#ts3 textures

The doc might seem long/overwhelming, this is because I wanted to be very, very precise, truly step by step. Every single task by itself is just a matter of clicking buttons and takes a few seconds, except for altering the UV lay-out and the off-screen mesh editing. This is a repeat (but more precise) of things I wrote in this big 4To3 tutorial , as well as functioning as a written version of the contents of this video

I touch upon how to nicely convert the specular, normal map & main diffuse (and other swatches) of a TS4 item to the TS3. Because I only do maxis match/mix stuff it is done with that, but you could extrapolate this to different cc aesthetics & conversions from other games.

I use blender 3.6 and photoshop 2025.*

*for your photoediting program, a very important thing is that it allows you to open DDS files with the alpha layer shown as a channel you can disable/enable/remove/replace, instead of only being able to open it as the sheer image as-is.

Thank you so much for the kind words! I hadn't considered uploading them but you should be able to pull them out of the world file for yourself without too much trouble, I think.

You'll first want to convert the world to a package file (which is honestly how I install all my worlds anyway, but MTS guidelines I think meant I had to upload as a sims3pack). Once you've got it in package form, you can open in s3pe and look for the IMG types within; it should contain any of them you need. You can either then import these into a new package and install as overrides, or import it into the .world itself, whichever works for how often you want to see them (for all worlds, or just yours).