Object Recolouring Now Possible! The Sims 2 community now have enough information to begin to clone and recolour objects!!! There is a recolouring tutorial here: modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=31193
LOL, Josh. That looks nice and simple ... Maybe I'll just wait for the clever folks to do some for me ... What I really want is some color co-ordinated bathroom fittings ...
Too bad it uses SimPE. I still have to get the framework from Microsoft to download. (Hopefully hubby will be able to download it tomorrow night at our friend's house. That's where we did Body Shop and it worked great.) But I was thinking about the kitchen and bathroom fittings too. I have a goth house (Mortitia and Undertaker Cemetary) which really could have used a black sink.
The capacity for cloning objects has been around for some time. The recoloring of objects is not, strictly speaking, a true "recoloring", but merely the ability to add color options to existing objects that support different color options, which does not necessitate actually cloning them: They appear as color options for the existing objects, avoiding potential GUID issues. The capacity for adding color options to monocolor objects does not presently appear to exist.
So if there isn't more than one texture already with the object, we can't add more? Boo! I was hoping to make a phone that wasn't that nasty cream colour. Or give my poor Sims more painting/poster options.
Wallpaper.... paint.......... rock....... I want more options, so it will take me twice as long to build a house.
You might want to check the TS2 site tomorrow. I'm told that there will be a very pleasant surprise. (They already announced it on the SimsUK website and MaxoidKane, cruel woman that she is, has been hinting to us SMs lately. She never outright *tells* us, but the hints are driving us crazy.)
Yeah. I hadn't gotten to the General Discussion (as I generally start at the bottom and work up) so I hadn't seen it yet. (But then,apparently neither had she.)
DLed some I just downloaded some retextured objects and i must say "WOW!" I can't wait to try this myself!
I have aproblem with this Isn't that hacking the program as I got a file and my patch wouldn't install with the file.
Which file do you mean? None of the recolored items should interfere with you installing TS2 U or the patch for TS2 itself. SimPE and dotnet shouldn't interfere either. Perhaps if you were more specific about which file you are talking about and what patch we could be of more help.
Editing Tools Hi please can you help, would like to be able to recolour and edit some objects, have tried to go into modthesims2.com but but has always been closed, would like to know what tools I would need and how to do it, please please can you help! Gillie
Hi please can you help, I would like to know how to recolour and edit objects for sims 2university but don't know what tools I would need or how to do it, I have tried to get on the modthesims2.com site but it keeps saying it's closed is their anybody at all that could help please, please, have been trying for ages but have had no luck. thanks Gillie
Please try to wait 24 hours before reposting. The best recoloring stuff is available at http://sims.ambertation.de/. Be sure to study the whole thing throroughly before deciding you want to go ahead with what is a difficult process. No support for SimPE is given here and http://sims.ambertation.de/ is too busy making SimPE better to bother supporting it themselves beyond some basic stuff. The best rule is if doesn't make sense then you probably don't have the skills to recolor objects ... yet!
To add to what Mirelly said, the support for SimPE is found on the ModTheSims2 site although you have to go to the http://sims.ambertation.de/ to get the tool as SimPE itself is not hosted on MTS2. You are right about MTS2 being down a lot, especially in the past week. They've been adding a new server to handle the volume of people who want to use the site. Unfortunately, very few of us here use the SimPE tool. And those that do are pretty much at the learning stage, not the stage where they'd be able to help you. However, once you do learn how to use it, we'd love to see what you've been making.
