Now you need to either refit or make your mesh in Milkshape. I usually use AMHairBalding as it's always worked without hassle - it does not matter if you use a different age/gender than what you're making!Ĭhoose Extract Meshes and save somewhere you can find them. DABOOBS only does hatless hairs so you'll need to choose a normal hair that doesn't have hair ties or hats or anything like that as your base. Choose the mesh you want to use as a base. In the dropdowns, choose Age, Gender, and Hair. If you're transferring a mesh from TS2 to TS3, you'll need to extract the mesh and textures first. Smaller sizes are provided to make this page load fast, and be easy to read. Instructions are given for Photoshop CS3 - you may have to do some Googling for tutorials and tips on making it work in your program of choice.Īll images below can be clicked for a full-size version. DDS Plugins for Photoshop, GIMP, Paint Shop Pro, or whichever program you use to edit graphics - For creating and editing the textures you will need to make.Example Bodies and Faces - To use in scaling and aligning your mesh.NET 3.5 - Required for DABOOBS, CTU, and QADPE. Unimesh Plugin for Milkshape - For multi-weighting if you're doing a hair that's any longer than the back of the neck.msAlignNormals Plugin for Milkshape - To, um, align normals.Q-Mesh GEOM Plugin for Milkshape - To be able to import and export.These get put in your Program Files\MilkShape 3D 1.8.5\ folder Milkshape - You will need the 1.8.5 BETA version.QADPE - To peek inside files you've already made to get the instances for existing DDS files, so you don't have to duplicate them for other ages/genders.SimPE - If you are converting a TS2 mesh to TS3.CTU - To grab one of the game's meshes to import so you have a basic skeleton, and to look at the game's original textures.
DABOOBS - For packaging up your hair mesh and making it unique.There's a lot of it, but it's all fairly small. You need to get and install ALL of this before you start. wait for other people to figure this stuff out and explain it better. If the challenge doesn't scare you, read on. It's complicated, it's hard, it's frustrating, and some things we just don't know enough about to tell you the right way to do it. It has no hand-holding and no big red arrows. Instead, it is is geared toward people who were already working on hair for TS2 and just want to convert their stuff or get started on making new stuff for TS3. This is a VERY BASIC overview of how to make TS3 hair. 3.1 Extract (For Converting - Optional).
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