TUTORIAL - Creating CC for The Sims 4 - TEXTURES & BAKING in Blender or Substance Painter

[@purefoysgirl]

I really appreciate the depth and straightforward content of your tutorials. Your step-by-step method is just what I've been looking for and I really like how you explain things without over-explaining things. For people making a bit more advanced CC and dabbling more in blender, this is a must-have tutorial especially. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your expertise and help the rest of us better understand! 💗💗💗

[@Syboulette]

Thank you very much for your feedback ❤

[@natashaw.7315]

This is really amazing that your tutorials dont just apply to sims 4 cc. I am in school for my computer animation bachelors and i just got my draw tablet, and its so confusing to figure out!! Stuff like this really helps me kinda get a foot ahead. I never regret becoming a Patron, THANK YOU

[@Syboulette]

Thank you for your support

[@dear_totheheart]

Also, you're so charming, well-spoken, and adorable, what a cute French voice :>

[@Syboulette]

Thank you 💕

[@inezaa]

giving us all the files to follow along is so sweet of you! thank you sybou

[@dear_totheheart]

Sims cc tutorials are so appreciated, thank you very much and I hope you'll continue to walk us through slowly and with details, it's all bit overwhelming but I'm very excited and looking forward to more! Your creations are always astounding and incredibly realistic, it'd be wonderful to create anything even close to what you've been able to so thank you for sharing your knowledge/skills!

[@sdasaaaa]

I'm anxious to see the unwrapping tutorial because I don't know anything about it xd thanks for your videos they are very useful

[@Syboulette]

it's a difficult but very important step ! I'll hope I'll be able to explain it clearly !

[@sdasaaaa]

@@Syboulette I will wait with patience, I know you will be able to explain it, you are the best :D

[@AS-hv6mj]

Your tutorials are awesome! I am learning blender 2.9, and now 3.0 just came out. So I would like to do my modeling etc in the newer versions and then export and import into 2.7.. to be able to get it into the sims studio. Those tutorials are really lacking on the internet, at least I couldn't find much. If you have tutorials on that, that would be cool! But I will keep watching your tutorials!

[@Syboulette]

I never transferred to 2.8 and 3 because I feel confortable with the old ones. Maybe when I'll change game (sims 5 or something else), I'll change the version but for now I'll be staying with 2.7. Honestly, I don't think it changes that much the process, it's probably only shortcuts and plugins that would differ. You can probably search equivalent on google :)

[@breneadubya]

This is awesome 🤘. I started playing the Sims when the Sims 1 first came out (I think i was 6 years old), and have played 20+ years (I'm currently 28). I'm pretty stoked to start the process of attempting to create CC. Thank you for these thorough tutorials ❤.

[@AshkerNms]

Un ENORME merci à toi pour tous tes tutos ! Grâce à toi j'ai réussi mon premier mod propre !

[@brianmagana4478]

Thank you very much, Syboulette! I made a diffuse map by hand and it was very time consuming! 😭 This video helped me tremendously and inspired me to create more types of game items! I appreciate all of your help! Thank you!

[@connoromeara4717]

You are the best tutorial maker! Very detailed explaining. Thank you!

[@TheBeggarMaster]

God, you are a great teacher!!! really useful for a range of uses, not just for sims 4 CC, thank you! ❤

[@minimama666]

soooooooo helpful, this tutorial is really nice for beginners who have basic 3d knowledge but are not so familiar with blender, thanks a lot

[@marigabymicmartin8114]

Thank you !!! I found you after a long search, you are great at explaining, although you speak English and I understand Spanish a lot, thank you for your time and for sharing. New subscriber and a huge Like !!!!

[@WickedPixxel]

Thank you once again, much needed info. I look at a lot of blender tutorials trying to figure out how to texture.

[@KoshmanCreatures]

God, I am so excited I found you. Good CC tutorials are so few and far between. Thank you )

[@jorgearocha6766]

veery clear tutorial, every word and tip soo usefull! love your work!

[@hakrabr]

I love you so much! Love your tutorial! You explain everything not skip that or skip this!

[@Syboulette]

Thanks ! Glad to help ! ☺

[@sims4modernliving462]

Hello Syboulette, I find your tutorials absolutely excellent! Thank you so much for your work! I really understand everything you explain and can create some objects for myself. You are just great! Love @ Kisses, Romy

[@joereese1]

Outstanding! Keep them coming!

[@redrayvisuals]

Thank you very much... I just started learning all this 3D magic and this video was a very good overview for me. I have just one question: Substance Painter creates very realistic textures which may not be what you want for Sims4 cc in terms of maxis match. But I like that you can work so easily directly on the 3D model. Do you have a tip how to use Substance Painter for maxis match? Is it just a matter of choosing and configuring the materials or is there a way to create substance materials in realistic in turn them into something more maxis match like?

[@Syboulette]

Substance Painter can perfectly works for maxis match ! You just have to choose a environment map that have neutral and balanced lighting all around the item and not too contrasted light. If you join my discord I can share the one I use now that I do MM. As for the textures, it is much more difficult as you'll need to create them with masks and filters or get stylized textures instead of realistic ones (or even handpaint them !)

[@redrayvisuals]

@@Syboulette thank you for your explanations. This whole topic is very overwhelming for someone like me with not so much experience in 3D so these detailed answers are highly appreciated!

[@jarusims]

💗 awesome, thank you so much

[@blumbergnicole]

Great Tutorial! Very detailed!

