MTS2:Creator Guidelines/Sims 3 Objects/Sandbox2 - Revision history

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 =Creating your object=
-{| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="margin-top:10px;background-color:#EFF6F7"
+{| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="margin-top:10px;background-color:#EFF6F7;"
 ! <h3 style="margin:0;background-color:#D0E4E5;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Meshes - reasonable poly counts </h3>
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-{| class="collapsible wikitable" style="width:100%"
+{| class="collapsible wikitable" style="width:100%;text-align:right;"
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 ! style="text-align:left;background-color:#D0E4E5;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;" | Appropriate Specular/Multiplier (*)

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 *''Deco objects'' such as books, small ornaments, etc. can be a combination of overlays/stencils and castable colours.
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	Meshing is fun and absorbing, but a good mesh needs a good texture to look good in game, especially if you are trying to keep polygon counts low. You need to make sure that your textures are crisp and clear. There shouldn't be any blurriness or pixellation to your textures. They should look as clear and crisp as textures from the game (or better!). If you're using an image for texturing (photoskinning or otherwise), make sure you're not scaling up your image - if it's a logo or design, you should have to shrink it to fit on your texture, not make it bigger.		Meshing is fun and absorbing, but a good mesh needs a good texture to look good in game, especially if you are trying to keep polygon counts low. You need to make sure that your textures are crisp and clear. There shouldn't be any blurriness or pixellation to your textures. They should look as clear and crisp as textures from the game (or better!). If you're using an image for texturing (photoskinning or otherwise), make sure you're not scaling up your image - if it's a logo or design, you should have to shrink it to fit on your texture, not make it bigger.

−	~~{\|class="collapsible wikitable" style="width:100%;"~~
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−	! style="text-align:left;background-color:#D0E4E5;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;" \| <h3 style="border:none;font-size:100%;">Good shading(*)</h3>
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	Your textures should have some detail to them - not just a flat single-colour bucket fill, but with highlights and shadows in the right places. Even for flat, smooth items, you should have some detail. This is especially important on cloth items such as couches or bedding, but it applies to all items. Texture shading in TS3 is done using the multiplier.		Your textures should have some detail to them - not just a flat single-colour bucket fill, but with highlights and shadows in the right places. Even for flat, smooth items, you should have some detail. This is especially important on cloth items such as couches or bedding, but it applies to all items. Texture shading in TS3 is done using the multiplier.

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 {| class="collapsible wikitable" style="width:100%"
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-! style="text-align:left;background-color:#D0E4E5;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;" | Not too bright/dark/shiny/shadowed (*)
+! style="text-align:left;background-color:#D0E4E5;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;" | Appropriate Specular/Multiplier (*)
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 |In TS3 the contents of an objects Multiplier or Specular Channel will affect how the object looks in game. A high contrast on your multiplier will result in heavy shadowing, whereas a too bright specular will give your object a milky glow.

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-! style="text-align:left;background-color:#D0E4E5;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;" | <h3 style="border:none;font-size:80%;">Good shading(*)</h3>
+! style="text-align:left;background-color:#D0E4E5;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;" | <h3 style="border:none;font-size:100%;">Good shading(*)</h3>
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-! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#D0E4E5;font-size:80%;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Textures</h2>
+! <h2 style="margin:0;background-color:#D0E4E5;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Textures</h2>
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-! style="text-align:left;background-color:#D0E4E5;font-size:100%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;" | <h3 >Good shading(*)</h3>
+! style="text-align:left;background-color:#D0E4E5;font-size:80%;text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;" | <h3 >Good shading(*)</h3>
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