Tutorial: How to do lipstick for Sims3!

[Kiara24]

Tutorial: How to do lipstick for Sims3!

What you need:
CAS Texture+Unitool
www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364926

For this tutorial I use Photoshop and my Photoshop is in portuguse but if you need something to be translate just tell me.

I tried to do everything right in this tutorial but if something is not well I appreciate that you correct me :)
I used many images because it is a little hard for me to explain it in English.

1-Open CTU
http://i47.tinypic.com/33diih3.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/opmk50.jpg

2-Now you have to extract the textures
http://i49.tinypic.com/27xm89u.jpg
Give a name to your texture. Ex: LipstickTexture

3-Now extract the mask.
http://i47.tinypic.com/2naqxcp.jpg
Give a name to the mask. Ex: LipstickMask

4-Now open photoshop and open the LipstickTexture
I find some lips in the internet and I’m going to use for change the lipstick texture.
Then you have to cut the lips and paste over the existing texture.
http://i46.tinypic.com/15chirb.jpg

Attempts to redevelop the lips to occupy the same space of the other texture and you have put in greyscale.
http://i49.tinypic.com/2zns7lv.jpg

Now you can put more lightly or more darker, this is something that you have to try and see what is best, sometimes only in the game you see the difference.
http://i45.tinypic.com/2i1pmr4.jpg

Now delete the other texture and have to look like this:
http://i50.tinypic.com/282gvo3.jpg
Save your textures and give a unique name
http://i49.tinypic.com/30kun0j.jpg

5-Now open the LipstickMask.
You can copy the lipstick texture that you did and past for the mask (this is not mandatory is only for you to see where is the texture of the lips)
Now is up to you and how you want that lipstick look, you just have to play with the 3 channels.
http://i49.tinypic.com/i42s80.jpg
Save the same way you did with the textures.

6-Go to the CTU again and you going to replace the existing texture for the textures that you did.
http://i46.tinypic.com/24zx9nd.jpg

To set the colour of lipstick see the next picture.
http://i48.tinypic.com/a0ykpz.jpg
Don’t forget to click commit.
Once you've finished click save as, give your package a name, then hit Save.

7-Place you .package file you just save in C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods\Packages

8-Now open the game and see your creation
Mine is not perfect, I just see some things I have to fix…I hope you do better that me ;)
http://i47.tinypic.com/bwqbl.jpg

For the lipstick with only one channel is more easy, you do the same thing but you don’t have the mask to change.

[JillianWong]

Thank you for writing this tutorial :)

[403880]

How do you get the files in the first place? I don't know the first thing on sims 3 custom content making. I know for sims 2 ytou can use body shop and start a new project an dthen you have the files to use but how do you do that for sims 3? I've read meny turorials an di cant ifure out a thing, can somone help me?

[Kiara24]

You need CTU.

[403880]

Whats that?

You need CTU.

[HugeLunatic]

CTU is listed in the first post under what you need.

[LadyFrontbum]

Thank you so much for this. I've been wanting to try making lipstick for ages but couldn't find an easy tutorial :)

[403880]

The people who got rid of my virus put CTU on my computer, I can't figure out how to use it though.

[Kiara24]

See the first picture.

[403880]

At the botem when I was trying it kept on saying extracing textures, also, is this possible without photoshop? I have other stuff like that such as paint but none with different channels.

[HugeLunatic]

You can also use Gimp, which is free.

[403880]

Whats Gimp?

[HugeLunatic]

Seriously? You could have Googled it. It's a free image editing program.

http://www.gimp.org/

[403880]

Oh *^*^*
EDIT: I can't open the textures in photoshop- or anytihg else for that matter.

[anyammis]

Thank you so much! :) This is greatly appreciated.

[sugapoint]

When I tried to save the texture dds file in Photoshop, it kept saying there are too many channels to export. I'm so damsel in distress right now...

[Kiara24]

You have to flatten the image first.

[lpgcjenni]

i cant get the exported dds file to up up in photoshop it says that it's not the right file or something

[Kiara24]

I think you need DDS Plug-in Here (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html)

[Aleesa666]

It sais in photo shop after i do everything else right that the files or something isnt supported. i have the Nvidia stuff and everything...can i be exporting them to the wrong place? i made a folder in user/documents/SIMS3MESHES/...worked for other things. its fustrating! plase help!

[HugeLunatic]

If you get an error that the dds type is supported then you still need the dds plugin. After downloading it you need to install it.

[Aleesa666]

This tutorial could be a whole lot better actually...they should have links for english only tutorials and other languages specifically. If you cant do it in english dont do it at all. You did a pretty good job though. Pictures help but text does too. 2/5. BTW i dont understand the beginning

[Kiara24]

So, What you don´t understand?

