For anyone who doesn't see why you need Blender 2.70 when Blender 3.50 is out and infinitly better/easier to use, you actually CAN use 3.50 or any version you want to MODEL the object, you simply need to have 2.70 installed and have it set as your path in Sims 4 Studio so that you can 1. Export the meshes from S4S to use as reference (because S4S will ONLY export the mesh to work on if you have Blender 2.70 installed and set as your Blender path in S4S), 2. Import the finished object into 2.70 to save it as a 2.70 .blend file even though you made and exported the object from (let's say) Blender 3.50
This is honestly the best CC tutorial there is for Sims. I could not find anyone else showing how to make furniture or anything other than clothes, and I'm brand new to this so I had no idea where to begin. Now I just made my first table using your tutorial and I love it! Please make more tutorials!!!
Ok I'm not gonna lie, I didn't know a lot about blender and it took me a lot of time doing the same thing ahah I faced so many problems omg BUT I made it and learn a lot of things! Thanks :)
This is the most useful and easy to follow tutorial I’ve come across!! Thank you so much for posting! I’m a maya native, so not only did you teach me how to make CC, you gave me my first ever blender lesson too!! :)
@@neeniesims9980 Ok, cool!🥰 I’ve just started learning Maya. And a few classmates of mine say that blender is much more intuitive and easy. But maybe it’s all about what you learn first and that becomes preferable☺️
@@happilyeveralien it also depends on what you want to do for work. I am 3D modeler on animated feature films and Maya is the standard at all the studios!
I’m very new to all of this, and this is the first tutorial that didn’t go too fast, and made sense with the way my brain works. Thank you! Now I’m actually off to a start.
I’m not sure why I love watching these tutorials even though I already know everything you mention. Either way they’re really great and I wish I would’ve found your tutorials when I started creating cc
Omg man! You just solved my biggest problem that I was trying to find solution to. Weird shadows in the corners because the edges are not split. I love you 😁
When making the base of the table, you could of just added a Solidify Modifier to it to increase it's thickness. Then apply the modifier and you've got your base. It's much quicker and the walls keep an even thickness.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! After following it (with lots of pausing and rewinding), I was able to successfully recreate this table. This was the first time I've worked in Blender, and I'm looking forward to working with it some more to try and create something of my own! 😃
This stuff in general is pretty difficult when you’re not used to it but I managed to make my own table, albeit I did add some of my own creative flair in the process. Thank you very much for this. In future can you do sit down style videos like this where you walk us through how to make more complicated objects? Thank you!
Omg! Edge Split! I was having so much trouble with my models and lighting! I’ve been messing about think it was a texture problem, turns out I didn’t split the edges of my models! Thank you
Something else I want to add, in my case the table wasn't updating at all, and after asking some other people, I found that you want to copy the cut numbers from the original table and apply it to the one you made as well. In my case they were blank and that's why the model wasn't updating in S4S
Hi, I am studying industrial design so I already have 3d modeled furnitures, I was wondering if I could convert the file type or something and use them in the sims 4. What do you suggest?
It should be fairly simple. You just need to use Sims 4 Studio then create a package file of the base object (If you want to convert over a chair, you'd create a package file of an existing chair, etc) then export that chair mesh for Blender, then open that Blend file then import your own mesh onto it. After that you'd just need to adjust the scale probably, just have to make sure you combine your mesh with the original chair mesh's "object" if that makes sense.
Hi, just wanted to ask if you had any luck with this and if so, how? I too am an industrial design student and I work well in most CAD programs but I find blender near impossible to use. Any help would be great!
@@ematkins637 Hi! I too am an Industrial Design major :^D! I'm not sure how helpful it is, but here's a quick tutorial I found showing how to convert a Rhino 6 (.3dm) file into something a little more Blender friendly (Sorry if you use AutoCAD, idk her). In theory, you should probably just be able to pop your model in and go, but you may have to do some fiddling. Good luck! www.studiorola.com/tutorials/miscellaneous/bringing-rhino-files-into-blender-3d/
I did find this table useful P: thanks for the tutorial I just start exploring this new CC and mod things and you helped me understand more how to manipulate blender, just one question, doing this replace the original table or it's a whole new item in game?
