SO..... my EA account got hacked. Funny enough it wasn't my main EA account.
Weird but I used to just use the google login to the EA app because I have a gmail username.. However a few weeks ago it made me a new account (I Should have stopped there and gotten help) BUT NO, I linked it.
So now my actual account only has HALF of the packs that I used to. HALF. It has the newest ones, but for some reason I'm missing 10 packs and the help desk said I can't get everything back until I unlink the "new" account from my google.. AND THATS IN MAY
This year has just been a mess with paypal screwing me over when someone hacked my account and now this..
Trying to stay positive, and I'll try to keep making CC but I feel broken and now I don't even want to make any CC. This suck MAJOR ASS. I kinda did screw myself, but at the same time wtf happened???
[CC Toolkit] Useful Tools for Blender and Photoshop
I recently tried making a Blender add-on with all the shortcuts I find useful so I thought, why not share them! As well as a couple other things that'll come in handy when you make CCs 😄
📂 DOWNLOAD // Google Drive / Google Doc
Blender add-on
This add-on gathers all shortcuts into one custom UI panel found in the 3D View's sidebar, with the addition of transfer weight/vertex/uv_1 tools that's often used for making CCs.
// To install:
Blender Preferences > Add-on > Install... > select vyxated_cc_toolkit.zip. Made for Blender v3.3 and up.
// Features
General: object shading & various camera view options. FOV slider is included here for quick access.
Mesh Tools: select and merge options.
Edit Split Tools: options to mark edges as sharp and create an edge split modifier (with only the Sharp Edges enabled).
UV Tools: options to mark edges as seam and UV unwrap the mesh.
Vertex Paint Tools: preset colors for vertex painting & a button to apply it to the whole mesh.
Weight Paint Tools: various shortcuts to clean up weight paint and a Delete Unused Vertex Groups shortcut to remove empty vertex groups generated from transferring the weight paint and using the Clean shortcut. Object must be connected to an armature for this to work.
Quick Transfer Tools: buttons that were easily accessible in Blender v2.79 panels are now made into a shortcut for newer Blender versions.
Includes options to transfer vertex color, weight paint, and uv_1 from active to selected objects. Note that the reference object must have the needed data for the shortcut to work.
Modifiers: added a few modifier shortcuts useful for making objects.
Data Transfer: modifier approach to the Quick Transfer Tools. Only available for weight & uv_1 transfer. It will automatically create a modifier with the necessary settings for a weight & uv_1 transfer. Note: must have a source object named 'REF", otherwise the operator fails.
Decimate: a quick decimate modifier with LOD presets. Only add the modifier once as you can reset the value with 0. Converts the modifier value to 0.75, 0.4, and 0.25.
Asset Browser for Blender
This is rather barebones right now, but you can suggest things if anything comes in mind. To install, add the CC Toolkit folder as asset library in Preferences > File Paths. Included in the library so far:
Hat models for hat chops.
Weight check animation for infant - adult.
To insert animation asset into your file:
Drag and drop any of the thumbnails found in CC Toolkit - Animations (with the link as import method). This will import a collection with the new rig and animation stored in it. Remove existing rigs so they don't take up space.
Once dropped, it will be placed on an offset which you can revert by pressing undo.
In the Outliners panel, hide any meshes that aren't needed.
On your mesh's armature modifier, select the new rig so you can test the animation on your mesh :)
Play the animation and see how your mesh moves around. There's about 1700~ of frames in total, so make sure to zoom out on the timeline to see the full anim.
Photoshop actions
// Features
Canvas from Clipboard: this will create a new canvas based on your most recent copied image and paste it in. This is useful if you want to do a quick edit of a snipped image.
Save as png/jpg
Save as DDS DXT5: export preset used for normal maps.
Save as DDS DXT1: export preset used for specular alpha mask.
Convert into normals: converts grayscale map to a regular RGB normal map. I use this to help me arrange normal maps for my CAS backgrounds and can be used to edit the normal map without having to worry about the individual RGB channels.
Revert normal map conversion: reverts the previous process and convert back to the grayscale map that's readable by S4S. If you create everything from scratch, this can be used to convert your normal map as well.
