I think I have to see the problem myself, do you maybe have Discord? From what I can tell you, it's not important how you connect the vertices!

@@powluna thanks! i do have Discord, i'll pin pics there then

@@powluna i just watched two of your latest videos and figured that the problem occured cause one of the tops was tighter than the other one, so blank space appeared when changing sim's body. Tried to transfer UV_1 data from a tighter top and it worked! Thanks for useful information <3

Thank you so much for the feedback! 🩷 Mistakes happen, the more often you create something the better you will become!

I will see if I can come up with something!

Thank you so much for this amazing feedback! Lots of love to you and good luck on your cc creating journey 🩷

The right bones are not that important as long as there is no weight on them. For some assets it can be neccessary though, e.g. I was working on an infant onesie that covers the whole body and includes the feet and when I import it into S4S as one mesh group it tells me that the vertex groups number is exceeded. In this case I have to split the asset into multiple mesh groups and delete some of the bones from the mesh groups. I have another tutorial on my channel where I split some pants into multiple mesh groups, this is almost the most complex splitting into mesh groups can go!

@@powluna can you tell me the exact name of the video, cause I'm really struggling with that. Thanks I didn't see it.

Its this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJbOXpyip6aEqdksi=2GS5Yq49hV7G4YbB

Double-click the mesh file 😉

Could be a sign that your Sims 4 game is not connected to Sims 4 Studio

Could you get it to work in the meanwhile? :D Select all the edges that throw a weird shadow and rip them with V

@@powluna thank you I will try this !

@@powluna I just tried and it doesn't show up the way yours does. Is there any way I can send a picture? It's hard to explain, but there are still some areas that look odd.

Hey, unfortunately, I have no clue, sorry!

Did you get this message for Sims 4 Studio? Thats pretty normal, cause it's not a big official software!

@ I got it from my actual computer but it’s totally okay

Make sure that you are in "Object Mode" and that your cursor is in the middle window!

The provider of my website has performed an update, I think you caught the period when the site was down. But now it js definitely available again!! 😄

Thank you for the feedback! About the loose vertices: in the "Cleaning up the mesh" segment starting at 20:03 I selected the whole mesh and merged all vertices by distance. This was the reason for the shading issues. The only way to get rid of them is to separate the edges. I am not quite sure if I understand your question, can you maybe give an example of what you mean with "loose vertices"?

@@powluna Ah I wasn't very clear. After you separate the edges, the mesh has two different parts - the dress and then the bottom part of the dress. To me it seems then that this dress mesh has two separate parts. I would assume that a mesh like a dress would need to be one single object instead of two to work properly - or is it okay for the dress to have two parts? I'm completely new to making CC so I just want to understand and thank you again for your work!

Separating a mesh with "V" will not split the object in two parts (or lets better say "mesh groups"), thats only the case with "P". As long as you have one mesh group, you can split the mesh whereever you want to make it look good!

@ ah okay, thank you, that makes sense!

I am so sorry, I totally forgot to add the link! It's now there!

@@powluna Thank you!!! :-)

This sounds like a graphics card issue. Maybe try using an older version of Blender!

Thank you so much for this amazing feedback!! 🩷

In S4S you have to create a new asset, this one you change to the glasses category. In Blender you have to put the texture of the bangs in the glasses part of the uv map and then you maybe have to add weights and the correct vertex groups (I explain that in the follow up video of this one). I think it could be tricky to make some accessory bangs, but I've seen people do it so its not impossible!

Thank you for the feedback 🩷

Make sure that you don't have full faces selected. The ripping only works with edges and vertices!

I am sure you can do it! Good luck on your journey 🩷🤗

I'm having that trouble too, except it's not shiny, but changes the skin color slightly ankle to neck, split down the side of the sim.

Export the normal map as a DDS file, not PNG to retain the Alpha Channel! I should have remember that. PNG retains transparency only, but not alpha.

I can imagine that you didn't export the normal map as a dds file maybe? For that you need an Nvidia DDS Plugin if you are using Photoshop. In the worst case you can just skip the normal map, the asset will most likely look the same anyway 😅

Did you check if you're using the latest version? Unfortunately, I am not familiar with Mac so maybe you have to get help from the official Sims4Studio forums!

The easiest way to fix this, is to find a necklace from the game that is similar to your necklace and then you would do a data transfer of the uv_1. I showed how to do that in the video before this one, the timestamp you can find in the description!

Could be various things that went wrong there, but it's hard to tell without seeing it myself! Can you contact me on Discord?

I currently only make CAS items so I don't have enough experience and knowledge to make a video about objects, sorry!

You have to activate proportional editing, maybe you skipped this step in the video 😄

I am sorry, but I don't understand the issue. Do you have Discord and could send me some pictures?

@ Yee I have discord can send a dm

I am sorry, but I don't understand the question 😅

@powluna so this video shows you with the mesh you pulled from CASstudio, however after you select the top of it you say “bring in the other mesh” but you only showed the process of exporting the mesh 1 time, I’m trying to clarify that we do the export process 2 times for whichever two CAS items we would like to modify, is that correct?

@@KaamillieCat The first one is the mesh we work with (this one I just open by doubleclicking it) and the other one is the one that I append laterb(I showed that I exported it from S4S before). This results in one new mesh, that I then export to bring into Sims 4 Studio. You are also able to use various different meshes from the game to create something very unique (for example you take the sleeves from asset 1, the neck part from asset 2, some belt from asset 3 and the bottom part from asset 4). I hope this answers your question 😅

@ it does! I just found your videos and subscribed I’ll have to go look through the other ones (I’m also very new to all the lingo thank you so much for your patience!)

I deleted the rig.001 that came with the mesh I appended!

@@powluna thank you!!!