Converting adult to teen - alpha outfits

[sushigal007]

I've successfully converted some adult outfits to teen and vice-versa with no problems. Now I want to have a go at converting some adult outfits with alpha layers. I'm assuming that when I grab a teen mesh to overwrite with my scaled down adult one, I'll need one that already has alpha layers. How would I go about easily finding this information? The only way I know is to create a bunch of Bodyshop projects and see how many images pop out, but this seems unnecessarily complicated. Is there an easy way to find out?

[fakepeeps7]

What I would suggest is simply adding the alpha layers to the recolour package yourself. CatOfEvilGenius's tutorial (http://stonegod.org/sims2/tutorial/alpha%20skirt%20tutorial/index.html) shows you how to do this (the tutorial is for a skirt, but the steps for adding alpha parts are the same no matter what you're making). The exact steps you need are here (http://stonegod.org/sims2/tutorial/alpha%20skirt%20tutorial/index.html#recolPackage) but I would suggest reading through the whole tutorial anyway; it's a good resource on how to make alpha meshes.

[sushigal007]

OK, thanks, I'll have a read of those. I've never tried mucking around with alpha's, but I guess there's no time like the present to start learning!

[BloomsBase]

We used to copy the txmt's and textures for alpha layers till i discovered how to clone them with bodyshop:
http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,51352.0.html
It is much easier, quicker and with less errors :)

There is also a more in depth tutorial on TSRW, with pictures i believe.
dont forget to read the ''NOTE'' as you do need to change the materialdefination and enable the blend settings when done.

Not sure if you just want a teen alpha dress or want to mesh one yourself.
Feel free to clone one of mine if you can not figure it out.
http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/board,657.0.html

Although most meshfiles contain 3 or 4 shoemeshes, just one is called by the outfit.

[sushigal007]

Thanks, I'll have a look at those too. :) I pretty much just want a teen alpha outfit that I can clone and overwrite with a scaled down adult one, I didn't think about using an existing CC one instead of an EAxis one. That should help nicely, thank you.

[BloomsBase]

You can clone one of the outfits and attache your own mesh to it.
Just have a look at the tutorial to find the correct meshgroup ''names''
I often renamed the groups