If you select "Create 3D Mesh" or "Selective Clone" when creating the package file, it will create a whole new object in the game, if you do "Override" it will replace it! Hope that helps!
You probably know this by now, but the reason for using shadow maps is game performance. If you don't have maps for each item created, the game's lighting engine would have to perform many more calculations, and it would lag the game quite quickly.
Agreed. He never explained how to open the saved MESH from S4Studio in Blender. Also, he is speaking way too fast. At first I thought he was saying Shift + V or Shift + B, but he was saying Shift + D (duplicate). He really needs to slow it down some the viewer can understand his words and also move through the program with him. I love this guy's Maxis match cc, but I will find another tutorial as this one is not good.
Need a bit of help at the 16:44 mark. I'm making a bathtub, and I've imported the new mesh, but the old mesh is embedded in it. I swear I deleted the old mesh from the blend file, so I'm kinda at a loss. Did I miss a step that's specific to tubs? Edit: So, I figured out that I used the wrong cut number. Fixed that, but now I can't import the texture. I made sure it's 1024x1024 pixels, but it still spits up the 'System.NotImplementedException' error. It's a DDS file, it's the right size, but it's still whining about... something. Edit 2: Okay, so I had to import a PNG instead of a DDS??? Why does this particular package require PNGs when other packages accept DDS? I'm thoroughly confused, but hopefully this can help others who encounter similar problems.
20:15 "Performance Friendly" is an interesting assertion, here. Builders for the game are asked to use as few wallpapers as possible, because use of many different wallpapers causes slow performance (as noted by James Turner during his build for the Volkov family in Moonward Mill. 12:05 if you want to check). If you build homes which are large, or complex, it causes slowed performance both because of the number of objects, and the pathing considerations by Sims; this has been repeatedly reported as especially heinous for console users. The game limits family size due to performance issues, which begs the question for why it spawns so many single-family joggers in neighborhoods. There's all sorts of recommendations to delete files to improve performance because the game doesn't do it by itself. Anyway I appreciated the tutorial, immensely. I just disagree with The Sims being performance-friendly.
This tutorial was so great i finally get blender. But can you please do a tutorial on spectular maps mostly on shine. Because my cc is weird and shiny. But i want shine on some parts. And i just don't get is
I'd love to do a more in-depth tutorial soon with Normal Maps & Specular Maps included at some point in the future. So many things I want to do but so little time!
Hi Lisa, You could also go to Sims Resource and there is a really good spec map creater tutorial done by Sim Man which should help you with that. Shine is really tricky in the sims 4 I still suck at it lol
How do you make sure that when you make a pack with items that the colours match? And can you do a tutorial on slots? I really find your tutorials so usefull, so I really hope you would make more, like a basic plus or something!
Hey, I was wondering If it is necessary to use Blender for this or if i could use another software and if that is possible, what Other softwares are possible?
There are other programs out there for UV unwrapping the one I use is UV Mapper Pro. Really great and easy easy program if you are just starting out with meshing :-)
Awh, yeah, I had a hard time wrapping my mind around UVs at first too. It is an art form in of itself. It helps to think of the UV as the wrapping that goes around a present. Just like with gift wrapping, you want to keep the wrapping snug and tight over the box without wrinkles or warping. When you place down your texture, you don't want it to look stretched and you want the cuts (where the texture ends) being in practical places. For example, think of cuts like seam lines on clothing, you want to hide them as much as possible so it isn't obvious there are breaks in the texture pattern. A great aid in texturing is using the black and white checker pattern that Blender will automatically generate for you in the material settings (you'll have to look up how to do this exactly). When you place down the checker pattern, you want no distortion with the squares. They shouldn't look rectangular, stretched, or distorted. If you get too much distortion, then you need to change where you've placed your cuts (seam lines) or add more cuts. There are lots of RU-vid videos out there that go more in-depth. Words can only help so much, sometimes it is better to see what you must do. Keep practicing with it, you'll get more comfortable with it over time. You also learn more by your own experience with practicing.
