Morph age 4 tutorial how to#

If you want to do a complete job, do the same morph for lod2 and lod3 as well. It's a good idea to save it as a separate file and keep the original mesh - if you want to make changes later you'll need to import the original mesh (and hide it) and then the morph on top of it.

Skip the first group (Geom 00) and save the second group (Geom 01) - that's your morph. Be sure NOT to change the original mesh you imported first - that's why I told you to hide it. (If you're only doing this as an exercise, don't get too involved in making it perfect.) Keep in mind that what you want is the fully pregnant belly - the game will phase the morph in as the pregnancy advances. Modify lod1 of your mesh by pulling the vertices of the stomach into a pregnant shape. You need the first group because the exporter needs to calculate the difference between the original and changed positions of the vertices. This tells Wes's export plugin to export that group as a morph mesh. Import it again over itself as a second group, open the comments for that second group, and change them to: To make the morph, import the clothing mesh into Milkshape, then go to the Group tab and hide it. Using your favorite package explorer, open the package you just created and extract the CAS part file.

(Note that in order to work, maternity clothing also has to have 'Valid for Random' checked.) Click the Apply button and save the package with an appropriate name. As long as you're here, also click on the Parts Category tab and tick off 'Valid for Maternity' in the Extended Category box. In this case I'm going to use CTU to extract the tfBodyShirtLong mesh. First, find and extract the mesh for the clothing you want to add the pregnant morph to. Except for the actual meshing and the modification of the CAS part category, the same steps apply for any of the morphs. I'll demonstrate adding a pregnant morph, a task that's not at all difficult even for my beginner's meshing skills. Every clothing mesh in the game for teens to elder have a bodyblend and a BGEO for the special morph, including the ones for males, but for clothing that has no pregnant morph the BGEO files have no data. The BGEO data is a compressed form of the information in the morph meshes for each morphed shape.

Morph age 4 tutorial how to#

The bodyblend files have a few more flags and a link to a BGEO file which contains the morph data - coordinates describing how to move the mesh vertices for each morph. It also has links to bodyblend files for the four game morphs: fat, fit, thin, and special (pregnant). The CAS part file contains flags defining the age group and gender for the clothing, the category or categories such as Everyday, Sleep, etc., and a set of links pointing to the meshes that define the shape. The basics of morphs are fairly straightforward. Postal, s3pe, Sims3PackageExplorer, or any tool to search, extract from, and import into package files. Milkshape with Wes's plugins or another meshing tool that can export morphs: (make sure you have the latest version)Д«odyMorphMaker, available here: (again, get the latest version)Д¬AS Texture Unitool (CTU), available here: I'll make a future tutorial on those situations once I've had a chance to figure out how to do it! Teach you how to add morphs in more complex circumstances such as Frankensteined meshes or entirely new meshes without the proper vertex numbering. Teach you how to use Milkshape or any other meshing tool.

Show you how to use the same technique to modify the other morphs for new clothing meshes as long as their vertices are numbered properly and exactly the same for the base mesh and the morph mesh. Show you how to add a pregnant morph to clothing using Milkshape and BodyMorphMaker. ** Please note I've posted a more complete and improved tutorial on this subject in the 'Clothing Meshing for Dummies' thread, including a solution for the problem of CC maternity wear not being used in the game: