I realize the fix for this issue is much simpler and just resize the dragon tattoo layer to be the entire canvas…duh.However, I don’t learn what I need to know. Googling and reading this, I learn way more about dds files that I knew before (which was nothing, so that wasn’t that much of a feat.Over in S4S again, feeling more confident, I try and fail again…it only saved the size of the dragon – not the canvas.This time paying attention to the export options. I can’t import it because I didn’t save it with a BC3/DXT5 compression…I hope that was an option? And of course, not paying attention, means I fail.Then, I clicked back over to S4S and press “Import” texture. Instead I hide the non-dragon layers and export as a.
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There was a bunch of stuff about alpha channels and making a white tattoo that I think was just so that the edges didn’t have white? I kind of ignore that stuff.It kind of matches mine? Well not really. I flip and scale the layer with the dragon.I right click on the layer and find “add alpha channel.” Then I up the threshold to 100.0 which gets rid of most of the white edging when I do click to delete the white. Apparently I must add and “alpha channel” to delete the white. I add that dragon to my work space and realize I need to delete the white background.Even more regret that I’ve just moved and have no idea where my drawings are…or where my scanner is. I go to google and grab a random dragon image instead.I now regret I don’t actually have a scan yet of my back tattoo ready to go. After moving my layers around I see the tattoo on the body.(Well there’s this bit about making the background black and such – but I ignored that…for now.) I drag the body texture file onto my workspace and it opens. I’m supposed to add the body texture to the image.package file the first time so that was a user error.
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I think perhaps I accidentally tried to open the.
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Gah this interface!? □ I found my second instructions was a little more “step by step” but my interface doesn’t match hers. Create a new post to document this adventure □.Opened gimp to make sure it still worked and that “save as dds” was now an option.Extracted and put the gimp plug-in file in my gimp plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins.Downloaded a plug-in for Gimp to save files as.Downloaded the body texture (I just grabbed the female one for now).Download and installed Sims4Studio (yes you have to make an account there).(I refuse to watch video tutorials because videos often make me want to scream. One on the Sims4Studio thread by Mister S and one on tumblr by Sims Sala Bin – this last one was the more useful of the two. So I searched the internet for how to make tattoos.
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Today I got my third tattoo and I think I’m ready. To do that I needed to learn how to make custom content. In TS2 of course most of the tattoos were tied to their outfits, but in TS3? Gah, the default options were atrocious! Who would want one of those tattoos? TS4’s defaults tattoos are better, kind of, but when I made my simself for the first time, I realized I wanted to add MY tattoo. I’ve never been happy with the tattoo options in the sims. *Note* I’ve made some new tattoos and learned some new tricks.