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Converting a hair from TS3 to TS2

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16th Apr 2012, 08:52 AM	Converting a hair from TS3 to TS2 #1
Julie J Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 146 Thanks: 1978 in 20 Posts 10 Achievements	I've been trying to convert some hairs from 3 to 2. I can get the mesh to show up but the textures don't work properly. The alpha doesn't seem to work. Is there a tutorial out there for converting hair from 3 to 2?

16th Apr 2012, 11:16 AM	#2
Elexis Fus Ro Dah! Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 845 Thanks: 50611 in 49 Posts 27 Achievements View My Journal	I think you should post this in Sims 2 section, since the process of preparing meshes and packaging isn't the same as for Sims 3. The only help I can offer is how to extract meshes and textures from Sims 3 files, but since you have done that already, there isn't much else to ask from Sims 3 modders.
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16th Apr 2012, 01:39 PM	#3
Julie J Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 146 Thanks: 1978 in 20 Posts 10 Achievements	I'll do that - Thanks Just thought some of the sims 3 meshers would have tried it

16th Apr 2012, 03:12 PM	#4
HugeLunatic Not Suitable for Minors Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,606 Thanks: 116411 in 142 Posts 42 Achievements View My Journal	Moved to TS2.
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16th Apr 2012, 07:01 PM	#5
Julie J Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 146 Thanks: 1978 in 20 Posts 10 Achievements	Thanks for moving the thread and apologies for it been in the wrong place hope someone can help Have some nice conversions planned

16th Apr 2012, 11:10 PM	#6
fakepeeps7 Site Helper Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,714 Thanks: 179800 in 356 Posts 26 Achievements View My Journal	You'll need to be a bit more specific about your problem. You say the alpha doesn't seem to work. Do you mean that it looks like it's in the wrong place (which makes the mesh look broken because there are areas without texture)? Or do you mean you're not getting transparency with the alpha?

16th Apr 2012, 11:17 PM	#7
Julie J Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 146 Thanks: 1978 in 20 Posts 10 Achievements	Not getting transparency with the alpha. Texture shows on the hair but the mesh shows also in areas it's not supposed to.

17th Apr 2012, 07:00 AM	#8
BloomsBase Mad Poster Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 3,913 Thanks: 1561 in 18 Posts 11 Achievements	Did you convert the texture to png and saved as DXT3? Also check if the alpha layer is still the same as the original. Did you clone a hair that supports transparancy?

17th Apr 2012, 07:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Julie J

Not getting transparency with the alpha. Texture shows on the hair but the mesh shows also in areas it's not supposed to.

Hmmm... I think getting this to work will depend on the texture. I'm not familiar with Sims 3 textures. Do they have transparency? If so, do like Bloom said and make sure your texture is a transparent PNG. Then make sure the settings in SimPE are set correctly for the TMXT (TXMT? I can never remember

). You need to set the alpha blending mode to "blend" (I think... I can't check as I don't have SimPE on this computer). If you do that and your texture has transparency, then it should display properly.

17th Apr 2012, 06:45 PM	#10
Julie J Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 146 Thanks: 1978 in 20 Posts 10 Achievements	Trying it now thanks Bloom, fakepeeps for your help Textures show up fine now - I think the problem is the mesh isn't alpha Think I've got it solved now - Thanks again :D
	Last edited by Julie J : 17th Apr 2012 at 07:30 PM.

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