Mod The Sims - Beginning Clothing/Body Meshing Tutorial

Neji Hyuuga

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#226

9th Sep 2006 at 10:41 PM

I dont know where 2 find my original gmdc file in step 47

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#227

9th Sep 2006 at 11:59 PM

In your folder that you made for this project.... Part II, Step 9, specifically is when you originally found it and saved it to your hard drive.

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Neji Hyuuga

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#228

10th Sep 2006 at 3:35 AM

Quote: Originally posted by tiggerypum

In your folder that you made for this project.... Part II, Step 9, specifically is when you originally found it and saved it to your hard drive.

Ty that helped but now i have another problem....i follow the tutorial word for word but then after i save and quit the mesh doesent appear in body shop do i hvae to open the game first?or what....plz help!

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#229

10th Sep 2006 at 3:57 AM

Try checking the things listed here: http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=131405

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a2duke

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#230

15th Sep 2006 at 10:10 PM

thats great i read the whole thing 3 or 4 times and used this to work on my new body mesh and yes it worked great job thanks for the help i would be clueless with out it now i am going onto hair meshing thanks.

Jucus

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#231

22nd Sep 2006 at 2:57 PM

YESSSS!!! I MADE IT!!!!! :D

Thank you!!!

play girl

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#232

6th Oct 2006 at 2:50 AM

omg!!! look at what happened

i attached the pic

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#233

6th Oct 2006 at 4:33 AM

playgirl - congrats! Your first dramatically bad mesh!

Happens to most of us at some point.

It looks to me like 'Mesh: is Laying Down in Bodyshop' http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=131397

Probably your best bet, as you're just learning, is to start over again and watch the way the xyz is set before you export the OBJ file. (also what 3d editor are you using, milkshape, or something else?)

You can also try following the directions in the link I just gave and see if that fixes your mesh.

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play girl

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#234

6th Oct 2006 at 4:32 PM

thanks tig it's fixed now

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marenbobarren

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#235

8th Oct 2006 at 3:12 AM

i dont get...

where the Miche and Delphy’s Sims2MeshTool came from

please help me....i have EVERYTHING else down....

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#236

8th Oct 2006 at 4:08 AM

marenbobarren
?? there's a link in the beginning of this tutorial... leads to a thread. The first message has the download of meshtool at the end of it, just like many things on this site.

play girl
congrats on your first working mesh!

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marenbobarren

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#237

8th Oct 2006 at 4:35 AM

yeah.....

i still cant find it....would you mind terribly reposting the link here????

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#238

8th Oct 2006 at 4:54 AM

marenbobarren, look at the first post on this tutorial... at the beginning... right under "To follow this tutorial you will need:"

Meshing requires open eyes, clean glasses, and your brain set to the on position. Give it another look.

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goldeneowyn

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#239

8th Oct 2006 at 5:12 PM

I made it to step 49 this time, but I can't find my GMDC file in the TutorialDress folder. All I see are my modifiedcres and modifiedshape files. When I open it on the desktop, all the files are there, and the GMDC is in 5gn format. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to start all over again...? (oh, and by the way, everytime I look at this tutorial I wonder why some people (aka you) are such geniuses...

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#240

8th Oct 2006 at 11:56 PM

I believe the gn is the geometric data _node_. You should have another one with a funny name similar but with 5gd as the ending. But you should maybe be using the xml? I honestly don't know offhand, because seriously, the program offers you the right thing.

Sounds like you're not letting the program find things with the default settings? It should really offer it to you automatically. Look at the settings at the bottom of the open window and let it list all files.

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goldeneowyn

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#241

9th Oct 2006 at 4:43 PM

Yay! I found it, and the mesh worked! Praise be to Tiggerypum!

play girl

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#242

13th Oct 2006 at 6:06 PM

oh no i got another prob

the shape and resource node aren't showing up

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#243

14th Oct 2006 at 2:34 AM

playgirl, because you skipped the step before that? where you were supposed to add the modified shape and cres to your package. I don't see them on the list big list in the left window. That's why they don't appear.

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play girl

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#244

14th Oct 2006 at 5:15 AM

i don't get it i did... i put the modified shape and cres in the project folder.. i'm kinda lost now

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#245

14th Oct 2006 at 10:14 AM

Yes, putting the modified shape and cres into your project folder is step #19.

Step 20 is opening your bodyshop package.

Step 21 (which you missed) is right clicking and selecting 'ADD' and then reading in your modified shape, and doing ADD again for your modified cres

Then comes Step 22 and 23 which is what you pictured.

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play girl

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#246

14th Oct 2006 at 4:35 PM Last edited by play girl : 14th Oct 2006 at 4:47 PM.

Quote: Originally posted by tiggerypum

Yes, putting the modified shape and cres into your project folder is step #19.

Step 20 is opening your bodyshop package.

Step 21 (which you missed) is right clicking and selecting 'ADD' and then reading in your modified shape, and doing ADD again for your modified cres

Then comes Step 22 and 23 which is what you pictured.

thanks Tig...sorry for being a pain lol...i got another problem everything went great..,the mesh showed up on the manequin but not in the thumnail shows up lying down take a look..
is it the texture if i texture it will it be fixed?

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#247

14th Oct 2006 at 9:15 PM

!! Hmm, I've not seen that. Thumbnails are generated the _first time_ you look at that particular recolor. So if you had a laying down sim at some point during the edit, that probably would explain it. Deleting your thumbnails (or better, just make another recolor) should give you a working thumbnail. If you make a new recolor, you can then just delete the old one.

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play girl

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#248

15th Oct 2006 at 3:36 PM

Quote: Originally posted by tiggerypum

!! Hmm, I've not seen that. Thumbnails are generated the _first time_ you look at that particular recolor. So if you had a laying down sim at some point during the edit, that probably would explain it. Deleting your thumbnails (or better, just make another recolor) should give you a working thumbnail. If you make a new recolor, you can then just delete the old one.

the recolor worked

thanks

uhmmm..... the mesh doesn't have a bumpmap file, i had seen a tutorial about adding a bumpmaps to meshes i think but i can't find it can you help me? or link me to it?

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