Does anyone know any good tutorials on how to colour characters with dark skin?
Like, just a few shades lighter than black, kind of dark.
My preferred style is very comic-esque black linework with cell shading - so it's very easy for details to get lost. It's also hard for me to translate things like undertones, from real life references into flat colouring.
Also anything on colouring lips (any skintone honestly). Since they're part of a character's face and thus stick out very obviously when you do them wrong.
Hello, I’d like to make 2 of my twin sims identical; can I just use SimPE to copy ones face onto the other? From what I could find online this also copies the clothes of the shared faces original owner; hopefully thats it for whats copied and I’m not risking outright making another version of the first sim haha
How to edit a sim face only on SimPE
So there is a way to edit only the sim face and create the identical twins that you want anon, no clothes and DNA, aside from the face, will be changed (I did a quick test on the face DNA, keep reading to find out what I found).
So you'll need either the Chris Hatch SimPE version that has the tool you need (Be warned that there is a version where it has sexual fictional characters images in it. They're clothed but still stating it as a warning just in case) or add Theo's tool in your SimPE plugin folder (I have a guide on how to install it here)
So after you got the tool needed and opened up SimPE we're gonna need to first get the sim that will import their face to the other sim. So go -> tools -> neighbourhood and then Sim Surgery (Alt Sim Surgery if you are using Theo's plugin tool).
In this tutorial example, I'm gonna make the pleasant girl twins look identical. Using Lilith as the one to give Angela her face template.
So after I found Lilith Pleasant in the sim pool I select her and then click the use button on the Patient Sim tab. I then click the export button to get her character data, which we need to pass on Lilith's face template. It will automatically send you to save her file on your saved sims folder. Save it there for now. Remember to delete it later once you're done with all the steps in this tutorial.
After saving Lilith's character data file we can now start with the face replacement step.
Open up the sim surgery again and this time we're gonna select Angela. After finding her, press the use button on the patient sim tab and this time click the "face only". Now click the load... button, that's next to Archetype sim, and use the Lilith file we just saved inside the saved sim folder. You should see the name of the file under External File.
After making sure you're using the correct sim file, patient sim and clicked face only, you can now click surgery on the bottom right. Congrats, you have just made your identical twins! Let's check in-game that all is correct.
After entering the lot of the sims you edited, sometime their face won't have changed to the new one you gave. No worries, we can fix that by just entering the change appearance either by sending them to a mirror or using simblender.
Forgot to mention I used a hood that I tested my GC sims on...oops. She doesn't look like Lilith's default game face but Angela still looks correctly like she should by now having Lilith's GC face.
And if you noticed. The face only tab also does as it says and ONLY changes the face while keeping the DNA the sim had before. So if the twins you want to look identical have different DNA, the DNA will at least be kept.
So I have been using this feature for a while with no issues but I wasn't sure if their facial DNA was also changed. So much to Angela's displeasure I'll be using her to test if she will have a chance to give her babies her new face or if her default base game will instead be used.
And as shown below, after I aged her up, and had her have two babies. One is her clone (done just in case none of her facial DNA passed to her test kids) and the other is with Dustin (since I needed a male doner). Both versions have successfully gained her new face as Angela's DNA 😃... man clone baby just proves that Angela's face feature was the one that strongly passed on, not sure if it was just pure luck here. Would advise you to test this more anon.
Hi! I was retexturing some hairs when I came across a wavy one (Lose you to love me) and I wondered how could I make another texture (like vidcund's new hair system) similar to that one, since the highlights are positioned differently.
Hi anon, this is outside my scope of knowledge, unfortunately.
SIms Community, would you please provide insight?
hi, hello! i saw your tutorial of how to blend images together using layer vector masks, and i'm having some issues when selecting the brush tool to make two gifs merged into one. the brush tool is not erasing, instead it appears in black or white... my question is somewhat different from your tutorial, but i hope you can help me in some way. in advance, thank you very much! (and i'm sorry for my english)
when you’re inside the mask layer it will all look black or white, you won’t see the results until after you exit out of the mask window. if you can send a screenshot of what you’re seeing it might help me better understand if it’s a different issue than just clicking out of the mask box? you can submit it or i believe that mobile asks now allow you to send images? but my submit box is open tho. for example you have this here:
this is what the mask box looks like while you’re in it and using the brush. when you click out of the box this is the result:
when i mean click out of the box, i mean this little box here in the layer section:
exit out of this box by clicking on literally anything else.
if this isn’t what you need help with send in screenshots and i’ll try to help further.
Does anyone know where I can find a tutorial on how to recolor using round/oval textures for rugs..I have no idea how to put a round/oval texture on square rugs like on Echo’s Rugs..I have sooo many textures that I would love to use but can’t at the moment..
If there isn’t any can anyone make a tutorial with pictures please..
Is anybody able to point me in the right direction of object meshing tutorials? I'm trying to make kid name signs for the walls in Ada and River's home for the twins to match Maddox & Lennon's that someone made for me and my mind is having a big blank 😂😂 Any help is appreciated x
