i had the same issue as the other two with the stencil not showing up using an adult male shirt, i started from scratch again with a teen male shirt and it worked! i dont know if i did something wrong or if the adult mesh is just silly, but im a beginner at this so i probably made a mistake with the adult shirt. but thanks for the tutorial! ive never attempted to make something without it failing miserablely! so i think i can live without the adult shirts working particually well, unless they do work? like i said im new to making custom content i just download everyone elses.

I'm sorry I didn't read through the entire 12 pages, but is there a shirt mesh know that takes 4 colors? Because I really need an extra color, and can't get it to work this way ...

preferably a mesh for a shirt that looks "untucked"

Semi-shortcut for the improvised alpha in Photoshop:

You will want to show the shirt texture underneath your stencil for this. After making an alpha channel for your stencil, select all on the layer that your stencil is on. Using the move tool, move the stencil a bit (Don't nudge with the arrow keys) until the marquee surrounds the outline of the stencil. Move your stencil back into place on the shirt texture. Without deselecting, make the alpha channel visible and make sure it is selected on the channel list. Use the Paint Bucket tool to fill in the selection with white.

Any member of the Sims Wiki please add this, if you feel it is useful.

Having screwed up once, I'm fairly certain I followed the tutorial correctly the second time around. Though I'm pretty slow, and haven't seen what the finished product is supposed to look like, my image is pink-tinted, interpolated and properly aligned. So in theory..it should work. However, when I move on to the next tutorial.. putting these stencils to use, it doesn't seem to be working. I've gotten as far as committing a new design, but it doesn't appear on the model. IE, the shirt remains blank. I'm not quite sure what I've done wrong here, but I could use some patient, step-by-step guidance. :3

I dont get how to save it for paint.net

I know this is an old thread with the most recent reply being from Feb. but I only started doing mods this weekend and I just wanted to say thanks for the tutorial. I couldn't figure out how to do one step in PSP 9 so I installed Paint.NET and used that instead. I followed the tutorial step-by-step and created the sample shirt just fine. I then branched out on my own and didn't do too bad; one exception is an adult female shirt that stretched the images vertically for some reason but since today is the very first time I've done shirts I'm not too bothered by it.

So a big thanks to everyone who's created these programs and tutorials.

recently downloaded cas unitool to try to make some clothes but it opens then gives me error codes and refuses to do anything past openig screen. I'm sure this is becuase i'm running windows 7 64 bit version. Tryed windows compatiability for xp and vista with same results. Suggestions?

Oh,great tutorial,thanks!

Hello here is the problem I am having. I get this message

unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click continue the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you clcick quit, the application will close immediately.
Could not fint a part of the path
c:\ueser\roxie\downloads\mts_ctu_team_987146_castextureunitool\casparts\cmtopnude.caspart

Great tutorial Dal -- I've had a little experience with alpha channels in the past and these instructions were really easy to follow. When I took my stencil to the next tut though, they kept showing as blank. After a little experimenting I found that saving in the DXT3 ARGB 8bpp | explicit alpha format doesn't seem to work in Photoshop CS5 64-bit. Once the file was saved in the "DXT5 -/- |explicit alpha" format all my stencils started showing up. Hope this helps anyone else having problems on a 64-bit OS.

Not sure if people knew this or not, but if you are using photoshop elements 8/9 (not sure about but highly likely 7). The alpha channel is called 'vector mask' and can be added by clicking the square button with just a dot in its center. the button is found in the panel bin at the bottom of the layer panel. It can be edited by using Alt+click to select the vector mask linked to the layer.

I hope this helps.

I tried to follow this tutorial on my Mac but was unable to install both the DDS Plug-In and the CAS Texture Unitool. I followed all the steps to install and nothing will open.

Is it possible to create stencils on a Mac? Using Photoshop?
P.S. I'd really rather not download another image editor that I'm unfamiliar with so if there is I'd really like to know. I'm getting very frustrated. )=

I follow this to a tee and it goes as planned, but when I get to the final step I replace the stencil and it does not show up under stencil #1. Any tips?

Thanks for this awesome tutorial! It's wonderful! Now my Sims can wear volleyball district champion shirts XD

hi when i tried to open my dds file in photoshop (CS5) it said "Could not complete your request becaus it is not the right type of document" please help is it the version of my photoshop?

You have to download the Caspart in the same place where you downloaded your castextureunitool

Quick question:
I'm new to MTS. I tried out this tutorial and it worked in my game, but i couldn't get the patterns to work behind the stencil. Any advice? Oh and I was using paint.net, which means i can't mess around with the ARGB channels.

Did you download the DDS plug-in for photoshop?

How to get a design? I can't choose any, in other words there are no designs.

Stupid problems I alway get. Never the problems a lot of people have. Always the problems that only I have.

Click Add... Add Blank.

I can't. The button of "add new design" is grey and I can't click it.
But thanks for the fast answer.

In that case, you either haven't picked an item to clone; or you've been fiddling with the mesh.

Well I do get an error every time I click an item...
It says it can't find the item.

OK no need to answer anymore, I redownloaded (I messed some things up to try to make it work) and I put the casparts-folder in the folder of the unitool.
That was the solution.

good information