I meant to have this ready for Simblreen, but obviously that didn't happen. Mea culpa, and Happy Belated. Previews and download under the cut.
I really wanted to try my hand at a gothic Simlish font, and man, did this project cure that desire. 😫 Nevermore (named, of course, for EAP's The Raven) is definitely a display font; there are no lowercase letters or numbers. I might add numbers in the future if I can gin up the motivation to work on this one again.
The kerning on this one is pretty uniform, but I do suggest the usual manual edits if possible.
Attribution is appreciated, and I’d love to see your projects if you use it! Please do not use for commercial purposes or redistribute the font itself.
hey maxis match cc people and everyone else too
I separated flowers from 140 sims textures and put them all in one image grouped by color (with gaps large enough to rectangle select anything you want)
nothing is resized but tumblr will eat the quality so here's a download link (sfs, in the zip archive there's the whole image as well as every group by itself)
I FINALLY got around to updating the extra EA colors for infants, toddlers and kids for the Base Game, For Rent, Lovestruck, Business and Hobbies, Life and Death and Crystal Creations.
Hope you guys enjoy! I'm hoping to add these to curseforge soon (although someone has something similar on it already, I should still do it, right?)
Okay I know a few people have worked on this, making the "unnatural" colors available to the little ones, however I noticed no one has updated it recently. So this is up to date up until For Rent, which I will be working on shortly.
If there's any problem, please let me know!
These colors CAN be inherited genetically!
PATREON (always free) / GOOGLE DRIVE
I will update this post and reblog it when I update it, but it's best to join my patreon (FREE) to see the updates faster.
Google drive IS coming, it's just taking FOREVER to upload
Making CC LODs is super tedious, especially if you have a lot of cut numbers, so this is a script I wrote for Blender to help with making them! It's basically like a photoshop action, it just takes the meshes you have selected and runs through the commands as many times as you need.
To use it, just open up the text editor window in blender, navigate to where you've saved the script on your computer and open (or copy the text from the dropbox and paste it into the editor), then follow the instructions in the script. It's super simple to use and it's saved me a ton of time (especially while I was making simblreen gifts lol!) Send me a dm if you have any trouble or questions!
Hey guys. I haven't been posting lately because I haven't been happy with what I had been working with. I had joined the Witching Hour recoloring group as well and am rather disappointed in how SLOW they post. I was tasked with the Horse hairs and finished them 5 days after the pack actually came out, and have they actually posted? Sigh. They're good people though.
So I started working on refining my old palette. It's SO. MANY. HAIRS. but I want the challenge and find it kinda relaxing working on everything. IDK if i'll work on anything else before I put out the first set of hairs, but we'll see. I'm also obsessed with Dreamlight Valley and want to convert some items to the sims. So please stay with me!
I knew the absence of some of the EA hairs in neutral colors were making people crazy - and honestly me too. So I took time out to finish these. Sorry no previews uh that's a lot of previews and I just wanted to get these out for you guys.
Romantic Garden Stuff Bowling Night Vampires
City Living Kids Room Stuff Parenthood Vintage Glamor
these are ONLY the hairs and not the accessory overlays (sorry guys those get super tedious after awhile and I just don't have time)
Sorry for the delay guys, but I'm back and rarring to go!
Although to save time (because I am a busy mom...) I put all the recolors in one file so instead of splitting them in 3 packages for the unnaturals, naturals and neutrals, I combined them. This will be the normal for me from now on because it saves me SO MUCH TIME.
If you have problems with anything, please let me know
Hey guys - sorry for the SUPER long hiatus. I was actually getting back to doing recoloring and i’ve finished all the WMS neutral hairs that were missing, but then my dad passed away and getting on the computer was REALLY hard.
But I feel like my dad has been rooting me on and wanting me to get back into what I love and so here I am :) I’m working on infant stuff now but i’ll get back into missing EP, GP and SP by WMS and perhaps adding some CC hairs in the mean time. PLUS I want to convert some dreamlight valley things!
Also, being from Oklahoma, i’m SUPER excited for the Horses EP. I already have it preordered :D
