#modding questions

The link on the GBATemp page: https://gbatemp.net/threads/fire-emblem-fates-expanded-same-sex-marriage-patch-wip.416109/

First if you have any questions about hair modding, please use the ask option!  Others have maybe the same question(s) and are interesting in a solution too.

Someone asked me via the messenger about this topic and how to get the hair texture less shiny.

I haven’t finished my own retexturing tutorial but if you are looking for hair modding tutorials it’s always a good start to search The Sims community. They have great tutorials about this topic! Also the Skyrim community has great tutorials about map making,texturing, porting etc.

Here is for example one for Sims hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TsI0ZEKbZA

About too shiny hair textures:

There are different ways to get less shiny hair.

Retexturing the hairstyle with a hair texture which is per se less shiny. -> editing the diffuse map.

Editing the specular map. The specular map defines the shininess of a surface. The difference between the diff/spec and alpha map explains Boodrl a bit in her vid-tutorials. As I always say they are a must have if you want to have a first insight in everything which has to do with hair modding!

Don’t forget that every The Sims creator has it’s own kind of hair textures. That means what worked for a NewSims hair texture can’t be implemented 1:1 for the textures ButterflySim is using.

I will post your message because it’s always helpful for others for solving hair modding problems and maybe someone else has an idea!?

 Sims3 is easier and the easiest are the Sims2 meshes but the Sims4 have the most details which is also interesting when it comes to accessories but the Sims4 ports need more time because of the uv mapping, reducing faces etc.

I have ported two Sims4 hairstyles, which were no problem. It also depends on the Sim creator. For example Nightcrawlers meshes have per se a high poly count..(Sims3 version).. The problem is to reduce the number of faces so that you will still get a detailed mesh. If you reduce too much the hairstyles look really bad as I said: too compact or lifeless.

You will not find much about this topic in my tutorials.

I tried it yesterday again..and I saw that when I extrac the Sims mesh as a Blender file with The Sims4 studio and then load this blend save, the number of faces has doubled! Sims4 studio said e.g 24.000  and in Blender they are doubled. I don’t know why. I’m testing now the decimate  tool in Blender 2.79. I hope it will help to preseve the mesh details. I’m using the Dragon Stone hairstyle for testing..maybe I can get it to work. Looks like you got me on my “modder honour” not to give up :D

You could use the LOD2 version of the hair which hasn’t so much faces but it is possible that you can’t make the face sorting ( when you use Blender 2.49) because you can’t select, the single strands of hair. You have to tried it if it works for the style you want to port.

Hi,

yes, that’s true there are posts without the chargenmorphline but it’s pretty easy to add the line to your chargenmorphfile.

Here is a little tutorial.

Important is not the name of the zip file. The name you need for editing your chargenmorphfile ist the .msh or mmh. file name.

In your case: df_har_Lliira01_0.mmh. 

The chargenline:

df_har_Lliira01” cut=“1” />

I hope this helps.

Happy Modding!

Okay for whatever reason I can’t create a new post on the Sims 4 but some mod is making it so I can’t save sims and lots locally 5to my gallery and is now erasing things OFF my gallery, or at the very least removed my Get To School lot from it.  I keep seeing the cheats extension listed as a reason but at this moment? I don’t have the cheats extension.