#cas tutorial

The doc might seem long/overwhelming, this is because I wanted to be very, very precise, truly step by step. Every single task by itself is just a matter of clicking buttons and takes a few seconds, except for altering the UV lay-out and the off-screen mesh editing. This is a repeat (but more precise) of things I wrote in this big 4To3 tutorial , as well as functioning as a written version of the contents of this video

I touch upon how to nicely convert the specular, normal map & main diffuse (and other swatches) of a TS4 item to the TS3. Because I only do maxis match/mix stuff it is done with that, but you could extrapolate this to different cc aesthetics & conversions from other games.

I use blender 3.6 and photoshop 2025.*

*for your photoediting program, a very important thing is that it allows you to open DDS files with the alpha layer shown as a channel you can disable/enable/remove/replace, instead of only being able to open it as the sheer image as-is.

Tutorial: How to add a name tag to your CAS items, taking advantage of the Birthday Update UI elements!

I suggest looking at the post on the dashboard rather than on my website for bigger pictures

As you might know, a while back The Sims 4 recieved a birthday update with a few CC items from awesome creators put into the actual game. These items have a special tag that allows them to have a mouse-hover name tag.

Can anyone use this tag? At first i thought you couldn't cause it might've been hard coded, but actually it isn't! I'm gonna go through some steps to enable it on your items as well.

STEPS 1 - 3:

1: Open your CAS item .package file into Sims4Studio, click on the warehouse tab;

2: Look for your package file's CAS Part resource;

3: Inside CAS Part, look for the "tags" field;

STEPS 4 - 5:

4: Click on the "add" button and select CATEGORY: SpecialContent - TAGVALUE: SpecialContent_Anniversay21

5: Click on the "add" button and select CATEGORY: Style - TAGVALUE: Style_CAS_Branded_Anniversay21

We have now enabled the possibility for the asset to display a Name Tag. Now, how do we give it a string and customize what it says?

We are going to clone an object, whatever object, and utilize their strings to have a uniquely numbered string table that won't conflict with any EA or other CC item's strings.

STEPS 6 - 7:

6: Clone an object, it can be whatever object, i usually clone a tooth brush decor item and call the package "dummy" and stick it on the desktop;

7: Go into the studio tab and change the Catalog Name as if you were renaming your object normally, but instead type in your name or whatever you want the CAS item to display. For the purpose of this tutorial, i wrote "YOUR NAME HERE";

STEPS 8 - 10:

8: Go into the warehouse tab of your Dummy object and select all the String Tables, all of them;

9: Now click on batch export and save them in a folder somewhere;

10: Now, go into your CAS Item package and click on warehouse. Now, click on Batch Import and select

STEPS 11 - 12:

11: Click on one of the string table resources and then, click on the "Text" tab (by default it will show the "data" tab) and copy the "KEY" value of the string that shows what you typed;

12: Click on the CAS Part resource and look for the "PART DESCRIPTION KEY" field, and paste the value you copied earlier into it.

Now save, and test in game:

you ever get some pants or jeans that absolutely do not work with boots (cough, darte) or shirts that bleed through pants? well this tutorial might fix those things.

Creating Stylized Hair in Blender!

Giving a Recolor Life & Depth-- A Photoshop Tutorial for Layer Effects.

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Okay so people are asking me how I got my game to work, ok so

1. you need to download it from someone's origin.

2. Play it.

3. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 4 Create A Sim Demo\Game\Bin

4. Copy and Paste the TS4CAS.par file and save it somewhere safe.

5. Go to this website http://par.nofate.me/ Click on select file, click on the TS4CAS.par file from before and then hit submit.

6. Once it downloads, open it's file location and copy and paste it to C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 4 Create A Sim Demo\Game\Bin it'll ask you if you want to replace the older file, click yes.

7. Click on TS4CAS and you should be good to go :)

Now, If nothing happens go to the sims 4 icon

  Right click and go to:

And just try messing around with the settings at least until the game pops up, it may take a bit but just be patient.

Those are the settings that made mine work, But I did this before I changed the TS4CAS.par file with the origin requirement remover. Once It started working I went ahead and changed the .par file. But before you do that log out of your friends origin, then do it. Then see if it works, if it does then you can go ahead an log into your account and start up the game again. 

That's what I did, sorry if this tutorial is kind of confusing and all over the place I've never made one before and that's why this probably sucks.