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| − | Want to create beautiful clothings, fun makeup, interesting hair, and stunning skintones? This is the place to start, with all sorts of tutorials to teach you every aspect of recolouring Body Shop content.
| + | :Body Shop Recolouring is the changing of colours and textures of all sim-related content like clothes, hair, accessories, skintones, eyes, etc... |
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| − | ==Clothing Tutorials - Start Here!== | + | {| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical-align:top;background-color:#f5faff" |
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| − | If you've never created any Body Shop content before, you should start with clothing. There are two main sets of tutorials that will help you begin creating clothing. If you are using the GIMP, a free [[Graphics Editors|graphics editor]], you should use the Gimp tutorials. If you are using Photoshop or other higher-end graphics editors, you should be able to follow Faylen's series of skinning tutorials.
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| | + | ===[[Tutorials:Body Shop Recolouring Introduction|Introduction]]=== |
| | + | So just what is all this crazy Body Shop stuff about? |
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| − | Whenever you first do a tutorial, you should do the exact same project they show you, exactly as they tell you to do it. This way you can be sure you're doing your first project correctly. When you finish each tutorial, experiment with the techniques you have learned, trying something similar, a project of your own, before moving on to the next tutorial.
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| | + | ===[[Tutorials:Body Shop Recolouring FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]]=== |
| | + | Err, what now? |
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| − | ===Vashti's Gimp Tutorials=== | + | [[Image:Icon-dress.gif|left]] |
| | + | ===[[Tutorials:Clothing Tutorials|Clothing]]=== |
| | + | Learn how to make pretty dresses. |
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| − | Vashti's tutorials are great for beginners, and give a lot of information on using the GIMP.
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| | + | ===[[Tutorials:Hair Tutorials|Hair]]=== |
| | + | How to dye your sim's hair green (or whatever other color you like) |
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| − | [[Tutorials: Basic Clothing Recolour using The Gimp]] | + | [[Image:Icon-eye.gif|left]] |
| | + | ===[[Tutorials:Eyes|Eyes]]=== |
| | + | Give your sim that come-hither stare. |
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| − | [[Tutorials: Gimp Clothing Tutorial 2 - Using a New Texture]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Gimp Clothing Tutorial 3 - Changing the Alpha]] | + | [[Image:Icon-eyebrows.gif|left]] |
| | + | ===[[Tutorials:Eyebrow and Eyelashes|Eyebrows and Eyelashes]]=== |
| | + | Scowly brows, lovely lashes, and grizzly facial hair. Like a bear. |
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| − | ===Faylen's Skinning Tutorials=== | + | [[Image:Icon-makeup.gif|left]] |
| | + | ===[[Tutorials:Makeup|Makeup]]=== |
| | + | Slap some lipstick on that ugly sim! |
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| − | If you are using Photoshop or another graphics editor, you can probably follow these tutorials fairly well to figure out how to make new clothing recolours. If you are confused about what tool to use if you are using a different program, try your editor's help file.
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| | + | ===[[Tutorials:Accessory Tutorials|Accessory Tutorials]]=== |
| | + | Everything about recolouring accessories. |
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| − | [[Tutorials: Faylen's Skinning Tutorial 1 - Basic Clothing Recolour]] | + | [[Image:Icon-piercings.gif|left]] |
| | + | ===[[Tutorials:Piercings|Piercings]]=== |
| | + | Stick some metal in 'em! |
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| − | [[Tutorials: Faylen's Skinning Tutorial 2 - Selective Recolour, Adding a Simple Texture]] | + | [[Image:Icon-skins.gif|left]] |
| | + | ===[[Tutorials:Skintones and Simming|Skintones and Simming]]=== |
| | + | Want to make a sim that looks like someone, or make lovely skintones? |
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| − | [[Tutorials: Faylen's Skinning Tutorial 3 - Adding Textures]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Faylen's Skinning Tutorial 4 - Working Around the Mesh]] | + | __NOEDITSECTION__ |
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| | + | Have a question? We have an extensive question-and-answer forum: |
| | + | * [http://www.modthesims2.com/forumdisplay.php?f=20 MTS2's Body Shop Recolouring Forums] |
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| − | [[Tutorials: How to Add Shadows and Highlights]]
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| − | ===Other Basic Tutorials===
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| − | These tutorials are also beginners, designed to introduce them to creating clothing.
