#tiptorial

"Hi, I"m Vickie and this is my CC trigger" 😂

How to smooth out meshes (super quick tip):

In Milkshape: select subset and click Vertex - Cat's Normal Smoother (you'll need this plugin).

Doesn't always look super nice but usually does the job. If it makes too many dark spots, try blender.

In Blender (for blender 2.79b): select subset - press Tab - (look at the left part of the screen) Tools - Remove: remove doubles - Shading/UVs - Edges - Smooth.

Does the best job, but depending on meshes sometimes it's better to select only certain mesh parts to be smoothed out, like only along the seam line (highlighted with a blue line).

Not sure if this is common knowledge, but I thought I'd share in case it's not!

I was working in SimPE when my computer crashed. After rebooting, SimPE wouldn't start, giving the error message "Root element is missing". I found a few forum posts by people who ran into the same issue, but no solutions, so I did some fiddling myself.

The error message sounded to me like some kind of file was faulty, probably due to not saving correctly just before the crash. And it looks like that was the case!

I went into the Data folder in my SimPE installation folder and opened up all files that had recently been changed (I used Notepad, but any text editor will do). Turns out one file (in my case mru.xreg) was empty, and after deleting it, SimPE worked again! And the file was regenerated as well, this time correctly :)

Oh, sounds very useful! Is there any tutorial on creating 1 OBJD and multi-footprint stuff?

I’m not sure :x hopefully someone else can enlighten us if one exists.

Short explanation in the meanwhile:

1. In your object package’s OBJD, go into the RAW Data tab and set ‘Extend Footprint’ to 1:

2. Follow the “Editing the CRES“ step of this tutorial by Ocelotekatl.

I’ve noticed that certain @veranka-downloads​ links are broken because the redirection service they used - Bitly - marked them as potentially harmful:

I’ve found a method to retrieve the original link. It might be a common knowledge but I didn’t know about this method so I thought I’d share.

You need to copy the original Bitly link, paste it and add a “+” at the end, like so:

Hit enter and you’ll be redirected to a link preview page:

A little tiptorial on how to use Photoshop to make sure your layers are crisp and have no flyaway artifacts.  

1. Pick your layer.

2. Apply stroke; you cna ramp up the size just to make sure there’s nothing on the screen.