It is a onetime step, and once it’s done, you won’t need to do it again. Before we start messing around in Blender, there’s one thing you should set up. Open your preferred Blender file depending on what you’re going to bake and the desired resolution (in this example I’m going to use the AF-body-4t2-1024 file). PRELIMINARY STEP 1: CONFIGURING BLENDER’S GRAPHICS SETTINGS: Definitely recommend learning about that! It’s really powerful and will make your workflow with actions much faster.

I won’t cover how to do it in this tutorial, but you should be able to find it easily on Google by searching something like “Photoshop automate batch”.

If you want to make this much faster in Photoshop, there’s an automation option in it that allows you to run an action through a batch of files in a folder and then saves it all. I recommend saving them in different folders named BASE TS4 and ALPHA TS4 respectively to keep it organized. For the “No transparency” action I like to name it BASE (And your swatch number or name), and for the “Make Alpha” action I usually name it ALPHA (And that same swatch number/name). You should have 2 textures for each tattoo swatch. Then run the “Make Alpha” action on those same swatches (from the beginning, make sure you’re not running the action on an already edited swatch!), which will only show the alpha channel of the image in black and white, and save another copy of that. This will remove the alpha channel from the image, getting rid of all the transparency. Once you’ve done that, open them up one by one in Photoshop and run the “No transparency” action. I’m doing my best, as is everyone else, to remain positive during these uncertain times.♾XTRACTING TEXTURES AND EDITING THEM WITH PHOTOSHOP:įirst things first, you will need to extract as pngs all the textures you want to convert from TS4 using Sims 4 Studio. That’s why you may see that I am releasing sims during my hiatus.Īs for my mental health, it could be better, but it could also be worse.

To reiterate, I do intend on continuing requests slowly, to make sure they are as top-quality as I can create them. That’s why I decided to go on a temporary hiatus, because if I force myself to finish requests, they will end up sub-par and I might make myself sick of Sims 3 for much longer. I really appreciate your concern, and to be perfectly honest, it has been difficult to find the motivation to do anything related to Sims 3. I should be able to get working on Zico quite soon. ALSO thank you for all the hard work you’ve put into making and releasing sims for us Hi i requested a zico sim a bit ago, and i just wanted to check in with you and see how YOU are doing? and to check on your mental health too during this time.

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