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Post by untraditionalnerd on Jun 10, 2015 11:52:04 GMT -5
Introduction
This mini tutorial will show how to fix the shadow that sometime appears at the bottom of skirts and tops. It is caused when we remove the double vertices of our mesh. The game needs to know if the point of conjunction between two faces has to be smooth or defined. The shadow is caused by a "smooth angle". Thanks to that shadow everything looks round but we need a hard edge sometime. What you will need: Sim 4 Studio Blender 2.70 I will use an EA skirt as example but as you can understand this method works for any CAS mesh. I will try to show you the difference between a smooth edge and a hard edge. To do so I will not work on a small part of the bottom. This picture shows what we usually get when we use Remove doubles on the whole mesh. Everything is smooth but a shadow appeared at the bottom of the skirt. Step one: In Edit mode select the edge that you want to be hard. I usually use Edge selection mode to speed up the process. Note: The red square underline a point I did not select. I will not split the edges in that spot so you will be able to see the difference once we are done. Step 2: Once the edge is selected. Click on Mesh tab then Edge. A new list will appear and click on Edge split. The shortcut for the Edge window is Ctrl+E. Step 3: Now that the edge is split you can save and import it back. This is how it will look in game. As you can see the bottom of the skirt is back to how it was before. There is no shadow. The red square shows how the part that did not received the treatment still has the shadow. Plan accordingly when working on your project. Thanks to this little trick you can achieve different results with the same mesh. If you have question let me know Happy Meshing UN
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Post by believe&become on Jul 11, 2017 12:15:48 GMT -5
Hi untraditionalnerd thank you for this tutorial! However I can't see the images you posted , it says please update your account (photobucket). Feel free to delete this post once the issue is solved.
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Post by Feyona on Jul 20, 2017 2:50:56 GMT -5
believe&become, photobucket demands $400 per year in order to share links on forums. Everyone who used that service faced this problem. Unfortunately, we can't fix these pictures since only account holder has an access to his files.
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Post by believe&become on Jul 20, 2017 7:03:06 GMT -5
Oh thank you Feyona! I did not know that. I've an idea, I'll try to follow the tutorial as it is as it's something I want to learn and will take screenshots as I go along, and if it works out, maybe I can post them here via imgur so anyone who later on looks for this tutorial can have some image references to follow. And if I find any difficulties I'll post the queries here. Would that make sense? Thanks again.
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Post by orangemittens on Jul 20, 2017 10:08:40 GMT -5
That would be great! If you have screenshots I can add them to the post if you're ok with that
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Post by believe&become on Jul 21, 2017 14:54:44 GMT -5
Sure orangemittens ! Works for me. I'll try it out and make screenshots as I go along, if I get stuck I'll post the query here.
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