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« on: November 13, 2014, 05:35:54 PM »
Sorry, I'm not sure if this should be here or Devil in the Details. Smiley

What it says on the tin! This probably goes back to almost a year ago really (when I started doing this).

Whenever I try to convert 3t2 everything is smooth until I use CMar's Meshing Toolkit, and the bone assignments never work. I've re-installed several times (I have the up-to-date version) and changed settings and have even asked CMarNYC (creator), and he had the same problem with my meshes I have (so maybe it's my mesh's fault?), but to no advantage. Here's an example of the problem (this happens with everything though):



On the left is the reference mesh, and on the right is the converted Sims 3 mesh after using CMar's Meshing Toolkit for bone assigning. It's always blotchy, and when I see other people's results with it they're so smooth. And it messes up the bones in-game too. What am I doing wrong, and how can I fix this? I'm not experienced enough in bone assigning to assign all of it by hand, but I'm sure I could learn better. Interpolation is always checked, and I'm using the highest quality GEOM for the Sims 3 Mesh. Let me know if I should include anymore information.

P.S, Files of the pictured dress if you need for testing
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« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2014, 06:25:23 PM »
It always does that for me too, I never figure out what i was doing wrong so I usually end up smooth the bone assignment by hand afterwards.
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« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2014, 06:44:22 PM »
Oh, I'm sorry! Good to know I'm not alone, though, I suppose.

Are there any tips you have for doing that easier, or do you think it just takes practise to make it not really wonky when you put it in-game? Every time I've tried to do that it just really failed, and borked really bad in game.
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« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2014, 08:43:49 PM »
Mine have worked decently enough despite the blotches and I usually run the outfit by it self through CMar's tool again after getting rid of the unnecessary bits and fitting the it to the sim body.

I haven't had glaring glitches but I only fix the bones assignments slightly by little bits at a time, save, testing, fix a few bits more save a new one, test again...
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« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2014, 10:36:28 PM »
Ah, okay! Smiley Thank you so much for the help.
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« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2014, 11:13:59 PM »
This is really vexing, because mine doesn't do that so I can't replicate the issue to help you out Sad

This is what it looks like after I run it through Cmar's toolkit:


The settings are still the same, and I'm using the same mesh, so I'm not sure what mine's doing differently from yours; I can upload this file if you like to work with this one?
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« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2014, 01:54:43 AM »
Thanks for taking a look, SerenityFall! If you didn't mind uploading it that would be great! But you don't have to. Smiley I'm just trying to get to the bottom of why this is happening so I can prevent it in the future.
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« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2014, 02:49:56 AM »
I don't mind Smiley Here ya go~
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« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2014, 03:21:46 AM »
Thank you! Cheesy
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« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2014, 12:16:40 PM »
So I know it has been a month and all but just now I re-downloaded the mesh tool kit ran it and it worked perfectly, I have no idea why.. I even try it out with meshes that i converted before that appear all blotchy and now they are smooth. As far as I know nothing has change on my computer recently except that I re-installed a few of microsoft frameworks and the xna framework for some other software to run.
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« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2014, 05:34:57 AM »
Was it an updated version, or did you have to un-install the version you had to download again? Confused
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« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2014, 10:47:18 AM »
You know it comes in a zip that you just unzip and you can use right away, i just erase my old folder and downloaded again from ModtheSims.

And if you mean the mircrosoft framework I repair the the install of the and the xna framework i downloaded the latest and installed because i didn't have it before, it was to get some other program to work but is all can thing that change in my computer from the last time I use the MeshToolKit
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« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2014, 02:34:46 AM »
My framework is up to date, tried re-installing but still no luck. Sad What other updates did you do? I'll try almost anything! :'(
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« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2014, 03:38:04 AM »
As far as I know that was the only thing, that and installing the xna framework to get xna lara and blender to play nice so i could check some meshes. I'm really not sure why it works now because neither thing should have any effect on the toolkit.
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« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2014, 09:00:57 AM »
How strange! Well, I'll post an update here if I have any luck, Thanks, dark_moon! ^_^
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