Jazz's Hexing Motivation Thread

[Jazz]

Jazz's Hexing Motivation Thread



I need a little extra push and motivation to hex lately so I thought I'd start this thread for moral support, lol. This will be focused on babyz but might also include some petzy things here and there as well. Comments of any kind are welcome as a motivation boost, aha.

What I Can Do:

- Petz in PW / minor details in LNZ

- Change babyz eye color/textures

What I Can Probably Figure Out w/o Much Tutorial Help:

- Freckles (w/ help of spot generator)

- Babyz Eyelid color

- Babyz skin color

Want to Learn:

- Change inner mouth color

- Hairstyle: PW to Babyz

- Hairstyle: Completely w/ code

- Adding belly buttons

- Placing tattoos (hair)
- Placing tattoos (on body)
- Petz/Babyz Clothes
- Playscenes for Babyz
- Petz/Babyz toys

Current question for fellow hexers:
Any tips for .bmp creation? I'm still sorta navigating if you want to place a pixel in the center of a shirt how to do that effectively vs. a repeating pattern, etc, and I *think* I know how to do it. I have a pic made and I'm going to play with the programs in a sec.

As far as ID numbers, is the thread with them still updated, etc?

Inspiration for Jazz


 (Photos/etc that I will take inspiration from and try to re-create!)

- Hairstyle for Amy Winehouse & Meg from Hercules

SPOILER: Click to show

- Bangs/bob inspiration pic  

- Recolors of Aleisha's glasses & favorite accessories
- Harriet from Shampoodle {click}
- Celeste (ACNL)-inspired baby w/ bow {click}
- Katie (ACNL)-inspired baby {click}
- Celeste bow hair accesory {click} {click}
- Little Prince-inspired boy {click} {click} {click} {click}
- Deep Listening-inspired t-shirts (logo, slogans, etc)
- Music Instrument toys
- Music room playscene
- Post fire/electrocuted Sim-inspired baby {click} 

Hopefully I will be back shortly with my first attempt / step on working on a hexed kid! n__n
Or, at least the first step towards learning/trying something new!

[Emmy]

I think to place a body tattoo, you need to put the tattoo on a freckle? I think I did this once, but I have memory loss so I may be wrong. I believe you need to place the freckle where you want the tattoo, then in the texture list put the tattoo bmp thing on the freckle with the number of the freckle?? And then the freckle size would be the tattoo size. I may be totally wrong, that's just how I remember it. I'm not sure how hair tattoos work at all.
The eyelid color is actually super easy. There's like, a section in lnz pro just for the eyelid color, and it gives you a popup of the game colors to change the eyelids to. It's in the colorinfo section.

[Jazz]

^ ah, okay. Sounds like the same as petz for the eyelid color, then. :3

And I had a feeling it had something to do with paintballz. Thanks for that!

[Jazz]

Added a bunch of inspiration photos and ideas and I'm starting to feel a LOT more excited to start trying babyz hexing! Now that I have ideas, the motivation/inspiration is flowing more.

I think I'm going to attempt a "The Little Prince" inspired boy first because I could also enter it into this competition for the space/stars theme! :3 Plus, I hexed a fox for petz about a year ago that would be a perfect pet for him. AND I've been totally all about a set that was hexed (I'll have to find the mootique) so as far as clothes/petz/etc if I kept him he would totally be all set!

I'm really tempted to try the Meg/Amy Winehouse hairstyle but I think that will be a bit more advanced for what I'm ready for. Though, if I make it more large pony-tail-like I think it would be easier for me to visualize/do than long hair which I haven't wrapped my head around how to attempt yet.

I think the Katie from Animal Crossing would be a really easy hairstyle! So I might actually try that first, an then find an already available code for the ears. And do the Little Prince right afterwards when I have a better idea of how to navigate the programs.

[Helen🌸]

The little prince set is probably Tina's one! I haven't seen any others about I don't think.

I look forward to seeing your hexing adventures!

[Rebecca ♠️]

Omgg the post fire sim baby, I really want to see that done!

