Post by minervamagicka on Jul 16, 2023 15:16:32 GMT -5
Howdy, I've been trying to unravel/reverse-engineer the Pet Coat Pattern & Pelt Layer files in the hopes of creating more and I have hit a snag using S4S. I've successfully gotten the game to create a new preset for an existing coat using default textures via a default replacement made in Studio (with the only thing I was changing being the colors of the swatches, just to see if it'd work at all), but pointing said new preset at custom textures to substitute for the EA defaults when assembling the preset is when things start to break down.
Importing a .png or a .dds with BC3/DXT5 compression and pointing the coat layer at said texture makes the preset & coat appear black in CAP.
Studying the RLE 2 files in S4PE that the EA defaults use, the textures used for the pelts in CAP are saved in L8, however neither S4Pe or Sims 4 Studio will allow me to import a .dds that I save in L8, both outright reject it for not being BC3/DXT5. Considering that .dds files saved in BC3/DXT5 are most-likely what are causing my issue... Does anyone have any ideas on how to get an L8 formatted DDS into this package somehow? I'm pretty confident the .dds/RLE 2 need to remain in L8 so any solution that involves me not having the .dds in that format, I'm pretty sure, won't work.
Importing a .png or a .dds with BC3/DXT5 compression and pointing the coat layer at said texture makes the preset & coat appear black in CAP.
Studying the RLE 2 files in S4PE that the EA defaults use, the textures used for the pelts in CAP are saved in L8, however neither S4Pe or Sims 4 Studio will allow me to import a .dds that I save in L8, both outright reject it for not being BC3/DXT5. Considering that .dds files saved in BC3/DXT5 are most-likely what are causing my issue... Does anyone have any ideas on how to get an L8 formatted DDS into this package somehow? I'm pretty confident the .dds/RLE 2 need to remain in L8 so any solution that involves me not having the .dds in that format, I'm pretty sure, won't work.
