
These categories are fairly self-explanatory. If you click on Create New Project, you’ll get a screen with several options: Choosing a starting point for the recolor project There is also a link at the bottom that takes you to the Workshop download page, for when you need to update to the newest version. The “News and Updates” column is extremely outdated, and you can just ignore it. “Sims 4 Forums” in the center column will take you to the Sims 4 Workshop forums, where you can then select which subforum you want.

wrk file from somewhere on your computer, or reopen a recent file.

(Typically something along the lines of Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4.) Here is the Workshop home screen where you will always be starting:įrom here, you can create a new project, open a. Under Edit > Preferences > Folders, there are two key locations: “Base Game,” which you will point to the folder where TS4 is actually installed (in Program Files, typically something along the lines of Program Files x86\Origin Games\The Sims 4) and “Game Data” which points to your TS4 folder in Documents. Getting your basic object recolor startedįirst off, upon opening Workshop, it may or may not automatically find the game installation where it will be looking for things to clone. You will need to have The Sims 4 installed, and you will need to have played it at least once to get it to generate its complete folder structure. Pretty much any version will work if you have access to it, but free graphics editors like The GIMP and Paint.NET are also usable.

You will need a graphics editor – I’ll be using Adobe Photoshop. The tools that we will need for this are going to be TSR Workshop, which can be found here: We’ll be taking a painting and swapping it out for a different picture and updating the frame to look slightly different. For this tutorial, I will be walking you through how to recolor a basic object for The Sims 4.
