SimsModeling

Once in a while I get interested in modding The Sims 1 and one of the challenges I was facing is making sprites for custom objects. While many tools have existed over the years, they get harder and harder to run in today’s OSes. I decided to make my own tool, based on Unity, where I can just put a model in and it’ll generate the sprites.

It generates Color, Alpha and Depth channels. In all 4 directions and zooms levels. An external tool called ‘nconvert’ is also used to help converting images to 256 color.

Unfortunately it didn’t work well. The issue is that I couldn’t figure out how to do the Depth channel correctly so it was always off. But it gave decent results if you don’t care about perfect depth.