#wistfultutorialsims4

So you imported your lovely doll into Blender 4.0, but the textures are messed or missing, here's how to apply base simple textures from the scratch!

I'm using Blender 4.0.2 (Sorry 4.3, but your EEVEE is currently nothing but tears for me) and my lovely Aidan is here to assist me. SO! Seat your bum comfortable and let's begin!

1 - Split your working space by pulling the corner of the screen:

Very simple edit I use for most of my art. You'll need: Photoshop🥲

1 - Open your image in Ps. First thing I do is reduce the size of it if it's more than 4K pixels to fit in my Social Media.

2 - Press Ctrl+Shift+X to open 'Liquify' filter and use this pointing finger to fix everything that looks inhuman or weird to you. It can also be used to smooth sharp edges of quirky polygons, face expression or mesh imperfections. I fixed Sherlock's arms by stretching the part of sleeves so they looked more human like. Also Aidan's tie looked a bit out of place.

3 - Once you're happy with your fixes, go to Filters and pick Sharpen - Smart Sharpen. And let it do what it does :D

4 - Most of the time, I'm not entirely happy with the Blender lighting I have. I want to set even more dramatic colors or more vivid atmosphere and to do so I use Ps LUTs. To do so - go to the right bottom corner and click on that two-color circle. Pick 'Color Lookup'.

5 - Basically 3D LUT works like Instagram filters. You can download plenty of them across the internet. I use these and here you can watch a tutorial about how to use/install and apply LUTs. Also it has a link to the free LUTs and many more other Ps goodies.

6 - Now as LUT is applied with 50% of opacity and 50% of Fill (so it won't look TOO dramatic) I can focus on fixing some miner details like texture glitches, mesh holes etc. I do it on the new layer and usually use a soft Brush or a Patch tool.

7 - Now the fun time! Merge your layers and duplicate the image. Double click on the duplicated image to open Layer Style. Look for Channels. It's your color channels. Uncheck one of three boxes. Only one! But unchecking each one of them will give you unique Chromatic aberration effects. I picked G (Green) to have Green/Purple Chromatic aberration effect. (Unchecking R gives Red/Blue; B - gives Blue/Yellow, like Ukrainian flag ;D Chromatic aberration effect)

8 - Now to apply Chromatic aberration - move your image with arrows left or right. I move it very lightly, just to give enough depth, but not to turn it into a broken TV screen :D

9 - Merge the layers and go to Filters once again, pick 'Filter Gallery'.

10 - My final touch is... g-r-a-i-n-i-n-g. Look for Distort - Diffuse Glow. Set Glow Amount to 0, Clear Amount to Max and Graininess to 1 or 2 considering how big your picture is. For me it's 2. Apply and...

11 - There you go! You did it! :D

Are you running your Blender on a toaster? Don't wanna spend much time on rendering in Cycles? Here's some EEVEE tips for you!

1 - Let's put some HDR lighting on! Go to the Worlds, choose Use Notes and hit that little yellow dot next to the Color.

I promised this tutorial to @aniraklova, so here you go, sunshine! (I also meant this tutorial to pose makers, so they would created more poses for me:D)

You'll need:

+ Base knowledge in making poses for Sims 4 (this isn't a tutorial about how to make poses for Sims 4, so it will be perfect for someone who already created/creates poses for the Sims 4)

+ Base knowledge in Sim Ripper (Again this isn't a tutorial about how to Rip the Sim, but we will use Sims 4 Ripper)

+ Sims 4 Ripper

+ Sims 4 Studio

+ 3 sims. Sim with average height, sim with tall height (Arwin here has the max height) and his double with average height.

I'm also in love with the lightning in ur renders, how do u do it?? Im new in blender and o would like to learn new things :) 🖤

Aww, thank you! I'm pretty much new to blender-render too, so I don't know if I can tell something new about it :D But okay, I'll show what I do. I use Eevee render in Blender. Cos I'm poor and can't afford myself cool Cycles that demands powerful PC. Cos it's... easier.

First thing is environment light. Depending on your idea you can change it into more dark, more light or really any color (or even environment texture!)

Let's change it to lighter color ;3

Next, set transparent background.

I like soft light in pictures with bloom like in 80-90s movies :D So I always add Bloom + Ambient Occlusion because in Eevee it's vital.

In most cases I add Sun light first. And set up Shadow quality, cos... again, shadow quality in Eevee is vital:D

Change softness, power, color for the sun light and also add Contact Shadows. (Cos it's vital?:D)

Add back light. I LOOOOVE when the light is shining from behind the model. Makes me *___*, so yes. Back light must be rally hard and powerful to make the trick.

I also love my model's faces, so I usually try to lit it up with extra light to make it clear and well seen ;3

Then add more back light. MORE!

Make some pose/light changes if needed, add some simple Ps edit and that's it! You have this:

So I’ve been asked about my backgrounds for render in Blender. Do I create sky simulation or environment simulation for my renders? Although there’s a splendid tutorial on How to setup an hdri environment background:

I use the laziest way ever! :D

So here’s my blender scene form this post (my lovely siren fish-boy and his werewolf^^). 

As you can see the background is just a simple plane over there.

With even... simpler material :D it’s important for this material not to have any specular or other characteristics. 

So, for example, I want my picture under this angle. What should I do?

Well! Move and rotate of course! (Scale if needed :D)

Then add Depth of Field...

And. Tada! The picture is done:D

Hey, guys! Recently I moved from GShade to ReShade and faced quite unpleasant issue with MXAO and DOF shaders. I was ready to give up on having any ReShade in my game when finally found a solution from @pictureamoebae. Well, it was rather a hint on the solution in the comments, but nevertheless! Thanks to @pictureamoebae​ for giving me the right direction!^^ After updating my ReShade I faced the same problem again and decided to make this mini tutorial:3

SO! If you’re *lucky* as I am and after installing (or updating/reinstalling) your ReShade, using MXAO or any DOF you see your game looking like this:

Then, here’s how you can fix it! Open your ReShade, find “Edit global processor definitions” and click on it. RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_REVERSED most likely would have 1 annoying cupcake next to it. 

CHANGE IT TO 0! No cupcakes for this line. Not a single one! 

TADA!