Introduction

2 Beers and Coffee.....My Party, shot to Heck and High Water.  Hahaha.  Thursday, blah - Women are interesting, and Emotions can swing this way - and that.  It was a Congradulatory' Evening but, For Personal Safety Concerns, Headphones back on...and not going near that Guitar again, Tonight...hehehe.

°What I finished Yesterday, with the Muppet Figurine:


Getting there......

Coffee.... ;°))

I have a Cousin back in Seattle, he does web designing; A couple years back, when I had Facebook - he noticed that I was into 3d and Sims...He offered to send me the 3ds Max and Maya(?) - can't remember the name. I blew him off...hahaha!
I was like, "Nah, I have Milkshape.".

Now, I'm thinking.....hmmmm...hahahaha!

For objects you can use the editor of your choice to make the item, position it, and map it. Studio is set up so it will accept an object in any format that Blender can import. From there it will handle simple joint assignment and vertex paint automatically unless the item you're working with requires more. In that case it will accept any edits made by the creator.

Ultimately though the plan for Studio is to eventually get off Blender dependence. The tool is how it is because Blender was the fastest, easiest, cheapest (everyone with a computer and internet can afford it) way to go...not because the team is made up of people who want everyone using Blender. The goal is that everyone will be able to use whatever editor they prefer.

Moving? Oh, Man - You are so lucky! I wish I was moving, this Town is Drab now. In the last 10 years, Germany has slowly transfomed into - "The one size fits all", Culture of America.
You take a Train to most any City these days and - Fwam! "Oh, the same type of Mall - the same stores - the same brands...the same Crapola.".
It wasn't like that when I first moved here - they had nice little shops, where you'd actually enjoy walking around to the different locally owned stores.

It's all been crushed out of business, bought by the Banks and crammed into a Big, Fat ugly Mall.

Even the crappy no smoking in a Bar laws, have somehow crept over here....which also put a lot of nice places out of business.

Yes, I wish - sometimes - I was moving....thesedays, you ask yourself...where? It's all becoming the same Drab.

simfreaks, I definitely hear you. I wrote a tutorial showing how to get something into the game from a mesh in .obj format originally made for Sims 3 and another showing how to do the same thing using a mesh originally made for Sims 2. The one for Sims 3 assumes the item is meshed onto a single map and just goes over importing it into Blender, changing the cut number, and saving. The one for Sims 2 assumes the item has two groups each with its own map and shows how to merge the groups and remap in Blender. There is no reason, of course that the merging and remapping couldn't be done in a different editor prior to saving it for import into Blender.

Once there, unless the item requires more than one joint assignment (very few game items have more than one joint assignment), special vertex painting (some of the lights look better with gradient vertex paint but that doesn't mean you *must* do it or they won't function correctly), or a second UV different from the first (again a rarity in Sims 4 objects) that's pretty much all you need to do - set the item up in the editor of choice, import to Blender via .obj, change the cut number to match the EA item's cut number, and delete the EA item before saving. I have several meshes I made for Sims 2 and Sims 3 that I plan to convert when I get the time so the process for doing that is very streamlined.

For the extension Studio will use to export to other editors probably .fbx will be the first one attempted because it can carry joint and vertex paint data. It can also carry data for more than one UV map and some of the EA items have a second UV map that is different than the first is. EA uses that second UV map to carry bump map data for the items with a second UV map that differs from the first. Almost all items have a second UV map that is identical to the first though...currently Studio takes care of all second UV mapping that is needed for those items so the creator doesn't have to worry about a second UV map at all.