sims-tutorials

[kouukie]

I re-uploaded this because I deleted it a while ago. I added new links with newer programs. Enjoy! 

*I am still not answering questions on how to download these programs*

Marvelous Designer:

Marvelous Designer 7 Marvelous Designer 6.5 Avatars

Prepping the Mesh:

Blender 2.70 Blender 2.77 Sims 4 Studio UV Guides

UV Mapping:

Photoshop CC Photoshop CS6 Normals & Specular

Here’s my start to finish meshing tutorial (Sims 4)

[trillyke]

Can you make a tutorial on how to make a lace dress that is actually seethrough? (Like your latest dress) :)

The process is not that difficult, so I’m gonna demonstrate it with screenshots below. :)

IMPORTANT! This is not a beginner tutorial, it only might make sense, if you already have a little experience in Blender/making CC.

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[postedonline]

Hey guys!! I’ve gotten quite a few asks about how I am able to make sidewalks around buildings with foundations. So, here’s a mini pic-tutorial-thingymabob on how I did it.

picture tutorial below the cut!

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[endmaske]

Brilliant!

[simmerberlin]

POSING TUTORIAL: FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

Helluu! You know the moment when you think you found the perfect pose for your story/gameplay but the faces look… uhm… a bit… off?

Yeah, I know.

When I first started making poses, the facial expressions were the hardest part for me. Because no matter what I do, I felt like they don’t look like the way I wanted them to look like. After many many many (many) hours spent in Blender, now I can achieve the emotions I want and I thought, HEY LET’S SHARE SOME TIPS&TRICKS YOU WISH SOMEONE TOLD YOU WHEN YOU FIRST STARTED!!

1. The View Mode

This is probably the most crucial part, at least it was for me. When you open Blender, you see your rig in Perspective mode, and it means it looks distorted. I know some pose makers prefer this view mode, but for me, it’s impossible to get the emotions I want when Blender is in this mode. So what should we do? We should switch the view mode to “Ortho”. Go to “View” menu, Click on “View Persp/Ortho” or just press 5 (Numpad). 

2. The Brows

Brows are where the magic happens! Just with a few minor tweaks, you can change the default face in so many different ways, even without touching the other parts of the face.

3. The Lids

Eyes wide open for a totally shoketh look, or slightly closed lids for “You bore the hell outta me” mood. If you close both the up and low lid slightly, here you go you’ll have a “I’m gonna kill you but I can’t yet decide how” look.

4. Closing The Lids

Okay, this took me long time to figure out but I’m finally happy with the results! Guess what, when you close the eyes, our beloved eyelashes CLIP! I KNOW! It’s terrible. It’s a disaster. Oh the time I’ve spent trying to fix the clipping in Photoshop… Anyway, there’s a way to avoid that. Just move the up lid forward a tiny bit with G after closing it.

Closing the eyes are a good way to show intense emotions. Combine it with different brow and mouth movements and you’ll get a wide range of emotions.

5. The Jaw 

When posing the jaw, make sure you lock the W, X and Y axis before you open the rig’s mouth. In order to do that, press N and click on the little locks next to W, X and Y. That will prevent jaws to run wild.

Combine an open mouth with flying brows and open eyelids, and you have a surprised face. Change the brows a bit, you have a “oh no, not that again?!” face. Slightly close the lids and change the brows again, now you have a mad mad face in front of you.

6. The Mouth

The mouth is tricky ladies and gent… If you over-do it, it will look hideous. So try to be subtle when moving those points. There’s a fine line between a natural smirk and the whole Strangerville mood.

The same goes for the sad faces too. If you drag the mouth corners too much, it won’t look natural. Just a little tweak would be more than enough especially when combined with matching brows and eyelids.

7. The Lips

Okay this is the fun part! Don’t hesitate to play with the lips! They can add so much to a pose. Use the “G” key for dragging the points around.

8. The Eyes

People rarely look at something directly, so when you’re making poses, try to avoid the default eye placement. Move them around.

9. Now combine everything!

Go wild!

