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How to make Walls, Floors, and Ground Cover (Beginning Creators Start Here!)

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21st Feb 2011, 05:09 PM	#351
AsaDraconis Lab Assistant Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 65	I downloaded Paint.NET, but it wouldn't allow me to open more than one copy of itself at a time. Is there a specific version I am supposed to use for this? Please PM with help...

26th Feb 2011, 11:13 PM

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I can't see the tutorial pictures either.

I can probably muddle through the rest of it, but the first one that shows you the sizes you need for your tiles... Seems kinda important. I'm using Paint.NET. Help?

On another board, Delphy has informed us that these tutorial pictures were stored on a server that went down and had no backup. But the tutorial itself is well written, if you're the type of person who can learn from text without pictures.

I also discovered that when I opened HomeCrafter and started messing around with it, there were blank size templates already set up.

26th Feb 2011, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by AsaDraconis

I downloaded Paint.NET, but it wouldn't allow me to open more than one copy of itself at a time. Is there a specific version I am supposed to use for this? Please PM with help...

I was having that problem too. But it seems maybe paint.NET reinvented themselves because after a few minutes of frustration, I opened a "new" blank window and the old template stayed open as well. I could switch between windows in the upper right corner.

Hope this helps!!

27th Feb 2011, 12:13 AM	Tutorial Addendum for Paint.NET Users #354
pookalion Test Subject Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 12	Re-Written in brief for the 'updated' version of Paint.NET. No pictures. Sorry! This isn't meant to replace the original tutorial, just some points that might help on your way through. 1) Find your texture and save it as an image file on your computer. 2) Open Paint.NET. 3) Open a template (For walls: 256 pixels by 768 pixels, for floors: 256 X 256). Open your texture. Both windows will stay open and you can switch between them in the upper right corner of the program. 4) Size your texture - HystericalParoxysm's original tutorial is a great help. 5) To sharpen the picture you now go to Effects -> Photo -> Sharpen, but it seems to do this automatically. 6) Copy and paste your texture into the template. Add borders, add noise, fluff, etc. 7) For walls, re-size to 256 x 512. Floors are fine. 8) Save. 9) Follow HP's steps to change them over to game tiles.

27th Mar 2011, 04:45 PM	#355
Kittyke Test Subject Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 14	Thanks for this tutorial I just made my first wallpaper with this and indeed it was easier then I thought.

9th Apr 2011, 09:16 AM	Help #356
pinkygamer12 Banned Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 42	help! i cant find the package of my wallpaper i only have the sims2pack of it

9th Apr 2011, 03:28 PM

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help! i cant find the package of my wallpaper i only have the sims2pack of it

Install the Sims2Pack and you will get the package.

10th Apr 2011, 06:16 AM	#358
pinkygamer12 Banned Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 42	HELP I cant make my floral wallpaper set turned to a package file its say on the guidelines (walls and floors) i gotta make them package since its my first time to upload I dont know how pls help me

10th Apr 2011, 06:18 AM

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Install the Sims2Pack and you will get the package.

ummm... where can i find the package when i install it??

10th Apr 2011, 07:21 AM	#360
Mootilda Site Helper Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 11,889 Thanks: 21619 in 75 Posts 25 Achievements View My Journal	If you are using the Clean Installer, then it will install in the folder which is specified in the install dialog. Where you look depends upon your operating system. On Window XP, I look under My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads.

13th Apr 2011, 12:23 PM	#361
pinkygamer12 Banned Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 42	ok.. thank you very much!

4th May 2011, 12:27 PM	#362
George16 Test Subject Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 49 1 Achievements	Can't see the images!! Can't see your settings!!

16th Jul 2011, 03:53 PM	#363
Lemniscat Test Subject Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 37 Thanks: 2449 in 9 Posts 7 Achievements	Wauw, thank you so much for this tutorial!!! It is very, very helpful even though I (for some reason) cannot see the pictures you have included...

15th Aug 2011, 01:40 PM	Broken Links #364
MC3FAN Test Subject Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 7	I cant get the Program from EA because the link to it is broken. I also tried going to the website but it also appears to be broken. Please help!

