Help?

[aelia]

Would a couple of you wonderful people care to test out my daffodil meshes for me? So far they are working perfectly well within my game, but after rebuilding the packages about six times for my various stupidities (everything from forgetting the shadows, to trying to work out just why the slave meshes won't accept recolours) I'd like to have someone else try it in a totally different game.

The zip should contain five files, four mesh files and one (uncompressed) recolour. The meshes are master/slaved to the best of my ability and should pick up the recolour. I'd just like to know whether they a) show up as they should and b) if they look alright, as in there are no terrible graphical flaws

http://www.mediafire.com/?ozyfgl004tm

(insert standard warning about using files made by an incompetent n00b) :)

ETA: The shadow issue mentioned here is now fixed, thanks so much villamirabelle!

Updated link

Comments

[hat_plays_sims]

*nabs them* I was going to poke at a few things of my own anyway-- I'll let you know how they look!

[aelia]

Whoot, thank you :D

Should let you know as you'll likely as not find it - there is an exceedingly ugly issue with the shadows inside, they will appear as a black square/rectangle instead of a shadow.

[hat_plays_sims]

I may need something to eat, cos I didn't spot them in my catalog. I'll double check, just gotta re-save the defaults I was testing.

[aelia]

Ah sorry, they are in decorative > plants for ten simoleons!

[hat_plays_sims]

Found 'em! It occurred to me to look under 'plants' about ten minutes ago. They look pretty good, two of my plantsims Viewed them and nothing exploded. I'm impressed! And I kinda want some of the bunches done upright so I can plant the little suckers, but it's the time of year where one goes "Yay flowers!"

[aelia]

Hehe, at least they're all in one spot now, the first set I did was all over the place!

Glad you like them and that nothing terrible happened - and (because I'm not awake this morning!) you'd like the lying down bunches to also be set upright?

[hat_plays_sims]

So that they look like daffodils growing, yup. At least if it's not any trouble, but they really do look nice, and would make a very pretty addition to a garden.

[curiousb]

I've snagged them, and I'll be loading up my game shortly, so I'll have a look at them then for you. :)

[jesslove]

Am downloading now and will let you know how it goes.

Where can I find these, btw? :)

[aelia]

They are in the decorative > plants sort and are worth 10 simoleons a pop :)

Thank you for doing this :D

[jesslove]

They showed up fine, with no issues. :) Here's a screencap....the ones on the left seem a little dark, but perhaps it's just me? :)

http://i44.tinypic.com/vo3ia8.jpg

[curiousb]

Update for you: they're looking fine to me! They appear quite happily in the catalog, and there don't seem to be any glaring problems with them. My only observation is that perhaps the textures look a little dark (I'm not sure how they compare to the WFS2 originals, as I don't have them handy at the moment), but then again it could just be the lighting in my game...

[aelia]

Well that is good that they show up and seem to work in another game too :D

They seem a little dark in my game too, I was kinda hoping that it was just the lighting in my game! XD I will look into that :)

Thank you so much for your help!

[curiousb]

You're welcome! I'm wondering if being a little dark has something to do with the way the object you have cloned reflects the light... You could maybe try playing with the reflectivity, or perhaps cloning another object as an experiment?

[aelia]

That's an idea, thanks :D I shall go give that a try :)

[curiousb]

I don't know whether you're still working on the daffodils, but I had a sudden inspiration about the dark textures - I wonder if it might be something to do with the smoothing groups being incorrect...

If so, this post might be of some help in fixing it (assuming you are using Milkshape): http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=49789

:)

[aelia]

First, sorry for not getting back to you sooner :| I went on an inbox deleting spree and yours managed to get caught up in it :|

Second, yep, still working (albeit slowly) on the lot :D I've fiddled a bit in milkshape with them, according to the stuff in your link - I think (fingers crossed)I might have gotten somewhere. Definately going to try it out in game tomorrow, I hope it's fixed it :D

Thank you so much!!

[curiousb]

Hehe, my turn to apologize for a slow response now! Anyway, good luck with it; I hope it solves the problem.

[quinctia]

I was planning out booting the game up in a bit anyway, so I'll let you know how it goes.

[aelia]

Thank you! It will be greatly appreciated!

[quinctia]

I'm going to Nth the darkness of the textures, but it's also compounded by the lighting. They looked alright outside in the daytime, but inside under lights at night, they seemed awfully dark. And I try to light up the rooms pretty well because I take lots of story pictures.

I think the textures look nice and the mesh is good and all of that. I think the clutterers will enjoy them!

[aelia]

Hm, that's a pain in the backside then. I will try the suggestion Curious gave me and see if I can't get them lighened up some

I'm happy though they worked :D