#ssao

Ah, the SSAO tutorial? That is a little outdated now but it has been made a lot easier to do. Take a copy of the GraphicsRules file and copy it to the "ConfigOverride" folder in the sims 4 documents folder. From there open it up and edit and it should bypass the admin issue you seem to be having.

I don’t know what to make of this . . . the fireplaces and cabinets suddenly have those annoying SSAO shadow lines through them. The large promo shot [photo #4] is unedited - this was taken back when the set was released. Stranger still - that photo of the cabinets [photo #3] the re-cloned pieces are on the left - the ones on the right only ONE of the cabinets is suffering with this problem. What gives? I am also seeing this on a number of pieces that never had this problem before. [Editing to add - the fireplace photos both show the newly cloned fixed version on the left and the original versions on the right as they are in my game today - to repeat - the last photo shows how they looked as they were released]

hey bby!! thank you so much for the kind words!! i’ll link you to a bunch of the stuff i use to make my game look a little prettier, but first i just want to say that the most important thing is that you’re having fun!! when i first joined simblr, my pictures were crispyyy and over-saturated and full of bad writing, but it didn’t matter to me because i was having so much fun!! and i gradually improved with time & practice, which is the case for almost everyone on here! so please don’t put too much pressure on yourself to make your pics look good (especially in the beginning), just have fun and try new things!! 💖 anyway, here’s some things that might answer your question!!

in-game things:

reshade (i use 3.0.8 which you can find here)

& how to install reshade

& my favorite reshade presets

twinkle toes lighting mod

NoBlu + NoGlo

terrain replacements

plant & tree replacements

more alpha plants

more alpha trees

cloud replacements

how to remove the game’s SSAO (it causes weird shadows if you use reshade and cc)

how to remove plumbobs

how to get crisper shadows (info in the tags!)

editing things:

photoshop cs6 (cr*cked – gimp or paint.net are free alternatives)

topaz labs (free!)

topaz clean (cr*cked)

my short editing tutorial & action

helpful collection of editing resources

First pic to upload onto my tumblr!

( I made the photo off center without noticing and it drives me crazy now.

Anyway, this was a picture I made for Ibuki Mioda’s birthday one year on DA http://fav.me/daq9043

I really like it so I thought I’d share it here too. The picture is based on Utsu-P's album cover art, Moksha: http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/vocaloid/images/2/2a/MOKSHA_album_cover.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120501223841

So this is my post here at tumblr - just checking out if I can/should/would use this as my regular platform for posting updates on my current developing progress on some interesting stuff.

I am currently working on my own Voxel Engine and the latest (big change) was actually removing the baked-AO and replacing it with SSAO. The main reason for this was actually, that I wont to have other block forms in the engine and not only cubes. With cubes alone I was favoring a baked-AO approach before, but with new blocks I had to sack it and replace that visually with SSAO.

It was kind of stressing and I still have some weird issues in the whole shader which I need to fix, but in the end I am pretty satisfied with the current look an may add more blocktypes in the future.

I have to admit, that I already had lot of fun building the following scene - which is promising :-)

other features already in this engine are water simulation, per-block-lighting, day/night cycle, pathfinding, procedural trees (with ingame editor) and lots of other stuff. I enjoy tinkering with this, so stay tuned