Recoloring Mystery

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Engram:
Building DXT with the edited textures was actually the correct thing to do as that tends to work where just importing the textures fails.

You need a more experienced creator than me to help with object cloning and solving it's mysteries.

BlooM:
You need to clone the heli as a standalone object.
Then extract its textures(right click/export)
You edit them and reimport them back as DXT3( http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,11026.0.html )
Reading your post you already done it correct.
The only thing you forgot is to update the objects GUID, it still has the one from the original heli.
So the game will read the one that comes first(alphabetical order and will prolly have ignored your clone)

To change the GUID:
Open your clone
click object data
click name in resource list
in the bottom window you find the GUID box(plugin view)
change a few numbers or get a new GUID if your registred with Simpe
Tick box update all and hit update
Save

If done correct both will showup. :)

btw, there is tons off sims 3 stuff already

Except for the custom animations sims 3 is already far ahead on CC( you have so much more options)
the gameplay however is terrible, you definatly need a good comp.(wich i dont have one :D)


Edit,
Oh crap, is this a working heli?
You then need to list the obj Id's in the correct order and update them one by one(had some issues with objects with multiple GUIDs in the past)
If i remember correct you shouldn't tick the box update all then....

caffeinated.joy:
I'm going to move this to the mesh creation and recolouring help section, since this is what this is all about. Good luck!

edinfresno:
Bloom!! You're AWESOME!! I followed your instructions re: clone/recolor and it worked perfectly and, yes, you were quite correct about the unchanged GUID number so I changed that and all is well! The recolor worked out perfectly and I now have an all black chopper clone with which I shall make recolors.

Oh.. By the way and just so you'll know and as it turns out I didn't have to arrange the object ID numbers one by one, which is a blessing because it saves a step. Apparently the last version of SimPE does that automatically.

Thanks again so much for your help. You've really made my day and you shall be my favoritest bestest hero and my best friend for a WHOLE week! ;)

Thanks again, bunches!

Ed In Fresno

BlooM:
Cool! :)

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