{SOLVED}The garment is very bright and looks crumpled

Hi. Two reasons:
- i assume that your graphics settings are set to low. When they are, the specular map is not rendered in CAS, so most likely you are not aware that the garment is very bright

- you should model in quads. The garment looks like crumpled paper because of tris

The buttons you're using arent as high poly as some other ones, you can keep them. Although you can delete these things

As for others, just use a low poly primitive ( cylinder, cube) and make it flatter to look like a button, then import in md as a button


There are unrelated problems with the garment:
- test how the object behaves in game, then bake textures, split it, make lods. Otherwise you may have to re-do all of this;
- the collar at the back moves with the arms;
- buttons are not attached to the garment;
- when you close holes, unwrap them and split the created sharp edge loop;
- see how your uv_1 is ripped? Choose references of similar shape with as little sculpted details as possible to avoid it. yfBody_EF14DressParty or something similar would give better results;
- there is overlapping geometry in the leg area;
- do not scale uv islands individually unless the difference in quality is acceptable. Buttons can be bigger, sleeves should not be smaller than the rest of the coat, the difference in quality and textures will be noticeable;
- the normal map is not made correctly somehow. The darkest areas are missing

Well, that was not a logical suggestion. You need to make sure you garment functions (moves and morphs) properly first before baking textures, otherwise you may have to re-do all of your textures.
1). Sometimes the mesh is shaped in a way that it simply cannot work in ts4 (loose sleeves, poncho type of clothing) and the creator has no choice but to re-do the whole mesh, so the baking was for nothing
2). Other times they clone a wrong item and have to restart the package and reimport dozens of textures;
3). Sometimes people do not know they need to bring the uvs back to their original size/ delete the body parts and put uvs there/put uvs in a place that causes conflicts with other cc, so the uvs have to be re-arranged and all textures remade

There is no point in importing the mesh in s4s to test it in-game unless it moves, morphs and displays a diffuse texture (exported uv layout instead of a baked texture). Without one of these thigs you will have a hard time checking the others.


You need to increase samples to at least 1000, reduce light paths to 1, set Margins to at least 7.
Bear in mind that baking in cycles takes mush longer because the result is actually realistic, so before you crank up the samples, do a test bake with low ones to see if everything is shaded as it should be, nothing overlaps, etc.

In older versions vertices would get different values even if they shared the same coordinates, so you had to remove doubles on your garment before or after weights transfer. But i just tested it and they seem to have resolved this issue.
Basically, the most practical approach would be:
- export the garment from MD as weld;
- close holes;
- adapt it;
- check how the garment behaves in-game;
- fix whatever is wrong, if needed;
- split sharp edges, re-import the mesh;
- bake textures.


If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask. Since we have almost no official information from ts4 developers and 99% of tutorials are made by beginners, learning through mistakes or by asking/googling are the only ways.
Well, there is certainly no tutorial for 3.6 because it became supported only recently. I dont really see any ts4-specific clothing making tutorials for blender 2.8+. Fortunately, there isnt really much difference between the two, especially if you are working in the blend file created by s4s ( same layout in both 2.7x and 3+). So if you cant find something, you can just google, say, "remove doubles blender 3" or "why is there no blender render in blender 3" and you will 100% find the answer right away. As for elaborate topics like texture baking, it is best to watch a proper non-ts4 specific tutorial

Let me elaborate on the subject of references.
Here are 3 different types of tops. Even though they belong to different categories of clothing and are shaped differently, they function the same way:
- neither goes below the navel or above the neck. They are fully within "upper body" limits;
These garments function the same, so you can transfer all the data from the first one ( the least amount of sculpted details) to the other two.


Before making your garment, you should find a similar one among maxis items. If there is nothing like what you have in mind, do not make it or modify your idea to fit the existing item.
The reason nothing is shaped like your garment is the collar being in the arms' way. If it is not affected by arm bones, the arms will clip. If it is affected by them, it will move with the arms, which is not how it should behave.

If you want the garment to function properly, you need to remake this collar to not be in the arms way, then just transfer everything from yfBody_EF14DressParty.

You need to disable rendering for overlapping body parts(the reference, everything under the rig).
It’s this camera icon that controls it

The uvs in uv_0 must be arranged in accordance with this template.
The details are baked from high poly mesh ( has all sculpted details) to low poly mesh ( does not have these details, low polycount, already adapted to function in game).
In your case "jjy sailor collar dress lowpoly" has higher polycount and is not adapted to function in-game.

There is no noticeable difference between your low poly and high poly meshes in terms of wrinkles, seams, folds, and other details. There is no point in baking a normal map.

You should make a simple tank top and adapt it to perfection for the sake of learning. Right now you're just creating problems and making this process harder for yourself.

Hi. The questions are not stupid, its just that you are less likely to get a response here. Unlike blender, substance painter is not required to make cc. Since baking materials can be done in blender, very few ts4 cc creators use SP. Im not one of them, so cant help with that. In this section we have only a few regulars ( and i dont know if they use it, unlikely), so they most likely cannot answer it either.
You can try substance painter themed forums or googling any variations of these questions, just in case you'll find something