Is there a way to change eyebrow color for custom hair?
Karen:
Quote from: ElviraGoth on 2005 October 06, 22:34:47
BTW, the only colors that will export from BS are black and gray. You don't get a choice of blonde, red, or brown.
Thank you so much for finally clearing up my confusion! I have been trying for three months (off and on) to figure out a way to do this and it turns out to be easier than I ever imagined. Because you always get black eyebrows when exporting from BS, I figured it was not possible to recolor them. I may also have been misled by the fact that Body Shop lighting tends to make things look much, much darker than they do in-game, so even when I did recolor some brows to a medium brown in PSP, they came out looking very similar to black when viewed in Body Shop. That is why I thought that recoloring eyebrows in Body Shop didn't work at all.
Anyway, thanks again, this opens up a whole new bunch of possibilities for my game.
Karen
ElviraGoth:
I'm glad you finally got the answer you were looking for! lol
I was confused by the black/gray choices at first, too, but I figured I might as well give it a try. Since I did my purple hair from a red hair file, it was really annoying to see the red eyebrows against purple skin and hair. Yuck! So I thought, hey if it works, great, if not, make another purple hair file from a different color hair base. (I really didn't want to do that, though. Some of those hair styles have a LOT of files when you're doing both sexes and all ages!)
And I wanted to do my own. I had looked at some skin colors done by other people and they just weren't what I was looking for, so I decided to try doing my own. When I got a purple and a blue skin that I liked, I just couldn't stop! Hair, eyes, eyebrows, and I just started doing a couple of beards/stubble colorings.
I have red, yellow, purple, orange, blue, white (after I found out the mannquinn skin crashed the game when a baby was being born) turquoise and gray skins and at least one (some two) hair styles in pink, green, purple, blue, and turquoise. Both cover all ages. I think I have matching color eyebrows (just one, the "tweased" brow) for all the custom hair colors. And I only started doing recolors in April. Not to mention the clothes, walls, floors, and objects like stoves, refrigerators, bathroom facilities, tables, chairs, beds, etc. If I had known playing the sims and coloring things was so much fun, I'd have gotten sims 1 a long time ago, instead of about a year ago! I didn't even know you could do this stuff until after I had gotten sims 2 and uni!
Hairfish:
There's no big secret to making other-than-black eyebrows. I just lightened and recolored the black version that BodyShop spewed out, using Photoshop's Hue & Saturation slider, then tweaked them a bit with some overlay shading (not thrilled with how blond came out ~ needs better contrast ~ but it was a quickie job).
The only "trick" to making them match Maxis haircolors is having a hair file open at the same time, and eyeballing it. ;) You could do the same with any custom haircolor to make matching brows. Export the hair files, and open one to compare the colors as you redo the brows.
If you're going to make Maxis-matching stuff, be sure to save your customization settings (Photoshop lets you do this; I don't know about PSP) for later use. For example, if you make a custom haircolor off a blond Maxis base, you can use the saved settings on your own blond eyebrow base (or mine, with credit!) and they'll match.
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On the subject of getting custom eyebrows to transfer genetically, that appears to be impossible. Damn it! ;D My Frosty blue aliens just had a baby, and the poor little freak was born with blond eyebrows (the parents' hair is colored on a blond Maxis base). She's also bald as a cue ball. :P I'll just have to wait for her to become a Toddler, then use the Toddler Mirror to match her brows to the rest of her.
Offtopic: I would have thought a problem as old as freak-babies would have been fixed by Nightlife, but no-o-o-o-o...
Edit: Sorry 'bout the big pic. I thought it would post a thumbnail to it.
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AllenABQ:
Quote from: Hairfish on 2005 October 08, 07:46:45
There's no big secret to making other-than-black eyebrows. I just lightened and recolored the black version that BodyShop spewed out, using Photoshop's Hue & Saturation slider, then tweaked them a bit with some overlay shading (not thrilled with how blond came out ~ needs better contrast ~ but it was a quickie job).
The only "trick" to making them match Maxis haircolors is having a hair file open at the same time, and eyeballing it. ;) You could do the same with any custom haircolor to make matching brows. Export the hair files, and open one to compare the colors as you redo the brows.
It's a lot easier than that!
It's true BodyShop only allows you to extract the black/gray versions of facial hair and eyebrows. However, if you want the other Maxis default colors, just use SimPE to extract them from the Sims12.package file:
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\Sims3D\Sims12.package
True, you're still going to have to start a project by exporting the black version, but with the other colors available its a simple matter of substitution of the bitmap or using the bitmaps along with hue/saturation, etc. to change them to a non-default custom color.
I swapped out the black ones to create whole sets of modified default facial hair here:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=96860
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=96977
The same thing can be done with eyebrows.
Witches:
Sorry if someone's already mentioned this, but Heleane makes beautiful custom eyebrows. I use hers all the time, and you can change them on existing sims by using Change Appearance.
http://www.helaene.com/
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