In need of advice

Absolutely, any graphic program you want to use should work. Now for wallpapers I'm not sure if that requires the image to be in DDS form or not. I've never made wallpaper before. I know that CAS CC does require the image texture to be in that format.

You can always ask on the S4S forum, they're very helpful, just to make sure.

"Chicklet453681;c-18236715" wrote:
Absolutely, any graphic program you want to use should work. Now for wallpapers I'm not sure if that requires the image to be in DDS form or not. I've never made wallpaper before. I know that CAS CC does require the image texture to be in that format.

You can always ask on the S4S forum, they're very helpful, just to make sure.

Walls can be made in .png format. CAS items can also be recoloured in .png format, as can any of the build/buy items.

In all honesty, I've never used the DDS format in any of my recolourings? Making new walls is basically just recolouring, so using the simple .png format works just fine. But I've only ever done recolours of game items, I've never made anything from scratch using Blender (for CAS or BB), so I don't know if the DDS format is only because of how Blender reads the files?

Walls and floors are easy recolours. It's just that walls are annoying because you have to make every recolour 3 times (for each of the wall heights).

I've made oodles of cc walls.... The easiest way to make walls is to pick a wall from the game (any wall) and import each of the 3 wall heights to 3 individual .png files (short, medium, tall), then open each one up in whatever graphics program you're using (I use Adobe Photoshop) and do your recolours overtop of those with whatever colour/pattern/texture you want. And then you export each of those three .png wall heights back into S4S. Grabbing from already existing walls in the game is especially great for using the already existing half wall panels (wainscotting) and just changing the top wallpaper patterns (and adding a little drop shadow on the wallpaper from the edge of the wainscotting for more realism). Super quick and easy.

But be careful! Once you get the hang of making walls and floors it becomes addicting... especially because we have such a lack of ones to choose from in the game. The real trick though is finding good quality seamless patterns/textures to make your walls and floors (anything with a pattern has to be seamless)... unless you make your own (which is what I usually end up doing in Adobe Illustrator).

I think you can. It's not so hard to do :)