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==Overview==
 
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Creating realistic hair textures can be extremely challenging.  There are a lot of different techniques you use. Which one(s) you choose depends on your project, your expected outcome, and your level of skill.
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These tutorials are to help users create more interesting pools; many of the tutorials are there to enhance the look of a pool to make it more appealing, e.g. islands, aquariums and waterslides.
  
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Most of these tutorials explain how to hand-paint new hair textures.  Photoskinning is NOT suitable for hair as it looks pixellated and bad.  Handpainting hair textures can be extremely time consuming and difficult, but it is worth it for the beautiful results.
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This section also covers other topics envolving water, such as creating water parks and making a lake swimmable.
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For completely new hairstyles, you would have to create a new mesh - making original hair meshes is one of the hardest Sims 2 modding projects there is, and is not a task for beginners (or those currently just making recolours).
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* [[Tutorials:Hair Recoloring Tutorial|Hair Recoloring Tutorial]] - Teaches how to recolour and manipulate Maxis texture to make new hair textures. This is the easiest technique, and this tutorial is written specifically for The Sims 2.
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* [http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=1748599 Easy swimmable real lake]
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* [[Tutorials:Painting Realistic Hair|Painting Realistic Hair]] - Not Sims 2 specific, but still quite useful if you want to handpaint hair.
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* [http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=1220584 Making Real Lakes Swimmable]
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* [[Tutorials:Painting Hair in Photoshop|Painting Hair in Photoshop]] - Similar to the above (also not specifically for TS2) but goes into a bit more depth.  Creates beautiful, realistic handpainted hair textures.
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* [http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=1296816 Making a swimmable lake-The safe way]
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* [[Tutorials:Texturing Hair|Texturing Hair]] - Again, not for TS2, but does show using a 3D model similar to TS2. In this one you can see how the part, bangs, highlights and shadows work on the flat graphic and then wrap on the 3D mesh.
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* [http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=1342216 How to use pool-tiles & pool-wallpapers with the "fake-pool" approach]
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* [[Tutorials:Low Polygon Hair Texturing|Low Polygon Hair Texturing]] - Another good non-TS2 tutorial, this one specifically relating to texturing hair for low-poly hair models. It also looks like a simpler handpainting technique that someone might actually be able to do with a mouse, for straight, simple styles.
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* [http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=79144 Building Swimming pools upstairs (Updated Guide)]
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==General Tips and Tricks==
 
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* There's some discussion on how to use Photoshop to create hair textures in [http://www.modthesims2.com/showpost.php?p=1300077&postcount=25 this thread]. The discussion starts at post #25 and continues on for a few posts. This [http://www.geocities.com/guildchrisgfx/tutorials/hair.htm little tutorial with pictures] is basically showing the same thing, without the Clouds step, which adds all kinds of lovely waves.
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* Try to gain an understanding of basic skills of sims 2 building, below is a link to the list of all the building tutorials available at our site. The best ones to read are the ones regarding terrain changing and CFE (constrain floor elevation cheat).
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[edit] Overview

These tutorials are to help users create more interesting pools; many of the tutorials are there to enhance the look of a pool to make it more appealing, e.g. islands, aquariums and waterslides.

This section also covers other topics envolving water, such as creating water parks and making a lake swimmable.

[edit] What you will need

  • Good knowledge of editing terrain heights
  • No programs required excluding Sims 2

[edit] Tutorials

<ncl>Category:Build Mode Pools Tutorials</ncl>

( Patul )
( JustTheBast )
( corvidophile2 )
( niol )
( rld6869 )

[edit] General Tips and Tricks

  • Try to gain an understanding of basic skills of sims 2 building, below is a link to the list of all the building tutorials available at our site. The best ones to read are the ones regarding terrain changing and CFE (constrain floor elevation cheat).
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