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Post by sims4loveuniverse on Nov 1, 2016 13:43:34 GMT -5
so Im new here in s4s since yesterday i downloaded adobe photoshop nvidia and the blender so i tried doing a create cas standalone i did the steps so when i get to the part to export when it open the photo shop i get this { could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document} what should i do help needed please
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Post by orangemittens on Nov 1, 2016 13:52:37 GMT -5
Hi sims4loveuniverse, Photoshop will open .png images natively. It needs a plugin to open .dds images. Make sure the image you're exporting is in .png format.
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Post by sims4loveuniverse on Nov 1, 2016 14:23:46 GMT -5
Hi sims4loveuniverse, Photoshop will open .png images natively. It needs a plugin to open .dds images. Make sure the image you're exporting is in .png format. hi thanks for responding .... the thing is that is not an image yet ill explain my self i click create cas standalone i choose a top its opens the save as option and i write the name for the saving. so then send me to where i can add more swatch etc and then you go to export well i click the texture export again it open save as and i put the name of what im saving save as type dds i click save then i click it to open with the photoshop and thats where i get the ( could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document. so am i still wrong or instead where saving as dds should i save as png like you mentioned? thanks in advance |
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Post by orangemittens on Nov 1, 2016 14:26:50 GMT -5
If Photoshop won't open a .dds my bet is it is because you do not have the .dds plugin installed in the right place. Photoshop requires a plugin installed to open .dds. You do not need to use .dds for Sims 4 if you are using Sims 4 Studio to make your recolors. Instead of exporting the image as a .dds just export it as a .png. Photoshop is able to open .png images with no plugin.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say it is not an image. Photoshop won't open files that aren't in an image format (.dds, .png, .jpg, etc.).
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Post by sims4loveuniverse on Nov 1, 2016 14:33:31 GMT -5
If Photoshop won't open a .dds my bet is it is because you do not have the .dds plugin installed in the right place. Photoshop requires a plugin installed to open .dds. You do not need to use .dds for Sims 4 if you are using Sims 4 Studio to make your recolors. Instead of exporting the image as a .dds just export it as a .png. Photoshop is able to open .png images with no plugin. I'm not sure what you mean when you say it is not an image. Photoshop won't open files that aren't in an image format. thanks a lot thank you very much solved ....and one last question if i were to need dds pluggin in the right place etc what should i do? thanks for the help  |
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Post by inabadromance on Nov 1, 2016 15:01:33 GMT -5
hi! The can download the dds plugin for Photoshop you're required here. |
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Post by orangemittens on Nov 1, 2016 15:03:40 GMT -5
If you're using Studio you won't need the plugin. Studio will import .png for all images no matter what you're making |
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Post by sims4loveuniverse on Nov 3, 2016 18:32:11 GMT -5
hi! The can download the dds plugin for Photoshop you're required here. hi i have download it uninstalled and downloaded already but it seems to not show or maybe im doing it wrong or is there need to be place in a specific location when i download it? |
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Post by sims4loveuniverse on Nov 3, 2016 18:39:59 GMT -5
If you're using Studio you won't need the plugin. Studio will import .png for all images no matter what you're making hi.. i tried i mean i did everything i recolored on photopshop with all step when im done to save i saved as PNG(*PNG.*PNS.) when i try to import its give me ..... your texture must be saved as a dds with dxt5 compression. so what should i do?? |
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Post by MisterS on Nov 3, 2016 19:14:47 GMT -5
Ive never got .png and photoshop to work with the alpha (Im not the only one) so I always use .dds
To answer your question from further up, the plugin needs to be installed, it will install itself in the correct location.
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Post by sims4loveuniverse on Nov 3, 2016 19:31:28 GMT -5
Ive never got .png and photoshop to work with the alpha (Im not the only one) so I always use .dds To answer your question from further up, the plugin needs to be installed, it will install itself in the correct location. yeah the thing is it doesnt show me the dds etc option |
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Post by Feyona on Nov 4, 2016 1:21:46 GMT -5
sims4loveuniverse I encountered similar glitch when I tried installed DDS plugin made for Creative Cloud version. If you don't see it, most likely either it wasn't installed correctly or you need to find and try another version of plugin. In my case I searched for older version of plugin and it worked.. Can't provide the link since it was over a year ago. Regarding the problem importing .PNG, can you share your texture in .png and .package so someone can try importing and check on texture?
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Post by orangemittens on Nov 4, 2016 9:37:19 GMT -5
From what I've read (I don't have Photoshop so I can't test this) if you save as a 24bit png with transparent checked Photoshop will save the png with transparent background (alpha transparency). This isn't true? LINK |
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Post by MisterS on Nov 4, 2016 10:16:01 GMT -5
It will save the image with transparency fine, but not with an alpha layer
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Post by inabadromance on Nov 4, 2016 13:16:06 GMT -5
To my knowledge png just doesn't have an "alpha channel". It just saves the image maintaining the transparency just in a different way.. but since the final outcome is the same that's why probably s4s manages to handle it too. i'm old school, i'm just going to keep using dds because i'm used to.. i tried comparing png / dds with a specific texture to see how different the artifacts were. But in that case it was worst using png, so that just settled it for me.
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