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Quality Guideline: Textures - Clarity
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At a glance
The textures should look as clear and crisp as textures from the game (or better!). They shouldn't be blurry or pixelated.
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Possible Assessments
Some or all of the textures of this creation appear noticeably blurry or pixelated.
The textures do not appear to have any major issues with clarity. :)
General Guidelines
The textures you use should be clear and crisp, not blurry or pixelated. Working from low-quality source material will negatively affect the final appearance of your creations, which makes your work less attractive to downloaders.
Never enlarge a small texture file to fit on your project. This causes the textures to appear blurry, pixelated, or "crunchy", due to the extra "junk pixels" which are added in the enlarging process. Downsizing a big texture file is fine, though!
Tutorials
Body Shop - All
If you're making clear textures but they're blurry once you finish your project, see: Game Help:Blurry Body Shop Projects.
If you're getting unpleasant pixellation and colour banding on darker textures, you can import your textures into the recolour package with SimPE, as explained here.
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