I'm trying to make recolors of things like the Lavender bush, the Azalea bush and some of the other plant decorations so they will fit in a desert world. When I clone the file in S3OC and then open my cloned file in S3PE, I see no image files to extract and manipulate. Is there a trick to plants that I am missing?

God Bless,
mik

Yeah they're what's known as Speedtree objects, and don't have the same sort of file structure as normal objects. s3pe/oc can't handle these. Not sure if there is any other tool that can...

Well, poopie. I need some desert foliage - as in sage brush looking stuff, dry, dusty, brown bushes and recolored buckthorn to fill out the desert/apocalypse world I'm building.

God Bless,
mik

Hmm...I thought someone had done some desert stuff for S3. If you need more than is out there it's always possible to clone a deco item and replace the EA mesh with a plant-type mesh. The type of plant you're talking about don't seem as if it would be a deficiency if they didn't blow in the breeze like SpeedTree plants do...they don't have enough leafy kind of foliage for it to matter.

This subject was discussed here, but the process may have changed a little due to S3PE updates.

The only free desert foliage I could find for TS3 were the 3 saguaro cactuses, which I already have. They are too bright green for my tastes.

I don't have milkshape to try to make my own meshes at this point. AND the process seems pretty intimidating too :/

God Bless,
mik

Free desert foliage:

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=433234

The plants in the thread are cloned how I discussed above rather than being recolored SpeedTree items so they aren't going to move in-game. But, again, desert items don't have foliage which seems to require this so these objects work out very well I think.

OOOH - thanks They really won't work too well in my apocalypse world, but I've got a few other desert ideas in mind.

I STILL would like some sage brush, yucca and scrub pine (if you have ever been to Wyoming, you know the foliage of which I speak).

Has anyone figured out how to edit speedtree files yet? I hope they do soon.

God Bless,
mik

FWIW, a free version of Speedtree is packaged with the Unreal Development Kit, which is also free for non-commercial purposes. I have not played with it too much and really don't have much interest in making new trees, but others might.