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Flooring recolors?
Gothfortune
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I really need to make some recolors but it seems like nobody on the whole Internet knows how. Anyone here aware of how to do it?
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Gothfortune
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I found a bunch of different types of tutorials, if the other doesn't then hopefully something here would help.
But somehow I think there's more too it than just replacing the IMG file.... :neutral_face:
If this is the case, recoloring walls could be reallllllly easy once S4PE is able to read IMG files... or an incredible nightmare!!!! depending on what you're trying to accomplish if they are all linked to one another. Though I have to imagine that there is someway to unlink them as well, so if you did cute little bunnies hopping along a plain wall, they don't get decapitated by the overlays of those little boxed walls. But right now that is just a guess, and here I was wondering how for once Maxis managed to get things fairly well matchy-matchy in comparison to the other games.
Far an away this game is way more open than previous, they gave us a forum(s), posted code, have been answering questions... we have our own gurumodsquad... we had ways to recolor clothing and other CAS files before the actual game came out.
I'd have to say that largely they are doing what they said they would.
> I'm also posting over at modthesims, my go-to site for any and all questions. But it would seem as though S4PE isn't yet up to reading IMG files.
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It isn't that S4PE isn't up to reading the _IMG files, its that it is still using Sims 3's data for tags and types (which makes perfect sense, as they haven't found every datatype yet, and this tool is based on Sims 3's.).
The things that S4PE call _IMG's... aren't. What are IMG files are tagged as UNKN with the type "0x3453CF95". Example: ClientFullBuild8.package, showing the base texture for a female shirt - puu.sh/bshcG/8f5f4327e5.png (I can't post links, yet, so copy/paste in the address bar). Specular/bump map files are also using this type.
This might only be clothing/body files, though, I haven't really come across any object textures, at all. :(
I actually think that sounds incredibly likely, given that they used a similar system to what you are describing for skin textures/tones in this generation of the game. I'm really hoping that you're right and it means recoloring will be easy once S4PE gets all its flags in order. I'm very much looking forward to having fun wallpapers and carpets (though the did an excellent job with paint this time around, I love the variety in the base game).
"A rose by any other name
still has a 🐸🐸🐸🐸....."
Wonder why Rose isn't considered a more masculine name??
Either way I'll be extremely happy when they get a few more data strings loaded into S4PE and iron out a few more bugs too. Of course EA/Maxis could help things along by just giving us a home crafter ;)
I hope this time around I'll be able to learn to create recolors for walls and floors - I do all right with Photoshop, but it's making me a little nervous that the files are so unclear. I hope it works out, because I think I could make the selection of solid furnishings stretch a lot more if I could mix it up with walls and floors.
Anyway, to everyone working on the object creation side of things, you have a lot of cheerleaders!