Can someone post the converted hairs that have been completed? Or perhaps post a "how-to" guide on how it's done would be great too!

I think this is fantastic and a huge step for Sims 4 modding.

i would love long hair for guys in-game and maybe some re-makes of the TS3 male hair styles. Is that do-able?? or is it too soon to know? owo; cuz if someone gets the full conversion of female to male hair working in the game id love to download it! owo;

Yea... I did try that, it was still not working. I'll try again, maybe I messed something up.

I tried to fix it and used the suggestion by Plasticbox above, but the bone assignments still don't seem to be working. I'll try again in a bit though because I really want to get this working... but I'm kinda engrossed in playing atm, lol... ^_^;

me and im sure alot of others are wondering about it because i actually said before i bought it "if they dont have my long haired male cuties im gonna take the game back!" ^^;; were counting on you!!~ <3 im playing it too but im sad that i cant have my long hair man~ D: if i knew how to mod id woulda tried it as well xD; but i have zero talent

The demo meshes and game meshes store the bone assignments in a different order. I've had some success with converting them and will upload the tool if it tests out.

Thank you MomoDa

How do you put the hair into men's hair?

Need more heavy metal hair!

Lunar Eclipse, I love you. Thank you so much for the downloads. :lovestruc

*Jumps in*

I managed to make a working conversion for the full game! Here's how it looks:



And here's what I did:

-Used Cmar's mesh cloner tool to clone the female mesh I wanted to convert *and* to clone a male hair to use as base (I chose one of the "longer" hairs for males, though I'm not sure if that makes any difference)
-Did the same process mentioned at the beginning of this thread: opened the female mesh in S4PE, exported textures and Geoms, then opened the male mesh and replaced everything there.
-Used Color Magic 0.5.2 to make additional swatches.

Here is the final result, where you can also download the hair, if you want :D

One note: I originally followed the process you guys did to make the hair work in the demo and then tried to make the package work in the full game using Cmar's "Convert demo to game" tool, but it didn't work D: looks like one needs to re-clone the mesh from the TS4 (full game) base files to make it work, as plasticbox suggested. Hope my explanations were clear! D:

Hey, awesome! \o/

Very convenient that everyone is getting so much done before I even have the game .. =P

Haha, thank you! The quantity of cc that is already out for the game is amazing indeed, everything seems so easy to make compared to TS3 when it first came out

...Which is probably going to be a *very* bad thing for our poor mods folders, lol.

OMFG thank you so much!!! i finally made my hunk <3 cant thank you enough! if you can maybe convert the other one luna had? *0* i would love to download that one too -huggssss-

Thank you Astraea! Very nice work.

Thank you both, glad you like it! As for fixing LunarEclipse's conversions... if needed, I might try to help and see if I can make them work for the game, sure! ^^ But I'm gonna wait for Lunar's response first, since I read they were going to work on them again

Astraea, your first F2M was the first CC I put in my game.

D'aaaw, thank you! :lovestruc

A little heads up about the hair: I've been told that the game doesn't seem to recognize the file if you put it in a sub-subfolder. I had no idea because with TS3 and TS4 I'm only using one subfolder for each cc category, but I thought of writing it here as well in case anyone uses multiple subfolders and was wondering why the hair didn't show up

Sub sub folders works, you just have to modify the resource.cfg file to recognize more levels of sub folders. I guess this was also a ts3 thing. (And your hair does work in my mods/hair/male folder.)

D'aaaaw, thank you so much! 8D I had another person telling me the same on Tumblr just a few seconds ago as well, that's good to know! I never tried the resource.cfg editing thing, I will look into it!

Edit: I guess the steps to follow to edit the resource.cfg file would be similar to these, right? (it's for TS3, but when I looked into the resource.cfg file for TS4, the structure looked similar)

Astarea, it's basically like TS3 -- but to make sure, see the sticky in TA4 help: http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=691 for exact instructions.

Oh God, I just noticed that, lol! Thanks for the link, I completely missed it!

I have Astraea's hair in a subfolder and it works for me, I haven't modified anything.

I have a request, if anybody is capable - is it possible to get this hair converted for males? I attempted to do it myself and I've screwed it up hilariously. I'm an artist who knows more about texture painting and recoloring, but getting the models to work is another story. @_@

Yay! As for converting that hair... I'll admit I was kinda planning to do it as well ^^ I could try and see what happens!



Let's see... what did you use to clone the item you want to extract the GEOMS from? If, by any chance, you used something like Color Magic, you won't be able to see any GEOMs in the package when you open it in S4PE, 'cos Color Magic will export only the textures and CASP. To get the GEOMS, you'll have to use Cmar's Mesh tools to clone the item you need. Once you're in S4PE, open the package you cloned using the mesh tool, then right click on the GEOM you want to export and select "export as file" Hope that helps!

No, "export to .dds" is correct for textures, only GEOMS should be exported as files