โ I love men with a natural fro, and my sim males deserved a voluminous natural fro. Had this in my CC folder for a while, but we needed more ethnic hairs for males anyways๐คท๐พโโ๏ธ.
Original Here by KikoVanity.
TS3 KikoVanity Tori Fro: SFS || MF
Polycount: 26k
Enabled Teen-Elder for Males
Custom Thumbnail
Only recolorable on roots channel
Also looks best in darker colors due to how original mesh was made!
Also special thanks to @lalasimmer, for her amazing tutorial. And for the additional help and tips when I was learning and practicing converting for males๐.
Maybe it's fate, or perhaps just our destiny... because @sentate and I are back with our fourth collaboration!
This year we felt like taking your sims out into the desert for a stylish summer festival. Featuring floaty bohemian influences fused with a twist of cowgirl glamour. Get ready to party under the never ending midnight sun... because your destiny awaits you.
The full collection features a combined total of 15 items across a specially designed 20 swatch colour palette, plus extra denim and print swatches.
Serenityโs part of the collaboration
Sentate's part of the collaboration
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๐Get Sentate's part of the collab here
Automation tips for CC creation (using photoshop + other softwares)
As someone who had to deal with 2000+ files several times in different ways, I've come up ways to do the minimum amount of manual work and just let the 'puter do the heavy lifting ๐ gotta keep that wrist healthy, ok?
very long post ahead ๐
// Convert .DDS files to .PNG in bulk
Oftentimes, you can use S4S built-in export all feature to export all images/swatches at once and give you the .PNGs you need. Sometimes, you can only do so via the batch export button, which only exports them as .DDS files (and they usually need further tweaking if they have alpha/transparency and you want to further edit them). Here's a quick way to convert many .DDS files into .PNG!
tools used: photopea
Batch export all textures that you want to edit from your package file
Using Photopea > click File > Automate... > Convert Formats > select previously exported images and choose PNG as format
Save .zip file and voila! They'll all retain the filename structure that S4S uses for batch export/import :-)
// Convert .PNG files back to .DDS in bulk
Some textures can only work properly if the file format imported is in .DDS. Unfortunately, converting them into .DDS using Photopea's feature wasn't working for me, so instead I found and used this program that does it automatically! (here I am contemplating all the time spent on manually converting files one by one and complained all the way through :'))
tools used: DDS converter
Source Folder: where your .dds files are; Target Folder: where your .png files are saved
To input, just drag and drop the folders into each text box and it will automatically fill in for you their folder paths
Choose the Output Format and Options depending on what you need, and Convert! (Check via S4S to see which settings you need to input.)
For example, some UI-related textures must be imported as .DDS with RGBA8, w/ alpha/transparency and no mip maps. So I selected RGBA as the Output Format, enabled alpha in Options, and disabled everything else.
// Photoshop's Actions for anything that can be automated
I won't get too much into this since there are tutorials using Photoshop Actions for recoloring a base texture/making an all-in-one recoloring set, but it can also be used to apply a set of steps/actions to several texture files, which leads me to the next point/tip:
// Photoshop's Batch feature
Say you have 50+ similar looking but not 100% identical textures that you want to edit, but going to each file and editing them takes a bit of time of your day. Easy fix!
tools used: photoshop/photopea
Create/record actions as usual on one of the files (and make sure it works well/comes out right).
File > Automate > Batch
Select your recently made action > choose source files/folder you want to apply the action to.
โ ๏ธโ ๏ธ Make sure that you don't have the .PSD file of the texture you were editing on in the source folder, or else the batch feature will apply the action on your .PSD file as well and mess it up (guess who learned the hard way? haha)
Choose Destination as either Save and Close (will override) or Folder (makes a duplicate, can be renamed, more safe too).
examples of what I've used it for:
- applying different backgrounds for my TidyCAS thumbnails
- making previews for my CAS lighting mods
- recoloring 30+ ts4 cursors into ts2 style cursors
- editing 1000+ texture files for the club gathering icon (only took 20~ minutes)
- recoloring 2000+ CAS/BB thumbnails for my Pastel UI by copying an adjustment layer for one color (manually) then letting the action do the rest to my existing icons (pasting and merging the layers together, all automatic)
// Export layers to files
Getting sidetracked a little bit, but if you use an all-in-one recolor action set that applies different color swatches to different layers, you can use Photoshop's Export Layer to Files feature to quickly export them into their own files! I wrote about its features >> here <<
// Photoshop's Layer Comps for everything in general
Honestly? Such an underrated feature and one I'm most excited to use/talk about. With S4S batch feature in mind, layer comps can be used to rename & export your files in the format that S4S uses to batch import them (so you don't need the hassle of manually saving textures, most of the work is done at the initial stage). What's great about this is that you can:
Utilize layer comps for recoloring instead of using photoshop actions + you can easily update them if you make any changes to the base texture/adjustment layer :D
(Better yet, you can create a base .psd file with layer comps for each swatch, then copy that base file whenever you start a new recoloring project. I've tried saving a psd with layer comps (pic below) vs a psd w/ all-in-one action set applied to the base texture then merged, and it's 28mb smaller in size! Very adjustment layer friendly and doesn't require you to make a complicated action set.)
