I am a newcomer to your site. I have recently finished courses in 3d modeling in 3ds Max. I would love to be able to import some of my meshes into Sims 2 but have not found a tutorial using this program. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be very much appreciated.

http://www.pandorasims.net/tutorials2.html

when i use the 3ds importer the mesh always ****s up but that tutorial is outdated since max 7 can import OBJ files 3dwin isn't needed to convert.

Well now we're up to Max 8 so there is a few things they've fixed.

8 is out already?

Yep, sure is. That's what I've been working on. Also, with those tutorials you sent me, the SimPE that she uses is different than the one I am, so I'm a liiiil confused on parts. Is there any newer ones??

she? i think the owner of pandora's is a guy.

You're right. Pandora's is run by a guy.

Madragal: Which version of SimPE do you have?

My bad ...mythologically speaking, Pandora was a girl .... bad thing about assuming >.< ....Anyways, I believe it's the newest version. I just downloaded it not two weeks ago and it was ...I believe, the updated version for OFB? Not sure, I just know I got the newest one when I went. Also, when I go through the steps I can figure out, and I get to the part where I'm trying to export into 3DMax ... it says that I don't have some kind of DirectX that's needed??? Have no clue ...should of wrote the error message down. Either way, at home I don't have internet ...only at school, so it's hard for me to just click the link to fix any errors. >.< So confused....

in max when you export choose export as OBJ don't use 3ds most of the time despite what peeps here tell you it will stuff up! nearly everytime i import the mesh as 3ds in SimPE the mesh jumps or moves in other words it's not directly in align with the grid once i get it into the game. if i export as obj i never get that problem.

Okay, I'll try that out. Thanks!