Tutorials:TS4 GENCAS Tutorials

Clothing

• Simple Retexturing for Colormagic using GIMP by Sydney Grey at Sims4 Stuff N Things
• Simple Retexturing for Colormagic using Photoshop by Black Garden at Platinum Simmers

Toolbox Tutorials

• Colormagic GUIDELINES FOR MODDING TOOLS DEVELOPERS at Sims4 Stuff N Things

These tutorial relate to clothing, but are specific techniques, tools, and tips helpful to beginners and more experienced skinners alike, for trying something specific. Some of these tutorials may be written for Sims 2; however the same techniques can be used in Sims 4.

• Texture Glossary and Proper DXT Compression Types
• How to add shadows and highlights
• Texturing With the Smudge Tool
• Using Milkshape to Preview Body Shop Textures - this tutorial is written for Sims 2. You can find Sims 3 example bodies (required for previewing skintones) here.

• Creating fabric folds in Photoshop LINK BROKEN

Tools

• ColorMagic 5.0 by Granthes New in 0.5.0 is full support for the full The Sims 4 game as well as the CAS Demo.

• ColorMagic Instructions by Srikandi at Sims 4 Stuff N Things

• S4PE 0.1d with DDS Helpers enabled by Granthes The version of S4PE at simlogical is currently not supporting DDS/RLE file types that are needed for recoloring clothing items. Use this version instead until Kuree gets a chance to release a fixed version. (as of Aug 31, 2014)

• Sims 4 Modding Tools

TS4 CAS Modding Tools