Difference between revisions of "MTS2:Creator Guidelines/Meshes"

Good titles:

• Mission-Style Living-Room Set
• 10 Simmer Way (Large family home)
• Fluffy Party Dresses

Bad titles:

• My First Upload!
• Lipstick

• For objects, state whether it is colour-enabled (recolours properly) and EP-ready.

• Let your downloaders know where they can find your object, and any special properties thereof. For accessory meshes, you need to tell whether the accessory stays on or comes off for showering/swimming/sleep. For hair meshes, make sure you mention somewhere which age(s) your mesh works for, and what you've done about the other ages in your recolour packages if your mesh does not work for all ages (removed the younger ages, recoloured them to match, was lazy and just left them all blonde for all colours, etc.). For object meshes, tell where your object will appear in the catalogue, and whether or it's for residential, community, or both.

• Include clear terms of use for your mesh. What are your policies on user recolours, uploading your mesh elsewhere with lots/sims, your textures, cloning, modifying your mesh, etc.? Make your terms of use clear but concise so there's no question on what you allow with your work.

• If the mesh or textures you're using come from any other source except your own creativity (i.e. if any part of your creation wasn't made by you personally), you must list where you obtained the mesh or textures with enough information that it can be verified you are within the original creator's terms of use, or have obtained personal permission from them. This also applies to cloning from user-created objects. Give credit where it's due.

• You must include full, numeric polygon and vertex counts for all meshes in your upload. Try to weigh the uniqueness and usability of your item against its poly count: creators that upload extremely high poly items that could be lower poly will be asked to reduce them or the items will be removed. Even if you just modify a Maxis mesh and don't add/remove anything, you still must list a numeric poly count.

• State in your post what tools you used to create the mesh (Unimesh, Meshtool, SimPE, Milkshape, Wings3D, UV Mapper, etc.): this both gives credit to the tool creators for their hard work in making your creation possible, and lets downloaders/recolourers know what the object will be capable of, like bump maps, proper animations, etc.

• Let the people know if there are unavoidable issues or weirdness with your object that downloaders should be aware of. Nobody's perfect, but you need to let your downloaders know if they're something odd to watch out for.

• Make sure your mesh has a nice texture that showcases your hard work. The standard guidelines for recolours still apply to the textures you're uploading with your original mesh. For Body Shop-related recolour guidelines look here, and here for object recolour guidelines.

• Include at least 3 clear, well-lit in-game screenshots of your mesh from different angles. Try to include at least one standard Maxis object or a sim in one of the screenshots so downloaders can get an idea of your object's scale, and at least one closeup (the object should fill the whole screenshot) for detail. If your mesh has something odd in the way it appears, please don't try to hide the imperfection with your screenshots by taking them from odd angles: take a screenshot of the imperfection so downloaders know what to look for, and not to report it as a problem in your download thread's comments.