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The Problem: When toddler bedframes are in the game, the game generates a lastexception.txt. Your game may be slow in loading or lag as well. I’ve seen some reports of crashing, but this hasn’t happened to me. This does not affect all toddler bed frames, but a large number.

The Cause: Some bed frames have an issue with their tuning, which wasn’t a problem until a recent update. Under the Object Definition (in Warehouse) Tuning is set to 0 and the TuningID is also set to 0.

The Solution: 

Tuning = object_sculpture_NoView

TuningID = 109495

TUMBLR OPTIMIZED GIF TUTORIAL FOR SIMMERS

I purged a ton of posts, and one of those posts had my gif tutorial in it, so I decided to re-do the tutorial entirely… it took me three actual hours, haha. I explain things in depth, the screenshots can actually be seen now, too. I hope you guys enjoy and if you use the tutorial tag me in your gifs so I can see the outcome! ♥

Below are the original tunings for Sims 4 light colors, with the values converted in both HTML Hex and decimal values for use in various programs (S4Studio, S4PE, etc…), followed by their original tuning values. Note: The tuning values are listed in order of blue-green-red and not red-green-blue, however the equivalent decimal values are RGB… 

There are 18 colors listed in the tuning, the value for ‘Purple’ needed a guess on my part for the blue value as the tuning itself was incomplete…

This is something that I would LOVE to see the need for disappear in an update, but I doubt that that will be happening…

Cooler White - bec8ff - 0.75, 0.78, 1.0          255          200          190 Cool White - e1e1ff - 0.88, 0.88, 1.0          255          225          225 Neutral White - e1e1e1 - 0.88, 0.88, 0.88          225          225          225 Warm White - fffac8 - 1.0, 0.98, 0.78          200          250          255 Warmer White - fff299 - 1.0, 0.95, 0.6          153          242          255 Gold - ffe150 - 1.0, 0.88, 0.31          80          225          255 Red - ff4b4b - 1.0, 0.29, 0.29          75          75          255 Crimson - d74089 - 0.84, 0.25, 0.54          137          64          215 Violet - d23fd2 - 0.82, 0.25, 0.82          210          63          210 Purple - 884ce1 - 0.53, 0.3, 0.88 ***     225          76          136 Blue - 4053ff - 0.25, 0.33, 1.0          255          83          64 Aqua - 5ac8b4 - 0.35, 0.78, 0.71          180          200          90 Green - 4cff4d - 0.3, 1.0, 0.3          76          255          77 YellowGreen - a0ff3c - 0.63, 1.0, 0.24          60          255          160 Yellow - ffff32 - 1.0, 1.0, 0.2          50          255          255 YellowOrange - ffb432 - 1.0, 0.71, 0.2          50          180          255 Orange - ff7434 - 1.0, 0.45, 0.2          52          116          255 RedOrange - ff5719 - 1.0, 0.34, 0.1          25          87          255

In my experience S4Studio changes something important about light color once one uses their tool, therefore I recommend using S4PE to set the lighting color.

Other values about lighting, such as occluders (what covers the light and prevents it from bleeding through walls) and spread / direction can be learned from looking at the properties in S4Studios. My personal favorite light in Sims 4 is the Lamp Of Health, for the way that the light gently fades as it spreads both upwards and downwards. The Reward Track Light is a good light to look at for directional placement of the light’s focus area.

I hope that this list will be of use to someone! If you have any questions or need any assistance, Please Feel Free to Message me!

Do you love using the vertical movement  for objects but you accidentally saved a camera angle preset to number key 9? Fear no more because if you didn’t know how to reset the 9 key, you do now. 

The fact the 9 key does double duty for the camera and MoveObjects functions, was a bit of an oversight by Maxis. It can utterly annoy people when decorating. Having the camera readjust each time you use the key, often multiple times in a row, gets aggravating fast and the only solution before was to save a new camera angle to reduce camera movement. Not anymore though, as this minit tuturial will fix that issue once and for all. 

- the “I don’t have time or motivation to take screens for this”-edition

Someone asked for this. I think it was @teanmoon ? Which is funny because her eyes are on my list of things to geneticize for myself.

Aaanyways. I’m gonna assume you already have your custom eyes or know how to make them.

