accesory tutorial step by step with images

[mininessie]

Tigger notes:
This is a thorough tutorial, but accessory meshing is not usually considered beginner material. You can get experience with milkshape and learn the features of unimesh by doing the 3 body/clothing tutorials for Unimesh.

Also there is assorted text info about editing accessories here (http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=139586)




i had made this tutorial to help
understand how to made accesories easily.
hope i had made it understandable.
i include too links to other tutorials
and the base girl model used in the tutorial.
hope this help you :D
hughs !
mininessie


you need Simpe the latest version
and Milkshape ,last version too
and Unimesh (latest version recommended)

To use the tutorial you need to decompress the rar file "ACCESORY TUTORIAL BY MININESSIE (WEB PAGE FILE).rar " after do it..you will find an .htm file and another rar...this one includes the images ..you need decompress it in the same place and you will have a folder named "accesories tutorial_archivos"...this one and the "accesories tutorial.htm" need to be in same place ....i had to do this because the total file is so big and only is allowed 10 mg in the attachtments.

[xrax]

That's awesome of you to do this. Great job on the tutorial. :)

[$RaMRoM$]

This is Wonderful! Thanks a lot, btw... if i want to make a necklace, i assign to which joints?

[tiggerypum]

This is a nice picture-full tutorial. Between the text information in the infocenter here (http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=139586) and this tutorial, everyone should have everything they might need.


$RaMRoM$ - Load up a body mesh and compare to the vertices on the body mesh below it. That's how to do it for any accessory.

Btw, as far as I'm aware, the flashing blue accessory issue has not been solved/addressed by EA at all. So investing a lot of effort into accessories is a mixed bag, they give many people problems in pets and seasons.

[$RaMRoM$]

Thanks tig

[ulkrhsn]

mininessie, you're an angel :bunny: that was what i need
*hugs*

[bsett]

"Btw, as far as I'm aware, the flashing blue accessory issue has not been solved/addressed by EA at all"

tiggerypum I did a forum search and counldn't find any links regarding this issue. Could you please point me to a thread as I am expericencing this problem. Thank you in advance.

[tiggerypum]

http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=202569

Some accessories or combinations seem to do it more often than others - but some people have a particular accessory in their game and it works, and another person will have the same accessory blue.

[bsett]

Thanks for the link to the info. I was wondering what was happening to one pair of glasses that would work fine sometimes but be flashing blue at others. I have pets and seasons ep's so it's good to know that there is a work arround for the problem.

[tiggerypum]

bsett, it's not much of a 'work around' unless you really don't mind taking your sim(s) to the mirror every time you load the lot. That is why I've said many folks have grown frustrated and think twice or 3 times before making a mesh as an accessory.

[corvidophile2]

That accessory thing is really mysterious, it was of course "introduced" with pets but i uninstalled pets and it seems Seasons causes the same problem as well.

I think is mysterious because as Tig said some stuff may not flash for someone and flash blue for another. In my game i had an accessory that it didnt flash for a quite while but then one day it started doing it .I'm assuming it has to do with something else i downloaded perhaps another accessory. It's really annoying :-(

Thank you so much for the tutorial, for a while now i have wanted to make an accessory and this is God sent! And yes i will make it despite the problem.Going to the mirror isn't as tedious and perhaps in the future maxis will fix the problem.lol

[bsett]

I'm sorry Mini I forgot to thank you for the easy to follow tut. The "blue flash" bug is a real shame. I can see people spending several hours carefully following a tutorial to crank out their first acceessory only to be frustrated by the blue flash and thinking it's something they did wrong :(

[mininessie]

wow
thanks you alls !!
and thanks you so much tiggerypum
for your help here.
i just check this thread .
i´m very happy this can be helpful.
i have this problem with flashing accesories
but only since i have pets.
some accesories that i download before i learn
to create them, was working well
till i install pets,then sometimes looks blue too.
the ones that i create don´t show blue in my game
but not sure in other´s.
thanks you alls again :D

[tiggerypum]

Nicely done mininessie - I'm moving this to the tutorials area - folks go and click on that 'thank you' button for her! :)

[$RaMRoM$]

oh dont worry tig! im sure everyone will click the "thank" button without telling!

