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3. IMPORT YOUR IMAGE Click the Browse button and select your file.

4. CONFIGURE THE CHANNELS On the right side of the window, you'll see checkboxes for each color channel: Red (1), Green (2), Blue (3), and Alpha (4).

Check the channels that are present in your image. Usually, these are the first three, but if your image has transparency, you can also use the fourth one.

Each checked channel can be recolored in-game with its own color. For each checkbox, you can set a default color by clicking the color swatch or entering a HEX code.

5.  SAVE YOUR PATTERN Fill in the Title and Description fields. Choose which in-game Category your pattern will appear under, and pick a Surface Type it will imitate (for example, fabric or wood).

If you imported your image in a format other than DDS, check the Use DXT compression box.

Click Export to create a .Sims3Pack file.

6. CONVERT FOR SIMS MEDIEVAL For the pattern to work in TSM, you'll need to convert it to .package format using Sims3Pack Multi Installer or any other equivalent tool.

7. Place the file in your Mods folder and test it in game.

Cool!

✨ HOW TO USE THE ALPHA CHANNEL?

Every color you see on screen is created by mixing Red, Green, and Blue - these are the three RGB channels. The Alpha channel is a fourth channel that doesn't store color information; instead, it stores transparency levels for each pixel.

White (255) means fully opaque - the pixel is completely visible

Black (0) means fully transparent - the pixel is invisible

1. Open your image in a graphics editor that supports DDS files.

2. Go to the "Channels" tab and create a new channel by clicking the icon at the bottom.

3. Select the area you want and fill it with white.

4. Save the image in DDS format.