First: Make a backup. Just in case. I haven’t tested this thoroughly yet, though so far no problems have come up for me

Now, open your custom eyecolour in sims4studio. Switch to the categories tab and make sure the following things are tagged:

Occult: Human/Alien or both, depending on wether you want aliens or humans to inherit your eyecolour. Apply to all swatches. Make sure at least one is tagged in this category or inheritance will not work

Part Flags: Allow for random. This one is needed too. You can’t have inheritance without random townies showing up with the eyecolour afaik. Probably since a child born in game rolls for the genetics randomly, so if your eyecolour isn’t enabled for random it can’t be rolled.

Now, your eyecolour is prepped. Next comes the custom genetics part.

Whilst making sure the tags above are tagged you probably came across the “Eyecolour” section. These are the values used by EA for their eyecolours. Not very well I might add. So, for example, the “Black” tag refers to the first default swatch, “DarkBrown” to the second and so on. Well not quite. Here’s a list of what EA thought made sense for inheritance:

Alien - this one only shows in the tags menu I think, and is set for all the alien eyes.

Black - black, SecondarySortIndex 0

DarkBrown - dark brown, SecondarySortIndex 5

Brown - brown, SecondarySortIndex 10

LightBrown - light brown, SecondarySortIndex 15 & hazel grey brown, SecondarySortIndex 75

HazelGreen - hazel green, SecondarySortIndex 20

LightGreen - hazel olive green, SecondarySortIndex 25 & light green, SecondarySortIndex 30

Green - green, SecondarySortIndex 35

HazelBlue - hazel blue dark, SecondarySortIndex 40 & hazel blue, SecondarySortIndex 45

Aqua - aqua, SecondarySortIndex 50

Light blue - light blue, SecondarySortIndex 55

Blue - blue, SecondarySortIndex 60

Gray - dark blue, SecondarySortIndex 65 & gray, SecondarySortIndex 70

Amber - amber, SecondarySortIndex 80 & purple, SecondarySortIndex 85

As you can see, EA was too lazy to make new inheritance tags for their Ghost patch eyes, which causes all kinds of inheritance trouble. Like kids of two purple eyed parents showing up with the red “amber” colour 50% of the time. Which can come in handy if you have lets say, multiple very similar blue tones and would like your sims to inherit the general colour and not a specific texture. In that case, just tick the corresponding box in S4S, save your package and you should be good.

But, if you are like me, you don’t want purple to turn into red randomly. Which is where the warehouse tab comes into play.

Choose the CASPart of the colour you want to add custom genetics to. That’s the one with the thumbnailcolour on the left. Now, in Data mode, scroll down until you find “Tags” Click the button “Edit Items…” next to that. You should see all the gender, occult, age, archetype and outfit flags you set in the Studio Categories tab. And possibly an “Eyecolour” tag. If you have that one, click it. If not, click Add on the bottom and change the Category on the right to Eyecolour.

Now the magic happens. Take the Tag value and change it to any of the tags you want. At least in theory. I haven’t tested all of them yet. You can either choose the unused “Eyecolor_Honey” or “Eyecolor_Golden” or whatever else strikes your fancy. I am for example, using “BuyCatSS_Diningchair” for a very pretty shade of teal. Once you’ve chosen your new Eyecolour tag, click save, save your package and then test in game! You should have just geneticized your custom eyecolour!

Hello love!! I’m so glad you like my CC, thank you!! ♥♥

And yes, I know what you mean! Making tattoos is a lot of trial and error in a lot of cases, seeing as every image is different. Here’s a few things I have learnt while creating tattoos:

- If the tattoo is one solid colour, just fill the RGB layer with said colour. That way, the white outline will disappear.- A tattoo’s quality depends 99% on the Alpha layer, so that is where you would want to do most of the work. If your Alpha looks grainy, the tattoo will as well. Try to play with the Levels settings or maybe even clean up the areas around the tattoo with the brush tool to see what looks best.- I doubt I have to tell you, but my favourite tip is always to not make the Alpha a solid white, but change it to a more muted (still pretty light) gray with the Levels tool (the slider at the bottom of the Levels window does that for you). That way, it will blend more nicely, because it will be slightly transparent.

Pixelation is the main reason I hate the DDS format hands down. Since it compresses textures to save space and cut down on rendering time but artefacts and general pixelation are a common issue with it. There are a few things you can do to mitigate it, but you will never get rid of it all, its mainly about minimisation rather then complete removal. 

1. Never EVER edit a DDS image multiple times. Each time you open, save, then close a dds image its like resizing an image up and down repeatedly, ruining its details over time. Always keep a .psd of your texture if you run Photoshop or a .xcf for Gimp to edit the texture if needed. 

