Freakenmesh confusion

If I understand this correctly, a little Blender hotkey I learned from inabadromance is what you need. Making sure "Limit Selection to Visible" is turned on, hover your mouse over one of the fish meshes and click the "l" (L) key. Sometimes this will select the entire mesh part you need, but for this one you'll have to move your mouse over the fish and rotate it a bit to select the front of the fish, then the back of the fish, the head, and the fins. If you accidentally select something you don't need, ctrl+z until you deselect it.

Then you can use the the movement handles or the "g" key to position the fish where you want it. The fish is already UV mapped, so you shouldn't need to change anything there.

Man, I so did not think of that one. There was something else I was thinking of and that was to scale the pedestal that the fish are on on the Zed axis decreasing the height to get the heads of the fish level with the mouths of the llamas...but I would still have to shift the fish around. But....I like what you two have said thus far! (yep, I know about that handy dandy button...I have used it several times in the past...just a dope for not remembering it and then, duh grabbing that one fish to pull it away)

Thank you [kitkat and inabadromance! Hopefully, this will be done in a bit.]

For the weird texture part, it appears to be your UV map. In this object, s4studio_mesh_1 (the main fountain) and s4studio_mesh_2 (the inside basin of the fountain) share a texture. You have the maps overlapping, so part of your main fountain texture is being applied to the basin. You'll need to arrange your UV maps for these groups so that they don't overlap then adjust your texture. (Looks GORGEOUS, btw!)

EA's fountain:





For the water issue, it could have something to do with the ?? texture in the warehouse:



That texture doesn't look like a specular nor a normal. It appears to correspond with the UV maps though. The entire basin map area is textured black as are some parts of the main fountain. I would suggest looking further at this texture.

kitkat   & menaceman44 ok so this is what I have now.







ok what I did was....I went back into blender. I did nothing with the UVMap. The TS4 fountain has the following mesh information:

0 = shadow
1 = outer wall, top of wall, pedestal, and plant
2 = inner wall of pool
3 = water

Trident information:

0 = shadow
1 = outer/inner wall, top of wall, pedestal, and statue
2 = water (I thought it was the bottom of the pool)

So, I read from another thread...i believe it was the one that kitkat and inabadromance dealt with yesterday. A young lady was having issues with her jar...her uvmap was wrong. Well, technically mine wasn't...it was because TS3 Group 1 has both of "TS4 groups 1 & 2" joined. In TS4, they have separated those groups instead.
So, I went through all of the lods and all of the lod shadows and separate the inner wall from the rest of the group. I renamed the groups appropriately.

MY water is showing up. But the TS4 fountain has two textures. One is the multiplier and the other is the water texture. I am thinking that I might be able to use the tile image in place of the "water" texture and fill up the hole that is showing the grass underneath by creating a plane...or I could just go ahead and extend the "bottom pedestal" to where it is touching the bottom of the pool. (I am thinking the latter because it is easier) If i use the tile image for the water texture...the bottom of the pool won't be seamless, but...hell.

When I separated the innerwall from the rest of the group...it moved the wall uvmap to its own uv...I don't need to worry about it because my texture is set up the way it needs to be for TS4. 

This is just cray, cray! (as my oldest son would tell me) I am going to play around a bit more.

Thank you for the kudos on the texturing. I have a lot of ideas for this one. I downloaded a poo of tiles and mermaid textures for this fountain. I have also converted the veggie and the wares wagons. I textured the jugs on the wares wagon and made them look a bit....Tuscany-ish. But I am going to fiddle with getting them transparent like brujah suggested and menaceman...There are tables for the basegame that have metal and wood and glass as part of the mesh. I think there are some other tables with glass as well. I haven't been able to find the display case that brujah mentioned, but it is something for me to do.

Menaceman? is there a way to turn off the water texture in the warehouse? (i don't know if i asked that correctly) Because this would work so much better if the game and S4S didn't read that.

P.s. I just read your edit kitkat...I believe you are correct about the warehouse issue. What I did was the bump for the plant..I made without texture because the trident doesn't need it. I made the spec grey. The part that you mentioned...I made it grey all over. Hopefully, someone can take a lookie and let us know about this.

Why do I always pick the complicated things?lol But hey TheJIM07 over at MTS...he just left the statue and the pedestal...If I can get this to work...wooot!

well, I guess mine is going to have snow alllllll over!

I have another question that is easier to answer I am sure.

On the pedestal, I extruded the sides and the part underneath...I left the whole entire top part alone...and extruded all the way to the bottom of the pool. Do I need to remap that part now? or can I leave it alone and still be able to recolor it all in the future? just wondering. I might be finding it out laters anyway.

I think the texture there will be a little distorted since that part is now larger, and the existing texture will have to be "stretched" to cover the larger area. It really depends on what texture you're using and how much you extruded as to whether it will be noticeable. Personally, I would remap just those planes then scale them down to fit on the map.