In addition, since this changes the color of the entire image, you might lose some contrast, so select Image>Brightness/Contrast and use the sliders until you like the look. You may want to write down the color settings you choose. Just as with clothing recolors, the Image>Hue/Saturation, with the 'colorize' box checked, will give you a pretty wide range to choose from. Let's start with something simple (I went back to the original color for this step, BTW. This looks pretty strange, but you should get the idea. However, they're all needed if you want the entire hairdo to appear. Sometimes these textures are just the top and underside of each piece of the hair mesh, sometimes they're different pieces. Just to show you why there are so many different texture files, I took the three we have for this 'do and colored them vibrantly. Note also that the image size is 512x512 pixels, a quarter the size of a clothing texture file.

The nice thing is that in the simpler styles, the texture is the same for all the ages, so once you get to a new texture you like, all you have to do is 'Save As'.each one of these files. You can modify them, but their meshes are not the same, so the alphas and textures will be different as well, and need to be done separately) When you open the package in PhotoShop, you can see the number of texture files you're going to need to modify! (I didn't select the toddler ones here. Select your hair, then click on the button to import the texture (3). You can start with other colors if your end result will be closer to one of those colors. For recoloring a Maxis hairstyle, I will usually start with blonde, because it desaturates, leaving the strand details, better than the other colors, IMO.

Open up Body Shop, select 'Create Parts' and then 'Create Genetics'.įirst, click on the hair icon. The rest does not need putting back, cause they are mostly cache files that recreate or log files that are not needed for the game.Creating hair is pretty much the same as creating clothing, only you are often working with a more complicated mesh, with multiple layers, and each hair file contains multiple ages.

Mods (one by one, making sure they all still work).

ConfigOverride, if you have your own configuration files.

Custom content like clothing, hair, skins, make up.

Rest of the save games (leave out slot_00000001.save which is the autosave and no longer needed - if you still have it).

Options.ini (or just re-set all your settings manually).

If it still works, you can start putting stuff back. If it works, put back your save game and try again.

Try on a new game with nothing added back first (start new game). Just make sure to not delete any files and make a backup.Īfter renaming, repair your game by right clicking on the game in Origin.

Hi resetting your user files as described in the factory reset described in this post:

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