Sims Iv Custom Content Making Tutorial:How To Brand A Cc Bed For Sims Iv (Part-3:Texturing Together With Importing Lastly Modern File Into The Sims 4)

To know the required programs to brand Sims four cc together with to larn how to practise the turn a profit of  a cc Sims four bed,read Part-1 of this tutorial.Read Part-2 of this tutorial for creating UV map,Map Baking together with importing your turn a profit to Sims four Studio.

Note:Do Not copy-paste this tutorial together with position out it every bit your ain on your website/blog/tumblr,if y'all desire to portion it but portion the link to this post service or reblog it on tumblr. 

Required Plug in:

• DDS Plug-in for GIMP

Download the Windows 32-bit binaries together with house the extracted dds.exe file inward the GIMP plug-in folder, commonly located at C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins.

• Normal Map Plug-in for GIMP 2.4 (and higher)

Download the Windows 32-bit binaries. To install, extract the normalmap.exe file to your GIMP plugins directory commonly located at:
C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins
Then extract the three dll files to your GIMP bin directory. This directory is commonly located at:

C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin


Steps for Part-3:Adding Texture to UV map

1.Open Gimp together with opened upward the icon of your baked map that y'all saved from Blender UV Editor.

Now add together a novel layer to your icon every bit shown below.

2.Select the visible layer together with the pick out the bucket fill upward tool inward the correct sidebar,from Tool Options pick out 'Overlay' every bit shown below.

I accept downloaded a wooden texture icon file from the spider web together with copied it to Users>.gimp-2.8>Patterns folder therefore that the icon appear every bit a designing nether 'Patterns' window of Gimp.You tin google for textures to download together with apply them to your objects.For illustration google for wooden texture together with salvage the icon of your pick inward Google Image Results.Select 'Pattern Fill' to purpose designing every bit shown below.

Set threshold value according to your choice.The higher threshold value volition apply designing to all your parts at once.But what if y'all desire to apply different patterns to dissimilar parts of the UV map.For this pick out a lower threshold value similar I selected 33 every bit threshold value to apply designing to a private business office of the map for illustration the business office marked yesteryear crimson circle. 

3.Now click on the business office y'all desire to apply pattern.Clicking to a greater extent than than in 1 lawsuit volition darken the a nighttime colored designing together with lighten a lite colored pattern.For illustration y'all tin run into my designing has darken inward the 2d pic below.

4.Repeat step-3 to add together patterns to all parts of your UV map.Here is an illustration of the higher upward UV map fully textured.

5.Now merge all the visible layer into 1 layer yesteryear clicking on Image>Merge visible layers.

6.We're going to export this textured map for importing it into Sims four Studio later.Click on File>Export as.

Select DDS icon nether file type together with click Export.

Select BC3/DXT5 every bit Compression Level together with Generate Mipmaps nether Mipmaps.Then click 'OK' to export your textured map.It's also our diffused map.

7.After exporting the bed frame textured map,open the EA bedding texture map that y'all baked together with saved every bit icon from Blender UV Editor.Then follow stride 1 to stride half dozen for texturing together with exporting your bedding map inward Gimp.I've textured the bedding map below:

You tin run into that the bed canvass has seamless texture.I've created the seamless texture In Photoshop CC together with therefore imported it into Gimp.Because if your icon file is non a seamless texture itself,you volition run into interruption or tiled resultant inward the concluding texture if y'all apply the icon to your map inward Gimp.I've cropped pocket-sized parts from the icon file I've chosen inward Photoshop,then applied them every bit private layers together with represent them similar a matching puzzles carefully before I overlaid them on my map.I'm instantly going to explicate this technique below alongside my the leather upholstery seamless texture I created for the forepart business office of my bed head.The below bed is of my Sims four Modern Luxury Bedroom Furniture Set.

(Step 8 is non a mandatory step,you may skip it if y'all don't desire to purpose Photoshop for your texturing)

8.Open both the baked map for which y'all desire to practise a seamless texture together with opened upward the icon from which you're going to apply the texture inward Photoshop CC.Below I've opened my icon file which is re-sized to 200X200 pixel every bit our bed caput is much pocket-sized than the existent life beds.Click on the marquee selection tool on the correct sidebar to pick out whatever portion or sum portion of the icon y'all chosen,then press "Ctrl+C" to re-create your selection.

Then acquire to your baked icon opened inward Photoshop together with press "Ctrl+V" to glue your selection every bit a novel layer.Click on the movement tool on the correct sidebar to movement your icon to your business office of the UV map.You tin run into below that I've placed icon layer matching to each other to practise a seamless texture of leather upholstery.I had created sum 82 layers inward this map together with matched them.That's why I've non shown the texturing of this map from scratch.

