#DROP SHADOW AFTER EFFECTS ERROR HOW TO#

Click the b key to initiate box selection and select the vertices on the other side of the shadow plane mesh.ġ0.

Once the vertices are positioned how you want them click the a key on your keyboard to deselect them. When they are positioned so that the shadow is situated under your mesh on that side click the left mouse button to stop the move function.ĩ. As you do this you will notice the shadow becomes smaller or larger depending on which way you move the vertices. Slide your mouse to move the vertices under your mesh. This will make it so you can slide the vertices only from side to side and it makes it easy to get precise motion.Ĩ. After you press g immediately press the x key to limit motion to the x axis. After you have selected the vertices as shown below press g on your keyboard to initiate movement. You will notice the box selector disappears and the vertices it was surrounding have turned orange indicating they are selected.ħ. Note that even if you draw the box around your mesh the vertices of your mesh will not be selected so you don't need to be careful about avoiding your mesh with the selector box.Īfter you select all of the vertices let go of the left mouse button to complete the selection. Press the left mouse button down and move your mouse to pull the selector box so that it surrounds all of the vertices on one side of the shadow plane as shown. You will see a white box selector show up in the view window as indicated below.Ħ.

Keep your mouse in the same window as the meshes and click the b key on your keyboard. If they turn orange instead click the a key again to make them turn black.ĥ. This should cause the vertices of the plane to turn black. Click the a key on your keyboard to deselect all the vertices of the shadow plane. Click 7 on your keyboard number pad to get an overhead view of your mesh and the shadow plane mesh. Place your mouse in the 3D view window where your mesh is. Often you will not need to change the mapping at all. This one is mapped over what EA calls the Dark Square shadow. When the image is displayed in the UV/Image Editor window you will see multiple grey blobs on a white background. This image is the 'blob sheet' that contains many different sized shadows on it.ģ. Click the small arrows directly to the right of where it says UV to get the image popup menu.

When you enter Edit Mode you will notice the left side of your screen changes and no image appears there. Right mouse click on the shadow plane to select it.Ģ. As you can see the shadow plane underneath it is far too large and will cause an over sized shadow in the game. For the purpose of this tutorial I am using an EA chair. When you have replaced the EA mesh with your mesh you will have your mesh and the EA shadow plane in Blender. Open Studio and clone your item as usual. Here are the steps to take to fix the shadow so it fits your object:ġ. The dark splotch issue is discussed below. On the other hand, if you replace a small item with a coffee table the shadow is far too small and has 4 dark little splotches also. Here are a couple examples:Īs you can see, if you replace something as wide as a coffee table with something smaller like a chair the coffee table's shadow is too big for the chair. If your new item has a different shape or size from the item you're replacing this shadow plane will not fit your item and, as a result, you will end up with a shadow that doesn't look right in the game. In Studio and in Blender it will look like a flat white sheet lying under or behind the EA item. When you clone an EA item to replace with your mesh this plane is cloned as part of that object's mesh groups. This type of shadow is generated from a plane that is mapped onto a generic image that contains several different shadow shapes (aka the 'blob sheet').

The first type of shadow shows up on the floor under your object or on the wall behind your object if it is a wall item.

#DROP SHADOW AFTER EFFECTS ERROR HOW TO#

This tutorial will go over each type of shadow and show you how to edit/correct it so that it looks right with your new object. There are multiple types of shadow in Sims 4 all of which affect your object's in-game appearance under various circumstances.

Drop shadow after effects error