color values and tips for CC creators / SimPe users
Additive TXMT settings (stdMatAlphaBlendMode set to 'additive') allow you to create many colorful glowing variants of one gray texture (ExtRaw8Bit format). These are used first and foremost for lights - wall lamps, table lamps, neons.
Top pic features my 'Everglowing Flamingo Neon' recolors, all done with one 8bit texture and TXMT settings.
Here are some RGB values for StdMatDiffCoef + StdMatEmissiveCoef - as shown in the pic below, a combination of these two works best.
Basic colors: green / red / blue / cyan / magenta / yellow - are easy, you just pick the color from the drop-down palette in 'Categorised Properties' tab.
In case of intermediate shades, it's a bit tricky - some colors look almost the same in game - like these three:
Color chart comes in handy:
If you need less saturated shades, you can copy color value to RGB color editor of your choice and desaturate it slightly - then copy that new RGB value into StdMatEmissiveCoef field.
I don't recommend setting darker RGB color values to darken the lightpattern. Instead, you can lower stdMatAlphaMultiplier value - default is 1.000000. Setting alpha to 0.500000 will make it around half less bright.
Alternatively, you can darken the ExtRaw8Bit texture itself. I use "Curves" or "Levels" for that, since simple Brightness sliders tend to lower contrast and texture is slightly dull-looking.
Related tutorials:
How to export/import TXMT settings from one recolor to another.
This is a collection of all NPCs and townies that came with the secret Magic hood:
Butlers
High Witches
Neutral Witches
Landlords
Social Class Townies
The neutral witches have been put in the townie family instead of the service sims family so that they’ll show up correctly in game.
The NPCs will unfortunately have their names randomized when added to a main hood. You can check their original names here and change them back with SimPe.
When it comes to the Apartment Life NPCs you can choose to download them separately or all at once. The file with all NPCs also have the hot dog chefs, human statues & break dancers.
Why use this townie pool instead of the original stealth template that came with Apartment Life? Well, here’s what the Sims Wikia says about the Magic stealth hood:
I am sure this exists somewhere, but I simply cannot find it. I want to add the default social group sims to my Pleasantview, but only the sims, as Social Group "townies". Does anyone know if there exists a "sims-only hood" I can add or how I can go about doing this?
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