Tutorial PSA: Creating Custom Loading Screens
Huge thanks to @adinc-sims for creating a template, which you can grab over here.
Apparently it’s very easy to create one of these. Here’s my very basic (and hopefully helpful) guide:
1) Download a custom loading screen. This will be your base.
2) Open up the file with SimPE.
3) Once the file is open, right click on it and choose export. Place it somewhere you’ll remember.
4) Open up A. D.’s template and go ham with your design. Once it is ready, SAVE as a .png. This is because the transparency is needed to show the tile screens loading. Otherwise it will just be flat white tiles.
5) Once you are happy with the results, go back to your open file in SimPE. Right click and choose replace.
You’ll notice that when you open the folder with your new image it does not show in SimPE. Make sure to select “all files” in the file type.
You’ll briefly get a pop-up from SimPE saying they need to refresh the file, so go ahead and say yes. Once that’s done your new image will load up in SimPE.
6) Save it as a new file entirely, and place it wherever you have your backgrounds (this will depend on whether you use @greatcheesecakepersona‘s amazing random screen generator or prefer to stick with one option).
7) Fire up your game and enjoy your monstrosity creation.
If you’re sharing your file please use this as tag #ts2:loadingscreen so we can find each other’s new screens and grab them! Unless someone can think of a shorter and easier hashtag to find custom screens?
