SagoSims

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As the weekend starts, yet another Clean UI update is ready for you! Here’s what’s new:

- ✔️ Graphical issues in the hobby/business milestones are gone - ✔️ Fixed missing Sim portrait in date panel  - ✔️ Included optional horizontal & vertical cursor for the neighborhood camera (if you use a camera mod that also lets you move the camera vertically)

You can download the update in the original download post.

There will be a further update in the future. Please refer to this post to see what I’m working on.

Okay, so I’ve been seeing this quite a bit with 4 to 2 hair conversions lately…

If you are converting a hair from TS4, please - remember to remove the hat hair groups!

All TS4 hairs come with extra groups for the beanies and hats; custom hairs may vary depending if the creator added them or not (but generally most TS4 creators add hat groups to their hairs). Not removing these groups not only make the hair look odd at some angles, it also increases the polycount.

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Another tip involves the UV, but this is more of a personal quirk, so feel free to ignore this. I know some people look at UV mapping to be a little intimidating, but it’s really simple.

In Photoshop, you can crop the canvas to TS2 size – the lower half of TS4 hair textures is literally empty, so nothing will get cut off (most of the time).

Now you may notice that the texture ends up distorted on the mesh - this is very easy to fix. Open up the texture editor in milkshape: Windows -> Texture Coordinate Editor (or Ctrl + T)

1. Click on the “Scale” button

2. Under Factor, type “2″ in the second box ( x ; y coordinates)

3: Hit the little “S” button and the UV will stretch down

And tada! The UV map now properly aligns with the mesh!