for preview images)Download PillowsName: Pure Water - 2T4 Mango Sims Orange Coussin Recolor Cost: 32 Originally made by: Mango Sims for Sims 2Converted by: Msteaqueen - get the original conversion hereNote! I did re-categorize the recolors to bed/sofa/chair & clutter (where I keep my pillows) instead of Kids Clutter where the converted one by MTQ is categorized. Apologies, I have no artist information for the pillow art.
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Post by eronoel on Mar 14, 2016 21:31:55 GMT -5
I have a tumblr that I have been sharing my stuff on, and I am so grateful for these forums, tutorials & the studio, that I thought it would be good for me to put the things up here. I am not uploading all my files to imgur (I wont hotlink them from tumblr) so if you would like to look at more pictures, please take a look at my blog - simphony-number-4.tumblr.comMore preview pictures found at my blog postThis file, has two items, with two seperate load urls. Small Plant Recolor DownloadName: Small Plant with Decorated Pot Cost: 10 Originally made by: Nemestnaya for Sims 2 Converted to Sims 4: by Msteaqueen - get the original one here Note! This is High Poly (almost 3k). I didn’t touch the mesh at all, so that is how it came. But the good news is that because of that it re-sizes larger quiet nicely with Alt+] - as you see in the preview. This is a very small recolor. I was just doing it for my game but decided to share it after all. Recolor includes 2 new birds (to match MTQ/Nem’s origination one), 3 new butterflies (with darkened plant leaves) & one blank one. Bottle It Up Painting DownloadName: Bottle It Up - “Bibbenluke Flowers” by Lucy Culliton Cost: 242 Mesh & Textures by me (and EA...) 6 black frames, 6 brown frames, 6 off-white frames = total of 18 unique paintings; see pictures hereLearn more about L. Culliton here
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Post by eronoel on Mar 1, 2016 18:33:54 GMT -5
I doubt it would make any difference anyway, its just a shadow, every shadow in RL is the same color regardless of the color of the object/person. oh my, i just had the image of a pink colored shadow...
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Post by eronoel on Mar 1, 2016 18:31:45 GMT -5
I don't know that I have enough experience to talk about meshing in blender, but in my (limited) experience (what I don't like is...) I manage to accidentally shift click the wrong button somewhere and then something happens that I don't know what just happened..my thing is all weird, and then control z doesnt work!!?! and yea, that was just my experience wrestling with a cube, who knows how it will be when I actually try to do something non-four sided....
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Post by eronoel on Mar 1, 2016 18:27:03 GMT -5
I decided just to unwrap it like D4S suggested and it worked fine. I'll just do that from now on. Thanks though it must just be a little burp in how the program does cube unwrap.
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Post by eronoel on Feb 29, 2016 22:38:33 GMT -5
Okay, i will try it that way. I kind of adopted the unwrap cube instead of the other, since it was, well... a cube. thank you
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Post by eronoel on Feb 29, 2016 21:04:33 GMT -5
So, I've been working to learn how to mesh, and followed the baking tutorial for the table and the picture tutorial for absolute beginners. So, I made a cube (literally the simplest thing I could think of to mesh) and did everything that it said I should, but when selected for blender to make the UV mesh, it made the top (and bottom) of my cube rectangle instead of squarish. The sides were already rectangle, so no problems there. See it here (the top is the light blue): Anyway, so I thought, no biggy I'll just work around it when I am making my diffuse map. So I put my cube in game and it works fine, but I notice that because my UV was wonky that when you view it from the front it looks blurry on the top (but to the side it looks fine) See example here I figure this is because of UV map wonkyness (since it made it a rectangle and not a square) My questions are: 1. Why did a get a rectangle when I asked it to map a cube etc? ie, what did I do wrong? and 2. To change the UV map, I need to load my cube back into blender and re-map it (hopefully the right way) and rebake it? or do I have to start over (not a big deal with this but for future reference)?
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Post by eronoel on Feb 29, 2016 15:21:19 GMT -5
In the US, copyright exists on created items automatically from the moment they come into being. It is assumed that all creative items (photographs, graphics, paintings, etc) are copyrighted. Registering the copyright of something adds additional information (like if there is a question of authorship, if you registered it they will have the date you registered) and is helpful for legal issues. You can take legal action without registering but... unfortunately on the internet copyright violations are kind of like whack-a-mole and unless you are like Disney it is probably not worth it. There are exceptions to these for work for hire (ie you are paid to make work for someone else) and I am actually not sure how copyright would work considering most cc is usually based on EA's items, which are also copyrighted and since they haven't given express permission to alter their work... yea gray area. But, generally, unless you say otherwise, in the US, you assume that all artwork is copyrighted if it was made in the last 50 years, unless something states otherwise. Here is some basic copyright info in the US Moose.
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Post by eronoel on Feb 27, 2016 16:55:35 GMT -5
You are referring to the normal maps, yes? I do mine following this tutorial and it worked nicely: sims4studio.com/thread/861/normal-maps-bump-editing-creatingI use GIMP and they have the info about gimp down the page a bit. Hope that helps! Otherwise you can also just put a blank normal map too which you can download somewhere on the forums but I'm not sure where...
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Post by eronoel on Feb 26, 2016 0:42:36 GMT -5
I am having this problem too and I use gimp (which I have been using so long, I haven't wanted to switch...). I was thinking about trying to use paint.net - is that any better? Or if I continue to use GIMP, would I use the .png just like I would dds? Would you need minimaps?
jietia ~ I read somewhere on this forum that you should select dithering for better texture, but I did notice when I selected dithering it caused the little square pixalations that are in your picture. Are you using dithering?
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Post by eronoel on Feb 21, 2016 18:16:04 GMT -5
Hi So I figured I might as well introduce myself. My name is Eronoel, Ero, or irl Lore. I've been bitten by the cc bug and I have to gush about sims 4 studio! Wow it is so wonderful. I dabbled in making cc in Sims 3 and, wow, Sims 4 Studio makes all the difference here in sims 4. So thank you! I figure I might pop in a bit here and there, and if I ever manage to get good at it, I am happy to help people figure out problems (but right now, I think most of my stuff might be asking the questions... ). I may not be too active though, since I have two kids and a dissertation to occupy my time. I used to write for Living Sims, three years ago... and I might pop up there occasionally too, so if you see me, I'm the same Eronoel. Anyhoo, just wanted to say hi! oh yea.. forgot to say, I have a tumblr too now eronoel-blog.tumblr.com/
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