Mod The Sims - Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode)

morifane

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#26

18th May 2007 at 5:37 AM

WOW. That is truly impressive. Though I'm curious: how did you edit the structure using Milkshape?

HystericalParoxysm

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#27

18th May 2007 at 6:38 AM

morifane - It's a bit of an involved process... I figured it out by accident when playing with face templates one day. Basically, you make the sim face as close as you can in Body Shop first. Then save the sim, open their file in SimPE, and export their face mesh in .obj format. That can then be imported into Milkshape and edited however, moving vertices around. Then you run it through Meshtool with particular settings to get yourself a working GMDC again, and... well, then you have to make a full face replacement set to do it right. Which is a bit of a pain, but makes it so they breed properly. And use the edited GMDC for the adult male/adult female/whatever for your character/celebrity sim's age/gender replacement face. Then make a new sim in Body Shop using that default face and your skin, hair, content, etc. - once the sim is saved, they'll retain the face data and they'll also breed properly, as apparently the info for all that is saved independently of the templates... so all people need is the sim itself.

I started a thread on it here with more detailed instructions when I came across the technique: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=207836 ... which should clarify somewhat.

With Martin, because the changes were so slight, I ended up using a GMDC imported with Unimesh first - for some reason I cannot export faces in .obj format and get them into Milkshape still uv mapped. GMDCs stay mapped, so I could apply the skin I was using and look at the face in Milkshape (thusly). Then I did my edits there using the Move function, moving by increments of like .005 or so at a time, recording exactly what I did to what vertices on a notepad... And then repeated the same edits to the plain grey .obj format face, which ended up exactly as I had edited the one I could really preview my changes for.

If it sounds confusing and complicated... it is.

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morifane

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#28

18th May 2007 at 2:55 PM

Oh, brill! And if I may be an utter geek, "bopper-gem-ace!" Thank you so much H, really.

casta917

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#29

26th Jun 2007 at 9:11 AM

i love how his eyes kind of droop.. he looks adorable!

-Glendaly-

shily22

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#30

6th Jul 2007 at 3:31 AM

Quote: Originally posted by HystericalParoxysm

Oh, I'd -totally- do him, in a heartbeat, though I'd go for Martin first... Dave's yummy and I've heard he's, err, well-endowed but Martin seems like he'd be a very generous lover. :lovestruc

... Ohhhhhhhh, you meant would I make a -sim- of him. See my first post for that.

hahahahaha.....

I would go for Martin too...

I love Depeche mode and Duran Duran.. and Martin is my fav of DM.. well done.. thsnk you very much..- :lovestruc

FleurduSang

Lab Assistant

#31

8th Jul 2007 at 2:27 AM

Beautiful, beautiful Martin L. Gore. Sigh. I always love your work, HP. I might try my hand at a Dave Gahan if you don't want him.

*nico

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#32

11th Aug 2007 at 1:25 PM

wow.... thank you so much... i love depeche mode...

Lizet

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#33

13th Sep 2007 at 4:29 PM

Thank you so much.

Lunar Eclipse

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#34

13th Oct 2007 at 8:40 AM

This is amazing.
I cannot muster any better words to describe this...
Martin Gore, aha, omg I never thought anyone would sim him (and do a great job to top it off..) <3 DM

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Blood Hound

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#35

18th Oct 2007 at 12:46 AM

He looks a bit like Chris Martin from Coldplay. Well done.

bocuk

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#36

1st Apr 2008 at 8:10 AM

Woooaw. I love it. Thanks a billion.

jilly2

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#37

11th May 2008 at 5:10 PM

OMG!!!! I soooo love depeche mode xD

Thanks...

Could you make Dave Gahan and Andy Fletcher too please?? thanks

Deunoro

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#38

23rd Jun 2008 at 10:17 PM

Amazing, thank you

@my

Lab Assistant

#39

4th Sep 2008 at 12:46 AM

I love Depeche Mode... my favorite song is 'Halo' from Violator. virtual hugs for making this!
amy

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earthgirl

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#40

21st Feb 2009 at 9:30 AM

OMG! Marty! :D

I've been thinking about making Dave these days, but his tatoos will be a challenge! I'll give it a try...

Nice job, tho.

ressydm

Test Subject

#41

21st Feb 2009 at 8:45 PM

thank thank you!

If you do Dave Gahan, OMG, I think he's sooooo HOT!

Thank you for Martin, a very good job!

secondrenaissance

Test Subject

#42

26th Mar 2009 at 3:22 AM

i want it all--wait, now i have it all!

Quote: Originally posted by HystericalParoxysm

Oh, I'd -totally- do him, in a heartbeat, though I'd go for Martin first... Dave's yummy and I've heard he's, err, well-endowed but Martin seems like he'd be a very generous lover. :lovestruc

... Ohhhhhhhh, you meant would I make a -sim- of him. See my first post for that.

(hehee, that's too cute

and yes..heh if you've ever watched the 101 concert there's lots of erm "evidence" of Dave's "endowment". Let's just say, white tight jeans and camera crotch-shots. Thanks D.A. Pennebaker!!

[he filmed it :D])

but anayway...to the point!

Thank you SO much for such a great representation of Mart. Shall i call him Martin Gore²? heh! (a Counterfeit² reference, if you've heard about his solo project :P) He's got such a unique facial structure; i have much difficulty emulating it myself. i cant even draw him to my own specifications of quality--i just can't! You're efforts are much appreciated in my book, and it's always a delight to see a DM fan doing 'em justice-- Peace!

(hopefully i'll see Dave floating around here one day....

meeowww <3)