Tutorials:Pool Tutorials

Overview

These tutorials are to help users create more interesting pools; many of the tutorials are there to enhance the look of a pool to make it more appealing, e.g. islands, aquariums and waterslides.

This section also covers other topics envolving water, such as creating water parks and making a lake swimmable.

What you will need

• Good knowledge of editing terrain heights
• No programs required excluding Sims 2

Tutorials

• Hair Recoloring Tutorial - Teaches how to recolour and manipulate Maxis texture to make new hair textures. This is the easiest technique, and this tutorial is written specifically for The Sims 2.

• Painting Realistic Hair - Not Sims 2 specific, but still quite useful if you want to handpaint hair.

• Painting Hair in Photoshop - Similar to the above (also not specifically for TS2) but goes into a bit more depth. Creates beautiful, realistic handpainted hair textures.

• Texturing Hair - Again, not for TS2, but does show using a 3D model similar to TS2. In this one you can see how the part, bangs, highlights and shadows work on the flat graphic and then wrap on the 3D mesh.

• Low Polygon Hair Texturing - Another good non-TS2 tutorial, this one specifically relating to texturing hair for low-poly hair models. It also looks like a simpler handpainting technique that someone might actually be able to do with a mouse, for straight, simple styles.

General Tips and Tricks

• There's some discussion on how to use Photoshop to create hair textures in this thread. The discussion starts at post #25 and continues on for a few posts. This little tutorial with pictures is basically showing the same thing, without the Clouds step, which adds all kinds of lovely waves.