#hintstricks

[candycottonchu]

hell yes.

(I don’t even have it, but saving for later!)

Idk I’d this has been shared but saw this on twitter and thought I’d share! 

[candycottonchu]

🤫🤫 you can reduce your mods folder size like this!

[candycottonchu]

Hello! I'm new to recolor, so this might be a dummy question, but how to make add-ons? I have noticed some recolor packages. The swatches are there, but not the mesh. It's just blank, and that's what I'm trying to achieve but failing miserably, or I'm just doing it wrong 😅

this! 😋

[candycottonchu]

friendly reminder that you have no obligation to answer + post asks. You don’t owe strangers anything. Hit that delete button & make a cup of tea.

[candycottonchu]

this is a noob question: how do you add color swatches to CC hair instead of it being a standalone, for example like when you recolor CC hair you add on your natural palette to the hair and not make it a standalone. I'm new to recoloring hair and I hope I make sense. :\

Hey @kingwendoline,

it does make sense :) so when you make your recolor file, instead of “Create CAS Standalone” you pick “Add CAS Part Swatch” 

I prefer this over the Standalones, because then I have less icons in game. And the recolors still work even if you use “embed cas references” and take out the mesh  ;0

[candycottonchu]

hi! how do you art breeder your sims? i tried using the website but im lost. it looks so fun!

Hey Nonny!

It is! :D 

first, you have to make an account (you can put in a made up email address, since you won't have to confirm), and I guess it’s best if you just follow this tutorial @storiesbyjes2g posted:

LINK

it’s all explained there!

Have fun breeding your sims! 🤭

[candycottonchu]

Hey, can we include your cc in sim downloads/builds/saves (with credit)? Or should we link to individual items?

Hey Nonny,

yes, you may include all my cc in your downloads! :D I personally prefer when I don’t have to look for all the stuff (and often links are dead if it’s an older one x.x) and I want everyone to have the same convenience.

The only thing I request is that the downloads which include my cc must be free of charge, meaning no patreon early access or adfly links etc.

If you’d tag me too, that would be great ;o

Have a nice day!

[candycottonchu]

Hi how are you? I need to know how to download your content and install it in my game. Im not a big fan of downloading cc but your creatins are amazing!! Could you give me some help? Thank you!

Hey sweetheart! 💖🥰

thank you so much!!

Hair (new mesh) / Poses

On all of my posts you will find a link with “DOWNLOAD”, there you can find my cc. you need to put the files here to show up in game: C:\Users\Username\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods

you can organize your downloads by creating subfolders for types of cc, like “hair”, “skin”, “poses” etc, some also organize by creator names

to use poses, you need Andrew’s pose player: download & explanation 

Don’t forget to activate mods & script mods in your game settings:

Hair (recolors)

for all my hair recolors, you will need the original mesh from creators and my recolor. you will find the links in the list. If any of the links are broken, don’t hesitate and pm me & I’ll update the link.

I hope I could help you a little <3 Have a nice day! 💖

[candycottonchu]

I'm recoloring a LOT of Enrique cc hairs right now and I've got about 90 to go but your tutorial and answers to my questions made it so easy that I can just breeze through! I've never done recolors before but due to the fact that they use base textures it's so not hard at all! -Nonny from the past 2 answered asks xoxo

aww Nonny, this makes me really happy 😊💖 You absolutely have to share them when you’re done!

And yes, omg I love it when hair creators use original EA textures without messing around like new hairlines etc 😁

[candycottonchu]

Hi! I just wanted to ask if there are any extra steps in your tutorial for shades 12/13? The blonde doesn't seem to match the shade you get. What saturation values should be entered? Much love xx

Hey Nonny!

For those two I use the EA swatch #7 (cheese hair) and put the saturation down to -50 (#12) or -30 (#13). If the hair you recolor, have a customized palette (like ModMax where the cheese hair is much warmer yellow) it can turn out differently than if it was the normal EA palette.

I have no solution than just play a bit with the hue, saturation and/or curves until I feel it looks correct. It helps to take a map from another CN hair as reference!

Also thank you so much for recoloring in my palette this makes me so happy 😊💖

[candycottonchu]

CANDYNATURALS - a tutorial

So... I didn’t intend to share this bc it’s a bit messy to explain, but here’s for the anon that asked!

Open S4S and pick “Add CAS Part Swatch”, then select the hair you want to recolor. IMPORTANT: they must be EA color palette

press ctrl+shift+c, then type studio.exportall

in the created folder (yournameResources), keep the .png files called Swatch_X_Diffuse_1 (X being numbers between 1 and 18), delete all others

Open the textures 1 and 3-10 in GIMP

recolor according to this list (follow hex codes), export your files to  Swatch_X_Diffuse_1 with X being the new CN-swatch number (Tip: keep a copy of the original EA textures 1 and 3-10 somewhere else, just in case)

import candynatural color swatch palette (get from my recolored hair)

press ctrl+shift+c, then type studio.importall

you are free to do anything you want with this palette, but I’d be grateful if you:

make add on swatches, not stand alone recolors (to keep CAS clean)

link downloads adfly-free and non-profit (mesh and recolor)

tag your recolor with #candynaturals so people can easily find as many recolors as possible

tag me in your recolors so I can reblog you!

If you have any further questions, just send me an ask :)