#s4s tutorial

[melbrewer367]

Move Deco Cars to the Transportation Category

Hello! When I was looking for the answer on how to make this happen, I couldn't find a straight forward tutorial. Instead, I found a couple bits and fucked around in S4S and pieced it together so, I wanted to put out a quick straightforward tutorial so others don't have to do the same.

You'll just need S4S for this. On the main screen, click "My Projects" and then select your deco car file.

Now, go to the "Warehouse" tab. This is in the top left next to the Studio tab.

In the filter search bar type in "catalog" and then click "Filter." Then, click on the first one. On the right hand side, type "Tags" in the filter.

Scroll down on the right side and click the "Edit Items" button next to "Tags."

In the window that opens, click "Add" on the left hand side. Then, in the "TagValue" box on the right hand side, type in 2237, and then hit tab on your keyboard. Once you tab away, it will automatically update the "Tag" box directly above that to say "BuyCatEE_Transportation" Click the save button.

Now, you just need to repeat these steps for every "Object Catalog" entry your item has. There's one for each swatch. Make sure to save your package file when you're done!

Congrats, your deco car is in the transportation category in the build mode catalog now!

If they're currently showing in a category like Decor>Sculptures or Activites and Skills>Outdoors and you'd no longer like them to appear there now that they'll be in the transportation category, you can fix that quickly on the "Studio" tab.

While on the "Studio" tab, click the "Tags" tab on the right hand side. Uncheck any categories you no longer want the item to be in, and then click the "Apply To All Swatches" button. Again, don't forget to save when you're done.

That's it! It's actually really easy, it just gets a bit time consuming depending on how many swatches your deco car has, and how many deco cars you have. The build mode categories being nice and clean and not seeing items repeated across multiple sections is so nice though. 10 out of 10 Highly Recommend

[bnt0]

Viewing Your Giant CAS Closet by ANY Theme/Style

do you want to be able to switch between viewing your grunge and lolita cc in CAS? maybe you made a fairy and you want to limit their closet to your cottagecore and plant themed cc? or maybe you just really want to track down that specific victorian era dress you downloaded...

i figured out an easy way to view cc in CAS by ANY themes or styles you choose and i wanted to share bc i haven’t heard of anyone else who does this! i have 40gb of CAS cc of all styles and this helps me find the cc i need for any style of sim.

the simple explanation is below the cut and requires a basic understanding of how to change tags for an item in sims4studio, as well as viewing items in CAS by tag. if you don’t know how to do either of these, i am linking an in-depth beginner’s tutorial here and i’m always open for questions :3

ps this doesn’t work for certain categories (skin details, tattoos, body hair, scars)

basically, in sims4studio, instead of tagging individual swatches by their actual color, i use the color tags to sort items based on theme(s). each color corresponds to a theme or style, or even multiple styles.

the colors available in CAS are red, orange, white, black, blue, yellow, pink, brown, green, purple, and gray. i have a sticky note on my computer that lists the colors and the themes/styles i organize by and i actually assign multiple themes to some colors. for example, i color tag space-themed cc as purple, or emo and vampy cc as black and apply to all swatches for that item. in CAS, when i want to view space cc, i check purple and custom content and i can see all my space cc. even better, swatches can be tagged as multiple colors and you can view multiple color categories in CAS at once. the result is a quick and easy customizable CAS closet

some categories you can organize by: historical, goth, y2k, fairy, fantasy, grunge, island, kfashion, basics, lolita, modest, western/cowboy, etc. literally whatever categories help you the most!

[simmillercc]

Tutorial for Simplifying Changing Warehouse Info For Multiple Swatches Simplified: Sims 4 Studio

Hi everyone!

I have some exciting news - to me anyway, and I hope for you 😁

I recently had my tutorial approved on the Sims 4 Studio website!

This is for creators who use Sims 4 Studio, and anyone else who may wish to alter existing .package files.

Changing Warehouse Info For Multiple Swatches Simplified | Sims 4 Studio

Intro:

WHY I MADE THIS TUTORIAL

The purpose of this tutorial is to help creators and simmers alike simplify and speed up how to change information in the Warehouse tab in Sims 4 Studio for multiple swatches, especially if you have more than one section that needs adjusting, like Composition Method and Sort Layer for CAS items.

So, let’s say you’ve created an entire package with 15 swatches and have saved your package. Then you realize, OMG I forgot to change something in Warehouse mode and now have to go in and change each swatch separately. (cue dramatic music)

I don’t recommend this for only a few swatches, though, because, while helpful, this is not a one shot process, but it will save time for those packages with several swatches that require fixing/changing in the Warehouse tab.