Hi! I have installed blender but when I click export mesh in sims 4 studio it just says couldn't find blender. Do you want to installet it yes or no? what should I do?
Hey Josh, this was a great video and I thank you a lot for showing us how you do things! However I've run into an issue that I can't seem to figure out; when I try to export an object's mesh, the Studio saves it as a .blend file and tries to open (??) Blender on its own, which just results in some kind of crash. What exactly is going on I don't know, however when I try to open the file myself all that appears to be exported are lamps and the camera..... lol? There's no literally no trace of the models (not even an empty layer or anything), and I've tried this out with multiple objects, none of which turned out properly. Do you perhaps have some kind of idea of what's going on? Could there be an issue with versions of things? I feel really silly because no one seems to have this kind of problem or mentions anything about possible compatibility issues ;;;; Edit: Forgot to add that I don't get any kind of error or anything; just the notif that "Blender has stopped working." :|
I wish I could help further, but I have no clue what could be going on. Sometimes Sims 4 Studio does glitch while exporting and when I go to open it, it's just a base file, but if I try re-exporting, it works fine. Make sure you're using Blender 2.70a and that Sims 4 Studio is using the correct executable too. You can check by going into Sims 4 Studio > Settings > Blender Path and make sure it's set to the blender.exe inside your 2.70 folder
I had the same problem, and I did what Illogical said and it works now ^^ The issue was that I had 2 different versions of Blender installed in different folders, so I changed the Blender path inside my 2.70 folder, thank you so much!
Why does the cube move on an angle when i am shaping it. Rather than straight down only half of the cube moves. I am following this video while trying to create this same object. Please help.
I followed the tutorial pretty closely, but I somehow managed to have the original table still in my new mesh after importing it to the studio. Even though there's no sign of the old one on blender....
When you say "We can now delete the original table"(s4studio_mesh_1), and then you delete the duplicate (s4studio_mesh_0.001) of the original table, are you doing, or are you saying, the wrong thing? So I know if I'm supposed to do what you say, or do what you do :) Or did I completely miss any steps? 😩 Love that you made the tutorial though!
Edit: I figured it out, had to move object present a side, join them and deleted the present one. ^ ^ Got it to work. My mesh isn't updating in sims4 studio, I made a decoration egg by using a dog statue as a base, I deleted the statue in blender and trying to upload the blend file ( which is the egg) into it, it's not doing any changes and I don't know why. :c
I am trying to use Blender for the first time and am having trouble with the A then X step. As soon as I press A to delete vertices, the texture shows up in back ground of the left axis then covered the cube I place. I dont know if im saving the mesh wrong from S4S or what but I can not find a way to remove it. Do you know where I might be going wrong?
i'm kinda stuck in the unwrapping the object :" is it normal to have the object like a spiderweb instead of rectangle and square like yours? since i the table that i made have a different style than yours
The hotkeys youre using either are not working for me or not doing what yours is doing.. Im so confused. I really thought making a rectangle for a wooden chest would be simple but now im just mad lol i somehow managed to get the rectangle the right size and everything but cannot for the life of me get the mesh started. Pressing E does not do anything in that window and i just cant figure it out 😩
This tutorial is really great and easy to follow but I've a problem, when I try to import the new mesh, I see sims 4 studio loading but whe it disappear, nothing happend, the mesh don't change, HELP PLEASE !
I suspect it's an issue to do with the mesh 'cuts'. Make sure when you're replacing the mesh of a particular piece of furniture, you edit existing mesh 'objects' and not delete them. Simply delete the meshes you don't want that are in the s4studio_mesh_# objects in Edit Mode, then combine your own object with the emptied s4studio_mesh object and it should solve your problem. When you completely delete an object (one of the s4studio_mesh_# objects) and go to import the mesh back into Sims 4 Studio, it thinks it can't find anything, resulting in no changes being made, even if you have your own objects in the blend file, as it has no cut data so it's invisible to Sims 4 Studio.