Hope that was helpful! Take care guys :)

[deepspase]

Choker for The sims 4 (meshing, mapping, texturing)

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[saudade-sims4]

deelitefulsims made this discovery after many hours of wanting to tear her hair out by the roots. I was lucky enough to be on the phone with her this evening when she made this profound revelation ;) I then checked my settings and saw that my compression settings were on “production” which is why I couldn’t replicate her results on my computer. I’m not sure if “highest” would be even better, but it wouldn’t hurt, I don’t guess. 

So if you’re having pixelation issues, give this a try! 

[lexiconluthor]

REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE 

[unobservantsims-deactivated2015]

Well there you go! Mine was always on production but I’m not tempted to bump it up to highest and see what happens….Fingers crossed for less artifacts lol

[magic-bot]

Tutorial: How to make a preset for face TS4 (EN)

We will need MorphMaker and Blender (v 2.78) I attached the archive with an empty blend file and texture maps, it is convenient for future work => CLICK Simplified version (only in screenshots) => CLICK Русская версия => ЗДЕСЬ

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[mauvemorn]

MD Mesh Retopology. Blender ( Method 2/4 )

Converting internal lines created in Marvelous Designer to surface in Blender

( turn on English subtitles )

Blender ( method 1 ) - best for garments made of geometrically simple, straight-edged patterns;

Blender ( method 2 ) - best for garments made of symmetrical, geometrically complex patterns;

Blender ( method 3 ) - universal, but is best for garments with folds/wrinkles;

Blender ( method 4 ) - universal, but is best for people whose version of MD precedes 4.

Hello. In this tutorial, I will explain how to convert a “wireframe” created with internal lines in Marvelous Designer to surface in Blender.

ENG | ВЕРСИЯ НА РУССКОМ

WRITTEN TUTORIAL:

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[jwofles-sims]

How To Add Transparency to a Clothing (Adding a New Cut)

note - you can view the images in full resolution here

Hiya, this tutorial is on how to add a transparent part of your clothing (and keep the other part as non-transparent). 

I’ll be starting with a dress that only has 1 cut, and I’ll be creating a completely new cut to put the transparent part of the mesh into.

This should work for clothing with any number of cuts, but like always I suggest only using 1 cut clothing to make your life easier. Also I’d like to credit @untraditionalnerd as I used their tutorial as a base for this. 

For your dress to be transparent, you need two things.

A transparent texture, that’s quite straight forward so I won’t go through that here. 

A transparency-enabled mesh/meshgroup - that’s what this tutorial is for!

STEP 1 - blender cuts Go into edit mode, select the parts of the mesh you want to be transparent and press P to separate to a new mesh.

Then change the name (doesn’t affect anything but stops you from going crazy), and change the cut number.

The cut number will be the next number after whatever is already used. For instance, my mesh started with one meshgroup, and its cut number is 0000. Therefore I gave the new mesh a cut of 0001 as it’s the next logical number to use.

If your mesh uses cuts 0000, 0001, and 0002, then you make your new mesh 0003. Simple :-)

STEP 2 - importing geometry & duplicating

Import your .blend with the new meshgroup/cut into s4studio.

Then, go to the warehouse page, and find your LOD0. It’ll be the geometry with the biggest filesize, and you should be able to see your mesh in the preview.

As you can see above, the transparent group is not visible in the mesh preview, don’t worry about this.

First, you need to duplicate this geometry.

When the box pops up to duplicate, change the last character of the group to ‘1’. If that doesn’t work, just try any number/character until it’s accepted.

It doesn’t matter that the filesize of the duplicated geometry is 0b Cool, now we’ve got the base for the transparent geometry. 

STEP 3 - make new geometry simglass

This is a small but vital step. Go to the data section of your new geometry, and change the shader to simglass. This is the transparency shader Sims 4 uses.

STEP 4 - region map editing

This can be tricky so follow closely. On your duplicated/new geometry, go to the data tab, and copy and paste the group, instance and type somewhere because you need these values.

Find your region map, go to edit items, then add a new entry. Select your new entry, enter the cut number that we gave the new meshgroup earlier in the blender step. Keep the regiontype as base.

Next, click the edit items button with your new cut selected. Then add a new model entry, and paste the values that you copied earlier for the new geometry you made into the boxes. Then save the models and entry, and save the region map entry.

