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Post by krystal91Sims on Oct 21, 2023 13:02:09 GMT -5
Hi everyone! I'm recoloring the window for the greenhouse of the "Greenhouse Haven" gamepack in stained glass style but I have a problem. While in Sims 4 Studio the colored window has transparency, in the game it does not. I have already did so many tries to resolve it but none has worked.  As you can see in Studio there is transparency. But not in game:  This is not the first time that I recolor a window with colors/design, in Photoshop I set the colored image with the opacity at 70% (of course I also tried different opacities) and in game has always been good. I don't know what is different now. This is the package if it's useful: Window |
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Post by krystal91Sims on Oct 22, 2023 8:48:09 GMT -5
I think the problem is that this window only has one Diffuse image for the structure and doesn't have another one for the glass (like windows usually have). Should I use Blender to fix the problem or can it be fixed only using Studio?
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Post by mauvemorn on Oct 22, 2023 9:16:15 GMT -5
Hi. You started the package from a window that has opaque glass. You can find the window textures in the warehouse. So just start from something else
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Post by krystal91Sims on Oct 22, 2023 9:45:21 GMT -5
Thanks for the answer!😊 I know I can find the textures in the warehouse (in fact to resolve the problem I tried to change also the DST images but with no result). What do you mean with start from something else? To recolor another window? My intent was to create a greenhouse set with stained glass windows, if I change the window the effect will not be the same. 😔
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Post by mauvemorn on Oct 22, 2023 10:34:48 GMT -5
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Post by krystal91Sims on Oct 22, 2023 11:33:25 GMT -5
Yes, is just a recolor! Thank you so much, I'm trying this method. A last question. There is no Phong in the mesh list. But: Dropshadow, InstancedWindow and InstancedGlass. Which of these should I change? (I apologize if this is obvious)
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Post by ravensfury on Oct 23, 2023 13:59:01 GMT -5
Hi everyone! I'm recoloring the window for the greenhouse of the "Greenhouse Haven" gamepack in stained glass style but I have a problem. While in Sims 4 Studio the colored window has transparency, in the game it does not. I have already did so many tries to resolve it but none has worked. As you can see in Studio there is transparency. But not in game: This is not the first time that I recolor a window with colors/design, in Photoshop I set the colored image with the opacity at 70% (of course I also tried different opacities) and in game has always been good. I don't know what is different now. This is the package if it's useful: WindowHello, I did open your package in s4s and I can see that you did place the new glastexture over the texture of the window details [the black grit in the orignal) and not on the glass itself. I can see why you did that but you will have to make your glass texture transparant in your texture editting program. In s4s wil it show extra transparant but ingame a lot less. Also do not forget to update the digonal texture, the normalmap and speculairmap and the textures for LOD2 group  Did it help you? |
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Post by krystal91Sims on Oct 23, 2023 15:24:20 GMT -5
Thank you so much for your help! I just made a try and I added the design in those parts (which I thought was impossible to be the actual glass being so tiny 🤦♀️) but as I feared it looks blurry and low quality! 😞 What a pity they made the mesh like this, if the glass had been in another image (as many windows I saw in S4S) it would have been better! I'll change window even if the look for the greenhouse will not be as good. But thanks all the same! 😊 At least I understood where was the problem!
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Post by ravensfury on Oct 23, 2023 15:36:25 GMT -5
Thank you so much for your help! I just made a try and I added the design in those parts (which I thought was impossible to be the actual glass being so tiny 🤦♀️) but as I feared it looks blurry and low quality! 😞 What a pity they made the mesh like this, if the glass had been in another image (as many windows I saw in S4S) it would have been better! I'll change window even if the look for the greenhouse will not be as good. But thanks all the same! 😊 At least I understood where was the problem! I will look to it in-game after a look to your texture, I will post my findings soon |
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Post by krystal91Sims on Oct 23, 2023 16:22:42 GMT -5
Thanks again, but it's really not worth it. 🥺 This is what that quick test I did looks like in game:  There is finally transparency but since the parts of the glass are so small in the texture the design appear grainy. I could enlarge the whole image up to 1024x2048 but in that case it would ruin the structure of the window. 😅 It's a lost cause! (and I saw the door of the same kit, that I also wanted to recolor after the window, is the same 🤦♀️) |
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Post by ravensfury on Oct 23, 2023 18:08:10 GMT -5
Thanks again, but it's really not worth it. 🥺 This is what that quick test I did looks like in game: There is finally transparency but since the parts of the glass are so small in the texture the design appear grainy. I could enlarge the whole image up to 1024x2048 but in that case it would ruin the structure of the window. 😅 It's a lost cause! (and I saw the door of the same kit, that I also wanted to recolor after the window, is the same 🤦♀️) Moderator's edit: removed the text because making pack items bgc is considered a form of piracy and we cannot discuss this publicly on the forum, sorry |
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Post by krystal91Sims on Oct 24, 2023 4:40:22 GMT -5
I'm not very familiar with these stuff, especially if the use of Blender is involved. I'd rather choose another window than continue wasting time trying with this one (maybe one day I'll try your suggestion but for now I've had enough of this window 😆).Thanks for your help! 😊
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Post by ravensfury on Oct 25, 2023 14:05:50 GMT -5
I'm not very familiar with these stuff, especially if the use of Blender is involved. I'd rather choose another window than continue wasting time trying with this one (maybe one day I'll try your suggestion but for now I've had enough of this window 😆).Thanks for your help! 😊 Well, if you like I could do it for you it's not that very hard. Just the greenhouse windows and door and the original textures + the new glass textures.
Moderator's edit: as mentioned before, we cannot discuss this topic or share these files publicly, so
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Post by krystal91Sims on Oct 26, 2023 8:58:25 GMT -5
Sorry, I'm only seeing your response now. Thank you for your time 🙂 but I'm already completing using another window/door so I don't need that one anymore.
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Post by ravensfury on Oct 26, 2023 10:58:41 GMT -5
Sorry, I'm only seeing your response now. Thank you for your time 🙂 but I'm already completing using another window/door so I don't need that one anymore. Thats great! I'm glad you worked out with other windows |
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