Sims 2 – Basic Furniture Recolouring Using Gimp   (Views: 10,774 )

First, make a folder somewhere you can easily find it. I always use my desktop. Call the folder ‘Sofa Recolour’ or something that can identify it.

Download SimPE, then open it up:

Click ‘Object Workshop’ at the top of the window, or from the ‘Window/Object Workshop’ from the top menu:

Click ‘Start’:

Select ‘Seating’, then ‘Sofas’:

Select the ‘Coming Up Roses’ Loveseat, then click ‘Next’:

Make sure ‘Recolor’ is selected, then click ‘Start’:

Save your file to the folder you created earlier. Call it whatever you like:

Select the fabric you want to re-colour, then click ‘OK’:

In the Resource Tree, select ‘Texture Image’, then click ‘Plugin View’ at the bottom of the window:

Click the ‘Export’ button and save the image to the same folder you created at the start:

Launch Gimp and open up the image you just exported:

The simplest way to re-colour any item is to use the ‘Hue-Saturation’ tool:

Use the sliders to adjust the colour until you are happy, then click ‘File/Save’ to overwrite the image.

Go back to SimPE and right-click on the texture image and select ‘Build DXT’:

Click ‘Open Image’ to select the overwritten one you edited. Make sure ‘DTX1Format’ is selected, and ‘Sharpen’ is set to ‘None’, then click ‘Done’, then ‘Commit’:

You may need to wait a while for the new colour to show up.

Click ‘File/Save As…’ and save to your Sims 2 downloads folder, giving it a name you can identify later.

Go ahead and fire up your game to check your new re-colour:

Once you are happy, why don’t you upload your new re-colours here for others to enjoy!  🙂

This tutorial has covered basic re-colouring only, for newbies. You can also use different textures (patterns), but we’ll cover that in a different tutorial. I hope you found this easy to follow. All feedback is appreciated.