Tutorials:Body Shop Recolouring Tutorials

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Makeup Tutorials


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.

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.

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.

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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Piercings Tutorials


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 this thread.


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Skintone/Simming Tutorials


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 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: 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.
  • Want to paint skins like Enayla? Check out her article, Thoughts on Skintones, at her site 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.
  • There's also some tips on creating new skin textures, and painting skins in this thread.


Where to get textures for skintones:

  • 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.
  • Skins.be - Celebrity and model wallpapers, mostly female. Can be useful here and there.
  • Fashion Spot - This particular post on the 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.
  • 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


These are tutorials on how to modify Body Shop content in certain ways - they're not exactly recolouring, but not meshing either.

Tutorials: Changing the Hair Used with a Hat

Tutorials: Changing Makeup Layering and Wearability

Tutorials: Converting Clothes to Different Age Groups

Tutorials: Converting Clothes to Different Genders

Tutorials: Correct Footstep Noises on Skins

Tutorials: Creating Default Skin Replacements - Simplified Method

Tutorials: Default Skin Replacement Tutorial

Tutorials: Give Your Elders an Easy Hair Dye

Tutorials: How to Add Bump Maps to Skins

Tutorials: How do you change the lens colour of glasses?

Tutorials: How to Bin Hair Recolours with SimPE

Tutorials: How to Remove Unwanted Hair Ages

Tutorials: Making Eyes Townie-Friendly

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