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Why Does My Mesh Have Dark Shadows?
If your mesh has dark shadows, it means that you have not specified smoothing groups correctly in your 3D program. Wherever black shade ...
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What are smoothing groups?
Smoothing groups are collections of faces that are meant to be treated as a smooth, curved surface with the other faces in that ...
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How to easily extract Sims from screenshots
Many artists like to make previews of their work on plain backgrounds, so that the details of their work aren’t overshadowed by the ...
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What Size Should My DDS Images be?
For meshes, DDS images must be fixed sizes of one of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, or 1024 pixels. ...
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What Graphics Programs Do I Need for Patterns and Textures?
For creating patterns, you simply need a graphics program that supports PNG format as a minimum. In order to make 4-color patterns for ...
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What Programs Do I Need for Creating Sims 3 Content?
You will need a copy of the TSR Worskhop 2.0 for creating any Sims 3 content. The Workshop also contains the pattern-making utility. ...
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What is the Maximum Polygon/Vertex Count for Objects?
Unlike Sims 2, we haven’t been provided with any official polygon count limit from EA yet. For now, we have adopted the figure ...
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Sims 3 Level of Details (LODs) Tutorial
This Sims 3 Level of Details (LODs) tutorial will help you with creating Level of Detail meshes in an efficient way. Efficient means ...
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Sims 3 Object Creation Part 1: Beginner’s Guide to Meshing
This is a beginner tutorial for how to create objects and meshing in The Sims 3. This tutorial will not teach you the ...
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The Sims 2 Minimum System Specs
In order to run The Sims 2, you will need to check your computer to see if it is good enough to handle ...