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11th Oct 2021 at 12:22 PM
Last edited by Kestin : 11th Oct 2021 at
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Shoeswapping - solved
A few weeks ago, I tried shoeswapping a dress to have bare feet. Seems simple, right?...I gave up then, but now I want to see if I can fix what I was doing wrong, so that I can do this in the future. I got lost on step 13 of
this tutorial, where it says "Select two vertices that should be matched up, one from the top, one from the bottom" -- I don't know what it means by the "top" and "bottom", though I'm guessing it means the two different meshes. I guess the problem is that here's what I had at that point; the line where the meshes meet is highlighted. (Sorry for the large images.)
(Also possibly notable is this weird crease here, which seems to
not be at the spot where the two meshes meet up. This part is just the Maxis nude mesh. Is it just messed up like that and I never noticed?)
I tried to continue by selecting what I could see, which to my view was just one vertex, but I hoped it was actually two (one from each group) that were just too well aligned to tell apart. I couldn't find an option for "Extended Manual Edit", but I figured regular old "Manual Edit" was the same thing. When I tried using it, it said I had selected two vertices that were already completely identical*, which I guess would be great but the mesh number was the same so I think they were from the same group to start with. I wasn't sure what to do, so I just did Manual Edit and clicked OK for each vertex/pair/whatever they are. Nothing seemed to actually happen. I also tried the technique from
this tutorial, with data merging, but I'm pretty sure that also did nothing.
*The one time they weren't, it wouldn't let me actually change any of the numbers. It just reverted back to what it started as. This is probably also me doing something wrong.
...I then couldn't find "Align Normals" in the menu, and that step looked pretty important, so at that point I surrendered and put the whole thing away. Any advice on how to continue from here? I am using Milkshape version 1.8.4 (free trial) with Wes Howe's Sims 2 plugins.
UPDATE:
After I found the Extended Manual Edit and Align Normals plugins, I was able to continue and get a finished product...but the finished product is weird-looking, as seen below, and I'm not sure what I did wrong.
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