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Introduction

Meshing in The Sims 3 at the moment is in the BETA stages and is currently not completely supported, however new advancements are being made every day; if you want to simply learn how to mesh then the latter tutorial will help you, if you wish to understand and understand how meshes work then you need to read the first tutorials.

What will I need?

You will need to download and install the following:

• S3PE by Inge & Peter
• S3OC by Inge & Peter
• Object Tools by WesHowe
• Meshing Utility
• UV Mapper
• A graphics editor: GIMP (Free, good if you don't want to spend too much money on improving your game), Photoshop (Pay, if you don't mind)

Tutorials

Understanding 3D Meshing

• 3D Meshing Part I - The basics of 3D meshing by Wes Howe
• 3D Meshing Part II - A Mesh by Wes Howe
• 3D Meshing Part III - Textures and UVs by Wes Howe
• 3D Meshing Part IV - The UV Map by Wes Howe
• 3D Meshing Part V - Holy Smoke, Joints! by Wes Howe
• 3D Meshing Part VI - Ready, Set, Go! by Wes Howe
• 3D Meshing Part VII - Organic Modeling by Wes Howe

Modifying a TS3 Mesh

• Modifying a TS3 Mesh - Modifying a TS3 Mesh by Wes Howe

Meshing Objects in TS3

• Meshing Objects in TS3 by DeluxeDesigns - Outdated
• A short guide to good clonable CAS objects (in progress). By buggybooz
• Converting Objects from Sims 2 to Sims 3 By Jonesi

• Converting objects from TS2 to TS3-Collecting mesh and Textures with Simpe by Cocomama
• Step-by-step Start-to-Finish HowTo mesh guide for TS3 by ellacharm3d
• Creating and Coloring Glass Texture in Sims 3 by orangemittens

Video Tutorials

• Basic Meshing Tutorial by Flabaliki

Meshing Tools

Plugins by WesHowe for meshing in Milkshape

• Milkshape Geom Plugins
• Blender Geom Plugins
• ObjectTool
• Blender Object Import/Export Scripts