This step has created the new cut number in the package, and linked the mesh we duplicated earlier to that cut.

After that, make sure you re-import your mesh. As you can see the transparent part shows up in the 3d preview again, and it also shows up isolated in the new geometry in warehouse which is good (means you’ve done it right).

STEP 5 - adding new geometry to LODs / swatches

This process is much easier if you only have one swatch for the moment (you can add more swatches after this and that’ll be fine), as if you already have multiple swatches you need to do this process for every swatch.

Go to your swatch (cas part), and scroll down till you find the Lods part, and click edit items.

Then, go to level 0 (LOD0), and click edit items. Then add a new entry, and again fill in boxes with the values that you copied earlier for the new geometry (the same ones you used earlier). Once you enter the values, press save.

Ignore in the image that my entry says -000000000-, it just doesn’t update instantly sometimes.

Now your transparent mesh is rendered for LOD0 and you’re actually all done!!…. Except for LOD1, LOD2, and LOD3..  

You now have two options to finish up:

(easy) Use the LOD0 transparent mesh for all LODs.

In the LOD entries, for level 1, 2, and 3, do the same thing for what you did level 0, pasting that same information in. This adds the transparent mesh you made to each LOD.

This means that your LODs will be like normal, except the transparent mesh will stay the same throughout all the LODs (it’ll stay high poly in the lower LODs).

This choice is not as good as the next one, but if you’re not really confident with messing around with this stuff, just do this as it’s easier since bad LODs for one item won’t have a major performance hit.

or..

(hard) Make a seperate LODs for the transparent mesh.

This basically means repeating the whole tutorial for each LOD which can be a lot of work (however trust me when you know the process it gets really easy).

It’s all the same but you duplicate the corresponding LOD geometry for the start, and you when you change the last character of the group, instead of 1 you just use a different number. If you remember the numbers you change it to, when you’re entering all the details into the different entry boxes, you can just copy existing entries, and change the last character of the group to the different numbers you used (that’s what I mean it can get easy when you’re doing the process, and you do like 3-4 meshes at a time).

This is superior choice to the first one, as you’ll have proper LODs, so the transparent mesh will get low poly in LOD 1, 2, 3 etc along with the other part of the mesh (if you imported lower poly meshes for lower LODs).

Andd after that, you should be finished! Woo!

EXTRA NOTES

If your transparent mesh in game has triangles/alpha issues, follow this tutorial (u gotta triangulate and do alpha order).

There are blender instructions in the replies.If your transparent mesh in game is shiny, make sure you have a proper spec map (with no shine) and a normal map (can be a blank normal map, just any normal map).

Make sure you have laptop mode turned off, as this setting disables transparency.

If something didn’t make sense or you want to ask a question, feel free to reply or contact me :)

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Choker for The sims 4 (meshing, mapping, texturing)

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[nightingalesims]

how to simulate a satin texture on your clothing

I’m sorry, this video hasn’t a audio, I don’t have a microphone and I’m not SOOOO confident in my English to get point of recording a how to >u< buttttt @magnolia-c, I hope you understand as well! This is a way I do my “satin” textures in blender! Hope you like ittt ♥ 

some config tips for you:

- render option in “Blender Render”

- in “Viewport Shading” choose “Material” or “Texture”

- in the “Materials” panel put these settings: select “Lambert” and check the box “Ramp” to activate the light and shadow slider, and thus be able to edit the lighting intensity in the “folds”

- The lights matter a LOT! I use the standard coming from the Sims 4 Studio for everything. 4 lamps arranged in 4 directions and one down for whatever, but that matters… I advise you to do the same!

- In the option to make the bake, configure in the way of the print, being able to vary the margin of 1 to 3 px of distance.- The moment you organize your uv map leave a safe distance between them so that the border doesn’t overlap another.

feel free to reblog this if you think it’s can help anyone! ♥ @sssvitlans​

[kikovanitysimmer]

@complex-sims

[theslyd]

Tutorial: How to bake shadow map for CAS items

NOTE: This tutorial is using a dress and an accessory coat as examples. The method applies to any CAS item that you want to bake its shadow, including necklaces, glasses, hats, rings, bracelets, shoes, clothes of course, etc.