Thanks! :up:

you've done a :gjob: mininessie
you deserve:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/RaMRoM_photos/NewBitmapImage2.png

[mininessie]

awww
thanks you both .
i´m really happy :D

[corvidophile2]

Hi mininessie i have started my attempt at the accessory but i have this problem pictured here

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g59/corvidophile2/milkshapepic.jpg

Can you please tell me how to make these hayballs disappear from there and only see a stick figure like in your tutorial pictures?

Thanks in advance!

[mininessie]

these balls are the joints,you need adjust the dimensions,and you can too hide them if you want
note:mine looks a bit diferent because is the latest version

[corvidophile2]

Thank you so much nessie! i will do so!

[Inge Jones]

I don't know how to use this tutorial, I downloaded and unpacked it, but none of the pictures show up, they're just red crosses.

[$RaMRoM$]

Inge, extract the tutorial with that folder, it contains all the images, the html document reads from those images :)

[Inge Jones]

Yeah I extracted it, then I found there was another rared package inside there with all the images so I extracted that too. That didn't help. Then I copied the images into the top level folder with the html page and that didn't help either, still red crosses.

[$RaMRoM$]

make sure that they are in the same directory and that u didnt rename the folder, there should be the tutorial, and in the same directory there will be a folder called images_archivos or something :)

I will download the file and see if there were any troubles

*edit*
When you download the rar file you will find inside it an html document and an other rar file, extract them both to the desktop, open the other rar you extracted and you will find a folder in it contains images and a filelist.xml , extract the FOLDER then when u open it it will run perfectly :)

Pic:
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t173/RaMRoM_photos/desk.jpg

[Inge Jones]

Ah finally lol thanks. I wonder why it didn't just extract with the right relationships in the first place? They usually do.

[mininessie]

oh,i just seen this!
sorry about Inge,and thanks you so much
for your work :D

thanks you too $RaMRoM$ for the help

hughs!

[tish85]

thanx so much Miny this is more then useful!hugs

[mininessie]

thanks sweety :D

[Technomicky]

Where can I find the base model??? ... I need it for work :cry:

[tiggerypum]

base body and head obj format files are the infocenter

[mininessie]

the base model i used is for download under the tutorial rar.
you can use it or you can use the ones that tiggerypum said :)

[Bonita!]

My pictures wont show up. :[

[tiggerypum]

Bonita, I'm afraid I have no idea which picture won't show up where. We can't look over your shoulder, you have to describe things in detail - what you did, what worked, what didn't.

[Bonita!]

The web page picture, none of them show up they are blank xs.

[ulkrhsn]

How do we make alpha-editable accessories? I've downloaded some alpha-editable accessories to open in ms3d and read their group comments but it didn't make any sense. I think there's another way?

[tiggerypum]

ulkrhsn alpha editable accessories are actually like any alpha editable object. Change the matds and you're good to go.

[ulkrhsn]

Oh ok thanks so much tigger :)

[ulkrhsn]

I've changed my MATD settings..my accessory is alpha editable now but looks weird. It's transparent.. http://i14.tinypic.com/52dd2qf.jpg
I set stdMatAlphaBlendMode to blend and stdMatAlphaTestEnabled to 0. There are no underweighted bones or something. Could anybody tell me how to fix it please?
Edit: and stdMatUntexturedDiffAlpha is set to 1

(I've no problem about the shape of the mesh, I know it looks weird too but I'll work on it :lol: )

[mininessie]

if don´t remember wrong
i set stdMatAlphaTestEnabled to 1
and don´t modify the stdMatAlphaBlendMode

[ulkrhsn]

I think it should be set to 0 but I set it to 1 too.. It didn't work.