[@krazykrissims]

Could you pleaseeee, pretty pretty please do a tutorial for a kitchen? It doesn’t need to be the entire kitchen, just the counters or the cupboards. I’m trying to model a kitchen set. I know all of the counters share the same I’ve map and you have to be a little meticulous on how you arrange the UV’s so the texture goes along seamlessly. Anyway, I’ve done all of that, looks perfect in blender but I CANNOT get the diffuse and AO maps to bake properly. I’ve created the counters using planes, with backface culling turned on and I made sure all of the normals are facing outward as they should. Still it bakes the Center faces black, pure black. I even turned off backface culling, didn’t matter. I played around with the lighting like crazy including the hdri lighting. It didn’t matter what I did it still bakes the same and idk where I went wrong or how to fix it and it’s driving me insane! Nowhere can I find a tutorial on kitchen counters and it sucks. If you could please do one that would be amazing! I’m sure it will be helpful for many many creators, especially beginners

[@lillystormz1065]

PLEASE HELP! When I enter render mode, the object is so dark idk, I can barely see it what to do.

[@leilapp8488]

Thank you so much for a very detailed tutorial.

[@purefoysgirl]

I got so far in and realized somehow I have no "bake" option in cycles render XD 🤡 But it was definitely a good learning experience!

[@Syboulette]

That's weird ! Join my discord if you want so we can check together your settings and see what's missing ! :)

[@Getsmart6230]

ugg my texture keep turing black has anyone else had this problem? when i go to inport it into the sim 4 studio

[@MeghanWaring]

As of 3.3 Node wrangler appears to just be bundled with Blender and your link is down

[@lillystormz1065]

hello, um at the hdri part i get stuck because when i check the world icon @9:38 my node editor is empty any advice?

[@lillystormz1065]

lol i found the answer, after pressing the world icon simply press the plus "+" button. THANKS for the tutorial Sybs

[@Syboulette]

@@lillystormz1065 You're welcome ^_^ Glad you found the answer !

[@wistyroamlands7495]

I came here trying to figure out how to assign textures to existing horse stencils and walked away with a phd in object texturing.

[@ashtongaddis5562]

hi yes... i just downloaded your sabine(?) bathroom set, and its not letting me put the tub in.. do i have to do something extra? and if so, what would that be?

[@Syboulette]

bb.moveobject on :)

[@ashtongaddis5562]

@@Syboulette and it’d still work?

[@Syboulette]

@@ashtongaddis5562 Yes ! :)

[@yvonnewahner1463]

Hallo, könntest du bitte die einzelnen schritte der "shift" tasten benennen? z.B was hast du gedrückt als du den "cube" auf einmal hattest...das konnte ich leider nicht vestehen...ich würde es sehr gern besser verstehen.

[@Syboulette]

hi ! I don't speak german i'm sorry ! Please come to my discord if you need help :)

[@Pouki8]

Hello, thanks for your videos, good tutorial. My CC are shine in the game sims 4 ! why ?

[@Syboulette]

Hi ! I would need more information about which cc you are talking about and picture, because it might come from your settigns ! please join my discord and go in the cc debug so we can look together what's wrong ! :)

[@Syboulette]

Sure here it is: discord.gg/as49FuVudB

[@KingBasieSims4]

If I'm creating a plain canvas for a painting that has no frame, does that mean I do t need to bake my mesh?

[@Syboulette]

Hi ! Not necesarily, you could do everything in photoshop or in a 2d editor software. Baking is interesting if you want to include shadows/lighing/bump texture inside your diffuse texture.

[@vonBerni]

Can u show us how u make a mirror? 🤗

[@Syboulette]

That will come in later tutorials :)

[@vonBerni]

@@Syboulette i have another problem. I follow ur live stream yet. With blender 2.76 but i dont have this s4 studio tool on the right side :/

[@Syboulette]

@@vonBerni You might need to install the right plugin. See this topic for more details: sims4studio.com/thread/8621/sims4studio-tools-option-appearing-blender

[@vonBerni]

@@Syboulette Okay, the s4studio is done. But i dont have the looptoop for the hole. I installed it with my blender. But when i open blender, i cant find them.. File - user preference - i search loop and i found the mesh. But i cand find it in blender to use it

[@Syboulette]

@@vonBerni Once you install the plugin, you need to save the user preference or it won't get saved next time you open blender. Once in blender, you need to be in edit mode to have the menu on the left tab

[@siggisn7885]

Cher Syboubou, merci pour tous les super tutos. J'ai beaucoup appris de cela. Cependant, j'ai un problème. Beaucoup de mes objets ou conversions semblent vitreux dans le jeu. Les ombres défilent. Pourquoi est-ce et pourrais-je changer cela?

[@Syboulette]

Bonjour ! Tu devrais rejoindre mon discord pour poser tes questions car c'est plus facile pour échanger et poster éventuellement des screenshots pour nous aider à trouver une solution ! Sinon d'après ta description, je me dis que peut être que tu n'as pas utilisé de modifier edge split pour rendre tes arrêtes nettes ?

[@siggisn7885]

@@Syboulette Cher Syboubou, Merci pour votre réponse rapide. Je veux dire les ombres dynamiques qui rendent certains objets translucides. Pacemaker a un tutoriel où vous devez changer les règles. Mais malheureusement toujours après chaque patch ou réparation du jeu. Existe-t-il un moyen d'empêcher complètement la transparence lors de la création ? Merci beaucoup 🥰

[@thendralmmm9329]

your model makeing and texturing videos all are awesome please you create assets of train simulator (railworks) 2020

[@qh22_rima]

boss!