Hello guys! First of all happy new year ! Hope you had a great time out there :) 🎆
Today I'm writing this to explain why decimation of Sims 4 meshes is paramount while converting stuff. You know me, I don't like to make statements as english isn't my first language and I find it difficult sometimes to actually write things down - even in italian I struggle sometimes lol. BUT I think this would be useful to all the cc converters and creators out there. So please, take this as an advice, for the sake of our oldie and beloved Sims 3.
Little backstory: I was casually browsing tumblr the other day and stumbled across a beautiful food set converted from Sims 4 - which I immediately saw was high quality. Just for curiosity I downloaded it, checked the polycount of a random object (if you're new here it's the total number of polygons found in a three-dimensional model) and it had way too many polys: 28k vertices - 34k faces + 4096x4096 textures.
Sims 3 is quite an old game now. Every player had experienced lag and glitches at some point so it's very, very important to make the stuff you create/convert from other games suitable for it! Here comes to the rescue a super useful tool in blender called decimation. It basically "allows you to reduce the vertex/face count of a mesh with minimal shape changes", as said on blender website. In just 2 minutes and with not so much effort I was able to reduce those polygons down to 8,4k vertices - 7,4k faces. Do you see any difference? I don't honestly.
Optimization is the key. Converting from sims 4 is not just taking the mesh and textures and putting them all in Sims 3. I wish it was tho!
You're free to put whatever you want in your game but you have to think about the game performance as well. There are people who still play the game and as an ex player I got really upset when I had laggy gaming sessions.
Having said that, here's a tut about blender and the decimation tool, done by @simaddix and which I think covers every important aspect of that useful tool.
If you read this all, thank you! Now I can go back to convert new stuff :D
-Marta
9-1-1 ▸ 3 times buck drove eddie vs 1 time eddie drove buck
I've got unlimited access to photoshop, and I will be making unhinged edited photos of them -
You see, I want Derek back, but not to be used as a plot device. Especially considering how black characters are more likely to be used as one.
no fear.
"nandor is jealous of derek" plotline introduced and then resolved when derek tries to turn guillermo n the Van Helsing Blood Is Poisonous theory is confirmed bc it fuckign kills derek
one fear.
FUCK
shout out to hen that, when she realized that eddie was no longer able to answer chris’s questions (after “what are those tubes”), she answered for him, trying to make herself understood as best she could and remaining calm, completely different from eddie who was slowly starting to lose control. and when chris starts talking to buck and eddie starts crying openly, despite trying to remain stoic, hen looks at him, tears in her eyes, and does nothing. bc she understands what it feels like to see the love of your life in that state and she knows the sense of helplessness, and she knows that talking to him, going to hug him, would do absolutely nothing. you can’t ease the pain of that situation.
Kinda weird y'all took Guillermo interacting with Derek's dog as it being his now......... It's a little.....
i don’t rewatch begins episodes, on principle, so this idea escaped me entirely until now. But thinking about the eddie begins montage with the context that this singular event is what made him put buck in his will is so…. nauseating. because at the time of airing there was always a small voice inside my head that said “buck is only in so many of these memories because he happens to be in the scenes, the focal point here is chris” but knowing what we know now, is a confirmation that eddie was thinking of his family unit, that when he thought of what makes him want to live he thought of his son and buck
Remember the 6 year old girl who was surrounded by Israeli tanks and the red crescent couldn't reach her? Her name is Hind Hamadeh. Here you can hear the phone call her 15 year old sister, Layan Hamadeh, made with the medics. She was killed exactly a moment later including all people in the car, except for 6 year old Hind who was stuck in the car with the dead bodies of her family, Israeli tanks and IDF surrounding her, shooting, preventing anybody to reach her.
That was last night (29.1.24). Today, still nothing. The fate of Hind remains unknown.
palestine red crescent ambulance team went to rescue her yesterday evening, but they have not returned as of now. We lost contact with them about 18 hours ago, and we still remain unaware of their fate and whether they succeeded in evacuating her or not.
Please, share Hind's story as much as you can on any platform. We need to know what happened to her. Put yourself in her place, how terrified she must be. Don't scroll past this.
This is Hind.
I dislike how the fandom focuses on just the Van Helsing part of Guillermo's heritage; when, obviously, other vampire hunters would probably be in his bloodline - And we see that in his last name.
It would make sense if his vampire hunting abilities came from more than just a 3.12% relation to Van Helsing. And with his last name, de la Cruz you'd expect someone there was a vampire hunter as well.
Skewed results, no ravi