The Sims 1 - Recolor With Transmogrifier
March 12, 2007
Are you an old school simmer and are you still hooked on The Sims 1? Getting bored of your old objects and want something new. I wrote this tutorial to show you how to recolor your objects in a few quick steps with Transmogrifier.
The Sims Transmogrifier from Lush Creations is a tool that lets you clone an existing object in The Sims 1, and edit its name, price, description and sprite images. The graphics are exported as BMP files, which you can edit with a painting program like Adobe Photoshop or Paintshop Pro. Once you edit the pictures of the object, you can import them back into The Sims 1.
First Open Transmogrifier, pick the Object File You want to recolor. Then push the Clone Object File button. A new window will appear. Now you can change the name of The Object File or you can choose to do not so.
Then push the OK button. Again another window will appear called Cloning Progress. When the Green words “Transmogrifier Successfully Finished Cloning” appears, its ready and You can push the OK button.
You will return in the normal Transmogrifier window. Here You need to push the Export Object File button. A new window will appear called Export Whizzer. In this window You can change the Folder were the Object File will be saved in. It is best to save it in the following folder C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\Downloads\Transmogrified.
Then push the OK button. You will come in the save window, just push the save button. Do not change the name Or You can not Import it back in to Transmogrifier once ready recoloring.
Your back in the normal Transmogrifier window. Now You are ready to recolor. Go to the Folder were You saved The Object File, but DO NOT SHUT DOWN Transmogrifier. Normally thats the following Folder C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\Downloads\Transmogrified.
Open Your Photo Editing Program Like Arcsoft PhotoStudio 5.5 or Adobe PhotoShop CS2. You can Download a free Trial of Arcsoft PhotoStudio 5.5 here. Go To the folder were You saved the Object File C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\Downloads\Transmogrified. Here You see Your file like a folder. In this folder are folders called sprites. Depending on which Object File You choose, it can be 3 sprites up to 20 sprites. I choose a sofa so it were only 3 sprites. In each sprite are 2 BMP files, these we are going to recolor. Every BMP file shows another side of The Object File.
Then save the BMP file without changing its name, and go back to Transmogrifier.
Push the Import Object File button in Transmogrifier. It will open another window. It automatically finds the right file and You only have to push the Open button.
Another window will be opened called Import Progress once the following green text appears “Transmogrifier Successfully Finished Importing”. Then push the Ok button and you will return to the normal Transmogrifier window.
You are finished. Close Transmogrifier and check out Your new home made custom object.
very good
Comment by ahsan — March 22, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
excellent
Comment by ahsan — March 22, 2007 @ 4:53 pm
I think this tutorial really helped me i have wanted to recolor objects so much and here i can thanks so very much
Comment by Rose — July 11, 2008 @ 1:56 am