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How do you change the lens color of glasses?

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19th Jan 2005, 07:10 AM	#26
DigitalReality Lab Assistant Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 19	To those who don't know already.... MATDs are Shaders for different Materials (Material Descriptions) A shader is a programmatic way to represent surface qualities like shininess, reflectivity, color, transparency, translucency, etc. Specularity (Spec): Defines the "shininess" of the object. Reflectivity: Defines how well the surroundings are reflected off of the material. Transparency (alpha): How visible (transparent) the object is. and so on. Many of these options allow for a color too, like what color the specular highlights are, or what color the reflection will look like. Hope that helps.

19th Jan 2005, 07:11 AM	#27
DigitalReality Lab Assistant Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 19	Oh and diff is diffuse, or the spread of light on the surface of the object.

19th Jan 2005, 08:14 AM	#28
Numenor The ModFather Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 8,400 Thanks: 197581 in 174 Posts 39 Achievements View My Journal	Thank you, DigitalReality, I was wandering what "spec" stood for... Now I know! So, the specularity should be the ability to reflect the ambience light, while the reflectivity is the ability to reflect the sorrounding objects. Right? Dr.Pixel: The "Reflectivity" parameter it's a strange setting... I've noticed that the most reflecting game objects have lower levels of Reflectivity (0.1, 0.05...). And the stdMatAlphaMultiplier is a global multiplier that affect all the other parameters at the same time. Syera: You are looking for a tutorial? Well, this thread is a tutorial, more or less

22nd Jan 2005, 04:17 PM

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OK, I tried various settings of Reflectivity, but couldn't get a true mirroring.

But, I did stumble on this, which I call "simulated" mirrored glasses.

What I did was set

stdMatSpecCoef: 20,20,20

for all the ....lens elements in the MATD

This makes the glasses highly reflective, and they flash when the Sim turns their head as real mirrored glasses would.

NOTE: This only works for me if I have the Lighting in the game options set to Medium or High, if set to low the glasses always look like the plain version.

Anyway, I have included a .zip with a reflecting black pair, and a reflecting silver-grey pair. Feel free to experiment with these, maybe you could get real reflections working.

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ReflectingGlasses.zip (6.1 KB, 132 downloads) - View custom content

Package file	Size	Type	Description
5129b6fd_DarkMirrorSpecs.package	18,842		Dr Pixel 2005
327bed0a_TrueMirrorShades.package	19,952		Dr Pixel 2005

    18842  01-18-05 06:49   5129b6fd_DarkMirrorSpecs.package
    19952  01-18-05 18:13   327bed0a_TrueMirrorShades.package
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    38794                   2 files

22nd Jan 2005, 05:17 PM	#30
Drakron Field Researcher Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 406 Thanks: 994 in 2 Posts 5 Achievements	Well I found a mirror and it have a MATD line that says. stdMatEnvCubeMode:Reflection So I decided to experiment with it but it does not work (even after I copy MATD values of a mirror) , I suspect the reflectivity is set on the mesh itself and I guess the best we can do is what Dr. Pixel already done.

22nd Jan 2005, 05:41 PM

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OMFG Thank You Dude!
its great :D

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23rd Jan 2005, 08:21 PM	#32
FoxieRoxieNYC Lab Assistant Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 119 Thanks: 19092 in 17 Posts 18 Achievements	oooh thank you thank you Dr. Pixel you rock, I'm going to work on some mirrored ones. I wonder if I can apply this to other objects as well... Gosh I swear btw objects and clothes and actual gameplay my free time is CONSUMED by Sims!

29th Jan 2005, 12:03 AM	#33
madbrit Lab Assistant Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 86 Thanks: 640 in 6 Posts 5 Achievements	excellent work...any chance of green round male glasses...i still havent mastered SimPE (learning) but was working on a sim who needed them.... any help would be much appreciated
	Sailing the seas of gothic cheese

27th Feb 2005, 01:29 AM	#34
Guest Posts: n/a	Well im trying to make the lens color 255, 140, 0 (dark orange) but im not very good with math.. can someone help me out with this?? :bump:

4th Mar 2005, 09:24 AM

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Well im trying to make the lens color 255, 140, 0 (dark orange) but im not very good with math.. can someone help me out with this?? :bump:

here....

1,0.5,0

4th Mar 2005, 03:09 PM	#36
IgnorantBliss The Resident Bunny Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 4,762 Thanks: 7232 in 18 Posts 14 Achievements	Thanks for the tips, I just made my first recolors of glasses based on this tutorial .