Select the layers 1 yesteryear 1 together with click on Overlay to overlay them every bit shown below.

You'll run into therefore your layers has been overlaid on your map somewhat similar below.

This is the basic procedure of texturing your map inward Photoshop CC.After texturing salvage your map every bit .png image,then opened upward inward Gimp together with export every bit DDS icon from Gimp yesteryear next step-6.

Steps for Part-3:Creating Diffuse,Normal together with Specular Map

• Diffuse map is your textured UV map.

• Normal map is used to convey a lot to a greater extent than especial onto mesh.Sims four required normal map for objects every bit a mandatory requirement.Follow the steps below to practise normal map inward Gimp.

1.Open your baked UV map in 1 lawsuit again inward Gimp.

 2.Click on Brightness-contrast.

Increase the contrast yesteryear 30-50% together with click OK.

3.Add an Alpha channel to your icon from "Configure This Tab" push clitoris inward Layer Tab.

4. Click Filters>Map>Normalmap.

  
Put a cheque grade on Invert Y together with click OK

Your map volition plow bluish similar below.

Click Colors>Components>Decompose.

Select RGBA every bit color model together with click OK.

A novel window alongside your map grayed volition appear.Click on that window.

Click Color>Components>Compose from that window.



Select RGBA every bit color model.Then pick out Red inward Alpha champaign together with Green inward both Red together with Blue champaign together with click OK

A novel window volition appear alongside your map looking similar below.Now export this map every bit DDS DXT5 icon similar y'all exported earlier.

• Kitkat has an fantabulous tutorial on how to practise RGB specular map for Sims 4.Read her tutorial on Sims four Studio forum to practise RGB specular map out of your baked UV map.Her tutorial uses Photoshop but y'all tin purpose Gimp to practise specular map.Just pick out channel nether channel tab inward Gimp when selecting private channel together with click on Image>Brightness-Contrast to growth or decrease the brightness of your selected channel.

Steps for Part-3:Importing Texture Maps to Sims four Studio

1.Open your projection that contains your blender meshes of Part-2 of this tutorial inward Sims four Studio.Then acquire to texture tab.To import your bed frame texture click on the bed frame texture nether Texture window together with click Import button.Now inward the same agency import your bedding texture.To add together unopen to other texture or swatch,click Add Swatch together with import unopen to other dissimilar color or designing texture of your bed that y'all created.You should pick out colors that are relevant to your texture inward Swatch Thumbnail.

2.Go to Warehouse tab.Your diffused map was automatically added when y'all imported your starting fourth dimension texture both for bed frame together with bedding.The Normal Map champaign is nether Diffuse Map together with the Specular Map champaign is higher upward Diffuse Map.Import your Normal together with Specular map into their respective filed yesteryear clicking on the import push clitoris shown below.

Now salvage your project.

Steps for Part-3:Installing your created CC inward Sims 4

1.We accept instantly finished creating our Sims four cc bed.Give your bed a name,description together with cost nether Catalog tab.I've named this bed every bit 'The Tutorial Bed'

2.Save your project.Sims four Studio volition salvage your projection every bit bundle file which nosotros telephone telephone modernistic bundle file or cc file.Copy this file to your My Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4>Mod folder.

3.Start your game together with you'll observe your bed inward Buy Mode>Comfort>Bed department inward game.Below is the tutorial bed installed inward Sims 4.

We've instantly finished creating Sims four custom content bed.

Feel gratis to comment below if y'all acquire stuck at whatever stride inward this tutorial together with also if you've whatever questions regrading this tutorial.I'll last glad to aid you.You tin also contact me using the comment from on the sidebar.

Sims Four Custom Content Making Tutorial:How To Brand A Cc Bed For Sims Four (Part-2:Uv Map,Map Baking As Well As Importing Lucre To Sims Four Studio)

To know the required programs to brand Sims iv cc too to larn how to practise the net turn a profit of  a cc Sims iv bed,read Part-1 of this tutorial.

Note:Do Not copy-paste this tutorial too let on it equally your ain on your website/blog/tumblr,if yous desire to part it only part the link to this post service or reblog it on tumblr. 

Steps for Part-2:UV Map too Map Baking

1.First opened upwardly your blender bed net turn a profit file if yous haven't already opened it.

2.Now click,hold the left mouse click on the expanse pointed past times arrow on the kickoff pic below too drag it to the left to business office the concealment inward 2 shown inward the s pic.

I only hid the sidebars equally I don't ask them.Now on the left window guide UV/Image Editor equally shown below.

