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Xtian
16th Apr 2009, 08:36 AM
:cry: :help: I'm not the type to post a question that may violate forum guidelines without feeling like I have no alternative. There doesn't seem to be a thread here for this kind of post anyhow because all the 'creation' threads have to do with *object* creation. I do not want to create an object - this instead involves a floor tile.

I have read, really and truly, every tutorial I think might apply to what I am trying to do. *honest* I cannot find a tutorial on this site that answers my question; for once, Google has let me down as well. :(

What I would like to do seems to me to probably be extremely basic and elementary, and yet it confounds me I cannot find a set of instructions and after spending several hours trying to figure this out I am desperate for some guidance.

I would like to recolor an existing floor tile that shipped with the game, specifically the Ocean Blue Pebble Floor under the 'Tile' subset. I want to change it from blue to a black-and-white version so it looks like natural pebbles. That's it. :blink: If I could figure out where the image of this shipped-with-game item was and how to access it, editing this in my graphics editor program would be a snap, but I don't understand how to access that information. :(

The *only* floor-tile related tutorials I have found here have the goal of making transparent floor tiles, or for creating a floor tile from scratch or from an image I have found which I want to spring from. They don't cover modifying an existing non-CC game item. I don't want to make a transparent floor tile. I simply want to recolor a non-CC floor tile.

I really did read through everything I could but none of what I found seems to apply to what I want to do. :cry: Won't someone take pity on me and point me in the right direction?

A thousand thank-you's in advance for your help!!!

bluetexasbonnie
16th Apr 2009, 09:47 AM
You must be even less lucky at selecting good key words for searches than I am. :king:

Try starting HERE (http://modthesims2.com/wiki.php?title=Tutorials:Homecrafter_Tutorials)

Xtian
16th Apr 2009, 02:55 PM
Thank you so much for replying, bluetexasbonnie! :) This is a link to the same tutorial I have been reading and haven't been able to find instructions within it covering editing a non-cc default shipped-with-game texture, but perhaps I missed something somehow? I'll read through it again and see if that's the case - my eyes are a bit fresher this morning after a night's sleep. :)

HystericalParoxysm
16th Apr 2009, 04:07 PM
If you look here: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=147840

The tutorial itself doesn't explain how to edit it, but if you scroll down in the thread to reply #15 (my post) I answered someone's question on how to do that. :)

Xtian
16th Apr 2009, 04:35 PM
Thank you both again, seriously - I was ready to pull my hair out! I figured out the problem was with my installation of simPE -- something had somehow gone wonky and I wasn't able to view the texture image to export it.

I uninstalled / reinstalled, and then following the advice you both gave I was able to successfully isolate this texture and will how happily edit it to my heart's content. :) Hurrah! I <3 you both.

Apologies again for posting this ? to the wrong area, but I appreciate everyone's understanding.