Create multiple variations of your texture in the same .psd/project file and save them as layer comps, instead of trying to remember which layer to show/hide.
examples:
- making my eye recolors where I've separated the iris, pupil, and sclera into different layers and enabling/disabling when needed so
- making my highlighter set where I've separated different sections of the highlight (forehead, nose, cheeks) into diff layers that I can show/hide
- making my custom texture for CAS/BB thumbnails for my Sims 2 UI mod in very few files instead of making different .psd files per icon.
Rename the layer comps to match with the original texture(s) file name, so that they can be used for batch importing later on.
(When you import multiple files into an opened photoshop document (not as individual files), it will keep the filename it has on, and you can copy those filenames as you create new layer comps.)
Last but not least, if you make a new layer or added a layer mask to the base texture, you can add those additions to the existing layer comps by selecting all layer comps > select only the layers you've modified, then click on the eye icon (third from the left) so that it shows up on all layer comps. You can reorder the layer comps anytime you want as well.
// Batch export Layer Comps into files
Now if you went ๐ at its features, then this one's as exciting, because the layer comps you created can be exported with the name that you gave the layer comps with! To export them:
File > Export > Layer Comps to Files
Enable Index if you didn't name the layer comps properly (but have arranged them in the order you want them to show up in). Useful too if you add new layer comps in between and don't want to rename everything else that comes afterwards.
// Bulk Rename Utility
On the occasion that I don't name my layer comps properly (like the hair swatch example), I just use the bulk rename tool to add the necessary prefix/suffix :-) and practically anything else you may need the tool for.
here's an example when the layer comps are exported with index # enabled (starts as 0000).
Say it with me everyone!! โ
AI image generation is not good!! โ
AI music generation is not good!! โ
AI writing generation is not good!! โ
AI chatbots are not good!! โ
AI used for education is not good!! โ
AI used for programming is not good!! โ
AI used for ideas and inspiration is not good!! โ
AI used for mental health reasons is not good!! โ
AI is not good!! โ
If AI takes more from the planet than what we give back then it is NOT GOOD!! โ
You already know the drill, the original one was bothering me and I made it longer, but WHAT IF IT WAS SHORTER AS WELL??? And what if it made Barbie in the Swan Lake proud of ME?????? Anyway here it is an with sleeves to match!
The dress got the original 16 swatches + 16 solid swatches I made
The sleeves are just the gloves without the...... gloves.
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Ballet shoes here by NyxZouYou
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Adding to my usual begging moment, and again I'm really sorry about this because I hate this more than you do, but I amย really struggling. My parents and I aren't making enough money to live. I'm finally a grad, but I still have debt to clear and I could really use the help. If each one of you donated $1 dollar, it would clear my entire debt AT ONCE. I'm not joking.ย Just please consider helping <3 Love you, may God bless us all.
I made this fast edit because I felt HURT when I saw the new pack was going to be modern style :( So i saw this midi dress and my brain said "no!!!!!" then i blanked out and when i woke up I had a big dress and gloves to match.
The dress got the original 16 swatches + 16 solid swatches I made
The gloves are basically a recolor with mesh included, so they're Base Game Compatible
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By the way I wasn't able to remove the small clipping the frills do when the sim walks, so if you're not bothered by it:
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Adding to my usual begging moment, and again I'm really sorry about this because I hate this more than you do, but I amย really struggling. My parents and I aren't making enough money to live. I'm finally a grad, but I still have debt to clear and I could really use the help. If each one of you donated $1 dollar, it would clear my entire debt AT ONCE. I'm not joking.ย Just please consider helping <3 Love you, may God bless us all.
Normal mapping, or Dot3 bump mapping, is a technique used for faking the lighting of bumps and dents โ an implementation of bump mapping. It is used to add details without using more polygons. -ย Wikipedia
For the Sims 4, normal map is best for details like fabric creases. Hereโs an example showing the same mesh and texture with/without a normal map. Iโm using a solid color as texture map so you can see the bumps clearer.ย
โWhy not draw the details on the texture mapโ, you may ask. Because details generated from a normal map behave like real bumps and react to the light, which feels more realistic. While the texture map by itself doesnโt react to the light and looks flat. The difference is quite obvious from this in-game screenshot below.
Step-by-step guide after the cut.
NOTE: This method requires a high-poly mesh and a low-poly mesh. It wonโt work if you only have one mesh.
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