28th Aug 2011, 11:20 AM	#365
DJ. Instructor Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 589 Thanks: 2 in 1 Posts 1 Achievements	Thanks, HP! Really didn't know what to do with HomeCrafter Plus. So, bye, I'll now do some ground covers!

3rd Sep 2011, 08:18 AM	#366
MarylenaSTAR Lab Assistant Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 88	First of all, thank you so much for this tutorial! I will be making some Walls/floors veery soon! Just a question, since the official EA site is down, where can I download homecrafter plus? (I deleted mine ages ago when w got a new computer)
MarylenaSTAR Lab Assistant Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 88	Guess what cheese

18th Oct 2011, 03:37 PM	#367
Nymerian Test Subject Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 2	I really apreciate you write this tutorial.But could you please fix the images? Thank you!

8th Nov 2011, 10:41 PM

Working HomeCrafter Link! #368

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Originally Posted by MarylenaSTAR

First of all, thank you so much for this tutorial! I will be making some Walls/floors veery soon!

Just a question, since the official EA site is down, where can I download homecrafter plus? (I deleted mine ages ago when w got a new computer)

This link worked for me this evening.. hope it helps:
http://thesims2.ea.com/getcoolstuff/homecrafter.php

11th Dec 2011, 05:22 AM	#369
hello2u08 Lab Assistant Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 171	hmm, your images seem to be spazzing out, so this tutorial was difficult to follow, just a heads up! :P
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23rd Jan 2012, 10:39 AM	Help! Insert frantic waving motion #370
Werewolftrixie Test Subject Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 15	Hi, I don't know if anyone is still monitoring this page, but I noticed noneof the images work anymore. That makes it a teensiest bit harder to follow, but anyway, that's not the biggest issue I have. I was all fine and dandy until I imported my file to homecrafter. There, it showed up with big black sections in between every one of my sections in the preview pane. Any clue asto what I did wrong? All my sizing is correct, or seems to be at least. Hopefully one o you amazing people know. Thanks in advance, Wolfie.

24th Jan 2012, 02:33 AM	#371
lucy kemnitzer Field Researcher Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 219 Thanks: 108 in 3 Posts 3 Achievements	Just to get it out of the way, in case you missed it -- did you look at it with the grid view off? If you look in the left side under the image, you'll see that option. If the grid view is on it looks like bold black lines. Otherwise -- sometimes I find that a perfect-looking image has an adge issue once I bring it into Homecrafter. I just go backl to the graphics program and snip the edges and resize and try again. Usually it works then. Even if the image looks exactly the same when I'm through with it as it did the time before.

24th Jan 2012, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by lucy kemnitzer

Just to get it out of the way, in case you missed it -- did you look at it with the grid view off? If you look in the left side under the image, you'll see that option. If the grid view is on it looks like bold black lines.

Otherwise -- sometimes I find that a perfect-looking image has an adge issue once I bring it into Homecrafter. I just go backl to the graphics program and snip the edges and resize and try again. Usually it works then. Even if the image looks exactly the same when I'm through with it as it did the time before.

Yeah, we're not talking like thin black lines, we're talking like one thin, stretched to be tall version of my thing, then a section of solid black the size of three of the stretched out version of my thing, repeat the pattern. That's what shows up in the preview. Wait a second... it IS supposed to me 256 by 512 PIXELS, right?

25th Jan 2012, 07:19 AM	Nevermind #373
Werewolftrixie Test Subject Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 15	Nevermind about my previous comment. I tried the wrong file today on accident (the one I had so much trouble with yesterday) and, without changing anything, it worked today for some reason! No clue why it did that, but whatever, it works now! Thank you for the kind suggestions.

17th Jul 2012, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by MC3FAN

I cant get the Program from EA because the link to it is broken. I also tried going to the website but it also appears to be broken. Please help!

Same here! Please assist!

Or is there a way to make floors without homecrafter?

Edit: Never mind, I found a working link elsewhere in the thread.

Last edited by DoReMiFaSoLaTiDo : 17th Jul 2012 at 06:19 AM.

24th Aug 2012, 02:25 PM	#375
ardatyakshi Test Subject Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 9	No images shown! It's hard to follow the tutorial without knowing settings visible only in non-existing images. Please, update this tutorial so that we can see everything.

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