Grecadea sims: February 2019

4to2 Hair conversion tutorial: Part 8 Importing to the game

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4to2 Hair conversion tutorial: Part 7 Linking the texture

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We are still in Simpe. Hit file>new, then file>open and do to your hair folder in downloads, to open the texture we created in part 2.

You will have something that looks like this.

Go to property sets, under the resource tree and delete the puhair. Since I don't include the toddlers in my conversions, I won't use it here either.

Now go to the line with the -grey in it. It's for the elders. Once you select it, go to the plugin view, on the bottom and find the 'override2subset' line and make the changes you see, in the pic below.

For the next step, we will the top 3D id referencing file. As you can see below, it has the same instance number with the "afhairlongsimple_grey_clone". That's because it's the elder's hair 3D id referencing file. Likewise, the next 3D id referencing file has the same instance with "cuhairrocker_red" , because it's the kid's hair referencing file.

It's time to link each of those 3D id referencing files with the corresponding meshes.

We will link the first 3D id referencing file, which is the elder's hair 3Dir, with the "adult" mesh file, from the downloads folder. Click on it to select it, and then hit tools>PJSE>body mesh tool>linking stage

The grey hair is now linked to its mesh. We will do the same thing for the next four 3IDRs (the 3d ID references) which are:

- one for child (the 3IDR with the same instance number with cuhairrocker_red) which you will link with the "child" mesh at "downloads"folder

-one for teen (the 3IDR with the same instance number with tmhairrocker_red) which you will link with the "teen" mesh at "downloads"folder

-one for Young adults (the 3IDR with the same instance number with amhairrocker_red) which you will link with the "adult" mesh at "downloads"folder

-and one for adults (the 3IDR with the same instance number with amhairrocker_red) which you will link with the "adult" mesh at "downloads"folder

So yeah, do the linking for each of those 3IDRs. Always click ok, or yes, and always save with ANY line BUT a 3IDR selected.

Once you are done with this, we move to the very last step, which is really easy. After that we are done!

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4to2 Hair conversion tutorial: Part 6 Replacing the GMDCs

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4to2 Hair conversion tutorial: Part 5 Creating the changelings!

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n this part we will create 3 files that will be used to change the mesh of the three meshes we keep in "Downloads" folder. Open the Milkshape again, and again hit file>new

-Then File>import>Sims2 Unimesh import v4.09 (scroll down to find it, and don't mistake it with Sims2 Unimesh objx data split import) and find Sims2bodybases folder in your workshop. Choose the "afBodyNaked_gmdc" file to be imported.
-Hit NO to "create blend groups" and YES to "Correct some skin weights"

-Again hit File>import>sims2 Unimesh import v4.09. It tells you that you will import another model and will ask if you want to continue. The hell we want to continue, Milkshape! Hit ok and NO to the next question, on whether you want to include additional bones.

-Go to Sims2bodybases again and choose "afFace_gmdc" click NO to "create blend groups" and YES to "Correct some skin weights"

-And again 😬 hit File>import>sims2 Unimesh import v4.09. It tells you that you will import another model and will ask if you want to continue. Click YES there and NO to the next question about the additional bones.

-Go to Sims2bodybases again and choose "afHairBald_gmdc"

-One last time hit File>import>wavefront obj and choose the wavefront.obj from the "current project" folder.

It's time for adjustments now!

Time for the comments! This is an important part. If the comments aren't right or aren't there at all, the hair won't show up.

Go to groups tab, and click on the GEOM-00

then click on comments and copy-paste the 4 lines bellow in the box that will open.

Modelname: hair_alpha5

Opacity: 5

HasTangentArray:

NumSkinWgts: 3

Hit ok to close the box, and then go to the box that has GEOM-00 written in it, delete it and write hair_alpha5 , and then hit "rename"

The comments are ok, now lets move on and adjust joints! In this way we will "tell" the mesh, how it will move. The easiest hair are the short hair, like the one I chose to convert here. That's because for all short hairs, the procedure is really easy.

Double click "hair_alpha5 "so that it's selected and then go to 'joints' tab. Follow the pictures' instructions.

That's it for short hair. It will move as the head moves. I STRONGLY advise you to practice on some short hair, before moving to longer and more difficult hair. When you move to long hair, follow this amazing tutorial of Serenity_fall about bone assignment. It's so well written, that there was no need to write the same things again.

When you are done, with that step, we will export the whole thing.

Go to groups and delete Body and face.

Then go to File>export>Sims2 Unimesh exporter v4.09.

The file we will use for the adult/elder part of our mesh, is ready. You will do the exact same thing two more times, for the teen part, and then for the child part.

