#mesh help

okay, so i’ve been wanting to make some accessory amputations (or congenital missing limbs) that aren’t just prosthetics for my sims -- missing forearm, or legs they can wear so that they can take on and off the prosthesis, you know?  (i’ve also been wanting to make some facial abnormalities -- is there a better word for that, disabled tumblr? i should know this, i have MULTIPLE friends with various craniofacial conditions -- because the ONLY time i can get that kind of preset in my game is Halloween and even then they’re not always accurate, and that really fucking bothers me, but anyway i digress.)   i knew it had to be something i could do, because i’ve got things like @natalia-auditore‘s brilliant headless accessory etc. why not use that power for diversity?

ANYWAY i finally got one of them to a place where i was happy, was all psyched, ready to upload and test and it wouldn’t ...work. 

why wouldn’t it work. why wasn’t it.....oh shit, i made it in blender 2.92 

okay well let’s open it in 2.76! oh. oh we may experience data loss. 

So, as you may have figured out, it’s gone. or it’s saved, but. not in a functional way.

IS THERE A WAY TO CONVERT IT SAFELY, SIMBLR? 

Hello hello! It’s no bother at all :) As for the wip of the waterfall braids - I open TS3/TS4 meshes in blender in order to take apart the “layers” of the hair, so to speak.

Sometimes a transparency issue happens when converting TS3/4 hairs to TS2; because TS2 has a silent (and stupid) “rule” about opacity and hair layering, which can sometimes cause overlapping chucks of hair to become transparent (I believe this was introduced with the Pets EP). So in order to avoid (or fix up for existing conversions) I go into blender and rip the hair layers into separate groups and then reorganize in milkshape.

And of course sometimes for higher poly hair I do use blender to reduce the count, but that’s not necessary for EA made hairs, since they’re generally pretty good about keeping a low polycount. Although sometimes they have crappy hair like the waterfall braids which looked like it was copied five times and moved a fraction for no reason that I can see?? =_= Which is veeeeery unnecessary...

Anyone have a tutorial on converting Adult to Child clothing?

I have a project I am working on and I would also like to make a child version.