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The transition from The Sims 2 to The Sims 3 can be a bit jarring and overwhelming at first. Here is a guide of Sims 3 ...

By TSR Staff26 October 20080

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With the The Sims 3, we have the ability to add custom patterns to our game. This means that how we design these ...

By TSR Staff26 October 20080

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If your newly created window for Sims 3 has either white or opaque glass, there are a couple of reasons why this could ...

By TSR Staff26 October 20080

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This tutorial will show you how to automatically create a multiplier using Blender3D (version 2.49) and export it so that it can be ...

By TSR Staff26 October 20080

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It’s required to assign the vertices of most objects in Sims 3 (even static objects) to joints. Animated objects such as doors will ...

By TSR Staff26 October 20080

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Geostates are used to display custom ranges of mesh data in the game. A good example are bookcases in the game which fill ...

By TSR Staff26 October 20080

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If your mesh has dark shadows, it means that you have not specified smoothing groups correctly in your 3D program. Wherever black shade ...

By TSR Staff26 October 20080

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Smoothing groups are collections of faces that are meant to be treated as a smooth, curved surface with the other faces in that ...

By TSR Staff26 October 20080

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Many artists like to make previews of their work on plain backgrounds, so that the details of their work aren’t overshadowed by the ...

By TSR Staff26 October 20080

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For meshes, DDS images must be fixed sizes of one of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, or 1024 pixels. ...

By TSR Staff26 October 20080