Need help! Would you be able to guide me to a tutorial that shows how to change the height an existing door/door frame? Basically I'd like to change the height of an existing door frame that came with Island Living to be taller for medium and large size walls
I wish I could help. I don't think I've seen a specific door tutorial before for changing wall heights. I'm going to guess it involves cloning a medium/tall door then replacing the mesh with the tall version of the island Living door you made
@@IllogicalSims I didn't make a door, I am talking about a door frame that came with the island living pack; the bermuda triangle double archway. I'd like to convert it for medium and tall walls. Is there a tutorial you could suggest that would show me how to do this do you know?
Omg such an amazing tutorial!!!! I just have one question. My object appears to have weird shadows around it, how do I get rid of it? Is it related to bump or spec maps? Do I just simply import blank ones just like you did?
If the shadows you're talking about are on the floor, you need to adjust the flat meshes that are on the floor in blender. If they're in random areas floating around the mesh, it means you have to change the Shadow LODs in Sims 4 Studio Meshes tab to be the same as your new object. Hope this helps.
IllogicalSims thx for replying! The shadows are just floating weirdly around my object, do you mind telling me more on changing the shadow lord, cause I’m not quite sure. I just imported the blend with cut numbers 0 for shadow lod
When you make the Shadow LODs, you delete all the meshes except the actual object, so you'd delete all the flat meshes which are the drop shadows, then change the cut number of the object itself to 0, before importing that version to the Shadow LODs.
I think you do, mainly because Sims 4 Studio requires the game files to be able to clone objects from the game to create CC with, but I'm not 100% sure. I know that's how it works for packs though. Only objects from the packs you own appear in Sims 4 Studio
Pleas could you do a tutorial on how to make doors? I’m trying to make thinner ones as I hate how wide the sims doors are and how they clip through fences and stair rails and how if they’re in a corner of a room, part of the frame gets removed, I’ve been trying for a couple hours now but can’t do it 😭
You people having trouble following this, go and play with blender for a while first. It's got a lot of keyboard shortcuts which you need to be a bit familiar with =]
Does it do it for all the other options too? Recolour etc. It's possible that it can't locate your Sims 4 files, since it requires the game files to get object data from. Go to Settings > Sims 4 Path and check if it's set to the correct destination.
How are you moving the screen to view different angles? and how to move the platform higher so its the top of the table, cuz its just at the bottom and i cant move it up
Hello! I've been trying to find this info everywhere but i can't seem to find any so i figured id ask. Is it possible to create stuff un Maya or ZBrush, do the uv mapping and textures and import that into the game as CC WITHOUT having to go through the Sims Studio or TSR Workshop??
Hi and thank you for the helpfull tutorial. I have made a dresser by taking a sims mesh. But my surfaces to put things on are different than the original. So I can place objects in the dresser only on original surfaces, and not on the new ones. How can I define the properties of a surface, so that I can put objects on it? Can you help me? Thank you much! Kind regards, Romy
It's fairly simple to fix! Sims 4 Studio has a built-in "Slot Editor" and it's main purpose is to deal with clutter slots. There's a tutorial (with screenshots) on the Sims 4 Studio website! sims4studio.com/thread/4420/use-sims-studios-slot-editor
I'm not fully sure what it could be, but it might be that Sims 4 Studio can't find your Blender.exe location. You can set it manually by going into Settings > Blender Path. If not, you may have to look around the Sims 4 Studio forums for help with your error message
Hello, I tried following your tutorial but it just seems like when I export the meshes from the studio, they don't open in blender. Like you have on the right handside - Lamp 1-4 and s4studiomesh_0 etc, for me only the lamps show up. I tried with different objects from different paths. I use blender 2.79. Please help me!
Make sure to use Blender 2.70 for Sims CC, since newer versions aren't fully supported by Sims 4 Studio, but even then, the objects should atl east be opening, even in newer version.. Have you tried reinstalling Sims 4 Studio?
@@IllogicalSims Thank you so much! I deleted blender 2.79 and intalled 2.76, then reinstalled Sims 4 Studio and it worked! Thank you so much for your help!!
