Are you talking about Sims 1, 2, or 3? Sims 2 is the only one I know of that can link a skin to a body shape.

In any case, what you're trying to do has nothing to do with this tutorial. You need to post in the appropriate Create forum.

This tutorial is for making body hair ONLY, which in Sims 3 is a separate overlay to the sim skin. The skin is used only as a background to position the hair. It says at the beginning of the tutorial that it will not teach you how to use GIMP or do texturing. It is also for Sims 3, not Sims 1, and they are totally different so I don't have a clue how to do what you want and am not even sure what you're talking about. I'm not aware of any active modding communities for Sims 1 but you can Google it.

''am not even sure what you're talking about''



..no. you do. your just saying whatever comes to mind. sorry i asked for help from.. well not anything alive.
oh and google. wow.. didnt think of that onel0l.
enjoy the stick end of 2012 and a happy halloween to you .

mokbokox, we don't have a Sims 1 modding section on this site, so you'll have to ask your questions elsewhere.

Please try to be polite in your replies, CmarNYC was perfectly civil to you and did not deserve your reply.

CmarNYC,
thanks for the great Tutorial, I use photoshop so I didn't follow yours here although in concept it is not that different.
However I got a problem where my created hair looks very fine in CAS but then turn blotchy when going back into game, the most white of the alpha channel showing while the subtle edges totally dissappear/ not showing unlike in CAS, but when I zoom into the sim untill it goes semi transparent when the camera starts being to close, there my hair layer shows properly in full detail again, yet when I zoom out, it turns bad again.

I have tried DXT5, even 8.8.8.8 RGBA with huge file size but it doesn't solve the issue,

Do you know a tip to work around this?
I have all details set to high in TS3 option
thanks
navetsea

Hi Nav
It is related to the alphamaskthreshold i think.
With objects you can play with these settings, setting it higher makes it more crispy while lower gives you a smoother alpha channel but tends to dissapear when zooming out..
Might be the other way arround tho :P

I haven't tested this with CASp tho as clothing doesn't have that material setting, i dont know about hair.
But, in TSRW's meshtab you can open the materials and add the line alphamaskthreshold.
Set it low(30 or 40) to begin with, with a bit of luck this might improve the transparancy of the alpha channel.(value=0-200)

This is why I never uploaded the set of light body hair I spent weeks working on some time ago. No, light or detailed hair just seems to do this and I have no clue how to fix it. The EA hair does the same thing - maybe that's why most of it is so crudely drawn. Seems to be a rendering thing in the game. However, your noticing that the quality appears high like in CAS when zoomed very close is interesting. I'm going to take another look, maybe compare to the way accessories are constructed - possibly there's a setting or something that can be tweaked.

Bloom, I tried your suggestion but it made no difference. I didn't really think it would since that's a mesh setting and the body hairs don't have meshes.

Hi Bloom it's been awhile
Hi CmarNYC

thanks for the replies
BTW since it shows detail when super close and get ugly when on distance, I tried to play around with mipmap filter setting, disable gamma correction, etc that I thought might play part of it, still no improvement so far.
next I'm going to try 2048x2048 or 4096x4096 and see if the game can auto resize higher resolution or not,
if it can, then I will try to use solid brushes to shape the individual hairs and solid alpha, without relying much on semi transparency soft edges that can't be handled well in game.

HI I am a fan of yours , I have a question for you as you make them look so realistic body hair? I have a hp laptop windows 7 and when I put body hair in the sims 3 hair gets fuzzy and not yours it was very realistic.
you help me please? idk if it is the graphics card or something else. :D

Body hair just isn't rendered very well in the game. I've found it only looks good if it's fairly heavy with fairly sharp edges. It's not easy to do.

I know this was a while back, but where do I put these so I can use them?

Very sorry to bump such an old post. What I want to do is create default replacements of all the body hair in the game, including the expanded set for supernatural. If someone has already done this (I know about the set by Nukael which does not include the supernatural hair) I could easily replace the textures. If not, I'll need to figure out how to extract it from the game. I know I could create a custom package, but I'd really like a default replacement set.

IMO tutorials are always open for new comments unless they become hopelessly outdated.

The base game body hair textures are in The Sims 3 / GameData / Shared / Packages / DeltaBuild2.package. The names all start with amBhair. The Supernatural textures are in The Sims 3 Supernatural / GameData / Shared / Packages / FullBuild_p15.package and also start with amBhair.

Thanks so much Cmar! Now I know where to start. I may have a few more questions as I've never created a default replacement package from start, always piggy-backed on someone else's. I haven't posted anything at MTS in years, I guess I'll have to post it here if I'm successful. Like a zombie rising from the dead.

ETA:

Now this wouldn't be as simple as creating a package of these textures and swapping them out would it? I've already exported everything from s3pe...I'll give it a whirl and see.

I found several images like this (I just exported everything that was amBhair):



In Nukael's replacement, these were not included. Is there anything I need to do with these images? The other images made perfect sense and I understand how to work with them. Can I leave these alone?

I really don't know what role, if any, those images play. I don't include them in making hairs with Hairinator and they appear to be all the same. My feeling is that it's safe to ignore them.

I've learnt some nifty stuff; thanks very much. One question - is there a way I can add thumbnails to the body hair?

Absolutely. Thumbnails should be 128x128 png images. Add the thumb to your package with the Type ID 0x626F60CD, Group ID 0x00000007, and the same Instance ID as the CASP.

How to add to the package step by step:

Open the package in s3pe. Make sure Names and Tags are checked in the bottom part of the S3PE window.
Find and double-click the CASP. Copy the Instance.
Click the Resource menu, Import, From file.
For Type, select THUM 0x626F60CD
For Group, enter 0x00000007
For Instance, paste the Instance of the CASP
Click okay to add the thumbnail, save, exit

If you've already run the game with the hair, you'll have to delete Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Thumbnails\CASThumbnails.package to make the game use your custom thumb instead of the one it generated.

When/if I get around to making a new version of Hairinator, I'll add the ability to import a thumbnail in the program.

Thank you, I've needed this so badly and I've tried like 400000 different methods. I'm currently creating a pack for male sims that goes down "south" if you get what I mean. Thanks!

Where do I find the location of the skin texture files?

The files are in FullBuild2.package, or you can download them from the tutorial post.

Hi, sorry to post on such an old thread but the tutorial images are gone

I don't suppose you have them backed up somewhere?

Web archive seems to have the images, if that's what you needed? : http://web.archive.org/web/20151008...t=&page=1&pp=25