The shadow map draws shadow on the underneath meshes (which could be either a sim body mesh or another CAS item) covered by your item. It adds depth and makes your item a little more realistic. 

Instead of hand-painting it, this tutorial will show you how to use the blender baking to create a ‘correct’ shadow map with just a few steps. 

Please read my tutorial of How to bake shadow for clothing to make sure you understand the basics of baking. This tutorial will not cover some similar steps again.

NOTE: 

This method only works on the mesh where it’s able to tell the sim body from the clothes or accessory you’re making.

It does NOT work if your item is painted on the sim body mesh.

Pt. 1 Your mesh includes part of the sim body mesh, e.g. tops, pants, dresses.

1. Open your mesh with blender, go into Edit Mode and select the faces which belong to the sim body. 

2. Press P key to separate the selected faces into a new mesh. 

Step 1&2 isn’t a must. But it makes the baked result easier to edit later.

3. Select the sim body mesh you just separated.

4. Open the World panel with a globe icon.

5. Check Ambient Occlusion and Environment Lighting.

6. Increase Environment Lighting to 2.5. This will make the shadow darker and shading of the mesh itself (which we don’t need) lighter.

7. Set Samples.

8. Add a new image in 1024x2048 in the UV/Image Editor and Bake in Ambient Occlusion Mode.

9. You should get something like this.

10. Save the baked image.

Pt. 2 Your mesh does NOT include the sim body mesh, e.g. necklaces, acc clothing.

11. Open your mesh in blender, expand the rig tree and select the sim body mesh where the shadow should appear. Note you need to highlight the Eye, the Arrow and the Camera icon to be able to select and bake an invisible sim body mesh.

12. Bake the selected sim body mesh the same way above. And save the baked image.

13. Open the baked image in Photoshop. Add a new layer under the baked image and fill in with pure white.

14. On the baked image layer, use the Eraser tool or Select tool to get rid of the shadow that is not from the item you’re making, e.g. between the fingers and legs.

15. Reduce the Opacity of the shadow layer. You might need to test in game for a few times to get a best result. Please never use a pure black shadow map.

16. In the Channel panel, add an alpha channel. Fill with pure white on the area where your shadow is. The range doesn’t need to be accurate.

17. Save your shadow map into a .dds file and import into your .package file with sims4studio. Test it in game.

[deadgirlmakeup]

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[greenplumbboblover]

Super duper random picture! But, can you believe I made this in 5 minutes? Want to find out how? (yes I’m so using that meme :P) Here

It’s this awesome tool I recently bought for myself called “blender hair tool”. Now Maya and all the other cool but expensive tools seem to have a tool like this too, but it really is worth it since meshing a hair including texturing, UV mapping it (Yes this tool comes with an already, UV mapped thing for you! yay!). and applying weight to the hair which is great for creating game characters!

Yes the thing looks a bit bleh and the textures look shit because it just feels like a SIA hairstyle, but I am still impressed that a result like that can be given in just literally 5 min!

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

[kedreeva]

I hear a lot of people bitching that they can’t leave kudos multiple times per story, or can’t leave kudos on every chapter, or whatever.

Well, take a page out of this marvelous book, because I swear I’ve never been so happy to receive kudos as waking up to multiple people having done this on multiple chapters on a story I just posted.

The bar just got raised, folks.

[robertmarch82]

Would… would writers be glad to read a comment, that is saying “kudos”? 

[emospritelet]

We’re happy to get a smiley face, honestly. Leaving another kudos like this is great. Anything that tells us we aren’t just screaming into the void

[worryinglyinnocent]

^^^^^ This. Even the smallest comments are golddust. 

[timelordthirteen]

Seconding, thirding, and fourthing all of this. Saying or typing anything is amazing.

[delirious-comfort]

writers are happy with anything that isn’t ‘update pls’ when you just uploaded. type the alphabet and we’ll be grinning like fools cuz ‘sames’. 

[krey-9-jorce]

Dang I know what to do now!!!!

[crakrats-joanielspeak-deactivat]

Oh, but you can get creative with your extra kudos! 

LOVE LOVE LOVE!