Now nosotros guide keep to practise the UV map of the bed frame entirely too we'll locomote out the shadow too the bedding equally it is.We're non creating the UV map of bedding equally EA has it's ain UV map of the bedding which nosotros volition export later.The shadow doesn't ask UV mapping.So kickoff guide the bed base of operations past times correct clicking on it too press "Tab" to acquire to the edit mode.In edit agency yous tin sack meet the bed base of operations is selected.

Click on the correct concealment too press "U" too thence click on "Smart UV mapping" from the UV Mapping card equally shown below.

Now laid the angle boundary to 89 equally shown below.Leave the other land equally default too click "OK"

You tin sack meet below the uv map of the bed base of operations is loaded forthwith on the UV editor.

We've to re-size map because we'll merge other maps into this UV editor.To re-size it kickoff click on the UV editor window,press "B" too thence guide the whole map equally shown below.

Press "S" too re-size it to a smaller size too thence movement the map past times pressing "G" to the house shown below.Take a banking concern annotation on which house yous moved the map too we'll avoid that house patch loading other maps equally nosotros shouldn't overlap the maps.

3.Now press "Tab" to acquire to the object agency too guide the bed caput or a object of the bed caput past times correct clicking on it.As I guide keep 2 parts inward my bed caput I ask to bring together them now.To bring together 2 or to a greater extent than objects,first grouping the objects (Grouping objects is explained  in Step-19 of Part-1 of this tutorial) too thence press "Ctrl+J" to bring together them.Remember 1 time they are joined too yous saved too closed your projection at that topographic point is no agency to acquire dorsum the master copy private shape of each object yous joined.You tin sack ever press "Ctrl+Z" to undo your commands.
After selecting the bed head, acquire to edit agency 1 time to a greater extent than too thence press "A" to guide all portions of the bed caput object if its non already selected equally shown below.

Create a UV map of the bed caput too re-size it to smaller size repeating the instructions of step-2.Then movement it to a house inside UV editor but non other than the house containing bed base of operations map.For illustration I've placed my bed frame avoiding the bed base of operations map house marked past times cerise circle.

Now acquire to object agency too grouping the bed base of operations too the bed caput too thence bring together them.Now come upwardly to the edit agency 1 time to a greater extent than too press "A" to guide the whole joined business office equally shown below too you'll meet your bed caput too bed base of operations map merged into 1 UV map.

This is the basic technique of creating UV map.Also,you ask to holler upwardly which map of which business office of the bed equally nosotros guide keep to apply texture/color/pattern to the baked UV map non the objects.

4.We'll forthwith bake the UV map nosotros created.Baking the UV map is essential for the Sims 4.To bake kickoff click on the "New" push highlighted on the moving painting below.

Apply the settings marked past times the cerise box below.Note that un-checking "Alpha" is required for closed to UV maps too for closed to UV maps it's required to banking concern check "Alpha" too this volition depend the programme you're using to texture your map for illustration it'll last slow to texture an UV map amongst alpha inward Gimp but quite difficult inward Photoshop CC.

After adding the icon to the UV map,go to the "world" tab inward the left sidebar of blender.Check too apply factor:1.75 to Ambient Occulsion too factor:0.75 to Environmental Lighting equally shown inward the moving painting below.

Also,change the sample numbers to 12 equally shown below,higher sample issue laissez passer on smoother trial but longer rendering fourth dimension of the baking.Now acquire to the Render tab of that sidebar,select "Ambient Occulsion" inward bake agency too click on Bake push equally shown below:

Wait for a few mins for the baking to last completed.After the baking is completed,press "Tab" too you'll meet a baked UV map similar the moving painting below:

Now salve the baked UV map equally shown inward the moving painting below.Also,it's beneficial to salve your baked net turn a profit file equally a separate blender file from the master copy bed net turn a profit file nosotros opened inward the step-1 of this tutorial equally if yous desire to add together or take away anything to the mesh,you tin sack modify the net turn a profit file too thence repeat the UV mapping too baking procedure to bake your changed mesh.
We've forthwith done UV Mapping too Baking UV Maps.

Steps for Part-2:Importing Your Baked Mesh to Sims iv Studio

1.Open Sims iv Studio too add together your advert inward the Creator Name field.This is your signature equally an master copy creator which volition automatically last added to every cc yous create.It helps to notice cc creation stealing equally far equally I know.Select "Create 3D Mesh" too click on the "Object" push equally shown below.

Wait for the objects of The Sims iv game to last loaded.Now guide "The Utopiate" bed,actually yous tin sack guide whatsoever double bed but non the unmarried beds too click Next.Then salve the bed,it volition last saved equally DBPF Package file.

