Want some super pretty pics of your sims in a rendering engine outside of a 17 year old game? Wanna make some cool stuff in blender using your sims? Well this tutorial might help you! (i hope) ----------------------------------------------------- LINKS Previous Blender versions - https://www.blender.org/download/previous-versions/ NinjaRipper - https://gamebanana.com/tools/5638 Milkshape 3D - http://www.milkshape3d.com/ms3d/download.html UniMesh plugin for Milkshape - https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=122399 GIMP - https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ ----------------------------------------------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Will it blend? 0:26 - Intro 2:57 - NinjaRipper & Bodyshop 5:13 - The extracted textures 6:59 - Getting meshes and things w/ transparent textures 9:41 - Milkshape 3D, converting the .5gd to .obj 11:05 - Blender import & cleaning up your meshes 14:04 - Materials 20:57 - Combining the body and prepping for rigging 24:40 - OPTIONAL: Subdivision surface; smoofing out ur model 34:12 - Rig talk 34:46 - Mixamo vs ARP 36:49 - Mixamo method 41:32 - Auto-Rig Pro method 51:16 - Posing tips & backdrops 56:16 - Render settings & final render ----------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES FOR BEGINNERS THE donut tutorial (one of the most popular beginner tutorials, it's even meme'd on) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPrnSACiTJ4 Daniel Krafft (just in general his videos, they're funny and his tip series helps me out a lot) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCojEXrCBzO-cP2N5YlRcrWw Difference between Eevee & Cycles render engines (some computers can't handle cycles so you may have to use eevee! I suggest watching some tutorials specifically on eevee if your going that route but here's a good video explaining the differences) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NVYCwzEF9w Cycles bloom (bloom is pwetty owo, also a good intro to the compositing feature of blender) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3U6wD7lu4 Weight painting in 2.8 (if you dont like the way things are bending or anything, you can fix it with weight painting and using the blur tool) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9S-jhBIEiU ----------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL MEDIA Tumblr - https://bruised-pixels.tumblr.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/xbruised_peachx
Want some super pretty pics of your sims in a rendering engine outside of a 17 year old game? Wanna make some cool stuff in blender using your sims? Well this tutorial might help you! (i hope) ----------------------------------------------------- LINKS Previous Blender versions - https://www.blender.org/download/previous-versions/ NinjaRipper - https://gamebanana.com/tools/5638 Milkshape 3D - http://www.milkshape3d.com/ms3d/download.html UniMesh plugin for Milkshape - https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=122399 GIMP - https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ ----------------------------------------------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Will it blend? 0:26 - Intro 2:57 - NinjaRipper & Bodyshop 5:13 - The extracted textures 6:59 - Getting meshes and things w/ transparent textures 9:41 - Milkshape 3D, converting the .5gd to .obj 11:05 - Blender import & cleaning up your meshes 14:04 - Materials 20:57 - Combining the body and prepping for rigging 24:40 - OPTIONAL: Subdivision surface; smoofing out ur model 34:12 - Rig talk 34:46 - Mixamo vs ARP 36:49 - Mixamo method 41:32 - Auto-Rig Pro method 51:16 - Posing tips & backdrops 56:16 - Render settings & final render ----------------------------------------------------- RESOURCES FOR BEGINNERS THE donut tutorial (one of the most popular beginner tutorials, it's even meme'd on) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPrnSACiTJ4 Daniel Krafft (just in general his videos, they're funny and his tip series helps me out a lot) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCojEXrCBzO-cP2N5YlRcrWw Difference between Eevee & Cycles render engines (some computers can't handle cycles so you may have to use eevee! I suggest watching some tutorials specifically on eevee if your going that route but here's a good video explaining the differences) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NVYCwzEF9w Cycles bloom (bloom is pwetty owo, also a good intro to the compositing feature of blender) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3U6wD7lu4 Weight painting in 2.8 (if you dont like the way things are bending or anything, you can fix it with weight painting and using the blur tool) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9S-jhBIEiU ----------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL MEDIA Tumblr - https://bruised-pixels.tumblr.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/xbruised_peachx