Sims 3 Pattern Making Tutorial
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About this tutorial…
There are several tutorials discussing how to make patterns for the Create-A-Style tool in Sims 3 that are helping many people make great patterns. However, I started out as a total beginner, and was still fumbling with issues such as ‘why channels?’ and ‘how do I add an alpha?’
when other people were seemingly outputting a pattern a minute!!!
If you too are floundering and feel like you know nothing, hopefully this tutorial will help you. After you’ve succeeded with this one, you’ll be able to move on to more advanced stuff. This tutorial is meant for people who still have no idea what they’re doing and need to know WHY they're doing this or that. So it DOES go on a bit. But that's me!
Your pattern
I’m not going to make a pattern from scratch (because that would assume you can paint stuff)! Instead, and because I can't paint stuff either, I’m going to convert an existing texture using a basic select tool to split a brick pattern across three channels (and an alpha) to make the English Victorian brick pattern shown on the right. You can use any pattern (including my brick pattern).
Whatever you use, ensure you start with a pattern that has easy sections to cut out and divide, and is sized 256 pixels wide by 256 pixels high.
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39 Comment(s) posted so far
#30 On May 15, 2011 TigerLiyene wrote:
Thanks for awasome tutotial!!!
#31 On Jun 6, 2011 Degera wrote:
I'm late to the party, as always, but I wanted to say thank you for this. I was struggling with a crushed velvet pattern that just didn't want to stop being all white (*cough*). I'm blaming the pattern for this of course. But your tutorial was a huge help. Thank you
#32 On Jun 22, 2011 allison731 wrote:
Thank you very much
#33 On Jul 10, 2011 kmiloqc93 wrote:
thank you so much
#34 On Aug 4, 2011 altea127 wrote:
Thank you!!!:P
#35 On Aug 24, 2011 Nemesis_3050 wrote:
Thank you a lot for this tutorial ^^
#36 On Apr 2, 2012 gatomurphy wrote:
Thank you once again Sue for your amazing generosity in sharing your knowledge. Through the years I believe I have learned more things, more skills from you that I actually use and enjoy than I probably learned in all my years of public school growing up! I'm just coming back after years away and creating for Sims 3 looks much more complicated than creating for Sims 2. Perhaps I'm getting too old for this.
Sandy
#37 On Apr 2, 2012 gatomurphy wrote:
Aagh... I told you I was getting too old. Are the instructions different for the Create a Pattern Tool I downloaded from the Sims 3 website a few days ago?
#38 On May 28, 2012 nuppo wrote:
Brilliant!
#39 On Mar 1, 2013 tashsims3 wrote:
thank you for this tutorial