- ... Hushhh, My Love!

Testing a new pet! Thank you so much @dustyratt for the beautiful monsters <3

VTF baking small guide

The Valve Texture Format (VTF) is the proprietary texture format used by the Source engine. In case some of you might want to convert mdl files for Sims 4.

I firstly discovered this problem a long time ago. I was just about to snap a bake button when I saw that the texture is half-transparent in the UV editor. Model is different but the texture looked something like it:

"Why? How? The model looks fine. It has no visible transparency." It does indeed, but when you try baking VTF something strange happens. Baked texture looks like someone lowed down the brightness and half of it gone completely black. So how do we avoid baking transparency channel? Quite simply, honestly.

Save all the VTF textures you are going to bake in TARGA (TGA) format. Why not png / jpeg? Because only a TGA format preserves the transparency channel we need. Another way of doing it - use VTF Edit utility.

Open our exported TGA in Photoshop (or any other image editor that can work with channels)

Go to channels. What do we have here? An alpha channel. This is what cause our texture to darken. Simply delete it.

Now you can save edited texture in any format comfortable to work with.

/ WIP on early stage \ Another monster from the Witcher 3 \ Me watching the alpha part suddenly disappear underwater 👁👄👁

SimFileShare download link is available now 🎉

Halloween gift - Arvak

fullbody outfit (body + mane)

for horses

15 + 15 swatches

all LODs | Normal + Specular | no morphing

custom thumbnails

HQ compatible

"Horse Ranch" DLC is required

TES: Skyrim conversion | Note: this outfit most likely will not support any default saddle or bridle.

DOWNLOAD (free)

SFS (free)

Percival Faust Morgan 🦇

I think now is the time for you to stop pretending like nothing's going on with your country and start using your voice and your platform, and also send some love to its-adrienpastel. Your community is honesty pathetic, especially after all the noise you made with my wedding stories.

Hi there! It's so sweet of you to remain anonymous. Would you take some of your precious time to scroll down my posts a little bit? Or did you see "russian" in my bio and it worked as a red cloth to a bull? Well done.

I'm against this war with all my heart. I have friends, family members who live there, how could I possibly be silent? Not sure why you only mentioned one person, (who I'm not going to support anymore since his blog turned out to be more hateful than I personally can tolerate) when there are so many other sims creators whose homes are under fire right now. Unlike you I understand that people here mostly like us - we don't need to prove them something as they already know how the things are going. The real Russian war supporters never ever been in Tumblr (or even in the internet...) since they're usually 40+ years old. Still, if they somehow will see all these Ukrainian support posts they never change their minds. Unfortunately, it is not how it works.

My parents are one of them. But I am not. When I tried to talk to them, they didn't even want to listen. They interrupted my speech and called me a homeland traitor instead. I'm pretty sure you never faced this problem, but it is typical difference between ages in our country. Do you consider yourself as a hero pointing on us as some bunch of idiots who needs to be shamed first to do something? Next time you're going to accuse someone, please, think twice.

If someone is interested, the way you can get your finished render scene is quite simple. First, you'll need a reference. Sims 4 is the best way of getting it most precise. You enter the game - do what you want and then make an objects / textures transfer. In fact, you'll have to recreate the scene twice - once being in the game, second being in the Blender.

In game reference / rendered

These are my two WIPs

The release will be right after everything is finished!

Character archetype selection card

*may change it look through the time (because you know, there is always something to be changed) ((I want that magic thing to be black soo bad))

Check out my lesson how to turn your sims into drawings

Older versions are saved so I can pick up the best features from each in the future

!!! UPDATE !!!

TO THIS POST

CAS PREVIEW PICTURES ADDED

All links have been updated. This update is cosmetic only and not necessary for mods to work properly. Redownload CAS files if you want it to have all new custom icons.

Redownload link SFS / PATREON

Also there is small fix to Nightmare Painting

OBJECT SIZE FIXED

NORMAL MAP FIXED

FILE SIZE REDUCED

Redownload link GOOGLE DRIVE

Halloween gift - Arvak

fullbody outfit (body + mane)

for horses

15 + 15 swatches

all LODs | Normal + Specular | no morphing

custom thumbnails

HQ compatible

"Horse Ranch" DLC is required

TES: Skyrim conversion | Note: this outfit most likely will not support any default saddle or bridle.

DOWNLOAD (free)

SFS (free)