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#1 Old 21st Oct 2026 at 7:00 PM
CAStable Accessory Tattooo tutorial?
Hello wonderful Sim people! I'm trying to create an accessory tattoo, and I got it to show up in game. I just can't figure out out how to make it CAStable. Does anyone know of any good tutorials? I found a couple but they were old/not easy to follow.
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#2 Old 23rd Oct 2026 at 2:49 AM
For the base item, I'd suggest cloning the accessory socks or gloves. That will give you a package that is already set up to support a CASTable skin overlay.
If you want more than one colour channel you'll have to enable more in your choice of software (in TSRW this is in the Texture tab, in the Patterns dropdown - they can also be enabled in CTU in the Design tab, or in S3PE by editing the _XML).

Then it's just a case of making the Mask texture - or is that the part that isn't working?
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#3 Old 23rd Oct 2026 at 8:07 PM
Quote: Originally posted by CardinalSims
For the base item, I'd suggest cloning the accessory socks or gloves. That will give you a package that is already set up to support a CASTable skin overlay.
If you want more than one colour channel you'll have to enable more in your choice of software (in TSRW this is in the Texture tab, in the Patterns dropdown - they can also be enabled in CTU in the Design tab, or in S3PE by editing the _XML).

Then it's just a case of making the Mask texture - or is that the part that isn't working?

Thanks for the suggestion - that's a good idea. The mask is what's confusing me. I thought I figured it out, but I guess I haven't.
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#4 Old 24th Oct 2026 at 5:07 PM
Quote: Originally posted by whrm3
Thanks for the suggestion - that's a good idea. The mask is what's confusing me. I thought I figured it out, but I guess I haven't.


This is the basics for making a 4 channel mask. https://modthesims.info/showthread....94&goto=newpost To make 3 channel, just don't make an alpha channel. This is for boots, but the basics are what the relation is to the multiplier.

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#5 Old 25th Oct 2026 at 1:35 AM
Okay, I got my accessory tattoo to be CAStable. My Multiplier was black and I guess it needed to be gray. I also wanted two parts of my accessory tattoo to be CAStable, but the channels were behaving strangely. When I changed the mask to just red and changed it to one channel it worked.
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#6 Old 26th Oct 2026 at 6:50 PM
Quote: Originally posted by whrm3
Okay, I got my accessory tattoo to be CAStable. My Multiplier was black and I guess it needed to be gray. I also wanted two parts of my accessory tattoo to be CAStable, but the channels were behaving strangely. When I changed the mask to just red and changed it to one channel it worked.

Yes! I got two channels to work! :D
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