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Does any one know where I can get info on how to create beauty marks or moles? Does any one take request? I'd love to learn how to do such things.:angel:

I think this would go better in the Where Can I Find...? forum. But, since it's here, I'll be nice.

There's some here (http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=202263), and I can't find it right now, but I have a collection of birth marks in my game (different placings of multiple "beauty" marks).

I think rain is looking for a tutorial or how-to to make the beauty marks.

D'oh. Sorry, I'm slow tonight. -_- I got thrown by the "Does anyone take requests" remark.

I'm not positive on how to go about making them, but you'd probably have to make them as glasses, like a lot of piercings and necklaces are, or as a mask.

a beauty mark is a full face make-up like a clown or other costume - what you want to do is start Body Shop and start a new project. Select Create Parts

Figure 1.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/beautymark01.jpg)

Select Start New Project

Figure 2.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/beautymark02.jpg)

Select Create Facial Hair, Makup & Glasses

Figure 3.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/beautymark03.jpg)

Select the full-face makeup icon - and scroll to the far right side and pick one WITHOUT an asterix *

Export the files to begin your work.

Figure 4.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/beautymark04.jpg)

Give the file a name you will remember - since it is a beauty mark, let's name it BeautyMark.  You should only use the following Latin characters for names because not everyone will be able to use files with unicode characters (http://unicode.org/) in the names:

   ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890 - _

You should avoid using spaces, accented letters, ligatures, special or non-Latin characters in project names:

   Do NOT Use These!

ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÐÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞß
àáâãäåæçðèéêëìíîïñòóôõöøùúûüýþ
₤№™€ⁿ•†‡ЯШЮΘΩ ... etc

Figure 5.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/beautymark05.jpg)

Wait until Body Shop has finished exporting the files for editing.

Figure 6.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/beautymark06.jpg)

Now locate the bitmaps (BMPs) in the projects folder - because we named this project BeautyMark, look for this:

   My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Projects\BeautyMark

You should find 3 files in the folder:

   BeautyMark.package
some-name.bmp
some-name_alpha.bmp

The BMP without _alpha in its name can be painted all black.

The BMP with _alpha in its name can be painted all black - but then you add a dot of medium grey somewhere.

Save your changes to the BMP, and look in Body Shop again and click the circle arrow to refresh the image and see the changes.  I have used two large heart shapes and a red base for this example to clearly demonstrate the change.

Figure 7.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/beautymark07.jpg)

When you have something you like, import into the game and you are finished.

Figure 8.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/beautymark08.jpg)

If you wish to share your final product, look in your Savedsims folder for a file with _BeautyMark in the name:

   My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\SavedSims

In my case, the name was e4c8f8df_BeautyMark.package, but you will see another name with weird letters and numbers.  This is the thing you will share - the stuff in the projects folder in just useless junk when you are done :)

Thank all of you for your input. Special thanks to you, Beosboxboy for breaking everything down for me, I appreciate your feed back.