#custom content tips

[lilaccreative]

Hii, big fan of your cc! Would you mind sharing any resources/tutorials you used to teach yourself how to make such maxis match looking cc please?

Thank you!! Most of what I know is either from youtube or the sims4studio website. There is the iconic blender donut tutorial that I recommend if you don't have 3d modeling experience. Illogical Sims and Syboulette have amazing sims 4 specific tutorials on their pages. The main software I use to make content are Blender and Adobe Substance Painter. Substance Painter has been life changing for texturing, I definitely think it is worth the price to get maxis match look. To bake textures, I will use this environment map texture, which helps get the even lighting/shading that a lot of maxis match items have. It definitely took a while to get the maxis match look I wanted to achieve and I still often to look at other creators' items to help understand maxis match proportions and textures. Best of luck!

[roaringdandelions]

Using Simblreen Gifts After Simblreen (for new Simblreen users & anybody interested in organizing their Mods folder)

Something that I’ve heard a few times now from various users is: “well, I love to go trick-or-treating, it’s so fun, but honestly I don’t know if I want to keep Halloween/fall-specific items in my game year-round, they’re just taking up too much space and will eventually get thrown out”.

And y’know what? That’s totally fair. I feel exactly the same way.

Simblreen items are like our real-life Halloween or Christmas decorations - they’re fun for the actual holiday, but maybe you don’t want to be staring at a jack-o-lantern well into April. Probably because it would have rotted four months before.

So my suggestion is: while you’re downloading your treats, make one specific folder in your Mods folder for ONLY Simblreen items (kind of like a “holiday decorations storage bin”) - they can be just this year’s treats, previous years’ treats, etc, whatever you want it to be - so that you can easily see which items were from the holiday and which items were from a day’s random CC shopping spree. I know that Simblreen has given me new connections to new creators, and I find myself downloading more of their content - which is great! But staying organized will allow me to enjoy my items for a long time afterwards.

Now, so many creators have gone above and beyond for their spooky treats - and some have gone above and beyond to make non-Halloween items, too! These items could be more flexible for day-to-day gameplay, so you could want to put them with all of your other, say, CAS Tops or Facepaints. The separate file helps with that, too! Because you’ve gone to the trouble of staying organized beforehand, once the holiday has come and gone, it will be that much easier to sort through the items that you do want to keep and store the other ones outside of your game. 

I hope this helps somebody who may be overwhelmed with all of the incredible items that they’ve received from this amazing holiday, and that you continue to enjoy this wonderful Simblreen <3

REBLOG if this will help your followers :-)

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