Good luck with hexing

[𝓡iley]

Ooh, I can share my hexing process! <3 It's probably weird, I have no idea what the other hexers around here do, but here's how I go about hexing a baby:

1. Having a general theme in mind helps me a lot, it can be something more specific like "valentine's day themed" or something vague like "natural colors." It's nice to having a starting point to work from.
2. If I want to make a new hairstyle this is where I go look for references. Pinterest is pretty good for finding different hairstyles, and ofc just Google or something works too! Hair Colors Ideas is nice for finding hair color combinations that look pretty. Lovely Dyed Locks is great for both style and color, it has a really in-depth search system made up of drop-down menus so you can find exactly the sort of thing you want!
   
3. I like doing a mockup of what I want to do. I'm a really visual worker so it helps to be able to try out colors and tattoos and hair bmps and such to see what looks good together. In my hexing thread I shared the little template/base thing I use for that.
   
4. Here's where I go into PW and start working on the hair if I'm making a new style. If not, this is where I'd grab the codes for my existing hairstyles and choose the bits I want to use to paste into the BabyzRez.dll and then I pull my hair out a little making the linez and stuff work if I need to change them.
5. Ya I hex from the .dll, apparently most people here hex directly from a .baby file but I can't wrap my head around that, how do people do it?? Nothing is labelled properly, how do you find anything, how do you know what's important and what's not. The .dll is meticulously labelled and annotated and I appreciate that thank you Babyz developers for being so nice to me. Anyway
6. If I'm making a new style, I go back and forth between PW, LNZ Pro and the game a whole lot to check and tweak stuff. It's important to me that my styles look good from the sides and back too so I have to modify stuff a lot to get everything looking good and make sure things don't clip or move wildly out of control or whatever. Eventually I get to a point where the tweaks I'm making are small and precise enough that using PW is more of a hinderance than a help, so I close it and just move stuff around manually bit-by-bit in LNZ Pro.
7. Change colors of things, do freckles and tattoos, probably change my mockup like 50 times while I'm in the middle of hexing cause I am wishy-washy as heck and change my mind a lot, blah blah blah hexing happens
8. Check stuff in the game until I'm dizzy to make sure the kid looks as nice in-game as it does in the mockup, keep changing stuff until the kid that pops out makes me smile
9. ~A child is born~
   

I started out trying to be helpful and serious but I can only stay serious for like .2 seconds I'm so sorry
Hopefully this helps or something //thumbs up

[Jazz]

Thanks for the links! I enjoyed reading about your process!

I didn't actually know that hexing in the babyzRez.dll was an option. I might have to peek at that to see if it's more intuitive to me than the .baby file. I like labels and stuff.

I think the trickiest part for me will be figuring out what everything is in the lnz .pet code to switch it over to the .baby (or perhaps .babyrez.dell) as I've always struggled with switching between different parts of code in breedfiles vs. .pet files while trying to do things in LNZ. But I'm sure it won't be too bad! :3

I've enjoyed your babyz creations SO much since you've joined the bc! <3 See you tackle new babyz projects and start hexing babyz has helped motivate/inspire me to try, actually!

[Ꮭilibet 🍑]

i'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with, jazz! there are tutorials for everything you've listed on milk or on babyz.org i'm pretty sure. check the tutorial directory!

& as for pasting from pws to lnz pro, it's covered in the tutorials on pws for babyz by aleisha & jamie but you literally just copy the addballs you've made over & switch the 24s to 63s

[Jazz]

Watched the clothes hexing video that Jordyn ✬ made (SO HeLPFUL, TY!) and I think this clothes hexing thing is going to be easier than I originall thought! So I'm going to start experimenting with that.

I made this pic to work with for the center of a Tshirt and I think I have the center of it place correctly with the image with the non-rotating clothing resource but we shall see once I start working in LNZ pro in a sec.



ℓacey ☀️ ~ I figured you'd know the answer to this. With the thread with the ID numbers different users are using, would it be best to stick to 3900-4000? Can they have the numbers up to 9? So if I started around 4000+ those should all be un-assigned and work/not conflict with others' clothes?