You can easily do this in MS Paint as you are only working in shades of black and white and no real blending or smoothness is required. If you want to alter how the texture is shown then you will need to alter the alpha. Return to Bodyshop and press the refresh button (shown above) to see how it looks. When you have made the alterations hit the save button. If all you want to do is a simple recolour then just open the texture file and alter the colours however you want. Don't worry if your clothing item doesn't have a bump map file as not all of the clothing items do. Any parts darker than the surrounding flat grey give the illusion of a dip in the clothing's surface and any lighter parts make it appear that it bumps out from the clothing. This is useful if you want see-through parts to your clothing The bump map file alters how the light hits your clothing. Black gets hidden, white gets shown and any shades of grey in between become translucent. Inside you should find some files similar to these: The Package file is what the game reads to load your clothing item The texture is the actual colour and pattern that you will see on your clothing item The Alpha file tells the game which bits of the texture to show and which bits to hide. DO NOT CLOSE BODYSHOP Go and find the project folder and open it up. Underneath the project title that you entered you can find the location where your project has been saved to. When you have entered a name click on the tick. ? or / Give it a name that is easy to recognise. This can be anything you like but CANNOT include spaces. You will then be asked to name your project. When you have chosen your starting outfit click on the "Export" button circled in red. I find the original MAXIS outfits kinda ugly. I now want to alter the design a little bit and then have it only appear in the workout catagory of clothing. Here you can see I have selected a hooded dress from the everyday catagory as the starting point for my new outfit. Bodyshop will always load an adult female first but you don't have to stay with that if you don't want. At this stage you now have to select what age and gender you want to make the clothing item for. As I'm showing you how to make clothing in this tutorial I will choose the bottom button. The second button lets you create facial hair, make-up, face paints and recolour accessories and the third button lets you create clothing. The first button lets you create skin tones, eye colours and hair colours. The next screen you will see is this: This is where you decide what it is you want to make. "Load Saved Project" is used if you decided to continue a project you had started previously but not yet finished. Open bodyshop and first click on "Create Parts" and then on "Start New Project". (We'll get to that later) So, lets begin. MS Paint is NOT as useful program to use when creating clothes although it is ok for editing the alpha channel. For this you will need Bodyshop and a picture editing program. Hello there! Today I am going to try and show you how to create your own custom clothing for your Sims.
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