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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 27, 2016 20:42:20 GMT -5
Normal map should always be first. then spec. I think, its so for me. Yeah, I thought the same but when I replaced the second ones it ended up with the result in the picture above, haha.
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 27, 2016 20:07:47 GMT -5
Hi, in the warehouse tab pick the Model LOD > Meshes: Edit Items > Your Mesh (probably phong) > Material: Entries > Click any ordinary variant listed > Materials: Edit Items and you should get a list of the different maps and settings of your item. Look at the Instance numbers of the normal and spec maps listed here and compare them to your two files in the warehouse tab and you'll know which is which again. Meaning: E3D936406F0CFADA is you spec and E3AB5363916F68B0 is your normal. Ah, thank you so much, that should do the trick! I will give it a try when I get home this afternoon and report back :D
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 27, 2016 9:16:06 GMT -5
Hi everyone! So, when I first started doing conversions, I made the rookie/dumb mistake of using a blank bump map for both my spec and bump map files. Obviously, that made everything look super shiny in game (something I never noticed when I would test my stuff in laptop-mode, oi). Now I'm going about fixing the spec maps, but I'm running into an issue. When I go into the Warehouse tab, it's impossible to tell which one was the spec map file originally, and when I try importing a spec map into either of the bump map files, the item looks really weird in-game with some odd coloring and shadows. This has happened with any object I've tried to "fix." Here's an example of what it looks like when I try changing one of the two bumps to a spec: Those flecks of black shouldn't' be there...that mottled look is not correct :( Can anyone help me with this? This is one of the .package files I'm trying to fix, for example: Original .package with 2 bump maps | "fixed" .package with bump and specIt would be easiest if I could just fix this problem from the Warehouse tab, without having to do the entire conversion again, so any help is appreciated.
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 26, 2016 7:21:44 GMT -5
It's a good way to promote your CC since many people can re-post your post and spread a word. When you're on WIX you have to rely on all websites that share news about custom content. More shares, more downloads. Simple example, when Lana CC re-posted my geometric earrings I got 200 downloads in 18 hours. When she didn't re-post my last earrings, only 6 people in 10 hours downloaded my earrings and 3 of them was I because I was testing the link. That's why people like to share their stuff on tumblr. Yeah, it's defintely a good way to promote CC! That's why I plan on using both Tumblr and Wix. I have all my followers on Tumblr and I will continue to use it as a way to blog about WIP, reblog other CC that I like, and promote any new content I upload to my Wix site Thank God for Lana's CC page, though; I always get a lot more downloads once she reblogs something I post. And I am not even surprised that tumblr deleted an account. They provide free space and don't have any obligations to keep providing it. Recently I got robbed by amazon. They allowed some scammer via chat to "return" my kindle 6 month after the purchase and refunded $150 as gift card which he used to purchase a keyboard with 2nd day shipping. I called a million times, spoke with a few res reporting fraud on my account, saying to cancel that order and take the money for my kindle back. As result I got an e-mail from amazon that their "specially trained workers" checked my account and detected no suspicious activity. My kindle is blacklisted now and I can't use it. Amazon stole my money and refused to take responsibility for their mistake. After this accident I don't believe in justice in general. So I'm very happy for you brittpinkiesims that you were able to get your account back. By the end of the day tumblr doesn't owe us anything, so it was very nice that somebody made an effort and did the right thing. I agree and disagree. Tumblr actually got back to me today and admitted it was a glitch on their behalf and nothing I'd done wrong. Sure, it's a free service, but they still have an obligation to be decent and look after their service. We may not pay them but we still make THEM a ton of money by driving traffic to their domain. If they terminated all our accounts and no one used Tumblr, it'd go bankrupt. So they have an obligation to provide their service, and they do owe me the right to use my account; who knows how much money I've made them over the months I've been on Tumblr. I might feel differently had I actually broken any rules, but I had not. Not to mention how many people actively do break rules and never get terminated, but that's another story, haha. So sorry about your Kindle, though, Feyona. It may be worth reporting to BBB :(
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 25, 2016 19:52:45 GMT -5
I agree with Steven, I honestly hate Tumbrl. I've never understand it and I don't really get how it's a "good" way to share the CC. I don't see it as a secure web for this porpouse, they're not serious at all. But I respect those who use it... It's a pity what happen to you brit. Hopefuly they will restore it back soon if they had that "bug". If that's the case I find them really unreliable. But you have the choice at all. Good luck! Thanks Mathcope! I liked Tumblr (mostly) prior to this. It's a good way to share CC only because there are SO many fans on there and your CC can have a wider audience. I think now that I've built my "fan base" though, it's time to move my content to a more secure location. Having my own website with Wix is not only better (no random glitches should delete it, haha), but I also have a lot more control over layout, customization, organization, etc. which is important to me now that I have so much content. By the way, my Harry Potter pack is up on my Simblr (hehe). I haven't done the wizard robes yet- they'll be up in the next Harry Potter pack, the third and finally one
