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Post by -X- on Apr 15, 2015 1:13:38 GMT -5
you guys have been stealing my awesome tattoo making techniques eh?
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Post by windzero on Jun 16, 2015 12:16:02 GMT -5
I create a face wound out of the tatoo, it appears very well in the S4S, but somehow it did not appear in the game. I did put the package under the MOD file. Anyone can help me about it?
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Post by orangemittens on Jun 19, 2015 9:12:21 GMT -5
Hi windzero, if you post the .package someone can take a look at it for you
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Post by catears16 on Jun 24, 2015 23:09:28 GMT -5
Nya <3 thankies so much it helped me out a bunch. this is lily for males
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Post by grinden9 on Jul 18, 2015 5:27:30 GMT -5
Hi everyone!
I've just started making things for sims4 but came across a problem when doing this tattoo that I need some help with. My problem is that I'm using photoshop elements 8 and there doesn't seem to be an option to change the alpha level. Which means that when I try to fix the tattoo, the anchor is still the tattoo that shows when I try to import it in S4S. Is there anyone who knows a way around it, by still using my photoshop. Or do I have to use a second editing program? And which program should I use then to fix it?
Thanks in advance!
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Post by Bakie on Jul 19, 2015 3:41:31 GMT -5
I already heard about this problem multiple times both here on the forum as on my tutorial videos on youtube. You can take a look at this website: www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/photoshop_elements_9_stone.htmlAnd then use "Ctrl+F" and type down alpha to find it more easely. But I don't know if that is going to help. You can try using a free program like GIMP or Paint.net and then search on google how to work with alpha layers in that program.
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Post by Moon on Jul 20, 2015 7:26:40 GMT -5
Hi, thank you for the tutorial, it's very helpful! I was wondering if there is some trick to create tattoos with shadows in it like those? is there a trick I need to use in the alpha layer? also how can I make the tattoos look better? like, I have seen some DDS files where the tattoo has a black background, sort of like most of the alpha hairs have it, how can I make that background? and it helps with the quality of the tattoo or smth?
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Post by ravenesque21 on Jul 21, 2015 18:30:24 GMT -5
The tutorial is great, and easy enough to follow, though I use Photoshop Elements 9. I didn't have issue making an alpha layer, and I followed the guide to a T however...I'm not sure what went wrong. The tattoo shows up on the preview, but the model is all white, there's no skin texture at all. Can anyone determine what I need to fix and what went wrong?
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Post by brujah on Jul 24, 2015 0:53:17 GMT -5
Moon - I'm not understanding what you mean by the shadows. ravenesque21 - What format did you save your file as? As far as I can remember Photoshop Elements does not support the Nvidia .dds plug-in (correct me if I'm wrong). In order to save it in any other format (more specifically .png) you will need to delete the white parts.
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Post by -X- on Jul 24, 2015 6:39:14 GMT -5
Hi, thank you for the tutorial, it's very helpful! I was wondering if there is some trick to create tattoos with shadows in it like those? is there a trick I need to use in the alpha layer? also how can I make the tattoos look better? like, I have seen some DDS files where the tattoo has a black background, sort of like most of the alpha hairs have it, how can I make that background? and it helps with the quality of the tattoo or smth? the trick is with black ink tats is making them as dark as possible when they get into the game they won't be that dark they will gain light. so make your black tattoos as dark as possible meaning pitch black. and create a new layer and paint it all black than use soft light to overlay it over the dark so the alpha will look right.
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Post by ravenesque21 on Jul 24, 2015 15:25:17 GMT -5
@brujah - I haven't had any issues with the Nvidia dds plugin, I've been using it for other things, mostly recoloring and it's been working great. I know from recent tinkering about that whenever I go to use the magic eraser on the white to make it transparent, upon flattening the image and saving, it turns white again. So I'm not too sure what to do there, unless I try something similar on paint.net. Things stay transparent on that program.
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Post by brujah on Jul 25, 2015 1:34:37 GMT -5
ravenesque21 I would suggest NOT flattening the image and just saving as .dds (since you say it works). For things that require transparency you will need to save as a DXT 5 interpolated alpha. The only reason I can think of that the image is white is that you either completely flattened the image (which loses alpha) or saved as DXT 1 no alpha.
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Post by -X- on Jul 25, 2015 2:33:12 GMT -5
do you still need it to be dds? my latest tats i made successfully with png images?
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Post by Moon on Jul 25, 2015 8:55:13 GMT -5
brujah - I meant like this tattoo: So I would like to know how, 1) get the black pixelated background behind the tattoo in the DDS like on picture 1? 2) how to make the alpha channel like on picture 2, I see that the "shadow" I was talking about is grey and not totally white and this tutorial only teaches how to make it all white to use it on the alpha channel, I'm pretty good with photoshop but I have no idea how I could do that easily, so any tips on that? x you said "and create a new layer and paint it all black than use soft light to overlay it over the dark so the alpha will look right." do you mean in the alpha or just in the normal rbg channel of the tattoo?
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Post by -X- on Jul 25, 2015 9:17:40 GMT -5
the alpha. see how the texture is pitch black like i said? now you do all the work in the alpha channel. the darker to grey you go the more transparent and the whiter the more opaque the tat will be on the skin. the shadows you see is really the transparent parts of the tat on the skin. it's pretty tricky to do which is why when i make black ink tats i just keep them 1 transparency :P
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