Beginner's Object Recoloring Tutorial?
Chairman Greg:
Thanks, Jakov! I'll try that tonight!
I'm beginning to suspect that such a basic tutorial is hard to find because most folks figure it's too basic to even bother! My problem might have been that I was making it much harder than it needed to be! :laugh:
Addendum: Yippee! It worked!
Anja can finally have the Shelby Cobra she's been campaigning for! And my present is that I no longer have edit every picture where a vehicle shows up in her story!
It seems like a lot of work to make a little electronic stripper happy, but it was fun!
I had to flip over to Numenor's tutorial to figure out the finer points of "Built DXT" but I wouldn't have even known to look for that without your help, Jakov! Thanks again!
I have more work to do on the textures for that car, but at least now I know how to do it! :happy8:
Caution is advised: Greg learning to use a new toy can be hazardous to your Downloads folder.
BeosBoxBoy:
Very cool!
I should have mentioned Build DXT requires Nvidia DDS Utilities - get them here: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html
And I always use DXT3 format regardless of what the original was (DXT3 suffers the least amount of junk and garbage compression of the formats supported)
Chairman Greg:
Good point! Those DXT utilities even wake up when I'm using the Wizards of Simpe to recolor a Maxian object.
(They're easy to install and use. No one reading this thread need be affrighted by the alphabet soup.)
TXSundown:
Hi. I found this thread and have been looking for that tutorial Beos said he'd post but can't find it. Did you post it Beos?
I am having a terrible time trying to learn SimPE and doing recolors... can't get them to show up in my game. I've read just about every tutorial out there but they always seem to talk over my head and not touch all of the bases of questions that I have/had. I guess I need something for the ultra-beginner, something with training wheels that touches every possible corner. You got something like that? :)
Chairman Greg:
His step-by-step instructions in the 5th message in this thread (plus a little glance at that other tutorial by Numenor) was sufficient to get me going on recoloring.
There's a chance you're making the same boo-boo I did on my first try with this: Make sure to put a copy of the .package for your recolored object into your Downloads folder.
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