These instructions are apparently to make a mesh consisting of a nude body wearing a trenchcoat from two separate pieces, the trenchcoat mesh with pants and boots, and the nude body mesh. He downloaded the trenchcoat mesh from another source, apparently no longer available, so he's redistributing it. I'm not 100% sure why you need to do this manipulation to the trenchcoat file before you recolor it. Someone more mesh savvy than I am will have to answer that.
Unless this post was intended as a tutorial, I'm not sure why bobrunlille didn't perform the operation himself and offer just the result as a download.
I don't think this will help you convert other Maxis sized meshes to fit the various Bodybuilders -- both meshes were already scaled to body builder size -- for that you need Milkshape to manipulate the meshes to body builder sizes, and that's no small job.
Unless this post was intended as a tutorial, I'm not sure why bobrunlille didn't perform the operation himself and offer just the result as a download.
I don't think this will help you convert other Maxis sized meshes to fit the various Bodybuilders -- both meshes were already scaled to body builder size -- for that you need Milkshape to manipulate the meshes to body builder sizes, and that's no small job.
Well, what he said in the post for the trenchcoat was that the bodybuilder mesh - the one by marvine and beosboxboy - could not be redistributed without their permision so this technique was his way around that. Even when beosboxboy commented in the thread that he could, he said without marvine giving permission as well he couldn't redistribute their mesh. I think beosboxboy fixed it so you could just download it and install it, but I couldn't find a link to the fixed version so I just followed his instructions.
There were other comments in the thread about the technique being used and wirelessguy apparently used this same technique to convert a Maxis mesh to the bodybuilder shape - no details on how he did it. Best I could understand, they were using this technique to create a second body alpha mesh to stack over the nude bodybuilder mesh. I don't fully understand it so I was hoping someone could explain it or that maybe there was a tutorial for it.
ETA -
I found what I was looking for - at least I think I did. Body Shop has decided to give me problems tonight and not open so I can't check to see if this showed up in the catelog. Anyway, bobrunlille did a conversion for the Graduation Outfit for the Bodybuilder at GSC2. This is the same outfit that mia86 used as the basis for her robes for males and females from child through adult. How difficult is a conversion like this and/or has anyone else done conversaions for the graduation outfit for any of the bother bodybuilder meses - i.e. the Lean Bodybuilder, Bodybuilder Girl or the Teen Male Bodybuilder?