Digital Angels

This tutorial will cover over how I make eyes, it's not the "correct" way to do them since there isn't such thing as correct way and everyone should just concentrate on finding the way that suits them. But after over 50 eyesets I dare say that for me personally this is the "correct" way to go through the whole process. (as far as the speed and quality go that is) We'll go through both photoskinning eyes and drawing them (drawing as in: creating texture from scratch) and finally I'll also cover my super lazy (and efficient) way to recolor them. Without further ado...

You'll need:

• Bodyshop (obviously) & the basic know-how on using it because I won't cover that part.


• Picture editing program that supports layers (I use Photoshop CS3 in this tutorial)


• If photoskinning eyes the photo of the eyes you wish to use, the bigger and higher quality the better (I'll use picture from facity.com in this tutorial)

Optional:

• Drawing tablet if you wish to draw eyes (it can be done with mouse too, I usually only use tablet for drawing the catchlights) In this tutorial I won't be using it at all though.

Step 0. So for the starters, open up bodyshop and pick eyes to use as base. It's probably a good idea to choose one that already has sclera that you like so you won't have to swap that out later. Also if there are options choose eye color that is very light, I usually try to pick light gray or blue or if such exists white. Start a new project with your chosen eye, name it something you can recognize and then navigate into documets > EA Games > Sims 2 > Projects > Your project name.
( Photoskinning eyes )
( Drawing Eyes )
( Making the Swatch (optional step) )
( Recoloring the eyes )
And that's it pretty much. Anything written here can also be used to edit existing eyes, you'll just need to extract their textures first for using. If there's anything more anybody would like me to cover lemme know and I'll try to update this as soon as possible :3