How to convert a Sims 2 object to Sims 4

Thank you, I figured it out!

Okay, I've come across yet another issue. I'm almost done with this set and I'm super happy with it, but there's part of these chairs/loveseat that is supposed to be clear, this is what it looks like in S4S:


And then this happened to the chairs and loveseat in-game:

Do you know how to fix this?
The end table worked out just fine for some reason.

Thanks OM and X! The cocoa and milk are sitting very well on the counters and have been taken out of the career category per your tutorial OM.

Yep it's up. Hope your Sims enjoy it as well as mine (LOL)

Your picture shows that when this item is imported into Blender it is a single mesh group:



The arrow is indicating the mesh group and there is only one mesh group there besides the 2 EA item's mesh groups. In this case you would want to replace the EA main mesh with this single mesh group you have imported. This makes me unsure what you mean when you say you joined them...there is only one mesh group to your item so what mesh groups did you join?

Since there is only a single mesh group and, presumably, it was mapped appropriately you should not have to do any remapping. Step 30 is a mapping step...the items you are moving in that step are not meshes...they're the mesh's map. If, for whatever reason, they end up off the grid you can select them and move them back onto it as described in the tutorial. But, as I said, you have only a single mesh group in the object you're converting and EA's original item has only a single mesh group also. In this scenario you probably won't need to remap at all.

There are two ways to tell what the original EA image size is. You can click on the Warehouse tab and then click the image line on the left. This will make the image show on the right side. It's dimensions are present written above it. Alternatively, you can export the image from the Studio tab and open it in your 2D editor and look at the size there.

Changing the image size will not affect the mesh at all. It *will* affect the map if the dimensions describe a rectangle when the original was square or vice versa. This will cause the map to distort as I showed in the tutorial. This is easily fixed by scaling the old mesh to match the new image shape. It can also affect image quality. If the original item had a 512 x 512 map and the EA item has a 128 x 128 map you would probably not want to match the EA size. Instead you should just stick with the 512 x 512 to avoid a pixelated look on your conversion item in the game.

If the grid square is going completely black and not changing its size this means that you haven't filled the fields out properly in the New Image pop up box. This is how it looks when it first opens:



As you can see the width and height are the same. The default "fill" is solid and the default color is black. If you don't change any of these fields the grid will remain square, it will remain the same size, and it will be solidly colored in black. Instead you need to fill these fields out as the tutorial shows.

The issue in step 46 is that you have cloned one of the less common EA items that does not use the blob sheet. Instead it has its own shadow image with one small blob sitting on an alpha. The plane is mapped over the blob so that the blob appears as the shadow under the chair. To use this for your item you could probably just resize the plane mesh so it fits under your chair. In this case, again, you would not need to do any remapping of the shadow at all.

Part of the problem you're running into is that you cannot follow this tutorial to a t and expect it to work for every item you want to convert or with every single EA item you pick. There is a large amount of variety in Sims 2 objects. There is, if anything, an even larger amount of variety in Sims 4 objects. There is no "one size fits all" tutorial I can write that will show you step by step how to do every project. This tutorial is meant to show general principals and that's the best any tutorial is going to be able to do given the variables presented by the task.

I have Problems with blender.

I miss in Blender the S4Studio CAS Tools and S4Studio Animation tools. 

Have I overlooked any point in the manual ?


Sorry for my bad english 

Ok, so I managed to convert this stool by cloning another stool, the only problem that I have now is that it's showing three little shadows from the stool that I cloned, even though I removed those three shadows in blender. How do I get rid of them? Also the polygon count ended up being a little bit too high :/