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Post by Ka$hDesigns on Dec 3, 2020 7:59:34 GMT -5
Hi, I have created a recolour for a cc hair and I have noticed that my recolour has some dark pinkish pixelated discolouration compared to the original mesh. I have saved it as PNG so it should not lose any pixels. Here are the links of what the original mesh looks like compared to my recolour. ibb.co/8Mz70jD - original mesh (back of head) ibb.co/F0R3RLy - my recolour (back of head) ibb.co/drxmzJ1 - original mesh (front scalp) ibb.co/CPzvdpQ - my recolour (front scalp) If you notice, the dark pinkish discolouration is around the Sim's scalp, some strands and the back of her head when you compare the two. Can somebody help me please and explain how this is caused? |
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Post by Cidira on Dec 3, 2020 8:34:35 GMT -5
Please delete the extra two or more copies of this post in other forum sections (this one is the correct one since your question is actually about a piece of CC that you yourself are creating) and stop making duplicate posts every single time you have a question. Then reply here with a link to your package file.
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Post by Ka$hDesigns on Dec 3, 2020 9:09:34 GMT -5
Please delete the extra two or more copies of this post in other forum sections (this one is the correct one since your question is actually about a piece of CC that you yourself are creating) and stop making duplicate posts every single time you have a question. Then reply here with a link to your package file. Hi Cidira, Thank you for getting back to me and sorry for posting duplicates, I am new to this so I was unsure which forum section to post in. Here is a link to my package file: drive.google.com/file/d/186GmXQReIpD2BhE8-gkEx1yzpQ2-sTbi/view?usp=sharing |
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Post by Cidira on Dec 3, 2020 11:46:57 GMT -5
It's ok to be unsure, just take a good thorough look around the different forum sections and their descriptions, do your best to figure out the right place, and then post in that one spot. If you guess wrong, someone may point you to the right place or an admin may even move it.
If nobody beats me to it, I'll see if I can tell what's happening when I'm at my desktop.
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Post by Ka$hDesigns on Dec 3, 2020 13:32:33 GMT -5
It's ok to be unsure, just take a good thorough look around the different forum sections and their descriptions, do your best to figure out the right place, and then post in that one spot. If you guess wrong, someone may point you to the right place or an admin may even move it. If nobody beats me to it, I'll see if I can tell what's happening when I'm at my desktop. I will do next time, thank you. I just created a DDS file of my recolour cc hair too to see if that would look better but it’s worse as it’s lossy compression so it looks more discoloured. Thank you, I would really appreciate your help whenever you have the time to look into it  . |
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Post by Cidira on Dec 7, 2020 0:59:33 GMT -5
I don't have any super definite answers for you, but I can tell you two things.
One, the quality of the texture on your recolor, whether I extract it from your package as PNG or DDS, looks lower than the quality of the texture from the original hair package, whether I extract it as PNG or DDS. It's noticeably more pixelated. (I can also see this in your screenshots.)
Two, your hair has dark pink in it because your texture has dark pink in it.
Possible culprits for the drop in quality loss include but aren't limited to the process of extracting the texture from the original package (almost certainly a factor), and not having a working file in the native format of your image software (PSD for Photoshop, XCF for GIMP, etc.) or other issues with saving into compressed file formats. (No matter how simple a recolor is, never just open the extracted texture, run some commands on it, and then Save or Save As into the same file format. Always Save into PSD/XCF/etc. and then export into the format you need.)
The pink in your texture could be partially caused by the quality and pixelation issues, but I suspect the combination of the specific swatch you exported from the original hair to recolor and the specific color you picked just a) wasn't a great pairing, and b) turned out kind of pinkish. Be sure to check what kind of texture your recoloring method is meant to be used on, i.e. light grey, platinum blonde, something else, any other criteria given for best results? Experiment a little. Try different base textures and different color actions or other shades, see if a texture with more or less contrast looks better, etc. That's what I used to do when I ran into texture quality issues in TS2 (where I did a lot more recoloring than I have yet done for TS4).
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