https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=622787 Why when I copy filename and replace it it doesn't say what it should say in filename and instead the caption doesn't change and is the same v filename despite replacing the file
and in the end the result is like this I don't want it to be like this but to have long and voluminous hair but this is what I get in Bodyshop why? What to do https://imgur.com/km37Mgk
to show in the Filename the name of my 5gd file? https://imgur.com/78mhrFj Why is not showing the name of my 5gd file in the Filename in simpe?

Copy filename in the "filename" box, THEN replace with your file, THEN paste filename in the "filename" box, click "commit".
The tutorial has VERY CLEAR instructions to do this, even with pictures.

Also, the file you're replacing with (if you've made any edits at all), shouldn't have that name if it comes from Milkshape (it will have whatever name you've given the file). You're replacing it with an exact copy of something you've probably just extracted.

I wanted to make this hair more voluminous
but why is this happening? Where im WRONG?

Since I have lengthened my hair and made it thicker with these settings , what should I do?

Please someone to answer me

@zlatin15 Someone will answer you when they are able to, there is no need to keep posting.

I've already had a mile-long (8 pages) forth and back with this person (Anonymous, and various other identities, btw) on a different site about this hair, and the main problem is that they're not properly reading the tutorial (or replies), or perhaps just picking bits and pieces without going step by step. Whenever I've asked "did you do this?" they keep answering something entirely different, or seem clueless as to whether it's even a step in the tutorial.

I gave up, because after the 8 pages I was still unsure if they understood the difference between a mesh and a recolor file (several recolor files were named "mesh" and mesh files were named "recolor", and would upload two identical mesh files where one was just named "recolor", instead of one of each, and similar inconsistencies). They also kept asking the same questions, uploaded unnecessary pictures (pictures from the tutorial, or "I want this but it looks like this" for maybe the 5th time is not really doing much - I think I got it by the first or second time), and uploaded files that weren't any useful for diagnosing (I could only see what hadn't been done, which included most of the tutorial steps, so no wonder the hair wasn't working). I think out of all the files they uploaded, only a few had anything done with them (one had a successful "fix integrity" but nothing else, one had a texture changed, and a single Milkshape/export file had an edited mesh - but if it's the first hair they want to make a new version of, they've edited the wrong mesh...).

I even gave them a full "what to do with the files you have now" rundown with a successful hair at the end, using those last files (was a very quick edit, not by any means a finished set of hair files), but it doesn't look like they read and/or understood it, just asked me to send the files (which I'm not going to do, because wanting a piece of CC is the best teacher for learning to make that piece of CC, but also because pretty much all previous trials to help this person with their many projects have mostly also failed and I'm a tad bit annoyed at this point).

So it's not particularly easy to figure out what to help with when the answer is "the whole tutorial".

Could be an issue with understanding, though - lost in translation, maybe?

Copy of my last few replies (if you still have the same files - if not, good luck)


Following those steps with those exact files should get you a working adult female hair file combo (other ages will still be missing, but can be made and then replaced the same way).

The tutorial says that you need to replace the GMDC in the "simpe.package" with the 5gd file (or at least that's what it looks like in the picture) and you're telling me that you need to replace it with the "milkshapemesh.simpe"
Lastly?

Because I'm replacing it with a 5gd file, is that why I'm not getting the result? Should I replace the file with milkshapemesh.simpe?

You can't replace it with -any- 5gd file. You need to replace it with the mesh file you've EXPORTED from Milkshape, the one you've been EDITING.

(by default, Unimesh saves as ".simpe" format when you export it, but you can export as ".5gd" by writing a filename and then ".5gd" - example: "yourfilename.5gd". There's no need, as the ".simpe" format works fine between Milkshape and SimPE)

If you still have the "milkshapemesh.simpe" file you uploaded, that's the only one that actually had an edited mesh in it. So yes, you can use that one.

Instead of showing a picture from the tutorial (again) - show a picture from what YOU are doing on YOUR computer, where YOU have problems. Much more helpful.

(And please, for the love of sanity, stop double/triple-posting everywhere! There's an edit button. Use it!)

"Also, the file you're replacing with (if you've made any edits at all), shouldn't have that name if it comes from Milkshape (it will have whatever name you've given the file). You're replacing it with an exact copy of something you've probably just extracted."
then in the picture from the tutorial why is this name?

Absolutely no idea, because I didn't make that tutorial. Could be they just highlighted it as "use the 5GD file you exported from Milkshape". (Maybe they even pointed out the wrong file in the picture - I don't know, but it looks like the "ponytail" file would've been a more likely Milkshape export).

Don't get so hung up in exactly what the files are named in the tutorial. You'll most likely use different names for your files, anyway.

Export the finished mesh from Milkshape, and use THAT file to replace the GMDC in SimPE (plus fixing the file name and all that). That's the point of this step.

I'm already doing it the way it should be with .simpe file and not with 5gd but still no change in the hair why is that? Do i have to do fix integrity?
Because I did it.
Or is it no longer necessary?

I'm talking about YOUR files. The ones you sent on Mediafire (over at MLD). If you still have the three files I specified in the quote, and do what I said, you'll have a working file.

If you start messing around with other files (again), I don't know what the result will be, and I guarantee nothing.

Also, check the files in the "Create sim" part of Bodyshop, not in the projects. The project files will usually look wrong and can be deleted after use (the file you're supposed to work with is in SavedSims when you've imported it to the game).

Like I've said several times, you'd benefit from fully reading through the tutorial a few times...

this shows i dont want this Why is it that what I'm trying to do doesn't work?

Can you write EXACTLY what you've done with the files, step by step?
And are you using the files with the names above, or different files?

(and no, posting a picture of the failed experiment - again - isn't much helpful. I've seen that same one enough times now, and already told you what was wrong. It's using the original mesh - either because you haven't replaced the mesh/GMDC in the mesh file, or because it's not properly linked to the mesh file you want to use. Quite likely both...).

I did everything described in the tutorial without Fix ingtegrity (should I have done that too)
And no i use other files

Why doesn't it work?

Could you log into my computer through a program and do what I'm trying to do but can't? Help me?

If you're using other files, then you're probably back to square one.
Doing what I said with those three files would've at least gotten you a working result...

If you're still trying to do the tutorial, do "fix integrity" ONCE, on the MESH, just after you've extracted the mesh resources with SimPE. Pretty sure the tutorial tells you to do that, too. If you're not doing that step, there's no new mesh file, and no hair.

Then on the site where you banned me, why did you tell me to "fix integrity" twice?

Where should I do a fix integrity? Here or here?

Mesh file. It's the one that contains meshes/GMDCs.
If you still can't spot the difference between a mesh file and a recolor file, you can't possibly have read properly through the tutorial...

I've never told you to do "Fix integrity" twice on the same mesh file. I've only ever told you to do it once.
(if you haven't done "fix integrity" to the mesh file, do it. If you have done "Fix Integrity" to the mesh file, don't do it again).

Now i do "fix integrity" to the mesh file but why this is the result?