Tutorial:Creating a Bone-Based Custom Slider - Revision history

PanthroSamah: /* Step 2: Creating the Package */

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‎Step 2: Creating the Package

PanthroSamah at 21:08, 7 September 2014

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Kiwi tea at 15:06, 17 September 2012

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Kiwi tea at 14:36, 17 September 2012

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Kiwi tea at 14:36, 17 September 2012

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Whiterider at 16:47, 8 September 2012

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Whiterider at 21:53, 10 September 2011

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EllaCharm3d at 06:19, 8 August 2011

2011-08-08T06:19:47Z

Whiterider at 08:32, 18 July 2011

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Whiterider at 12:38, 14 July 2011

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 Chin - 32
 Jaw - 1024
 Cheek - 16
 Ear - 64
 Eyelid - 128
 Eyeshape - 256
 Brow - 8
 Nostrils - 4096
 Tip - 16384
 Bridge - 4
 Lower Lip - 2048
 Upper Lip - 32768

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 * '''Generate Male & Female, and Link Male & Female:''' As said before, you can make a slider just for males, just for females, or for both. You can also link them together so that the male and female sliders use the same values, or keep them unlinked so you can set the values differently. Whether or not you should link them depends on the specific slider you're making: in some cases, linking will work fine, and in others you will need different values to accommodate the differences between the male and female bodies. I keep them unlinked, just in case - this only adds about 0.5KB to the filesize, and avoids any problems later on.
 * '''CAS Panel:''' The section of the "Looks" tab which your slider will be shown in.
-* '''Subgroup:''' The subsection, or dot, in the Looks tab. I don't know of any list of which numbers correspond to what; however, Subgroup 2 is global (the dot in the bottom right corner of the face section).
+* '''Subgroup:''' The subsection, or dot, in the Looks tab.
 * '''Region:''' Dunno. Pick one that looks appropriate.

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 Pick a gender to start with - I'll pick female - and a direction - I'll pick Right, since scaling up is easier than scaling down. To begin with, you'll be making very rough changes, narrowing down the values you want to use largely by trial and error and guesswork. Open the relevant .bonedelta file in Delphy's BoneDelta Editor.
-The first thing to do is to select the Head entry, and change it to the joint we want to work with - you noted down the name earlier. Select that joint in the list, and set the various numbers: Offset is movement, Scale is scale, and Quaternion is a mystery to me. As a guide, you will probably want all your numbers to be between -1 and 1, as higher or lower numbers will create very extreme transformations in-game.
+The first thing to do is to select the Head entry, and change it to the joint we want to work with - you noted down the name earlier. Select that joint in the list, and set the various numbers: Offset is movement, Scale is scale, and for an explanation of Quaternion, see the "Advanced stuff" section of [http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=477927 CMarNYC's Pet body slider tutorial]. As a guide, you will probably want all your numbers to be between -1 and 1, as higher or lower numbers will create very extreme transformations in-game.
 Next, remember the green joints? We said that altering a joint alters all its children, and ordinarily, we don't want that - I've set my bonedelta to scale the neck by a factor of 0.2 in the X and Z axis, I certainly don't want the whole head to do that. So, click Add Entry at the bottom of the list, and create a new entry for each of your direct child joints: we need to scale the head down when we scale the neck up (or vice versa), so that the two changes cancel each other out for the head.

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 There are two types of sliders: bone-based sliders and GEOM-based sliders. They each work in a different way.
-'''Bone-based sliders''' work by moving, rotating, or scaling a bone in the sim's skeleton. All of the vertices attached to that bone then move, rotate or scale with the bone. Bone-based sliders can be used on the face or body, although GEOM-based sliders are often preferred for the face - see below for why - however, they can sometimes be unpredictable, especially as the vertices on CC clothing may be assigned to bones you wouldn't expect them to be.
+'''Bone-based sliders''' work by moving, rotating, or scaling a bone in the sim's skeleton. All of the vertices attached to that bone then move, rotate or scale with the bone. Bone-based sliders can be used on the face or body, although GEOM-based sliders are often preferred for the face - see below for why. However, bone-based sliders can sometimes be unpredictable, especially as the vertices on CC clothing may be assigned to bones you wouldn't expect them to be.
 '''GEOM-based sliders''' work by picking out specific vertices, and moving those vertices. This means that you can achieve much more subtle results with GEOM-based sliders: there is, after all, no "cleft chin bone", but you can select just the vertices on the chin and make a cleft chin using a GEOM-based slider. GEOM-based sliders can only be used on the sim's face, since there is only one sim face mesh, so the vertices are always the same - and, crucially, always have the same vertex IDs in the same places - whereas clothing is not uniform, so a GEOM-based slider would only work correctly on the specific outfit it was built for.

