hair tutorial

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I've been trying to edit hair style I downloaded (change the color) with
bodyshop, but when I export the texture there are so many files and I don't
know which one(s) I have to edit. The manual from the official website only
deals with eyecolor (which only generates 3 or 4 files in the project
folder).
Is there a good tutorial somewhere which deals with editing hairstyles?

Thanks in advance,
Bianca

 

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All the different files are for different ages and you'll need to know the
coding of the file names. Your hair grows with your sim - that's why there
are different age files. Some are easy to spot - the grey hair is the elder
one. You may also find there are several hair files for each stage of life,
this is because the meshes Maxis used for the hair allow the hair to move
when the sim moves. It's particularly noticeable on the longer hair styles.
However, each one of the hair files for the same age is the same (i.e. the
bitmap is the same picture), so you only need to recolour one and then can
overwrite the others by copying and changing the file names.

The file coding works like this:

You look at the file names. At the beginning of the name you will have a
two letter code, these are:

af adult female
cf child female
ef elder female
pf this is the hair for the toddler, don't know why it's p
tf teen female

Obviously, it would be m in second place if it's a male hair.

Hope that helps.
Best wishes
Maxon


"Rumpel" <rumpleteazer.at.zonnet.nl> wrote in message
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> I've been trying to edit hair style I downloaded (change the color) with
> bodyshop, but when I export the texture there are so many files and I
don't
> know which one(s) I have to edit. The manual from the official website
only
> deals with eyecolor (which only generates 3 or 4 files in the project
> folder).
> Is there a good tutorial somewhere which deals with editing hairstyles?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bianca
>
>