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15th Sep 2014 at 12:29 AM
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Creating an item with its own thumbnail
So you want to make an item that appears all by itself, not as a recolor of an existing item. First, let's define two terms:
Swatch vs Thumbnail.
A Thumbnail is the big image of the item itself. A Swatch is the tiny square of color that appears when you click the Thumbnail to choose a style.
What we're going to cover in Part 1 of this tutorial is how to create an item that has it's own Thumbnail, but has no swatches of it's own. (So just a single stand-alone item).
If you want to have swatches for that, too, I'll cover that in Part 2 later.
For part 1, we only
need one tool: CMar's CAS Tool.
Grab the latest version here.
You'll also want whatever program you want to use to edit the components involved (such as Photoshop, GIMP, Blender, Milkshape, or whatever is relevant to your project).
PART 1: CREATING A SEPARATE ITEM
1. Open up CAS Tool.
2. Click "Use TS4 Game Packages".
3. Locate the item you want to duplicate from the list. You can use the filters to help narrow down the list.
4. Select a color as a base. (If you intended to recolor or use a custom pattern, I recommend starting with grey).
5. VERY IMPORTANT: Check the box that says "New Custom Content".
6. Give it a name, and hit "Clone"!
7. Save that file into your Mods folder... and that's it!
Now you can edit the contents of the package using S4PE and whatever tools you like.
Coming in Part 2, I'll explain how to give swatches to your item.