REMEMBER, I will tell the procedure with no pics though.

-File>new

-File> File>import>Sims2 Unimesh import v4.09. Find Sims2bodybases folder in your workshop. Choose the "tfBodyNaked_gmdc" file to be imported. (teen female)

-Hit NO to "create blend groups" and YES to "Correct some skin weights"

- File>import>sims2 Unimesh import v4.09. It will tell you that you will import another model and will ask if you want to continue. Hit ok and NO to the next question, on whether you want to include additional bones.

-Go to Sims2bodybases again and choose "tfFace_gmdc" click NO to "create blend groups" and YES to "Correct some skin weights"

-File>import>sims2 Unimesh import v4.09. It will tell you that you will import another model and will ask if you want to continue. Click YES there and NO to the next question about the additional bones.

-Go to Sims2bodybases again and choose "tfHairBald_gmdc"

- File>import>wavefront obj and choose the wavefront.obj from the "current project" folder.
-Do the adjustments again, scale, move etch
-Write the comments, and rename the GEOM-00
-Double click "hair_alpha5 "so that it's selected and then go to 'joints' tab. Choose 'head' from drop down menu and write 100 in the box bellow, then hit the 'assign' button.
-In groups, delete body and face
-Then go to File>export>Sims2 Unimesh exporter v4.09. Save as "TeenFemaleChangeling" in the current project file.

Alright, one more time for kids (if you want to include kids hair. You can totally skip this part if you are not interested in this age.

-File>new

-File> File>import>Sims2 Unimesh import v4.09. Find Sims2bodybases folder in your workshop. Choose the "cuBodyNaked_gmdc" file to be imported. (it is unisex meshes for the kids)

-Hit NO to "create blend groups" and YES to "Correct some skin weights"

-Go to Sims2bodybases again and choose "cuFace_gmdc" click NO to "create blend groups" and YES to "Correct some skin weights"

-Go to Sims2bodybases again and choose "cuHairBald_gmdc"

- File>import>wavefront obj and choose the wavefront.obj from the "current project" folder.
-Do the adjustments again, scale, move etch
-Write the comments, and rename the GEOM-00
-Double click "hair_alpha5 "so that it's selected and then go to 'joints' tab. Choose 'head' from drop down menu and write 100 in the box bellow, then hit the 'assign' button.
-In groups, delete body and face
-Then go to File>export>Sims2 Unimesh exporter v4.09. Save as "ChildFemaleChangeling" in the current project file.

We have our "changelings", now time to return to Simpe!

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4to2 Hair conversion tutorial: Part 4 Creating the wavefront

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4to2 Hair conversion tutorial: Part 3 Extracting the S4 mesh and texture

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Are you ready for part 3? Now we are going to work on the s4 mesh. For me, this is one of the most fun parts, and I hope you will enjoy it too. In this part we will extract the mesh and the texture of the hair, turn it to s3 simgeom (because milkshape cannot recognize s4 simgeoms) and turn the hair to a wavefront object. Don't feel intimidated, it's extremely easy, I promise 💋

-Open Sims4 Studio from your workshop. Personally I don't have sims4, but this doesn't mean I can't use the related programs, so if it tells you that it is unable to find s4, hit ok.Also close any extra windows that may pop up.

-Click on "my projects" and find the s4 mesh, in your "My workshop/Curent project" folder.

Choose the grey texture, then choose diffuse and export your texture, like is shown in the pic below.

We have our texture (or textures. If you like more textures you can export them too, so you can use them in recoloring the hair, later on) Now let's get our precious simgeoms! Hit the warehouse and search the "geometry"lines.

If you click on it, you will see a preview of it. There are many sizes of the geometries, cause it has to do with the quality and the polycount. The bigger kb of the geometry, the higher quality of the mesh. Yet Sims2 is an old game. We can't have a polycount of -say- 30000 for a single hair. So let's try to find a middle ground. So find the quality you want, and right click to export it.

Save it as "s4mesh.simgeom" in your "current project" folder.

- Now go to "workshop folder" and open S4CASTools. Press X to any window that may pop up, except for the program's window. We want to see this:

-Now go to "mesh tools" tab, and then "conversions TS4/others" tab and follow the steps of the pics bellow.

-Our geom is a s3 geom now. Remember, we need it this way, in order to import it in Milkshape. Now let's work on our s4 texture. S2 textures are squares in dimensions, like 512x512 or 1024x1024. But that's not the case in s4. So open your photo editing program to fix that. I will use gimp for this tutorial.

-Open gimp and drag your sims4 "grey.dds" texture in the gimp window.

-there will be a pop-up window. Uncheck "load mipmaps"and click ok.