Tutorials:Exporting UV Maps for Better Clothing Recolours (Upd2009)

Exporting UV Maps for Better Clothing Recolours (Upd2009)
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Author	CatOfEvilGenius and HystericalParoxysm

Overview

This tutorial explains how to export the uv/texture map for both Maxis and custom clothing using LithUnwrap or UVmapper Classic. If you're finding it hard to match up edges or fix seams, this should help a lot. This is an update by CatOfEvilGenius of the original 2006 tutorial by HystericalParoxysm.

What you will need

• SimPE
• The Managed Direct X Extensions, listed on the SimPE download page under "Needed Software to run SimPE"
• LithUnwrap or UVmapper Classic

Tutorial Link

Exporting UV Maps for Better Clothing Recolours (2009 update)

Prerequisites

This is not a beginner's clothing tutorial, and is more of a "Toolbox Tutorial" to teach a specific technique. If you are not an experienced clothing creator, you will need to first do some more simple tutorials.

• See: Tutorials: Clothing Tutorials

Credit

Originally written in 2006 by HystericalParoxysm (UVmapper Classic only), then updated by CatOfEvilGenius (UVmapper Classic and LithUnwrap)