Tutorials:Body Shop Meshing Tutorials

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Overview

This section covers meshing Body Shop content: that is, custom clothing and body meshes, hair meshes, and accessory meshes.

What you will need

• SimPE
• A 3D modeling program - we HIGHLY recommend Milkshape with the Unimesh plugins. Free programs are available but simply will not do what Milkshape will do for its low price.
• Prerequisite for ALL Body Shop Meshing Projects: You MUST be an experienced creator of Body Shop recolours - that is, changing textures and alphas for clothing, hair, accessories, skintones, etc... These tutorials will not tell how to use Body Shop or make textures for your meshes... and the skills you learn through becoming extremely adept at making recolours/retextures/reskins of Body Shop content are -crucial- to being successful at creating new Body Shop meshes.

Tutorials

Clothing/Body Meshes

If you have never made a Body Shop mesh before, you MUST start with these tutorials.

• Tutorials:Beginning Clothing/Body Meshing Tutorial - Using Unimesh/Milkshape
• Tutorials:Unimesh/Milkshape Level 2, Editing and UV Maps
• Tutorials:Unimesh/Milkshape Level 3, Combining Mesh Parts

• Tutorials:Beginning Clothing/Body Meshing Tutorial - Using MeshTool/OBJ
• Tutorials:Body Meshing - How to use Blender
• Tutorials:Meshtool/XSI ModTool/SMD Tutorial
• Tutorials:Milkshape - Adjusting UV Mapping On Your Modified Body Mesh

Accessories

Accessories are a bit more difficult than bodies, but if you have been through the Unimesh tutorials, you should be able to handle it.

• Tutorials:Accessory Meshing Info and Advanced Tutorial
• Tutorials:Accessories - Fixing Accessories to Display Properly with the Pets EP
• Tutorials:Making accessories wearable at all times
• Tutorials:MiniCustom Icons for Accessories

Hair

• Tutorials:Hair Meshing with MilkShape and UniMesh (Beginners)
• Tutorials:Hair - Basics and Beyond Articles
• Tutorials:Hair - Categorizing custom hair into the color bins
• Tutorials:Hair - Strange Transparency or Holes
• Tutorials:Hair Meshing Tutorial
• Tutorials:How to fix the neck gap in hair mini-tutorial

Infocenter

• Tutorials:Body/Hair/Accessory Meshing Tools
• Tutorials:Easier Method to Gather Clothing/Hair files
• Tutorials:Everything You Wanted to Know About Meshes But Were Afraid to Ask
• Tutorials:General - Example Bodies and Faces
• Tutorials:Making a NL (or later) Body mesh look good in old games

Outdated

• Tutorials:Basic Clothing Mesh Tutorial Bodychop/Milkshape
• Tutorials:Basic Making Bigger Boobs! (aka Basic Body Meshing in Milkshape)
• Tutorials:Clothing Cloning Plugin for DatGen
• Tutorials:MTS2 Mesh Tool Clothing
• Tutorials:SanMoo's Hair Mesh Tutorial

Other

• How to link a genetic skintone to a specific not default nude mesh

• Tutorials:How to link a genetic skintone to a specific not default nude mesh
• Tutorials:I'm new, where do I start??
• Tutorials:Making clothes or parts bumpy/reflective/shiny and editing the envcube!
• Tutorials:Mesh - Adjusting the UV Map
• Tutorials:Mesh - The modified mesh does not show up in bodyshop!
• Tutorials:Mesh - has a gap at the neck
• Tutorials:Mesh - has seams/lines down the arms, legs and sides!
• Tutorials:Mesh - has weird transparency, holes, or strange display
• Tutorials:Mesh - is Laying Down in Bodyshop
• Tutorials:Milkshape - Adjusting UV Mapping On Your Modified Body Mesh
• Tutorials:Milkshape - Blue Lines all over my screen!
• Tutorials:Milkshape - Settings and Tips
• Tutorials:Milkshape UV Mapping Shoes/Extras Mini Tutorial
• Tutorials:Simple High Heels Mini-Tutorial
• Tutorials:Using Poser to Modify Body Shapes
• Tutorials:Beginning Clothing/Body Meshing Tutorial - Using MeshTool/OBJ
• Tutorials:Beginning Clothing/Body Meshing Tutorial - Using Unimesh/Milkshape
• Tutorials:Clothing Cloning Plugin for DatGen
• Tutorials:Easier Method to Gather Clothing/Hair files
• Tutorials:Everything You Wanted to Know About Meshes But Were Afraid to Ask
• Tutorials:Mesh - has seams/lines down the arms, legs and sides!
• Tutorials:Making a NL (or later) Body mesh look good in old games
• Tutorials:Meshtool/XSI ModTool/SMD Tutorial
• Milkshape: Settings and Tips: tiggerypum at MTS2
• Tutorials:General - Tig's Editing Suggestions
• Tutorials:Mesh - is Laying Down in Bodyshop
• Tutorials:Milkshape - Blue Lines all over my screen!
• Tutorials:Hair - Basics and Beyond Articles
• Tutorials:Hair - Categorizing custom hair into the color bins
• Tutorials:Hair - Strange Transparency or Holes
• Tutorials:Hair Meshing Tutorial
• Tutorials:Hair Meshing with MilkShape and UniMesh (Beginners)

General Tips and Tricks

• Tutorials:General - Tig's Editing Suggestions