[mininessie]

i use the frame part and the set of one of my accesories is the one in the pick

the accesory is the furcollar for Jadis made specially for my lovely friend GrandDuchessEmerald from SS2
the head piece has too an alpha part set as the same mode

[tiggerypum]

ulkrhsn is that a lined tube or is that a cylinder?

[ulkrhsn]

That's a cylinder :blink:

[tiggerypum]

I think the problem is... something we noticed changed with pets.... *goes to look it up*

Check this setting? http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=202520

[ulkrhsn]

tiggerypum and mininessie, thanks so much for taking the time to help me. But I can't fix the problem. tiggerypum I don't have Pets or Seasons installed, so I believe the problem should be something else.
I can create an alpha editable plane-(which looks quiet good). But when it comes to cylinders or boxes they look odd in bodyshop.
Anyway, I was trying to make an alpha editable purse. I searched the community If someone ever made one. But couldn't find. Maybe it's impossible :lol:

[mininessie]

if you want
upload it here and i will check it for you,then if i find the solution
i will tell you :)

[ulkrhsn]

You're so kind, thanks so much :lovestruc

[mininessie]

i don´t forget ,but have few time to see
wait only a few more please :)

[mininessie]

well i had tested it
your configuration shows transparent in my pc
i set the "alpha blend mode " to none
and the "alpha test enabled" to 1
in one pc where i have all eps my configuration shows goo in bodyshop
but still transparent in game.

but in the laptop i have the base game only
and works fine with my settings in both bodyshop and game
here i upload my testing file
see if this works on your pc and tell me about please :)

[ulkrhsn]

:luff: :beer: :lovestruc mininessie I can't thank you enough! Not only for testing my purse, but writing this helpful tutorial! I tested the file you sent me and it works great both in game and in bodyshop. Thank you a million times :lovestruc

[mininessie]

i´m happy for you :D
and glad to help :rofl:

[netra567]

Thank you for this you are a very nice a sweet person!!!:D

[mininessie]

:D
thanks you so much for your kind comment !

[tschibi]

Hi thank you for this pictureful tutorial, it's really good.
I hope i'll manage it... :)

[Noogie666]

I owe you Mininessie. Thank you so much for this helpful tutorial.

[mininessie]

you alls are so sweet
thanks for your coments
made my day :D

[Mandydear2008]

thanks sooo much! this is soooo amazing

[mininessie]

glad to help Mandy :D

[tschibi]

i just wanted to thank you again for the tutorial and i wanted to show on what i'm working on :)
these are alpha editable creols for teens (currently shown up on all genders and ages, but i'll manage that for sure^^)

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/1589/111kn7.th.jpg (http://img169.imageshack.us/my.php?image=111kn7.jpg)

thank you so much, tschib

[mininessie]

wow!
:D goodie!
thanks for let me know ;)

[talenzz]

A wonderful tutorial , thank you! :bunny:

[mininessie]

thanks so much talenzz

[kihaad]

I think that i have a problem with Simpe...
Screen:

http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/3734/screensimpevu4.th.jpg (http://img157.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screensimpevu4.jpg)

I don't see a name...why?

[mininessie]

hummm!
can you explain me more ?
please better post picks of your simpe screen

[sim0727]

I was wondering if you need to create a new package in body shop every time you want to make an accessory or can you just use one package as a template to create all your accessories.

[sim0727]

For each package I've created with body shop so far none of them have 6 files under any of the 3D ID files. The most I have are 5. Did they change they way the do things for freetime?

Never mind. :) I think the problem was that I was using the goggles and tiki mask to make my accessory in body shop.

[mininessie]

sorry i just seen this !
happy you found the soluce!

[babu357]

I tried this tutorial and the fact that it is done in pictures is very helpful, but I am still confused a bit. I've never done any accessories before, so forgive my confusion.
I'm a bit lost at the end...where it says " select your package files from your folder, copy and paste in the saved sims folder".
I'm not sure what package files are to be pasted into the saved sims folder.

