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Title: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: ashleycsy on June 30, 2009, 01:11:36 pm
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this! But how do you make infant clothing and infant items?


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: Theraven on June 30, 2009, 01:52:52 pm
you mean meshing, or just recoloring? Two different things, you know :)

Meshing, SimPE, photoshop, bone assignments, default replacements that doesn't overwrite the originals...

I'd recommend to start learning basic meshing first. Making body meshes isn't the easiest thing you can do - and it can easily go wrong. There are lots of beginner tutorials over at MTS2, and there are also a lot of tutorials here. You also need to be a bit familiar with SimPE, and also Photoshop (or similar) for the texturing part.

I'm thinking about making a simple recoloring tutorial. It won't include making a new mesh - simply because I've not gotten that far myself yet. :)


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: ashleycsy on June 30, 2009, 07:42:18 pm
Oh Ok! So when you make your clothing you use the recoloring process? That is what I want to do.

Where can I get SimPe from?

Thaks!


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: Katie on June 30, 2009, 09:29:31 pm
oh, i really need to know how to make my own recolors of things, especially infant clothes, that way i don't have to beg people to make them for me.


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: BlooM on June 30, 2009, 10:45:12 pm
While you can recolor toddler/kids/teens/adults and elder outfits with bodyshop you can not use it for infants.
Infant outfits(there are only 2 that came with the game) are custom made.
You need Simpe for it.
Best thing is to take one of my packages and edit the textures.


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: Katie on July 01, 2009, 12:14:43 am
how exactly do i do this though?? is there a decent tutorial somewhere?? i have the intention span of someone my age (14), and the patience of someone younger. but i have the will, aptitude, and knowledge much higher than this, if that helps in choosing a tutorial that works... and if that sounds like bragging to you, i am sorry, that was not the intent, but i have read all the HP books several times each, it only took me one day in 3rd grade to read the 5th one (the longest) . just needed to point that out. PLEASE AND THANX! 1rock


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: BlooM on July 01, 2009, 03:52:07 am
http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,53774.0.html (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,53774.0.html)
She uses the basegame mesh wich i made a few replacements for.
You find them here in case you want to use another one:
http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/board,657.0.html (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/board,657.0.html)


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: Theraven on July 01, 2009, 05:14:57 am
^ If you have Photoshop or another programme that lets you work with transparent layers, you don't need the alpha channel step. Just use a texture where the alpha parts are already transparent :). Also, using DX3 gives you a lot better result than DXT1.


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: Katie on July 01, 2009, 09:19:43 am
thank you, i wanted to make a recolor of bloom's onsie with sleeves one, i wanted to make onesies like my neices and nephew used to have... :cool:


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: ashleycsy on July 01, 2009, 11:29:41 am
Where can I download the SimPE?


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: Katie on July 01, 2009, 12:16:29 pm
in the first link to the tutorial it has a link to SIMPE in it...


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: ashleycsy on July 01, 2009, 06:53:26 pm
It wouldnt let me download it! Is there another site you used?


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: Katie on July 01, 2009, 08:24:20 pm
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpe/files/SimPE%20Binaries/SimPe_0_73_44-QA.7z
that should be it!!


Title: Re: How to Make Infant clothing!
Post by: Theraven on July 01, 2009, 09:00:13 pm
I posted a step-by-step picture (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,53774.msg1548343.html#new) in tenshii's tutorial - just to simplify the steps :)


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