#s4 gimp tutorial

[zeussim]

A Youtube Texture Tutorial in GIMP by Zeussim

A texture haul of a base game dress to show how I do detailed textures! It's a mix of a tutorial and a speed texturing video. The techniques I use are really simple, they just take practice!

The link is embedded in the photo, but here’s a link in case

@maxismatchccworld @faaeish @thefoxburyinstitute

[maxismatchccworld]

Sims 4 Custom Content Making Tutorial:How to make a cc bed for Sims 4 (Part-3:Texturing and Importing Final Mod file into The Sims 4)

This is the part-3 of Sims 4 custom content or cc making tutorial:this tutorial explains how to create texture,normal map,diffuse map and specular map for Sims 4 cc objects and how to import texture maps into Sims 4 Studio.It also explains how to install your cc to your Sims 4 game.To know the required programs to make Sims 4 cc and to learn How to create the mesh of a cc Sims 4 bed,read Part-1 of this tutorial.To learn how to UV map your object and bake UV map of your objects for Sims 4 texturing and how to import your object to Sims 4 Studio read Part-2 of this tutorial.

Texture Tutorial Part 3 (Final)

Created for: The Sims 4 by sanjanasimsstudio

This is a continuation of this  and this tutorial!

[cubersims]

I’m the nonny who asked about the tattoos, would you do a picture tutorial on how to create the tattoos using gimp(Without nvidia plugins)? Would mean a lot I’ve been dying to create tattoos for my simmies. Thank you and have a nice day/night x3

Sims 4 GIMP tattoo tutorial!

Of course!! I had a hard time finding it out by myself, but i saw a lot of tutorials and tried a lot of different things!! I can show you how i do it, which isn’t perfect, but it’s ok ( i think at least ) ^-^

I’m gonna link the pics so the post isn’t that long ( sry if this is annoying i just like it better that way ) sry for many of the things being in danish and not english, i can’t change that :(

1. First of all, you need to download a few things:

you can find GIMP here!

a dds plugin for GIMP ( so you can transport the tattoo into s4s ) find it here ( there is a tutorial in the file, which tells you were to put the file )

sims4studio / s4s which you can find here! you have to create an account on the site to download the file, it’s totally safe and quick to do ;)

a map of the sims template, so you can see where your tattoo will be placed, find it here!

2. Find a tattoo you like, i use pinterest to find tattoos, there are tons of different ones on there! 

Keep in mind this tutorial works best with line work tattoos ( example ) 

But if you find something like this ( example ) or this ( example ) it can work too, it just doesn’t show up as well as the line work ones!

3. Install GIMP, s4s, and put the dds file into the plug-ins folder ( pic )

4. Open s4s and choose “cas - create cas standalone” ( pic )

5. Choose any base game tattoo you like and click next ( pic ), which tattoo you pick will determine where the tattoo will be found in game!

6. Then this will come up ( pic ), this is where your sims 4 package will be saved, you can put it where ever you like!

7. Export the current .dds file ( pic ) and open in GIMP!

8. Then import the “female template” pic into the file and remember to place the template under the dds file, so you can see the tattoo! ( pic )

9. Now open up your tattoo into another file in GIMP, and start playing around with the contrast and lightness/darkness of the pic! 

Since i’m working with this tattoo stencil ( pic ) it’s quite easy to make it into a sims tattoo, but if you’re working with a tattoo that has darker backgrounds or anything else i would play with the different settings under “colors”, like curves, contrast and levels until the background is as light as possible, without the tattoo being ligther than black ( idk if this makes sence ) ( example )

10. Now add an aplha layer to you pic: 

“layer>transparency>add-alpha-channel” ( pic ) 

Now you have to remove the whites from the pic “layer>transparency>color-to-alpha” ( pic ) 

Then choose white, now the white background should be removed! ( pic )

11. Now copy your tattoo “ctrl+c” ( or if on mac “command+c” ), and paste it into the first file we made in GIMP, the .dds one with the female template! And make your pasted tattoo into a new layer! ( pic )

12. Scale and move your image to your liking, but remember when using the “scale” tool to click on the chains, so they are pieced together, or else you’ll make the tattoo slimmer!! ( pic )

13. When you’re happy with the placement of your tattoo: 

Delete the “female template” layer

Rightclick on the .dds layer 

Make a new layer from it ( pic ) 

( Make sure that you ARE on the .dds layer or else the size of the pic will mess up and your tattoo will nok work!! )

Then merge the tattoo layer down into the new layer we just created and then delete the .dds layer! ( pic )

14. We’re now done creating the tattoo, click on the “file>export-as” and a window will pop up! ( pic )

You can name the tattoo whatever you like, but if you wan’t to make more swathes it’s easier to give them numbers! 

If you wish to make more swatches you can go through the former steps with a brand new tattoo, or just move the one you already made, and save it as another .dds file!

It should already say “.dds” up in the file name, if it doesn’t you can just click the “choose file” option in the bottom, and choose the .dds file!

15. When clicking export another little window will pop up, it’s very important that you click “BC3 / DXT5″ under compression and check on the “generate mipmaps” or else the tattoo will not work in s4s! ( pic )

16. Go back into s4s ( sims 4 studio ), and press import and choose the .dds file you just made! ( pic )

Then if you done everything correct your tattoo will pop up on the sim! 

It can be hard to figure out where precisely your tattoo will end up, so play around in GIMP, move the tattoo around ( before you come to step 13. ), and find the spot that fits perfectly!

17. You can go to the categories pannel and play around with the settings to match your liking! And now you’re done! Press “save” and it will save your packages where you put it under step 6., this is where i rename the file and i put into the game or i put it up for download!

Hope you guys liked this tutorial, please send me a message if you have trouble following my tutorial or there’s something you don’t understand! ^-^