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 25, 2016 19:50:25 GMT -5
I left Tumblr...hmmm...i think it was over a year and a half ago now, God..2 years? I was under a different Creator name and it just Freaked me out, trying to stay up with the, "Simblr", crowd. I never really expected so many followers and attention overkill, it can really take off to an Extreme Level. Not that there is anything wrong with that, just not my thing. You can always Upload your CC here on S4S Creator Studios....you won't get Thousands of Likes, overnight, but there is no Pressure on Creating. The Likes that you get HERE - are worth a Million! Haha yeah, @stevenssimsstuff, I definitely get what you're saying about Tumblr/Simblr. I enjoy attention (haha), so that's not my problem with it. I guess for me, I'm older than most of the crowd there and I'll admit, it does get a bit much sometimes, especially with the Simblr "drama" in the community. I stay out of it, and try to only follow other Simblrs that just post about Sims and nothing else. I have been trying to mirror all my content here on the Creator Studios! I only found out about it after I'd started my Simblr, or else I probably never would've used Simblr to begin with. I'm glad we have the options here :D
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 25, 2016 0:56:24 GMT -5
I went to log into my Simblr this morning and got a message from Tumblr saying my account had been terminated. There was no notice and I actually have no idea why; I've followed their TOUs, and used the account solely for reposting CC and posting my own CC. I sent them a message right away but it's the middle of the night where they are, so I guess I'll be waiting a while for a reply. I can't even think it's for copyright infringement or anything, as apparently you get three strikes with copyright infringement, and I've never even had one strike. It's very annoying though, especially since I had just posted a new download last night (my custom Harry Potter traits- spent 2 weeks working on them!). All my downloads are backed up, but I would lose all my posts, notes, followers, etc. if they decide not to reinstate my account for whatever reason. I'm really just hoping it's a glitch. I looked on Twitter to see if other people had it happen to them and there were quite a few; one recently got his Tumblr reinstated and Tumblr replied saying it was a bug. So we'll see. In the meantime, just trying to figure out what I want to do. I'm not sure if I should trust Tumblr anymore, or at the very least, I should really start a sideblog and back up all my posts there (funnily enough, I started to do that a few weeks ago, but then thought it wasn't necessary). Has anyone ever had this happen to them? I know deesims2 had her Tumblr deactivated for posting "spam" and "affiliate" links, so who knows... Update: They restored my account! Long story short, it was a glitch in the system. At first, they accused me of "spam" and non-genuine reblogging (what does that even mean? lol). I wrote back and politely insisted that 1) I don't have any spam on my page and 2) I hardly ever reblog anything (genuinely only reblog once or twice a week) and asked that they send back a specific example of what I'd done wrong so I can't do it in the future. The guy I was speaking with told me they already sent an e-mail explaining it (they hadn't). I asked again for some specific examples...nothing. Then five hours later, he replied say it was a glitch in the system and nothing I'd ever done and apologized. Lol. Alls well that ends well, but I already started working on my Wix page now. Tumblr will just be for reblogs and to communicating with other fans....my Wix will host all my downloads and it'll be much better that way
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 21, 2016 21:31:39 GMT -5
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 21, 2016 19:05:42 GMT -5
I may write a tiny tutorial on the icons. They're so easy to do, but if you've never done it or don't know how it can take a bit of time to figure out, as I learned, haha. I haven't done anything with the proximity buff yet, but I'll have a lot more time today to look at it and experiment. I did have luck exporting .xml files from S4PE yesterday and importing them like we discussed I do have another question now, though...do you know if there's a way/how to make several different buffs with varying chances of appearing? At the moment, my trait has about 8 possible buffs (ugh, I know this sounds crazy, but hopefully it'll be cool in the end, lol), and some of them I want to have, for example, a 20% chance of appearing, while one of them I want to be permanent. I experimented with editing the .xml files for the chances and time-outs last night but the main thing is when using BAT Factory, it exports all my buffs into one .xml and I don't know how to single them out. I'm guessing that I need to create seperate instances for each buff, as well as seperate loot action instance (sorry, not at the computer, can't remember the actual name, haha), right? What about making a permanent buff? I tried and failed last night...somehow I did something which effected ALL the buffs in my game, making all them permanent (and my Sims were just standing around, doing nothing) not just my custom one. Whoops!