(✿◠‿◠) – “I heart this so much!!” ⊂◉‿◉つ – “OMG, the surprise was so sweet! ☆(❁‿❁)☆ – “AHH! Love it!” ≧◠‿◠≦ – “All the feels!” ٩(˘◡˘)۶ – “Woot!!” ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) – “I see what you did there and/or that smut was on point.” ┑(￣▽￣)┍ – “Sweet praises for you!” ლ(╹◡╹ლ) – “I love this story so hard, I get tingles when it updates!” ʘ‿ʘ – “WHat?!” (●⌒∇⌒●) – “Squee!!” (❁´◡`❁) – “Oh dear god, cavities!” (ﾉ´▽｀)ﾉ♪ – “This made me siiiinnnnnggggg!!” ┏(＾0＾)┛ – “Happy dance!” ヾ(＾∇＾) – “Wonderful fic! Thanks again!”

OMG sadface.

(┬＿┬) – “Literally crying, rn.” (^)o(^) – “Holy moly!”  (◕﹏◕✿) – “How … how could you do this to me?!” ಥ‿ಥ – “I’m not crying you are!”

FLAMES!

ᕕ(◉Д◉ )ᕗ – “WTAF?!” (⊙…⊙,) – “Did yoU JUST.” ᕕ(˵•̀෴•́˵)ᕗ – “HOW DARE YOU! With my OWN EYES!” (ノ°Д°）ノ︵ ┻━┻ – “TABLE FLIP, you son-OF-A-!”

I canNOT with you!

(@[]@!!) – “WHAT IN THE HOLY HELL ARE YOU DOING?!” ＼(◎o◎)／！– “WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT.” (´･_･`) – “I do not know how I feel about this.”

Assorted.

><((((’> – “This fish is delicious.”

[phantoms-lair]

Feedback means everything to fanfic writers and hitting a like or kudos button doesn’t really give that. Even one word reviews do wonders

[dust-bubbles]

for anyone who’s new to the community, or wants to learn more about custom content, i wanted to compile a database/informational post for all things cc related!! this is going to be a long post, so i’ve included little headers to help you find what you’re looking for! ♥

what is custom content? custom content is something you can download to add to your game in order to add more variety or tweak things you might not like. however, it is made by fans!! therefore, always be careful where you download your content from. alpha vs maxis match: in the sims 4 community, you might find these two different styles floating around. maxis match refers to items that fit the game’s aesthetic and it’s more clay looking when it comes to hair. (ex: from aharris00britney) alpha content refers to items that are more realistic looking and the hair might have separate strands. (ex: from anto) default vs non-default: these terms mainly refer to eyes and skin overlays, however, it can be applied to almost anything. default means that the item will replace the base game’s existing item. (ex: from dangerouslyfreejellyfish) these eyes will replace the base game’s eyes and all of your sims will have these eyes instead. non-default means that instead of replacing an in-game item, it’ll be a separate swatch or item. how do i download custom content? × for macs | file unzipper for mac × for windows | file unzipper for windows

if you want to make custom content, i’ve compiled a list of tutorials for you!! (making cc is not an easy process, so don’t be discouraged if you don’t get it on the first try!!) general tutorials + lists made by others: × index of tutorials (please check here first, as it has basically everything. i’ll be linking everything else that’s helpful but isn’t included in that list) × making a custom thumbnail × a whole page on cc making × a very helpful list for cas cc cas tutorials: × eyeshadow | makeup mirroring × recoloring | gimp  × making a custom cas background × adding cutouts in your cc × frankenmeshing hair | ombre | modifying hair | hat chops × simple shadow tutorial × how to make textures × frankenmeshing clothing × marvelous designer mesh tutorial | part 2 | 3 | 4 build/buy tutorials: × separating meshes × adding slots to objects × six-seat tables for base game

if you need help finding cc to add to your game, i’ve listed a couple really great websites/blogs you can go to!! × sssvitlans × love4sims4 × thesimsresource × sims4downloads × sims4updates

helpful things that’ll make your life a lot easier!! × white hair base action × maxis match hair color actions × preview psds × uv template × simlish font list × blender cheat sheet × blender shortcuts + tips × marvelous designer tips