Feeling uninspired and in need of a friendly push to get started with a new world? Never tried CAW before and could use a little community help? Or just plain bored being quarantined?
Suffer no longer, for I have just come up with a new challenge for ya!
So, I was talking with enable_llamas on Discord about this shader and I told her of my method, so I guess it’s a good idea to share with the public.
All right, the first part is knowing what’s the opacity on the translucent part of the multiplier in Photoshop - I use CS3, I’m pretty sure it works with CS2 or newer versions too.
1. Open your multiplier (the object for this one will be released soon) and use the eyedropper tool to check the opacity on a translucent area. In this case, 41%. The pointer did not appear in the screenshot but trust me, it works.
If your translucency is uniform, that’s it, but if there’s different opacities, choose the one with the lowestvalue.
2. Basic math: open your calculator and multiply 256 the value you found. In this case 41% (or 0,41, for the nerds like me who cut corners). The result will be around 104.
The number you got is the upper limit of your AMT value: higher than that, and it will look invisible in-game. It helps to round down (and ALWAYS down) to the next number that ends with 5 or 0 for easier memorization. In this case, I used Alpha Mask Threshold = 100.
3. Test in-game.
Looks great! But if you have some invisible lines / pixels, that’s because some parts were more transparent than your AMT. Check your multiplier again, hover the eyedropper around the problematic areas, and start again :P
Way quicker than fiddling with TSRW and restarting the game many, many times!
This set includes 4 decor items, and 1 functional window – my first ever! ^0^ Big thanks to @deniisu-sims for extracting the meshes from TS4′s Realm of Magic for me to fiddle around with! <3
Art Nouveau Rugs
Art Nouveau Stencils as Rugs
TS4 to TS3 RoM Lotus Arch as Wall Art
TS4 to TS3 RoM Gnome Arch as Wall Art
TS4 to TS3 RoM Banishment Window(REQUIRES INTO THE FUTURE EP)
Time for showing your creativity again! We will be accepting proposals for January challenge during 11/16-23.Tell us your ideas either by DM @pitheinfinite or submitting to @ts3creatorscave on tumblr or our discord!
We’ll held a vote on 11/24-11/30 to decide our next theme, don’t miss it.
Though the example used in the questionnaire is Art Nouveau, please feel free to try other architectural styles!
As for the big question of whether to change the frequency or not, more people would like to keep status quo. However, we’ve also received some valuable suggestions, like bimonthly instead of monthly/quarterly, or release the theme earlier.
Combining all the above suggestions, we can vote and decide the theme a month earlier and use November / December as a buffering, since most creators would work on winter/Christmas CC in before the end of December. The next vote (for January) could be held by the end of November so creators would have more time to work on, meanwhile, any architectural CC is welcomed before the next theme comes up.
The tutorial suggestion should be very useful for creators, anyone can submit any tutorial at anytime and we will add them on our tutorial archive ASAP. If creators find the need for certain tutorials, they can ask for other creators’ help on our discord. Anyone can join this event or submit their tutorials without tumbr accounts, as long as the effective links are provided!
Last but not least, it’s not the first time that we received suggestions for the theme AFTER the vote. To keep the challenge as fair and open as it should be, all of the options in our votes comes from simmers’ submission and we don’t choose themes for the participants. So please don’t make assumptions and just submit your ideas! We don’t bite!
Any further questions, please feel free to ask! We’ll get back to you ASAP.
Thanks to all your passionate support, we have 4 options this time! Also we have an important decision to make-if we should change the currently monthly challenge into a quarterly one.
Cast your vote for the monthly challenge, VOTE NOW!
The result will be made public by the end of 11/3!
Hey hey everyone! Hope you all enjoy a wonderful simblreen! Now let’s keep up the spirit and move on to the next month! we will be accepting proposals for November challenge during 10/27-30.Tell us your ideas either by DM @pitheinfinite or submitting to @ts3creatorscave on tumblr or our discord!
We’ll held a vote on 10/31-11/2 to decide our next theme and if we should reduce the frequency to be a quarterly challenge.
