ANY ONE KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE "BUMP MAP" TEXTURE FOR CLOTHING IN BODYSHOP?

[Onig Ocnarrac]

Pretty self-explanatory question......

[sara_dippity]

YES I DO. ITS LIKE CHANGING THE OTHER PARTS OF A SKIN.

[Trubble]

DUDE! LIKE WHAT IS WITH THE ALL CAPS?! Shhh!

[Onig Ocnarrac]

But when I make changes to it it doesn't seem to change the items physical characteristics.  If I understand correctly, you should be able to adjust an items 3D appearance with the bump map texture right? 

[Onig Ocnarrac]

Technically subject lines should be in all caps.

[J. M. Pescado]

Technically subject lines should be in all caps.

Where'd you get that idea from? Is this something they told you back before lowercase letters had been invented?

[Onig Ocnarrac]

Since you asked I got the Idea when I joined the Marine Corps.  Subject lines being in all caps is standard naval correspondence, so I just do it out of habit.

[J. M. Pescado]

See, that's done out of a tradition, among other things: It's in all caps because when they first started performing typed military dispatches, lowercased letters hadn't been invented yet. Furthermore, the entire point of it is to get your attention. Because it's important. And you're supposed to read it.

On the Internet, however, we had lowercase letters, so when you do things in all caps, it simply looks like you're shouting. Which, in the military, you are.

[Onig Ocnarrac]

See, that's done out of a tradition, among other things: It's in all caps because when they first started performing typed military dispatches, lowercased letters hadn't been invented yet. Furthermore, the entire point of it is to get your attention. Because it's important. And you're supposed to read it.

On the Internet, however, we had lowercase letters, so when you do things in all caps, it simply looks like you're shouting. Which, in the military, you are.

Well thanks for not taking that as an opportunity to lambaste me.  But as far as my question is concerned I shouted but it still remains unanswered.

[J. M. Pescado]

Yes, well, you've kinda chosen the wrong place to ask this sort of question. I mean, we've only made a grand total of zero skins, and I don't really download very many of them, either. We don't currently retain any skinners on staff. So.....I, for one, really don't have any clue on the matter. Try asking on MTS2?

[Onig Ocnarrac]

Noted.  I'm not very familiar with using the hacks available here either,  I'll  download some when I get home.  Thanks.

[Oddysey]

RGiles has some good tutorials to that effect, if I remember correctly. Some skins have bump maps, some don't, although you can add them with SimPE.

Also, the bump map changes the way in-game lighting interacts with the object. You can make a skin appear to have small bumps or indentations, but for anything that doesn't require close examination to see, you'll need to edit the mesh. MTS2 is really the best place to go for this kind of stuff.

[JenW]

Is it possible that your graphics card isn't capable of rendering bump maps? Many cards can't show them.

Jen

[SimsHost]

Back to the original question: No, you cannot change the shape of an object by modifying the normals.  The normals only affect shading.

If you want to change the object's shape you need to modify the 3D mesh.