Ever wanted to make a Maxis match like clothing? Or just wondering how to fix certain things? Here is your chance! This tutorial can also be used for Marvelous designer meshes and if you used a custom body mesh (Chisimi's body mesh) instead of a sims 3 body.
(This tutorial won't teach you how to mesh with Blender/Milkshape.)
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Things you need for: Exporting, importing and fixes
Blender: https://www.blender.org/download/
Recommended version of TSRW: http://greenplumbboblover.tumblr.com/post/132219005426/tsrw-172
Align normals: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=139859
Sims 2 unimesh (For the normals and vertex data)- WIll need the 'Unimeshplugin' :http://modthesims.info/t/122399
Normals and vertex data setup (for the shortcuts): http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=398865
(*Start Milkshape
*Go to Tools menu and choose edit shortcuts
*In the popup screen scroll down to were you see 2 files named:
- msTS2NDM (normal data merge)
- msTS2VDM (vertex data merge)
*select the first one and assigne a shortkey to it
Use the dropdown menu, pick a shortcut key and click set
I have choosen key ''N'' and will use it in this tutorial
*click OK
A message will appear to notify you Milkshapes need to be restarted in order to apply the changes, ignore it
Repeat the same steps for the msTS2VDM and assigne it to the key ''C''
When done close Milkshape and start it again.)
Milkshape 3D 1.8.5 BETA: http://www.milkshape3d.com/
TSRW object import/export: http://wiki.thesimsresource.com/index.php?title=Milkshape_3D
Meshtoolkit: http://modthesims.info/d/481950
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My tumblr: http://greenplumbboblover.tumblr.com/
Tutorial sources: http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/70649851348/hey-simlicious-d-im-trying-to-convert-some-sl
http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/106262982703/hey-i-just-started-with-making-cc-for-the-sims
http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/86699313433/how-to-deal-with-high-polygon-counts-in-sims-3
http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/78947279334/meshing-clothes-for-ts3-important-things-to-know
http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/69907625690/this-is-a-quick-sims-3-meshing-tutorial-about
http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/54022055297/fixing-gaps-and-seams-in-milkshape
http://wiki.thesimsresource.com/index.php?title=Walkthrough:_Clothing
http://wiki.thesimsresource.com/index.php?title=The_Sims_3_Textures
http://wiki.thesimsresource.com/index.php?title=Meshing_Tips_and_Problem_Solving
http://wiki.thesimsresource.com/index.php?title=What_Size_should_my_DDS_Textures_Be%3F
(This tutorial won't teach you how to mesh with Blender/Milkshape.)
---------------
Things you need for: Exporting, importing and fixes
Blender: https://www.blender.org/download/
Recommended version of TSRW: http://greenplumbboblover.tumblr.com/post/132219005426/tsrw-172
Align normals: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=139859
Sims 2 unimesh (For the normals and vertex data)- WIll need the 'Unimeshplugin' :http://modthesims.info/t/122399
Normals and vertex data setup (for the shortcuts): http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=398865
(*Start Milkshape
*Go to Tools menu and choose edit shortcuts
*In the popup screen scroll down to were you see 2 files named:
- msTS2NDM (normal data merge)
- msTS2VDM (vertex data merge)
*select the first one and assigne a shortkey to it
Use the dropdown menu, pick a shortcut key and click set
I have choosen key ''N'' and will use it in this tutorial
*click OK
A message will appear to notify you Milkshapes need to be restarted in order to apply the changes, ignore it
Repeat the same steps for the msTS2VDM and assigne it to the key ''C''
When done close Milkshape and start it again.)
Milkshape 3D 1.8.5 BETA: http://www.milkshape3d.com/
TSRW object import/export: http://wiki.thesimsresource.com/index.php?title=Milkshape_3D
Meshtoolkit: http://modthesims.info/d/481950
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My tumblr: http://greenplumbboblover.tumblr.com/
Tutorial sources: http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/70649851348/hey-simlicious-d-im-trying-to-convert-some-sl
http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/106262982703/hey-i-just-started-with-making-cc-for-the-sims
http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/86699313433/how-to-deal-with-high-polygon-counts-in-sims-3
http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/78947279334/meshing-clothes-for-ts3-important-things-to-know
http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/69907625690/this-is-a-quick-sims-3-meshing-tutorial-about
http://simlicious.tumblr.com/post/54022055297/fixing-gaps-and-seams-in-milkshape
http://wiki.thesimsresource.com/index.php?title=Walkthrough:_Clothing
http://wiki.thesimsresource.com/index.php?title=The_Sims_3_Textures
http://wiki.thesimsresource.com/index.php?title=Meshing_Tips_and_Problem_Solving
http://wiki.thesimsresource.com/index.php?title=What_Size_should_my_DDS_Textures_Be%3F
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