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==Introduction==
  
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: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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===[[Tutorials:Body Shop Recolouring Introduction|Introduction]]===
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So just what is all this crazy Body Shop stuff about?
  
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==Makeup Tutorials==
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===[[Tutorials:Body Shop Recolouring FAQ|Frequently Asked Questions]]===
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Err, what now?
  
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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===[[Tutorials:Clothing Tutorials|Clothing]]===
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Learn how to make pretty dresses.
  
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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===[[Tutorials:Hair Tutorials|Hair]]===
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How to dye your sim's hair green (or whatever other color you like)
  
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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===[[Tutorials:Eyes|Eyes]]===
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Give your sim that come-hither stare.
  
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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===[[Tutorials:Eyebrow and Eyelashes|Eyebrows and Eyelashes]]===
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Scowly brows, lovely lashes, and grizzly facial hair.  Like a bear.
  
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===[[Tutorials:Makeup|Makeup]]===
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Slap some lipstick on that ugly sim!
  
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==Piercings Tutorials==
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===[[Tutorials:Accessory Tutorials|Accessory Tutorials]]===
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Everything about recolouring accessories.
  
Again, for piercings, there's no full tutorial, and much like makeup, they're mostly a matter of trial and error, looking at photos, and looking at existing sim items that you like the look of.  However, there are some good tips on creating piercings in [http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=185793 this thread].
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===[[Tutorials:Piercings|Piercings]]===
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Stick some metal in 'em!
  
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===[[Tutorials:Skintones and Simming|Skintones and Simming]]===
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Want to make a sim that looks like someone, or make lovely skintones?
  
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==Skintone/Simming Tutorials==
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Have a question?  We have an extensive question-and-answer forum:
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* [http://www.modthesims2.com/forumdisplay.php?f=20 MTS2's Body Shop Recolouring Forums]
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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.
 
  
* [[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 skintones differ from other Body Shop projects, what all the images are for, and includes a lot of tips on working on skintones.  Doesn't cover specific editing techniques, but that's more a matter of skills you'll have learned before you get to skintones.
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* [[Tutorials: How to Adapt Skintones and Clothing to Custom Meshes]]
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* Want to paint skins like Enayla?  Check out her article, Thoughts on Skintones, at her site [http://www.furiae.com/index.php?view=gallery Furiae].  You'll find it under Gallery - Tutorials there.  She's been drawing amazing fantasy art for years now, though, and you'll need a graphics tablet to truly do it well, but there ya go.
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* There's also some tips on creating new skin textures, and painting skins in [http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=171666 this thread].
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* [http://www.3d.sk 3d.sk] - By far the best, this site offers thousands of high-resolution photos of all sorts of people, in various states of undress (so yes, there is non-sexual artistic nudity there, you are warned).  You do have to pay for a membership, but the prices are incredibly reasonable, the service is great, and the quality and range of pics is just not available elsewhere at any price.  If you're serious about creating an all-new photoskinned skintone, pick up a month or two of membership here.
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* [http://www.skins.be/ Skins.be] - Celebrity and model wallpapers, mostly female.  Can be useful here and there.
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* [http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/16897-post7.html Fashion Spot] - This particular post on the [http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/ Fashion Spot forums] links lots of great, high-res pics of female model faces, with and without makeup.  And in general, there are tons of pics threads on there, of specific models and celebrities, types of makeup, and just about anything you can imagine.  It can be a lot of fun to explore.
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* [http://www.backgroundsarchive.com/ Backgrounds Archive] - Check out the celebrities sections, male and female, and people.  Lots of nice, big pics that may be useful in skinning.
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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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[[Category:Sims 2 Tutorials]]
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Latest revision as of 11:54, 9 October 2008

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Introduction

Body Shop Recolouring is the changing of colours and textures of all sim-related content like clothes, hair, accessories, skintones, eyes, etc...

Body Shop Recolouring Tutorial Categories:

Icon-info.gif

Introduction

So just what is all this crazy Body Shop stuff about?

Icon-what.gif

Frequently Asked Questions

Err, what now?

Icon-dress.gif

Clothing

Learn how to make pretty dresses.

Icon-head.gif

Hair

How to dye your sim's hair green (or whatever other color you like)

Icon-eye.gif

Eyes

Give your sim that come-hither stare.

Icon-eyebrows.gif

Eyebrows and Eyelashes

Scowly brows, lovely lashes, and grizzly facial hair. Like a bear.

Icon-makeup.gif

Makeup

Slap some lipstick on that ugly sim!

Icon accessory.gif

Accessory Tutorials

Everything about recolouring accessories.

Icon-piercings.gif

Piercings

Stick some metal in 'em!

Icon-skins.gif

Skintones and Simming

Want to make a sim that looks like someone, or make lovely skintones?


Body Shop Recolouring Forums

Have a question? We have an extensive question-and-answer forum:


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