Will It Blend? The Sims 2 | The Sims 2 to Blender Tutorial for Renders | Bruised-Pixels

Want some super pretty pics of your sims in a rendering engine outside of a 17 year old game? Wanna make some cool stuff in blender using your sims? Well this tutorial might help you! (i hope)

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LINKS
Previous Blender versions - https://www.blender.org/download/previous-versions/
NinjaRipper - https://gamebanana.com/tools/5638
Milkshape 3D - http://www.milkshape3d.com/ms3d/download.html
UniMesh plugin for Milkshape - https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=122399
GIMP - https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Mixamo - https://www.mixamo.com/
Auto-Rig Pro - https://blendermarket.com/products/auto-rig-pro

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Will it blend?
0:26 - Intro
2:57 - NinjaRipper & Bodyshop
5:13 - The extracted textures
6:59 - Getting meshes and things w/ transparent textures
9:41 - Milkshape 3D, converting the .5gd to .obj
11:05 - Blender import & cleaning up your meshes
14:04 - Materials
20:57 - Combining the body and prepping for rigging
24:40 - OPTIONAL: Subdivision surface; smoofing out ur model
34:12 - Rig talk
34:46 - Mixamo vs ARP
36:49 - Mixamo method
41:32 - Auto-Rig Pro method
51:16 - Posing tips & backdrops
56:16 - Render settings & final render

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RESOURCES FOR BEGINNERS
THE donut tutorial (one of the most popular beginner tutorials, it's even meme'd on) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPrnSACiTJ4
Daniel Krafft (just in general his videos, they're funny and his tip series helps me out a lot) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCojEXrCBzO-cP2N5YlRcrWw
Difference between Eevee & Cycles render engines (some computers can't handle cycles so you may have to use eevee! I suggest watching some tutorials specifically on eevee if your going that route but here's a good video explaining the differences) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NVYCwzEF9w
Cycles bloom (bloom is pwetty owo, also a good intro to the compositing feature of blender) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3U6wD7lu4
Weight painting in 2.8 (if you dont like the way things are bending or anything, you can fix it with weight painting and using the blur tool) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9S-jhBIEiU

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