2. Saturation: this can affect grey scale and highly saturated colours. If you have a dark grey and its pixelating, consider increasing the saturation from 0 to about 3-5% and see if it makes a difference. Usually does for me. You can also mess with the brightness as well as very dark colours do not play well with the format. 

3. Adding noise: The way DDS compression works is it averages the colour over 4 pixels so if your textures have very soft, subtle gradients and shadows, that can lead to weird lines and pixelation. Consider adding some subtle noise to a white layer above your texture and setting the mode to ‘multiply’ to see if that helps as well. Patterns also do a similar job when applied to objects and clothing.

4. Prey to the DDS gods: I am serious here, sometimes its just dumb luck not getting pixelation then other times you try everything and it wont go away. I swear they are out to make people crazy. 

5. Image and UV Map sizes: The larger the map, the greater the texture size you can have which reduces the size of pixelation. This is great trick for artwork but its not a solution for everything. With bigger textures comes longer load times ingame so it needs to be done with moderation and consideration. I generally map the area that will be the artwork larger then other parts since thats the focus of the item. 

This is more of a trick. I thought I’d share because I used it on every mesh I created and I haven’t seen anyone mentioned it before. 

I assume you understand the basics of the Blender interface and weight transfer. If not, read this tutorial: Weight transfer in Blender first.

The key steps of weight transfer are in “Weight Paint” mode performing “Transfer Weights” with the method of “Nearest vertex”. Your new mesh and the mesh you want to transfer weights from might be similar, but not identical. Sometimes the result may end up like this:

And it causes some glitch in game. It might look worse when your sim moves.

This is because the nearest vertices around this area don’t have correct weights as they’re still ‘too far’.

The trick to fix this is simply to create more vertices on the original mesh, which you transfer weights from. Select the orignal mesh, go into Edit Mode, select all and do several times of Subdivide. You can do as many times as your computer can take. 

Transfer weights with ‘Nearest vertex’ again.

Now it’s nice and smooth.

In game the glitches are gone as well.

This was requested by @plumbobed, but why not share it with everyone? This is a fool-proof shortcut to adding sunrays to your screenshots. It’s not perfect, but it’s easy for some quick editing enhancements. Sorry about the basic screenshots and tutorial, but it’s late here and I need sleep for work. I won’t go into every single detail on how to do this in Photoshop. You should be able to find the tools easily enough if you use Photoshop.

So you wanna know how all these creators are getting to game content before S4S updates? Here’s the way!

Tutorial: How to bake shadow for clothing

Open the chair in S4S: 

Click the warehouse tab, select thge first “Object Catalog” then scroll down on the right hand side to “Tags” and click “Edit Items”  

A new window will open.  Click “Add”.  The new tag will say “None”.  On the right hand side where it says “Tag Value” erase the zero and type in the number “26625″.  The word “None” will change to “BuyCat_Venue_Restaurant”.

Don’t forget to save both in this window and the main window.

Do this for ALL remaining “Object Catalog” entries.

Create A Mod (Beginner) – Programs for Modding

Create A Mod (Beginner) – Programs for Modding is the first part of my Create A Mod series of tutorials. The purpose of this series is to teach you how to create mods. We will start with beginner and with each tutorial we will work up to the more advanced ways of modding. Programs for Modding Programs for Modding will help prepare you with the programs that you need for the upcoming tutorials in…

“How to Append Object in Blender”

How to append object.

@antionicia ask: How’d you get the hair to not intersect with the shoulders?

Hi, i’m going going to explain how to do it for all those who are asking me.

You need: Sims 4 Studio and TS4 CAS Tool

Open S4S and create two new meshes, the first is the hair that you want to fix and the second is a hair that you are going to use as reference (obviously needs to be a hair that does not contract with the shoulders).

Now open TS4 CAS Tool

1: Select Clone Package Editor

2: Select Mesh Manager

3: Mark By Meshpart

4: Mark TS3

5: Select and open the hair that you want to fix  

Export the Lod0_2

1: Select Close Package

2: Mark TS4

3: Select and open the hair that you are going to use as reference

Export the Lod0_2

1: Select Mesh Tools

2: Select Auto Conversion

3: Select and open the Lod0_2 of the hair that you want to fix

4: Select and open the Lod0_2 of the hair that you are going to use as reference  

1: Mark Hardcode vertex color

2: Select Hair and

Mark Keep original shader (optional)

3: Select Go! and save a new Lod0_2

Now go back to Clone Package Editor

1: Select Close Package

2: Select and open the hair that you want to fix  

3: Select Import and open the new Lod0_2 that you create 

4: Select Commit Changes

5: Select Save as New Package