Thanks, Kimiko & pretty kitty!  It really helps to have an attractive subject to work with!

Keri Lynne is exquisite, Hardwaretoad!  My game welcomes her!

Oh!  A Scottish Power Girl!  Can life get any better than that?

Holy cow!  That is Officially Awesome! :blob6:

Oh!  I had this silly notion that if I checked the pregnant body shape in SimPE, they'll really be pregnant.

No worries; we've only begun to explore the possibilities, even with the meshes that came with the orginal game.

At the moment I'm going into serious Body Shop withdrawal symptoms because my main simming machine has spent the last four hours moving a huge site from one server to another and still has over an hour to go.  Darn!

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.)

Absolutely adorable, Jack!

Would it be feasible to change an adult female's body shape so that she looks pregnant, but isn't really?  And then back to normal again?

I've wished for that a few times when I was doing a photo shoot for a story where the sim was pregnant at the time of the action, but had subsequently given birth in the game.  

(I also have this deviant desire to have the social workers run around with a bulging belly, but we won't mention that. :angel: )

Holy Simolean!  Mag-NIF-icent! :blob5:

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.

Hey!  She sounds like my kind of gal! :laugh:


OKOKOK... seriously... sometimes the mesh's UV map can thwart your best-laid schemes.  This trick has to be matched with a mesh that's picking its pixels from the the same place as the garment you're working on.

It works for about 95% of the Maxis meshes but the more elaborate costumes have bits coming from all over the place.  In that case, you never know what you'll get!

Gosh, thanks, homerette!

I'm glad you enjoy these things!  It makes it Worth Doing, y'know.

Wonderful stuff!

That sounds simple enough!  Do you have to fiddle with the GUID or some other arcane bit of data?