i've been asked if i could write a tutorial about how i retexture hair.
disclaimer: possible grammar mistakes and/or occasional polish words on screenshots
let begin! :>
what do we need:
bodyshop
photoshop (for this one i particularly use cs5 version)
textures
cat's hair binner program
step 1:
open bodyshop and start a new project
step 2:
find the hair you want to retexture and export it. name the project something you would remember, i usually name the project after name of the hair and color that i'm currently doing.
step 3:
Go to the Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Projects/insert here name of your project and you can see what you've exported. there are textures, alphas and bunch of black stuff but we don't care about that one.
step 4:
open your editing software and drag adult texture (it's that one that starts with afhair or amhair)
step 5:
open the texture that your going to put on the previous one
step 6:
then drag the new texture onto a old one and adjust it like so
step 7:
if everything looks good then you ready to save it.
step 8:
refresh the project in bodyshop to check if everything looks okay
step 9:
if everything looks okay, then we can move onto next step which is making grey for elders. you simply repeat what you done before; just drag grey texture and adjust it to the original texture, save it as bmp and you're good
step 10:
for the last time refresh the project to see if everything looks good and if everything looks okey then go ahead and import it to the game
step 11:
then go to the savedsims folder and drag all of the files with the name of your project to the new folder or onto your deskop and then change the name to something more recognizable
step 12:
open the hair binner program, since we have 4 hairs we'll be binning only once. also make sure to uncheck "make backup files" and check for what age groups your hair is available bc if you don't you will end up like me and you gonna do it again to fix it
step 13:
the binning process may take a few moments so be patient. after it's done you should see this popup. just click ok
and you're done! drop your retextures to your downloads folder and enjoy new shine and properly binned hair retextures!
so that's all for now, if you have any questions feel free to ask ;>
I dyed my hair again surprised? Not really. It's a little darker than I'm used to but I'm trying to grow my hair out. I mixed @arcticfoxhaircolor Transylvania, girls night and virgin pink. #afhair #arcticfoxhaircolor