Sims 2 – Recolouring Using A Seamless Image   (Views: 5,207 )

First of all, open up SimPE and the Object Workshop. Click ‘Open’ to open up a cc file, or ‘Start’ to open up a Maxi’s file. For this tutorial, I’ll be re-colouring a Maxi’s sofa:

Select ‘Seating/Sofas/Lap of Luxury Sofa’:
Click ‘Next’:

Select ‘Recolor’, then ‘Start’:

Make a new folder on your desktop, or somewhere easy to find. Inside that folder, save the file as something easily identifiable, for others and yourself:

Select any fabric from the top part of the window and click ‘OK’:

Export the image to the same folder you just created:

Start up Gimp and open up the image you exported:

Open up your seamless image. I usually scale them to about 200 width, but it can be any size you want, depending on the look you are going for:

Select the image:

Copy the image to your clipboard:

Using the rectangular select tool, select the parts of the image you want to fill with your pattern:

Select the pattern fill tool:

The clipboard selection is at the top-right of the pattern box:

Click the selected part of the image to fill it, and repeat the process for each part of the image you want to recolour with the pattern. You can also recolour the wood parts the same way. Then select the ‘File’ and overwrite option to save the new image:

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

If that option doesn’t show, you need to check your DDS installation as you can find at the top of this tutorial. Open the image you saved, and click ‘Build’:

Click ‘Commit’ then ‘OK’:

Save the file, then save it to your Sims 2 downloads folder:

Now fire up your game to see what it looks like:

Simple, wasn’t it? Once you get used to the process, you can knock out dozens of re-colours without breaking a sweat! Try it, you won’t regret it!