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badgalkatzha · 14 hours

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Hair Clipping in Cycles

No one asked for this, but I figured I'd share because it's pretty helpful. So, in the pic below, you see Eve's got some fucked up hair. It looked perfectly fine in Eevee, but after switching over to Cycles, a bunch of ugly shadows showed up all over my girl's do.

To fix this, go to Edit mode, select all (press A), then press M. You'll see a menu pop up on the side, go to the last option 'By Distance.'

And there you go, no more shadows. In my case, I didn't have to mess around with the 'Merge Distance.' But sometimes you'll have to because Blender is weird and inconsistent. I'll usually enter 0.001, 0.002, etc. and keep moving up or down until it looks right.

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badgalkatzha · 14 hours

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A Simple Neon Sign Tutorial [TS4]

By Networksims [Twitter / YT / TSR]

You will need:

Sims4Studio

Blender 2.9

Any image editor

1. Open S4S. Under “Object”, select “Create 3D Mesh” then click “Object”

2. Search for “plank” and select the wall light.

3. Under the meshes tab, click export mesh (make sure LOD 0 is selected in the dropdown).

4. Open the exported file in blender.

5. Select “s4studio_mesh_1″ from the top right menu. Then press TAB to go into edit mode, and then press A to select it all.

6. Press X and select “Vertices” in the menu that appears to delete the object. Do not delete the object from the top right menu.

7. Now press TAB again to go into object mode, and add a text object using the bottom left menu.

8. This will add a generic text object to the mesh. Press TAB again to edit it and enter whatever text you’d like.

9. Now press TAB again and select the font menu from the top right menu.

10. Find these options and press the folder icon next to “Regular”.

11. Navigate to your font folder and select the font you’d like to use. (Windows users: open “Font Settings” from your settings and you can preview all your fonts).

12. Now your text should be in your selected font.

13. Press ALT C and select “Mesh from Curve”

14. Press TAB then CTRL + N, and tick the “Inside” box that should appear in the bottom left.

15. Press TAB again and select the modifiers menu from the bottom right. Then click “Add Modifier” and find “Decimate”. Make sure you’re in object mode, not edit mode.

16. Select the “Planar” option and increase the angle limit as much as you can before the text becomes too distorted. 15o is generally your best bet.

17. I’m now adding a border around my text. If you don’t want to do this skip to step 20. In edit mode, add a “Plane” to your mesh. Drag the edges in till it fits around your text and raise it so it lays flat with the text.

18. Press I and drag your mouse towards the centre of the mesh until you get the desired border width.

19. With face select on, select the centre face, press X and select “Faces”.

20. With all the mesh selected, press R and click wherever. In the bottom left menu, enter 90o as the angle and tick the Y and Z boxes under “Constraint Axis”. Drag it around until it’s fairly centred and lines up with the shadow box.

21. In edit mode, press E and drag forward until the desired depth.

22. In the top right menu, click on “Text” and shift-click on “s4studio_mesh_1″, then press CTRL + J.

23. In edit mode, make sure all your sign is selected, then click “Image” > “New Image” in the far left corner. Click OK. You should get a weird set of lines and the texture on your mesh should look terrible. This is normal.

*This is UV-mapping. Normally faces are selected one-by-one to create a nice clean texture map which can then be used to create beautiful textures. However since our sign will be flat white with no shading, it doesn’t really matter.

24. Press SHIFT + CTRL + S to save your file.

25. In the top left, delete “s4studio_mesh_0″. Then select “s4studio_mesh_1″, open the “Scene” menu and change “Cut” under “S4Studio CAS Tools” to 0. Repeat step 24 but do not override your other mesh.

26. Open S4S again. Under the meshes tab, for each of the non-shadow LODs, import your first mesh. For the shadow LODs, import your second. You may need to make different LODs depending on your mesh’s complexity.

27. In an image editor, make a 64x64 white png.

28. In the “Textures” tab in S4S, import your white square as the texture.

29. And we’re done! Save in S4S, put the package into your mods folder and enjoy your new light :)

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badgalkatzha · 19 days

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📷 Kodak Portra 400 Psd by Peacheryy

Tag if you use! Please dont claim as your own

Font Used : Lucida Sans Unicode

Dl : Sfs Always free

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badgalkatzha · 1 month

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Here's my collection of UI-ish templates that I've been working on and have used in some of my recent posts. This file includes 15 or so templates that you can copy and paste into your screenshots. Before I had this "workspace" I used to have multiple tabs and windows open, and I often forgot which templates I had. I tried my best to organize, label, and colour-code each template for easy customization. For sample images, tips on how to use PSDs, "hidden" features, and other download links, keep reading.

TOU: Feel free to use and edit as you wish but please don't reupload and claim as your own. If someone asks where they're from, please link to this post.

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beginner-friendly tips for using these PSD templates and some fun, little features:

open the windslar PSD collection in a new Photoshop window, drag and drop the folder/group of the template you want to use onto the image you’re editing OR select the folder/group of the template you want to use and ctrl+c / cmd+c then ctrl+v / cmd+v to the image you're editing

download the helvetihand font linked in this post so you don't get that constant pop-up that the font will be replaced

resize by selecting the folder containing the template. if you resize individual layers, things may start to look wonky

play around with blending layers and opacities for your template backgrounds. if readability is important, stick with normal, 100% opacity and a contrasting font colour. feel free to change the blending modes and fonts if you feel comfortable doing so

drop shadows and other effects may look slightly different if copying the template to another image because Photoshop, by default, has 'use global light' checked off; just double click the layer style to customize shadows or the click the eye icon by the effect layer to make it invisible

moodlets come in four different styles: classic, soft, dark, and bright and include all emotions plus a neutral one

the announcement template includes the following events (and their corresponding icons): birth, marriage, divorce, death, and news/neighbourhood story

imessage templates have the tails of the speech bubble on a separate layer so they don't get squished when you resize them

want to put an album cover or a profile pic? use a clipping mask. select the appropriate layer (ALBUM or USERPIC) on the template you want to use, drag the image you want to use and position it on top of the layer. right click the image and select 'create clipping mask'. now just resize the image to fit in the confines of that shape.

the tweet / social bunny template has bonus social bunny reaction icons in an invisible folder

the weather template has a folder including icons for multiple weather events. similarly, the location template has an icon for all the worlds (base game worlds all the way to Tomarang). there's also a location pin icon if you choose not to use the game's worlds icons.

edit this to your heart's content. change the fonts, the colours, the shapes and hit 'save as' so you can always have your personalized template workspace to use during your editing process. but if someone asks you where you got your templates, i'd appreciate if you linked back to my original post

Helvetihand Font TS4 icons* - TheSimKid, deathbypufferfish, w-sims, Tutorial on how to extract icons (i.e. how I got some of the world icons)

*I have L'Universims' icons from before the site was targeted by hackers, but I've included other places where you can download TS4 icons.

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badgalkatzha · 1 month

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"You make me better at this."

Prints

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badgalkatzha · 1 month

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“FUCK MY LIFE TO DEATH” — Ancient Italian proverb, unattributed

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badgalkatzha · 1 month

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trying to experiment more with color agh!!!

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