Hi there,

I really want to give this tutorial a try so I've read through the board and I have everything I need except I cannot download the DDS Utilities Installer.
It doesn't even start to download.. I click, and nothing happens. I've looked around on google for it somewhere else but can't seem to find it anywhere.

Could anyone help and point me in the right direction? I wanted to make sure I read the boards and had everything so I could (hopefully) not bother anyone with questions! lol

Thanks

You can get the "Legacy DDS Utilities" HERE
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/...ies_legacy.html
The download is on the bottom, and it works fine, I've tested it.

Hi Mary Lou thanks for replying!

I had tried that link all day on and off with no luck, tried again before I came here to check the boards tonight and it worked! Yay!

Now hopefully I can give this a try in the next few days..

There was something I was wondering though if anyone can help before I begin. If an object is partly transparent, can it be recoloured as a solid colour?
There are a couple of things I have that are partly transparent that I'd love to make solid but if it can't be done I don't want to waste my time trying on those kinds of objects.

Thanks again for the quick response!

I think it depends on the object and how it is made. In general, if the translucent part is recolorable, you can probably make it solid.

Is there any way to know if an object by Maxis is completely unrecolourable? I've been looking everywhere for a recolour of the Tempest Cooktop used in restaurants, and noone's made one. Now I've tried this tutorial and nothing is coming up in the subset selection window.

xxbaby69,

Have you checked out Numenor CEP's document download to see if it's supported?
If unsupported, may ask Numenor to see if he can make it so.

THANKS A MILLION! I have been trying to figure this out for a few days and I was finally guided to your tutorial.

First of all, thank you very much for this tutorial! I have succesfully recoulered the ceilinglamp! But when I wanted to recouler more things, I started Simpe up again -> object workshop -> clicked on start -> and when everything was loaded, I saw that less objects were showed. I didn't see the whole list. For example, when I clicked on the chairs, there was just one chair to recouler?! So I closed Simpe and started it up again but still the same problem. Then I unstalled Simpe and downloaded and installed it again and I got the full list again but today I started object workshop again and I got the short list with just a few items! Am I doing something wrong? Or is it my computer?

It seems like something modifies your File Table... When this problem happens again, go to Extra -> Preferences -> File Table and be sure that all your EPs are selected (if you have some "Stories" games, remember that you can't select them at the same time as the normal EPs). If the file table isn't correct, click the link "reset File Table" and restart SimPE.

Hey, Great Tutorial mate . Ive recoloured a sofa and when i load the package back up the recolour is there but when i go into buy mode in TS2 my recolour is not available to pick, can you give me pointers as to what i need to do?
Cheers

for some reason when I'm at the part where you have to change the texture (export it) it doesn't automatically pop up. how do I get there?

If you mean the "Subset selector" shown at the end of Step 2 (Image), it appears only if the object has two recolourable parts. If there is only one part that can be recoloured, SimPe just creates the package, as shown in step 3.

Thanks! Simpe works fine again! :D

Thanks!
 

Wow! This tutorial was so helpful! I didn't think I would be successful as I was. There were some coloring issues, but I understand what I did wrong and will fix it in my next go-around! Once again, thank you so much!

OK I have made my object...a chair. Done everything and it is showing up in game but when you look at the object unless it is close up it reverts back to the original object. When it is close up it looks like I want it to look. So help is needed. What am I doing wrong? I read through about 3 pages of newer posts and I have the tutorial printed out but there is no way to read all this thread..lol.

edit:
I figured it out. I was trying to skip the dds builder part.

when I try to download the CEP thing, it says"Corrupted File'! Can you help me please !

The file servers are busy. Retry downloading.

ok my problem is i want to recolor a mesh that is a sims2pack how do i do that if i actually can do that and where do i start im so confused

The Sims2pack files are only containers for .package files (that in turn contain the actual mesh). You have to extract the packages contained in the sims2pack using the Clean Installer or SimPE (Tools -> Package tools -> Open Sims2pack).
As a last resort, you could just install the Sims2pack by double-clicking on it, and then go find the extracted packages into rhe Downloads folder.

My testing is here...



Still messy up ;_; and I notice that the light yellow area is a bit smaller than red color area. Is that the problem to me?

I've been trying to create an object cloned off the Bella Squared painting, not changing the mesh or anything, just uploading new textures. The cloning process seemed to go okay, but when I went to add a recolor to the new object I ran into a snag. I tried to just create a recolor of the Bella Squared painting, in case I made a mistake with the cloning and that was the problem, but both times the same thing happened:



Once I choose the 'yes recolor' option the save file box would pop up and I'd create a new file okay, but once I clicked 'save' this would happen. The window has only a checkbox and the OK button, which remains ghosted. The only way to get out of the window is to hit 'X' and then it just creates an empty object with no sub-files.

I've cleared out the cache a couple times to no avail, every time the same thing happens. Any clue as to what I'm doing wrong?

Hi there,

as the person just above my post, I too am having a similar problem. except when I chose a location to where I wish to save the file, an empty object is created and nothing pops up or there is nothing in the package. I have tried to clone an object to this way and they same thing happens. What shall I do? I didn;t know who to ask and I am trying to recolour again. I have no idea how I use to do it since I haven;t made recolours in a long time now and since then I have forgotten how to. I know one thing, I never had this problem before.

Can you help? You can reply to the person above me and I will read that one too since it sounds like the same problem.

Thanks

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j...mPE_Problem.jpg

sorry, i have a little problem. i have done every thing here, and the texture recolor appears in my game. but when i zoom out, my texture fades back to the original one...

numenor, do you have to use The "Legacy" Nvidia DDS Utilities. and i have the newer version of sim pe for kitchen and bath but i still dont know how to recolor objects;. plz qoute this hummer ruler

YamiTami, Rorydx4 - I think there is a problem with the CEP: reinstall it and be sure that in the SimPE file table (Extra -> Preferences -> File Table) the CEP checkbox is active.



LilKumo - Probably you didn't use the "Build DXT" function; if I'm wrong, and you used it, remember to COMMIT as soon as the texture is imported: when using the "Build DXT" function, you DON'T have to "Update all sizes".


Hummerruler - There's a link to the "Legacy DDS Utilities" at the beginning of the tutorial (in the "What you need" section). And look at the screenshot to see how to configure SimPe, in order to use the DDS utilities.
If you have more problems, with specific parts of the tutorial, you're welcome to ask in this thread, but remember to give as many details as possible.