29th Apr 2005, 05:03 AM	#37
Mabelline Lab Assistant Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 124 1 Achievements	Thx! Can we change the shape of glasses and the color of lens at the same time? How? Any tutorial? I want several new sunglasses in my game . Anyone would like to make sunglasses for me? I will post the pictures here if you take my request.
	Last edited by Mabelline : 29th Apr 2005 at 05:08 AM.

30th Jun 2005, 11:41 PM	#38
gorre9090 Lab Assistant Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 77 Thanks: 370 in 4 Posts 4 Achievements	helppp i dont get this at all

9th Jul 2005, 01:40 PM	#39
IgnorantBliss The Resident Bunny Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 4,762 Thanks: 7232 in 18 Posts 14 Achievements	This topic should really be turned into a tutorial, there is so much important information in it .

5th Jun 2006, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Numenor

In order to change the color of the glass, you have to alter some parameters in the MATD, using SimPE. Take a look at the attached package (my intention was to create pink lenses, but actually they are red...

).

To do the same do the following:

1) Open BodyShop, create parts, new project; export the glasses you want to recolour.
2) Reimport the glasses without changing anything: in Bodyshop you'll see a cloned copy of the original glasses.
3) Close BodyShop.
4) Into the SavedSim folder, find the newly created package and open it with SimPE.
5) You'll find many Material Definition files (MATD); some of them are related to the glass, other to the frame. You can spot the ones related to the glass because they *don't have* a texture (the texture is referenced in the "File List" tab).
6) In every MATD related to the glass, find the field "stdMatDiffCoef" and alter its values in order to change the class color. The syntax for the stdMatDiffCoef values is "Red_value,Green_valu,Blue_value" (each of them ranges from 0 to 1). For my reddish glass I've used the values 0.3,0.1,0.1.
7) Commit and save.

it don't worked at me

it is a picture tutorial here at MTS2?

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5th Jun 2006, 05:05 PM	#41
IgnorantBliss The Resident Bunny Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 4,762 Thanks: 7232 in 18 Posts 14 Achievements	Did you edit the correct package file, morten8035? You have to make sure to edit the one in the Saved Sims folder, not the one in the Projects folder.

21st Jun 2006, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Numenor

Thank you for all the help.

With the new verison of SimPE when you find the "stdMatDiffCoef" field there is a drop down box for the colors. There is no need to know color values.

Thanks again.

10th Jul 2006, 12:10 AM	#43
squall117 Site Helper Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,097 Thanks: 7185 in 33 Posts 15 Achievements	Thaks a lot Numenor you're the best. And right now it doesn't seem so hard... I just hope this doesn't change when I get there :D
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10th Jul 2006, 04:38 AM

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With the new verison of SimPE when you find the "stdMatDiffCoef" field there is a drop down box for the colors. There is no need to know color values.

Just clarifying that the dropdown box will show up in the categorized properties tab, while the properties tab is the same as before

13th Jul 2006, 08:49 PM	#45
morten8035 Instructor Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 465 Thanks: 4150 in 47 Posts 13 Achievements	I did it :D can som say codes other colors at glasses? (The numbers) Screenshots
	Last edited by morten8035 : 13th Jul 2006 at 08:55 PM.

14th Jul 2006, 04:42 AM	#46
IgnorantBliss The Resident Bunny Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 4,762 Thanks: 7232 in 18 Posts 14 Achievements	morten8035, if you go to the Categorized Properties tab in Material Definition and click on the line you want to edit, with the arrow in the end you get to choose the color from a pallet directly, no need to memorize codes.

14th Jul 2006, 10:24 AM	#47
morten8035 Instructor Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 465 Thanks: 4150 in 47 Posts 13 Achievements	I do not see any arrow Have you a picture? Edit: found it, thanks : Screenshots
	Last edited by morten8035 : 14th Jul 2006 at 10:40 AM.

12th Sep 2006, 07:45 PM	#48
Playcokacola Test Subject Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1	what is simsPE and how do you get it?

13th Sep 2006, 04:08 AM	#49
IgnorantBliss The Resident Bunny Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 4,762 Thanks: 7232 in 18 Posts 14 Achievements	SimPE is a tool you can do a lot of things with, including creating objects or editing your sims.

9th Jan 2007, 08:26 PM	#50
LadyDess Test Subject Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 25	Was so easy to do it, so simple thanks to the explanation in this thread, I could never figure it out by myself lol Here's a pic of my 1st recolor: violet-blue glasses , you guys are the best

10th Mar 2007, 04:56 PM

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