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−	Now for a very important step: '''remove any slider multiplier hacks you are using!''' You will need to determine the maximum and minimum values for your slider based on where the line is between "looks good" and "looks like an alien", and if you do that with a slider multiplier installed, you will end up with a slider whose real values are very restricted indeed. If you need a slider limit hack which can be used without a multiplier, try ~~[http://www.the-isz.com/nraas/index.php?/topic/866-the-mastercontroller-phase-four-version-51-updated-2011-jun-16 twallan~~'s MasterController].	+	Now for a very important step: '''remove any slider multiplier hacks you are using!''' You will need to determine the maximum and minimum values for your slider based on where the line is between "looks good" and "looks like an alien", and if you do that with a slider multiplier installed, you will end up with a slider whose real values are very restricted indeed. If you need a slider limit hack which can be used without a multiplier, try Twallan's MasterController @[[Fansite:NraasIndustries\|Nraas Industries]].

	You may also want to temporarily remove your other CC, to make loading times a little less painful.		You may also want to temporarily remove your other CC, to make loading times a little less painful.

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-Select all the BOND resources, right-click them, and Extract -> To file.
+Select all the BOND resources, right-click them, and Export -> To file.
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 Pick a gender to start with - I'll pick female - and a direction - I'll pick Right, since scaling up is easier than scaling down. To begin with, you'll be making very rough changes, narrowing down the values you want to use largely by trial and error and guesswork. Open the relevant .bonedelta file in Delphy's BoneDelta Editor.
-The first thing to do is to select the Head entry, and change it to the joint we want to work with - you noted down the name earlier. Select that joint in the list, and set the various numbers: Offset is movement, Scale is scale, and Quarternion is a mystery to me. As a guide, you will probably want all your numbers to be between -1 and 1, as higher or lower numbers will create very extreme transformations in-game.
+The first thing to do is to select the Head entry, and change it to the joint we want to work with - you noted down the name earlier. Select that joint in the list, and set the various numbers: Offset is movement, Scale is scale, and Quaternion is a mystery to me. As a guide, you will probably want all your numbers to be between -1 and 1, as higher or lower numbers will create very extreme transformations in-game.
 Next, remember the green joints? We said that altering a joint alters all its children, and ordinarily, we don't want that - I've set my bonedelta to scale the neck by a factor of 0.2 in the X and Z axis, I certainly don't want the whole head to do that. So, click Add Entry at the bottom of the list, and create a new entry for each of your direct child joints: we need to scale the head down when we scale the neck up (or vice versa), so that the two changes cancel each other out for the head.
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 Remember that every time you change the numbers for one joint, you need to click Commit - if you switch to a different joint without clicking Commit, your changes to the previous joint will be lost!
-Do the same for the Left version of whichever gender you're currentyl working with, remembering to invert everything, and save both .bonedeltas.
+Do the same for the Left version of whichever gender you're currently working with, remembering to invert everything, and save both .bonedeltas.
 ==Step 5: Importing the BoneDeltas==

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 =Introduction=
 This tutorial will teach you how to create custom sliders by manipulating the sim skeleton. Such sliders can be used to manipulate the sim's body or face, and can be made for only one gender or for both. The process is very easy from a technical standpoint, but involves a lot of trial and error to fine-tune the slider values in order to get a good effect in-game, so be prepared to spend a lot of time loading up your game to test.
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