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Let's Make A Birdhouse

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Now, you should have finished the lamp_on sprite by following the steps for the lamp_off sprite. Did you save it? When you have both sprites saved it is time to open up T-Mog again!


A. Make sure your birdhouse is selected

B. If you view the file now you will see the old lamp.

C. Click Import to bring your edited sprites into T-Mog.


Once the files have been imported click View.


A. This shows the graphics in the file.

You have a lamp on and a lamp off. You can switch between them by clicking on them.

B. There is Our Birdhouse.

The birdhouse sits on a grid. You can think of the square it is setting on as the table top in the game. You need to position the birdhouse into the center of the "table" grid square.

C. Rotations/Zooms

The top slider bar shows 4 rotations.

The bottom zoom bar shows the 3 different zooms.

D and E. The X and Y Offests

In order to center our birdhouse in every zoom and rotation we must change the x and y offsets. Simply click up or down on the scroll bar until the birdhouse is in the center of the grid.


Exporting Again

Make sure that you center on EVERY zoom and EVERY rotation!


This time when we Export our birdhouse we will choose ONE Zoom and ALL Channels

Back To PaintShop Pro!

We will need to open our birdhouse files. Notice we now have an A and a Z sprite in each folder. Open the A sprite in each folder.


You should see this........


Grab Your Magic Wand Tool.


Click once anywhere on the BLACK background to select.


Click SELECTIONS and Then INVERT

Choose EFFECTS, NOISE, EDGE PRESERVING SMOOTH



I choose 30 as my amount of smoothing.

This will give our birdhouse a cleaner edge.

Do the same steps on both sprites and SAVE before importing them back into T-Mog.

After Importing back into T-Mog click Edit Object.


Here you can name your object, give it a price and a description!

Click Edit Definition (A)


Scroll down to Function Flags and change our birdhouse from being catagorized as a lighting object into a decorative object.

We are DONE!

Load your The Sims game and test your New Decorative Birdhouse !