Tutorial: Converting all types of CAS CC to work with color sliders (+ how to disable it)
This enables CAS CC to work with Color Sliders for Hair, Clothes, & Accessories by thepancake1 and @mizoreyukii.
Since S4 Studio only let's you batch convert hairs and update makeup for compatibility, I present to you: TS4AlphaConverter_2_2_0_0 by CmarNYC.
Keep in mind that enabling CAS CC for color sliders will increase the file sizes of your .package files!
Sliders will also always affect all the texture, i.e. you can't exclude accessories like buttons or zippers, so some textures might not work well.
Also check out this tutorial: Fixing slider compatible CAS CC with broken textures
💜 Requirements:
Color Slider mod
TS4AlphaConverter_2_2_0_0
CAS CC you want to enable
Featured CC by @trillyke @daylifesims @jius-sims @magic-bot
💜How to enable CC for color sliders
1. Download the required program, mod and CC you want.
This is my outfit before sliders:
2. Open up Alpha Converter
3. For enabling sliders, you can only use the folder option and not single files:
Select your input folder which contains the .packages you want to enable.
Then select your output folder where you want to save the new files.
"Include subfolders" is handy if your CC goes into more folders inside your input folder. It will reproduce the same file structure.
4. I would recommend enabling "Don't change package names" so you can just replace your input files directly, otherwise it adds "_Fixed" at the end of the filename.
I will also leave "Don't copy unchanged packages" checked.
5. Next we will select "Convert RLE2 to LRLE" to enable color sliders. I will explain the others later.
It then enables "Convert only textures linked from CASPs" which is good, e.g. it will only target actual CAS CC textures then and no Build & Buy for example.
Leave "Convert all diffuse textures linked from CASP" checked if you want to convert all types of CAS CC.
6. These are my finished settings:
7. Press "Go". It will then take a while depending on file amount and swatches, as it will have to go through textures one by one.
8. Check your finished files. The file size should be bigger, in this case it went up by 30 MB for only 5 files.
This is how the outfit looks after applying sliders to all pieces:
💜 How to disable CAS CC for color sliders
This time select "Convert LRLE to RLE2". You can leave "Convert only textures linked from CASPs".
2. Press "Go" and let it do it's thing.
3. As you can see, the file size went down again (middle), but it is not the same size as from the original file (right).
You will no longer be able to use sliders on the CAS CC piece, except transparency, which always works.
💜 Fixing slider compatible CAS CC with broken textures
If some of your CAS CC displays huge areas of missing, pixelated textures there is an issue with compression.
I don't know how and why this happens, but check out * this tutorial * on how to fix it.
@thefoxburyinstitute @maxismatchccworld @emilyccfinds @sssvitlanz
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Raphael's head mod
(Sliders below)
EMP's NPC heads may have vanished from Nexus, but we've got a new savior:
Raphael heads by samplevi
Adds not only the human version for human bodies, but also the cambion head for tieflings (and mod cambions), as well as Haarlep's and Raphael's cambion hair.
ENJOY FOLKS! And send some love to the blessed mod author!
(Honorable mention: They also made a female Raphael head mod)
Also, in case anyone wants it - I spent an embarrassing amount of time to try and match Raphael's hair color, because it's not just a flat brown from the base colors.
Here's a comparison of my best match, left is character creation hair, right is the actual Raphael model:
Sliders:
Human
Human hair:
Eyes: Brown 2
Skin color: Blush 5
Cambion
Skin color: Red Tone 4
Cambion hair:
Horns:
If you're looking for Raphael's cambion eyes, the "New eye colors" mod has them. The color is called "Mindflayer orange".
Now go forth and have fun!
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Tutorial: Fixing slider compatible CAS CC with broken textures
If your CAS CC is compatible with Color Sliders for Hair, Clothes, & Accessories by thepancake1 and @mizoreyukii is looking something like this (Tights by @magic-bot):
then I will show you to fix this using TS4AlphaConverter_2_2_0_0 by CmarNYC.
I don't know how or why this happens, but it seems to be an issue with LRLE texture compression.
💜 Requirements:
TS4AlphaConverter_2_2_0_0
CAS CC you want to fix
There are 2 Options you can choose from:
Letting the program fix the LRLE compression if you want to keep the slider compatibility
Disabling the CC for color sliders
💜 1. Fixing LRLE compression
1. Select your input folder which contains the .packages you want to fix.
Then select your output folder where you want to save the new files.
"Include subfolders" is handy if your CC goes into more folders inside your input folder. It will reproduce the same file structure.
2. I would recommend enabling "Don't change package names" so you can just replace your input files directly, otherwise it adds "_Fixed" at the end of the filename.
I will also leave "Don't copy unchanged packages" checked.
3. Next we will select "Updated LRLE compression".
You can leave "Convert all textures in package" checked.
4. These are my finished settings:
7. Press "Go". It will then take a while depending on file amount and swatches, as it will have to go through textures one by one.
8. Now it works properly in-game:
💜 2. Disabling the CC for color sliders
Refer to "How to disable CAS CC for color sliders" from * this tutorial *.
@thefoxburyinstitute @maxismatchccworld @emilyccfinds @sssvitlanz
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Slightly-more-scientifically-accurate Raph and Mikey! Sticking with the canon heights for their current age is scientifically okay!
I know there are only pictures of black or brown alligator snapping turtles, but they can be a brownish olive-green color too... Big tail. Extra spikes. Let him keep the weird plastron spikes too.
IMPORTANT DETAIL::: EYELASHES!! LOOK AT HIM HE'S SO CUTE WITH HIS SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE EYELASHES
First of all, Mikey's shell. ???Why did they give him an eastern box turtle shell pattern? I made it a little more ornate box turtley.
His plastron is the most accurate of all in the canon series. Box turtles are the only turtles who have that chest cavity line they have because they need to bend their plastron to close themselves up inside their shell completely (hence why they're called box turtles. they turn into lil boxes). MMmmm look at that ADOWABLE plastron!!
Oh, yeah, also, box turtles are hardly ever green. Even when they are green, it's just, like, their head. So I gave him black arms and legs.
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