Now export the high exceptional net turn a profit of the bed from the Mesh tab equally shown below.It'll last exported equally a blender file.

2.Open the exported blender file from Sims iv Studio past times double clicking on the exported file.

Import the blender file that contains baked UV map of the bed past times appending the bed including all of its parts(Appending a file is explained inward Step eighteen of Part-1 of this tutorial ).Our bed has three parts- Bed Frame (highlighted amongst dark box inward the sidebar) too Bedding too Shadow (highlighted amongst cerise box).

Now press 'A' to deselect too delete "group_1" too "group_2" equally they're the shadow too the bedding of our baked bed too nosotros 'll last replacing them amongst the shadow too the bedding of the EA bed exported from Sims iv Studio.After deleting "group_1" too "group_2" our bed volition await similar below.

Now click on the "s4studio_mesh_0"(the bed frame of the EA bed exported from Sims iv Studio) too banking concern annotation the cutting value nether S4Studio CAS tools (highlighted past times dark box).Here the cutting value is 0.

Then guide the bed frame of your bed too assign the same cutting value of the EA bed frame which is 0 to your bed frame.

Now delete "s4studio_mesh_0"(the bed frame of the EA bed exported from Sims iv Studio) too forthwith your bed is around laid to last imported into Sims iv Studio too it'll await similar below:

3.We'll forthwith bake too export the EA bedding UV map for adding our ain pattern/texture/color to the EA bedding.Select the EA bedding,press "Tab" to acquire to the edit agency too you'll meet the EA UV map of the EA bedding.

Bake the map too salve the baked map next Step-4 of the UV Map too Map Baking business office of this tutorial.It'll accept a patch for the baking procedure to last completed.The finally icon volition await similar below:

4.You tin sack meet below the bed has 109,442 polygons where Sims iv tin sack procedure upwardly to 20000 polygon.Most of the CC hairs guide keep 10000-20000 polygon.The bed poly is high because of the crease shaped bed head.The to a greater extent than uncomplicated your mesh,less poly it'll have.Reducing the polygon number/poly count volition trim the lineament of the mesh.But we guide keep to lower the poly of the bed frame equally much equally nosotros tin sack without destroying the shape of the bed frame net turn a profit for the sake of Sims iv game performance.To lower the poly count,select your bed frame too click "Decimate" from the "Add Modifier" options inward the Modifier tab of blender left sidebar.

Now pose whatsoever decimal value below 1 inward the "Ratio" land equally shown below too press "enter" to meet the change.If you're satisfied with the modify click "Apply" button.I pose initially  0.1  as I ask to drag the poly count from 109,442 to below 10000.

I decimated the bed to 4438 poly count.After yous apply the decimate modifier salve the file naming lod_0 for illustration "bed_lod_0" to recognize it's the high exceptional mesh.This net turn a profit volition charge inward the Sims iv game when the graphics for Objects is laid to high inward the game graphics option.

5.Now opened upwardly EA bed DBPF parcel file yous salve inward Sims iv Studio inward pace 1 of this part.Select "LOD 0 (High)" from the drib downwardly card nether net turn a profit tab too click on import push too thence import your lod 0 bed file yous saved inward the previous step.

It'll accept a patch for the net turn a profit to last imported depending on the poly count of the mesh.You'll meet that your bed volition guide keep EA textures 1 time it's been loaded which doesn't gibe your bed for sure.We'll add together our ain texture to it inward the part-3 of this tutorial.

6.Follow pace iv 1 time to a greater extent than to decimate your lod 0 model a petty combat to brand lod 1 or medium detailed model of your bed.Follow pace five to import your medium exceptional net turn a profit equally shown inward the moving painting below.

7.This bed has a shadow net turn a profit also.To practise a high detailed shadow net turn a profit opened upwardly your lod 0 blender file of your bed net turn a profit too delete "s4studio_mesh_2"as shown inward the moving painting below.

Save this file equally a separate file nether dissimilar advert too it's your shadow lod 0 file.

8.Repeat step-7 to practise a shadow lod 1 file.

9.Repeat pace five too pace vi to import your shadow lod 0 too shadow lod 1 file to Sims iv Studio.Your bed shadow volition await somewhat similar below after importing.

Save your function inward Sims iv Studio after importing the shadow meshes.

Read the finally business office of this tutorial PART-3:TEXTURING AND IMPORTING FINAL MOD FILE INTO THE SIMS 4

Feel costless to comment below if yous acquire stuck at whatsoever pace inward this tutorial too also if you've whatsoever questions regrading this tutorial.I'll last glad to attention you.You tin sack also contact me using the comment from on the sidebar.