Sims 3 Tutorial: How to Convert Hair from TS4 to TS3

Here’s a very spur of the moment tutorial on how to get sims 4 hair to the sims 3. It’s a bit all over the place but hopefully someone will get some use out of it.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED
See the “Basics of Conversions” document linked below for all the programs and stuff I used in this tutorial.

RESOURCES

Guide to The Basics of Conversions (please please read this if you’re a beginner!): https://tinyurl.com/y9mvxcek

Greenie’s Blender Shortcuts (helpful if you’re new to blender):
https://greeniestutorials.tumblr.com/...

Anbuis’ Hair Control Base: https://modthesims.info/t/395033

Pigtails Glitch Fix Mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/thesims3/mo...

Fix Pigtail Glitch on Your CC: https://maryjanesims3.tumblr.com/post...

Sims 3 Bodies including Face + Scalps Combined Templates: https://www.mediafire.com/file/osojk8...

My folder containing all the sims 3 bone reference meshes that I use (includes one's for clothing and shoes too):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/lzp6r5...

Empty Group for Hair: https://simfileshare.net/download/254...

How To Fix Transparency Issues in Hair: https://evannamari.tumblr.com/post/64...

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro + Extracting From S4Studio
2:55 Blender: Deleting Unnecessary Parts
5:00 Blender: View Hair Transparency
6:09 Blender: The Game Plan
7:15 Blender: Importing Body Template and Resizing The Hair
11:35 Blender: Merging The Hair (If Yours Has Two Groups)
12:20 Blender: Resizing The UV Map
13:43 Photoshop: Resizing The Texture
18:15 Blender: How To Preview The New Texture on the Hair
19:04 Photoshop: Making the Control Map
24:10 Blender: Previewing Control Base on Mesh and Fixing Issues
27:56 Blender: Seeing Poly Count + Making LODs
29:50 Milkshape: Renaming The Meshes and Exporting as .WSO
32:00 MeshToolKit: Assigning Bones
35:50 Milkshape: Making the HLOD Have 2 Groups
37:47 TSRW: Cloning New Mesh
39:39 TSRW: How to Avoid Pigtail Glitch
40:19 TSRW: The Project Tab
41:26 TSRW The Texture Tab
43:48 TSRW: Importing the Meshes
45:54 TSRW: Changing Vertex Colors (VERY IMPORTANT!!)
47:26 TSRW: Changing Materials on The Hair
49:12: Exporting From TSRW and Converting to .package
50:08 Testing in Game + Baiii


LINKS

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