[yk1980]

this was very simple and understanding for me, a very begeinner. thanks a lot!
i just put the file in the package folder and now i'm gonna have a look how it came out hehehe :)

[Mossnose40]

I think you need DDS Plug-in Here (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html)
I ahve the same problem.

[Kiara24]

Just follow the link and install DDS Plug-in :)

[spiralbones]

Thank you for writing this! It was very easy to follow, I had no trouble at at all. :)

[IgorVolkov]

Kiara24,Best tutorial, thank you I have all turned out!

[GiuCee]

This tutorial could be a whole lot better actually...they should have links for english only tutorials and other languages specifically. If you cant do it in english dont do it at all. You did a pretty good job though. Pictures help but text does too. 2/5. BTW i dont understand the beginning

I don't usually even bother replying to threads (I press that 'thank you' button, instead, or just let a creator know if their link isn't working), but in this case I am going to open an exception.

I speak as a Custom Content Creator myself who started on TS1 and went a bit MIA for RL work for 10 years, I am now very happy I can return to The Sims (and got 2, 3 1 medieval with all expansions to top).

During these 10 years of MIA, I had the pleasure to visit some countries and the thankfully rare, but utter DISPLEASURE to meet people like you.

Most people from France, Brazil, Portugal, Argentine, Italy, Spain, UK, etc, and even some from US are usually VERY HAPPY when you do NOT demand them -- the natives of a country -- to speak their visitors' language. They appreciate so much the effort you make into speaking their language, they even go out of their way to help you out. Hell, when I arrived in France, instead of demanding and/or yelling at each French person "DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH???" (certain tourists actually DO that!), I grabbed myself a dictionary and went about with a "Je suis desolé, mais je peut pas parlez Français", etc. And I had a wonderful people going out of their way to keep me entertained and helped during work and pleasure times, due to my effort alone. I currently live in France, I still can't claim fluency in French, but I have a great time at nearly all times.

So this girl comes from a Portuguese speaking country, to an ENGLISH speaking forum, - foreigner visitor to your country, per se - doing her best to speak YOUR language, and doing her best to make you a tutorial - this is NOT very easy to do, I have done and translated some and I don't want to mess with it again, believe me -, and all you can do is to do a hateful, ungrateful, humiliating comment such as If you cant do it in english dont do it at all.

Oh for ferk's sakes!!! What is it you want, an entire planet born in US, or just an entire planet that is totally english-literate??? Here, congrats, you just got yourself a ticket to Pluto!!

If you want perfect literacy here, you do have options you know. Make the tutorial yourself, hire under pay someone to do so, or make an english-speakers only community and isolate foreigners, advertising your xenophobia in the process. You can also go look for a better tutorial online, or turn off the page. After all, if it is that bad, why do you even bother trying to follow it? Ah, The "you did pretty well" comment afterwards just added to the humiliation of showing yourself very righteous and condescending.

As for the tutorial maker, here goes a message too.

Kiara, parabéns pelo excelente tutorial, e muito obrigado pela tua boa vontade. E desculpe o meu portugues, é meio ruim!

If you want to know what it says, google it! If you are so good in humiliating foreigners, you must be perfect in googling stuff. Every Yang needs its Ying, after all.

"When the words aren't better than silence, one must choose silence". I have said my piece, now I go back to Lurk Kingdom. But I hope you too will choose silence before humiliating a foreigner's effort on a next time.

A bientot

GiuCee.

[Kiara24]

Obrigada GiuCee! :)
Thanks GiuCee! Your portuguese is very good! :)

[Sinnocence]

I have a odd question. I have picked up CAS Texture Tool which you use here and TSR Workshop. I noticed that after working on some makeup (eyeshadow) in Workshop and then pulling all the parts up in CTT that it was not as smooth. So I was woundering if you as creaters feel that when making things with the CTT, that it gives higher quality results than if you use Workshop? Is this because the mesh is shown more along the proper lines of the game in live mode?

[Needfyre]

Doesn't that replace the original lipstick?

[TheScribbler]

I know this thread hasn't had a reply for a while but I was just wondering how you do step 5? I don't quite understand how to edit the mask, which colours to use and how you got the lines like that?
Btw it's a great tut, I've already made my first CC lipstick :D even if it isn't that good lol.

[xxpp]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I'm gonna go try it out right now :)

[piggypeach]

This is a good tutorial, but I didn't understand at ALL the part about editing the mask. Can somebody help explain to me how you're supposed to edit the mask? I know how to open it, I have it open right now, but what do I edit? By the way, I'm using paint.net

[Ellilir]

Hi, I followed your tutorial up until step 4 when it said "delete the other texture" I'm confused at that part. I'm using photoshop just like you and don't know what to do next.

Please help!

Thanks!!