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

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

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

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

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

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

For creating patterns, you simply need a graphics program that supports PNG format as a minimum. In order to make 4-color patterns for ...

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. ...

Unlike Sims 2, we haven’t been provided with any official polygon count limit from EA yet. For now, we have adopted the figure ...

This Sims 3 Level of Details (LODs) tutorial will help you with creating Level of Detail meshes in an efficient way. Efficient means ...