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| − | [[Tutorials: Modding with Paint.NET]]
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| − | ===Toolbox Tutorials===
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| − | These tutorials relate to clothing, but are specific techniques, tools, and tips helpful to beginners and more experienced skinners alike, for trying something specific.
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| − | [[Tutorials: How to Make a Bump Map for Clothes]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: How to Make a Top out of a Picture]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: How to Recolour Custom Mesh Clothing]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: How to Adapt Skintones and Clothing to Custom Meshes]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Beyond Photoskinning: Transformation and Displacement Mapping in Photoshop]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Creating Textures from Images]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Exporting UV Maps for Better Clothing Recolours]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Skinning from the Inside Out]]
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| − | ==Hair Tutorials==
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| − | [[Tutorials: Hair Recoloring Tutorial]]
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| − | ==Eye Tutorials==
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| − | [[Tutorials: Custom Eye Colours Using Photoshop (Beyond Just Recolouring)]]
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| − | ==Eyebrow/Eyelash Tutorials==
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| − | Though there aren't any tutorials specifically on making eyebrows, this thread explains exactly how you can make new eyebrows using source pictures: [http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=184268 Tutorials on Creating Eyebrows - Solved :)]. This thread explains a little bit more eyelash-specific: [http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=195204 Eyelashes?].
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| − | ==Makeup Tutorials==
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| − | All Body Shop projects follow the same basic rules: you use your texture as "paint" and your alpha tells it how much of that "paint" to apply in those areas.
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| − | Makeup, like skins, are some of the hardest Body Shop projects to make, simply because there is no one way to do them. It's just a matter of messing with things till you get something you like. The closest tutorial is [[Tutorials: How to Make a Sim's Face Using Source Pics]] - makeup from source pictures is made in much the same way, just on a smaller scale - one feature rather than the entire face.
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| − | Go through that, see if it makes sense, and then just start playing. Experiment. It will likely take you a long time to get something that looks pretty good, but that is part of the learning experience. If you want to accomplish something specific, like, say, a semi-transparent lip gloss, examine existing makeup that accomplishes that well. Look at other custom content items by other creators: make an actual project of them so you can see how their alpha and texture interact to create the effect that you like, then try to reproduce it.
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| − | Again, it's not easy or quick, but if you're persistent, patient, and willing to just spend a lot of time experimenting and playing with it, you'll likely stumble upon something that looks good to you.
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| − | ==Skintone/Simming Tutorials==
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| − | Skintones are one of the hardest things to recolour, with many textures and requiring a lot of time and effort to do anything but recolouring an existing skintone. If you want to photoskin a skintone, the technique in [[Tutorials: How to Make a Sim's Face Using Source Pics|How to Make a Sim's Face Using Source Pics]] explains how to pull apart a texture to apply pieces of it to a face. The exact same technique is used, just over and over on the whole body, to create a photoskinned skintone.
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| − | [[Tutorials: How to Make a Sim's Face Using Source Pics]] - Explains how to sculpt a sim's face in Body Shop, and how to do custom texturing for that face.
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| − | [[Tutorials: Realistic Faces for Skins]] - Similar to the above, using a different technique. Google translated from German.
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| − | [[Tutorials: Making a New Skintone for Beginners]] - Explains how
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| − | [[Tutorials: How to Adapt Skintones and Clothing to Custom Meshes]]
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| − | ==Simming Tutorials==
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| − | ==Body Shop Modding Tutorials==
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| − | These are tutorials on how to modify Body Shop content in certain ways - they're not exactly recolouring, but not meshing either.
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| − | [[Tutorials: Changing the Hair Used with a Hat]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Changing Makeup Layering and Wearability]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Converting Clothes to Different Age Groups]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Converting Clothes to Different Genders]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Correct Footstep Noises on Skins]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Creating Default Skin Replacements - Simplified Method]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Default Skin Replacement Tutorial]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Give Your Elders an Easy Hair Dye]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: How to Add Bump Maps to Skins]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: How do you change the lens colour of glasses?]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: How to Bin Hair Recolours with SimPE]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: How to Remove Unwanted Hair Ages]]
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| − | [[Tutorials: Making Eyes Townie-Friendly]]
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