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Hey I hope you’re doing okay! Ive been stalking your page for a while! I’m in the same process of making a visual novel! I was wondering how you do the AI+Sims 4 without it looking you know jacked up! Would love to know your progress!

Hold your hats everyone, i'll be explaining in details...

I was quite sceptical about AI previously. It felt like I'm being replaced with something monstrous, artificial - the imitation of life that's superior me on every single parameter. The sudden sting of a guilt for years of seemingly vain trials and tribulations. Was it all just for nothing? I believe everyone of us came to that question sooner or later. But here I stand telling you how to make a machine fulfill your demands.

First thing. The machine loves precise. From my personal experience, a better formed human wish grants a better machinery result. A less formed wish gives it a choice. Think beforehand, seek the patterns (keywords) that may help you sustain the artstyle throughout the workflow.

Tell the AI what it needs to do. Give it a reference image and explain how you want it to be changed. For example, I want this alien dude becoming a:

"A visually ominous face of an eyeless humanoid creature. This divine image, resembling a digitally rendered painting, showcases the ancient Egyptian god of chaos in detail: sharp chin and cheekbones, dark gray and beige skin, shimmering with pulsating rainbow hues, blood is visibly circulating under his translucent, cadaverous skin. His mouth with tightened teeth grins menacingly. The overall composition is dynamic and captivating, evoking a sense of fear, malevolent power and impending chaos". That will be my prompt. If you're lacking skills then put your hands on other's results, copy their prompts and reshape according to your needs.

Oh. Not so eyeless. Let's give it less of a free will shall we?

Better now! Sadly the eyes are in place, as you can see it is not perfect even with precise input. Now let's make about 5-10 generations with same settings. It may take time to pass a cooldown after you'll run out of tokens, so be patient. If you have absolutely no spare money to buy a decent amount of generations (or if the transactions themselves are banned in your country 👍) and your enthusiasm is on pathetically vigorous level join me on free trial option almost any of the AI sites provide. That is fair exchange - money or your time.

You get what I mean? It could be anything shaped into another anything. Put here your sim, order a nice shot - here you go! Make something out of nothing with the power of words. Make a human being... some kind of.

Hooray! Not only we have the result we craved for but a whole bunch of reusable high-quality textures of various nature.

Our next step: we go in a deep dark lair of creator's mind. Hm-m, I'd correct here and there, erased that part and attached that one... Now we play "compile your Frankenstein out of everything that is not in its place". Of course a machine is not yet on the level where there wouldn't be a possibility to distinct its presence. So to hide these little (big, actually) inconsistencies we use a power of photo editing. Grab your software. With the power given to you by the sense of vision eliminate the overgrowing fingers and fight back mutilated teeth clumps.

Meet my favourite one hundred percent AI generated method. Generate a simple low quality image free and effortlessly (I use Craiyon, the perfect weapon)

Let another AI add the details for you. Catches the concept just great. Though it does not mean no handiwork after.

You can stylize it even further. Here you can see AI generated monster dudes crispy pixelated after a luxurious tour into pixelart AI. Good thing for a pixel indie gamestyle.

So, that's it. The secret is basically in your own hands. Acknowledge the style of your game, follow it while generating contents and patch up the AI mistakes.

+ zero investments

+ compensation for a lack of skills / hardware

+ easy to use

- even more work than if you would do all the same without AI

- straight dependence on sites / chat-bots, etc.

- time consuming

- many limitations (forget this if you're not on a free subscription... wait a second that abolish the first plus too!)

Hope it was helpful!

Photoshop tip: turning your sims into drawings

Choose a proper image. You need a good (3+ different light sources) lighting for filter to work better. Make sure there are no black spots on your sim or they're covering a very little spaces. If you render in Cycles, don't forget to enable denoise option.

Open Photoshop, go to Filters --> Artistic --> Cutout

3. We have pretty decent result already but don't be afraid to play with available settings. Press Ok.

4. Let's make a copy of our image using CTRL + J shortcut.

5. While this new layer selected, clean Cutout filter and follow the same path: Filters --> Artistic but this time it will be Poster Edges

6. We'll use it to restore the details that were lost after using Cutout. We won't need them all, just enough to make our sim more cartoonish.

7. Grab a basic hard round brush, reduce the size and check the opacity and flow to be 100%. I also recommend to play with layer filling, in my case it set to 65%.

8. Invert the mask (default is white - 100% layer visibility, CTRL + I to make it black with 0% layer visibility)

9. Now draw the missing details with white color on the black mask. It can be anything you think should be preserved.

10. You can add as many similar adjustment layers as you want, use it wisely!

Learning how to make cc is so complicated >.< if anyone who knows how to use blender and gimp can you give me some links? thanks! ♡

How to install / Use default Underwear in to the sims 4 with the HQ mod

For what reason my underwear doesn't work??

If you use the HQ mod, you know that to have it work correctly you need to install replacement HQ files, the problem with them is that when you install a cas override mod your game looks as if you had never put the mods on your mods file, this happens because you have two overrides at the same time and for overrides you can only have 1, so in this tutorial I will show you how to remove the Hq override that does not allow you to use the default mod of your underwear.

First

U must have to have the latest versions of the Hq file replacement of the base game. If you want to install the default HQ skin, check out my tutorial. The creator of these repalaces only has skin IDs, not default underwear IDs. To be more specific, the IDs are a list of numbers and letters that contain the names of the textures that we will need to delete from the packages: BG_HQ_6, BG_HQ_7, BG_HQ_8 (How to get these IDs in the second step)

Second

U must be donwload a text file that I created with the name of the Hq package replaces and their respective IDs. Donwload

And you will uncompress the zip; on that, you will have 3 files with the name of the 3 Hq base game replaces.

Third

Now i´ll explain u how use those files on the packages replaces. i´ll make the tutorial whit BG_HQ_6 but THE PROCESS IS THE SAME WHIT ALL PACKAGE I´LL ONLY SHOW U WHIT THIS BECAUSE IS LITERALLY THE SAME WHIT THE LEFT OVER!!

so.... we i´ll open whit the S4studio the package BG_HQ_6

With the opened package, we will copy the ID that is in the text file that has the same name as the package, and we will paste these on the S4 searcher.

After you paste the ID, you need to click on filter, select the image, and click on delete:

Remember save the changes!!!!

IMPORTANT

⚠To be careful at hour of deleting texture, you must be pretty sure that you are downloading an override for this texture. For example, if you delete all texture but only downloaded a CC default underwear for women, the left-over ages will have a black texture on their underwear, so when you delete the textures on the s4studio, check the age of the image (I suppose that you recognize the ages of the underwear textures)⚠

⚠I have only taken out a single swatch, more specifically the texture that appears when you remove the clothes from the sim for all ages. If the CC that you downloaded contains more than one swatch, it will not be seen in the game; the original texture that corresponds to it will appear. Taking out these IDs is very complicated; if you want more samples, you will have to do it manually⚠

Literally, that's all. It's not that complicated, just slow. If for some reason the S4 Studio is slow when you hit save, it's normal. Just let it load. Even if it doesn't respond, eventually it will. Keep in mind that you are deleting textures from a file. about 3 or 2 gb.

And that's all!! I hope that if you are having a problem with this, that tut can be useful, and if you want, you can see my default underwear for all ages that is compatible here ୨ৎ