Paintings --> Items?

[JamBob]

Hey guys, I don't know if it's possible, but is there anyone out there who knows how to make a painting that my Sim has painted into an item that I can buy from the catalogue?

Thanks in advance

Jam :rofl:

[HugeLunatic]

The paintings your sim paints can be dragged into your inventory and placed on a wall, or sold. If you want to have those pre-defined paintings to buy in the catalog then you'd have to pull the textures from the game files and create new paintings. Tutorial -> http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=392299. There may be a mod that allows your sim to paint any of the pre-defined paintings at any level, please use WCIF for that. If your talking about the portrait or still life's painted in game, then not sure where that info is stored.

[JamBob]

Yeah, it's the still life paintings that i want :/ I was thinking could i find 'em in the game files but apparently not...

[HugeLunatic]

So after a bit more digging I found two options to retrieve your images.

1) Tiger's Neigborhood Editor - http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=350770 - This will allow you to open your world and export the paintings. File/Open/<save.nhd>, then File/Export Painting.

2)Open your <save.nhd> in s3pe and sort by type, your painting images are the _IMG. You can right click and export those.

Both of those will allow you to get your painting images and then just follow the tutorial I linked above to create cc paintings.

[omegastarr82]

This is good to know.

[JamBob]

Ahh yay thanks :)

[JamBob]

Umm, do you know how to run the Neighbourhood Editor thingy on a Mac? I looked at the 'Mono' thing but i can't understand it at ALL... :/

[HugeLunatic]

I've not tried it on OS X but it should work since I think it only requires .net 2.5. Install Mono as any other program.

- open the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)
- type export MONO_MWF_MAC_FORCE_X11=1 and hit enter
- type mono and a space, then drag the exe onto the terminal window) and hit enter

For help on installing Mono I'd suggest looking at there website and help pages. As I recall I simply downloaded the dmg and installed and it was done.

[JamBob]

Aaaaah yay it opens! I can't seem to be able to use it though. Nothings comes up when i click anything...