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 21, 2016 2:03:30 GMT -5
OMG I FIGURED OUT THE ICON! Haha, I can't believe I figured it out finally. The thing I was doing wrong was using a different type than the one recognized by the game/instanced by BAT Factory (it was supposed to be "dst image", I was importing it in my file as a "png" image). And yes, I sorta figured what you said above out on my own...I used S4S to make the image file, then imported into my trait using S4PE.
So happy right now :D Again, it's super easy to do, once you know what you're doing, haha. Now the next step, haha. Gonna have a look at the bro trait and see what I can do...it'll probably take me another two days and a bunch of dumb mistakes to figure it out yet again.
BTW, Phyre, just want to say you've been a Godsend! Thank you for all the advice and help...just talking it through with another person and knowing it's possible to do the things I want to do has been extremely encouraging and helpful :D Do you have a Tumblr account? I really want to add you to the credits list once I finish this mod :D
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 20, 2016 16:25:04 GMT -5
Hey Phyre I totally forgot about the "bro" trait and how it does that. I have the XML broswer program at home; I'll have a look tonight and see if I can make any sense of it. I would appreciate the pointers anyway, just in case I get stuck. I did try adding the custom thumbnail as a .png to my package file...and changed all the .xml and .simdata to reflect that, but I had a weird issue where the trait wouldn't show up in my game at all after editing with S4S. It actually seems to happen with any edits I make on S4S (I even fixed a simple typo in my strings file once and it did the same); I'm not sure if it's some sort of weird incompatibility issue with Buff and Trait Factory and S4S. I will try it again with S4PE, because I *think* I know how to to do it, but I just don't feel as comfortable using S4PE as I do with S4S. Anyway, I'm at work now, so I'll try all this stuff when I get home in ten hours, hehe :D
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 19, 2016 21:01:48 GMT -5
Thanks Phyre! Take your time! You've been extremely helpful and I'm learning a lot. I'd love to actually understand how the XML files work too, so I don't have to depend on Zerbu's program Edit: Another question (I know, I know, sorry if I'm bugging you, haha), but how would I go about importing a custom icon for my trait? I think I'm sorta there...I've figured out the size, that it needs to be modded in via it's own .package file, but what other information should the file include other than the .png or .dds? If you know?
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 19, 2016 8:26:31 GMT -5
Haha, yeah, phyre...I'm a dunce. It was my first time making a trait and using BAT factory, so I was bound to screw up, haha. I've made a second trait now (if you can't guess, I'm doing all the Hogwarts houses), and it was so much faster and easier to do the second time around! But while I've got you here, what do you know about making proximity buffs? Do you know how to make them? Could I make a proximity buff where the condition is one of my custom traits (i.e. Gryffindors get a happy moodlet when with other Sims that have the Gryffindor trait, or they get an angry moodlet when around Sims with the Slytherin trait, etc.)?
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 19, 2016 3:54:56 GMT -5
Hey phyre , I'm still having no luck with my buff :( When I flag the buff to "true", the trait doesn't show up in my game at all. I don't know how to fix it. I know how to make the trait just fine, it seems to be the buff that's the problem. Any suggestions? Do you make custom traits from scratch? How do you go about adding buffs?Nevermind...I figured it out. I was having the problem for the dumbest reason, actually...lol. I hadn't saved the trait and buff together after creating them and was therefore just exporting the trait by itself. Stupid rookie mistake, and it's super embarrassing, but I'm sharing in case anyone else runs across the same thing. Thank you for your help, though! I learned lots about buffs and traits thanks to you :D
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Post by brittpinkiesims on Jul 18, 2016 14:50:28 GMT -5
Thank you so much for your help, Phyre! That wasn't exactly the issue I needed fixed, though...you made the trait visible as a buff, but I actually had an additional buff which was supposed to become visible with my trait (called Gryffindor House Pride). Anyway, the advice you gave me still helped to fix my problem....I looked into the SimData files using S4S and the visibility of that buff was also set to false, so I fixed it :D. i would post a screenshot but I'm on my way to work and only had time to briefly test it.
Odd that they were tuned to "false" as BAT factory has a toggle to make buffs/traits hidden or visible and I definitely made the buff visible, but oh well! Problem fized and now I know how to fix it in the future :D
I'll test it properly when I get home! Thanks again!
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