Changing Warehouse Info For Multiple Swatches Simplified | Sims 4 Studio

[historysims4]

Hi people!

Someone knows a good tutorial to make and learn poses? Id like to learn and give my contribuiton for historical simblrs (other my cc stuffs).

Thanks in Advance and Happy simming 😉

[pictureamoebae]

Sims 4 Studio Batch Export/Import Cheats

I’m minded not everyone may know about the batch export and import cheats in Sims 4 Studio. They make it a lot, lot easier to get your files in and out of the program (which is especially welcome when making walls and/or anything with a lot of swatches).

Here’s how it works:

Step 1: Open S4S and ready your package by creating your swatches (the easiest way to do this is to load a colour palette you’ve already prepared using Tools > Color Palette but you can do it manually if you need to)

Step 2: Once you have your swatches in place, press CTRL+SHIFT+C (the same command to open the cheats window in TS4) and type studio.exportall

S4S will create a folder in the same location as your package that has all the various texture files associated with your package in PNG format. 

Go into that folder and delete everything that isn’t a main diffuse texture (all the files highlighted in the picture below are the ones you want to delete). You’ll be left with the same amount of identical diffuse textures as there are swatches in your package.

Step 3: Create your recolours/textures and save them with the file names of the corresponding diffuse textures/swatches you have in the folder S4S made. (You have to save them as PNG.)

Step 4: This is why it’s important to save the files in the same folder and with the names S4S created. Go back to S4S and in the cheats window (CTRL+SHIFT+C) type studio.importall and watch as it imports all of those nice new textures for you. It will likely throw an error at the end, but you can safely ignore it and close the error window (close it with the little red x in the top right corner).

(At first you won’t see any change. You have to click on a new swatch to see it’s imported them all.)

You’re done! You now have 48 (or a far more sensible number of) nice new textures and can save your package and check it in game.

This works for all objects and walls and floors. I haven’t tried it on cas objects because I don’t make them. 

Sometimes when importing wall textures if you’ve been using S4S for a while its memory can get a little overloaded and it won’t import them all. If this happens you can either close the program and start again, which will clear the memory, or you can just keep typing the batch import cheat and eventually it will import them all. It just needs a little coaxing. 

And for walls and floors S4S will automatically create the thumbnails for you. You still have to generate them yourself for all other objects by viewing them in game (or add your own in S4S).

This makes creating recolours in particular quick and easy. The most time consuming part is doing the recolouring itself. Gone are the days of individually importing hundreds of textures.

[thefoxburyinstitute]

how to modify sort layers with cas tools

have you downloaded cc where boots don’t tuck into pants and tops bleed over any pair of jeans. this tutorial will help fix all that.

thank you to @zurkdesign for this tutorial.

[alyssajoltsims]

Official Post from alyssajoltsims: G*d that's a long title, if I ever find a shorter way to put that, it's getting changed!Anyways this is how to make it so you don't need the mesh in your mods folder for another piece of cc. Useful for: not having alpha hair in your game when you want a clayified hair basically saving space for cc y

Obligatory cross-platform sharing!

just figured out how to do this so i figured i’d share!

[plumbobbles]

Tutorial: Converting tattoos to additional slots

Hey all! So, since mermaids don’t have legs they can’t use tattoos that are in the leg slots which means that some of @pyxiidis skin overlays don’t transfer over to mermaids. However, this is easily fixed by making the tattoos appear in some additional slots which I’m gonna show you how to do below!

First, you need to copy the original overlays file into your Sims 4 Studio Mods folder;

All we’re doing in this step is saving the thumbnail image to transfer across to the new files but if you’re not bothered about the thumbnail you can skip this part. Open up Sims 4 Studio click My Projects and open that file;

Where it has the thumbnail, select Export and save it anywhere with whatever name you want. I normally just save it in my mods folder with the name thumb and then delete it later when I don’t need it anymore.

Close out of this by hitting Cancel on the bottom right then select Create CAS Standalone from the main screen. On the next screen, select Custom from the Content dropbox on the top. Select all of these files then hit Next on the bottom right and name your package file.

Add the thumbnail that we saved in the previous step by importing it and then go onto the Categories tab.  The Outfit Type dropdown box is what we want to change. Basically change it to any tattoo slot that’s not legs, click the Apply to All Swatches button then save it and you’re done!

Add your new package file to your mods folder and that’s it. You can do this multiple times to have them show up in every tattoo slot there is and you can also merge all the files into one package file using the Content Management tool in S4S if you want to!

If you have any questions or issues feel free to send me a message/ask and I’ll try my best to help!