Just to see if I understand anything..
We open the original package in the saved sims folder. Save it to a new folder, then create a new package in SIM PE.
We extract the GMDC,GMND,CRES and SHPE and save them to a new package.
We link the original package with the new mesh package and then save the new mesh package and place into the saved sims folder along with the original package?
I know I'm cutting out a bunch of steps here but I'm just trying to get an idea of what the basic steps are and where to save what when I am done ..
Any help appreciated.
Babu

[mininessie]

yees ,this is ok!
in your work folder you need to have the original one you used and the mesh one that you made.
you need place your new mesh package,and replace the original one modified(after link it to the mesh) in the saved sims folder!
hope i explain it well now :)

[babu357]

yees ,this is ok!
in your work folder you need to have the original one you used and the mesh one that you made.
you need place your new mesh package,and replace the original one modified(after link it to the mesh) in the saved sims folder!
hope i explain it well now :)
Thanks. I think I'm getting the hang of it.my object showed up in the game.:) Now let's see if I can do it again.XD I really like this tutorial because of the use of so many images. I helps me so much because I'm a visual learner. Thanks
Babu

[mininessie]

lol i made it as is because i´m better visual learner too !
and i want to help other like me :D

[Rocco182]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, Its very easy.

[simmer22]

I finally found the tutorial I need :) (can't get the HTML page to work, so I'm just looking at the pictures - I learn best visual too...)

but I have a problem. I think it's something weird going on in Sim PE, because when I come to image006 (that message shows up for me) and click yes, I get Sim PE tells me that it is "unable to start tool plugin". I've tried to figure out what this tool plugin is - but I'm not very familiar with Sim PE, and I can't find it in the menus (if it's even there). Do you have any idea what's wrong? I've tried looking through the Sim PE user manual thingy, but it doesn't say what it is.

I'm trying to make some all age accessories (I've got a perfect base mesh with all ages included - and the meshes themselves are pretty much done, both rescaled and refitted to each age) - but both Sim PE and bodyshop is messing everything up... (unlike milkshape, whish is behaving really good, for a change) :(

Pretty much the only thing I know when it comes to Sim PE is recoloring default overrides (like infant outfits)... I sort of know how to recolor maxis object meshes, and I once managed to recolor CC object meshes - but that's it. (well, I actually figured out how to make a "default replacement" for a CC mesh - couldn't figure out how to clone it... I guess I should've started there first, but I'm sort of in a hurry to get the acessory to work...)

[mininessie]

for the html page to work you must extract the page and the images in the same folder ,I had compress the images in a rar, into the main rar for making it more light.

about the plugin ...i think you need Managed Direct X 9c

you can download it here:
http://sims.ambertation.de/en/download/realdownload/

[ozwellspencer]

can you please make a statue of the Rainbow Dragon and the actual crystal beasts' crystals and the dark versions

if you can make them then i will forever be in your debt if not i understand

[mininessie]

i answer you in your other post

[minamy]

thank you

[mininessie]

happy to help! :D

[MegatronsPet]

Fantastic tutorial, thank you so much!! :) It even helped me with hair meshing, b/c it describes some steps that other tutorials skip :bunny:

[lovesakura_1406]

After adding the model , I extracted the texture image to my folder like the tutorial said.......but when I continued the next step of the tutorial , I had no idea how it from this
http://s764.photobucket.com/albums/xx286/sweetMTcute/?action=view&current=image035.jpg
become like this
http://s764.photobucket.com/albums/xx286/sweetMTcute/?action=view&current=image039.jpg
Please help me...!

[alimahadtheman]

MY meshes are TRANSPARENTish, as if the hidden objects are bieng see through to give ugly look weird meshes
PLEASE HELP!! reflex vertex wont even work!

[alimahadtheman]

PLEASE HELP HELP!! ME MESHES ARE TRANSPARENT!! REFLEX VERTEX WONT HELP! THEYR JUST TRANSPARENT like the front parts become see through to let the hidden parts through to give ugly meshes
=(((

[mininessie]

sorry ...i left the sims time ago and just seen this.
please ...explain your problems a bit more :)