CASTability

Quality Guideline: CASTability

Appears in: Body Shop - All, Buy Mode, and Game Mods

Jump: Assessments | Jump: Examples | Jump: Tutorials

Jump: Guidelines | Jump: Examples | Jump: Tutorials

Possible Assessments

Category	Title	Description
Body Shop - All	1	The CASparts seem to have no recolourable Channels, but it could easily be turned into recolourable channels.
Body Shop - All	None	The design(s) are all fully recolourable and Amazingly done! Thank you!
Buy Mode	1	The object(s) appear to be non-CASTable.
Buy Mode	5	The creation(s) are fully CASTable and make good use of all the channels! :)
Game Mods	Object mods - no Castability	The object(s) appear to be non-CASTable.
Game Mods	Object mods - CAStable	The creation(s) are fully CASTable and make good use of all the channels! :)

General Guidelines

All objects should be made Create-a-style compatible (or also known as CASTable). It's fine to have tiny stencils which are not CASTable, as long as it doesn't mean an entire part of the object isn't recolorable. If you're concerned about whether the textures are CASTable enough, have a look at EA furniture and see what they did with tables, beds, chairs that have stencils as well.

Make sure to have at least one CASTable colour option so your downloaders are not limited to just a few colours that they can't customise! Also, make sure to take pictures with a chequered pattern so it's easy to see the tiling on the UV map :)

The Sims 3 Guidelines, apply in addition to the above General ones.

Body Shop - All

When making CASpart recolourable, you want to make sure that a few things are correct:

My CASpart has awesome tiling when using patterns!
My CASpart has multiple channels where possible. (if it has one, make sure that it has a good reason. i.e a shirt usually could be just one channel ;) )
I included an image that shows all channels red, green, yellow and purple correctly! (unless you have 2, then it might just be red and yellow)
Very recommended Adding a picture that shows all channels with patterns

This way downloaders can easily see how great your creation will look like when they'd use patterns or colours! :) It also is a great reference to show that your UV mapping is done really nicely!

Jump: Guidelines | Jump: Assessments | Jump: Tutorials

Examples

No CASTing

Why is this incorrect

Even though you might have slapped a nice texture over it that looks really awesome, it doesn't really leave many options for your downloaders to recolour it to their own liking. One exception where this is acceptable though is whenever you have 1 CASTable swatch option and one non-CASTable swatch option. (So an object's default colour choice, which usually exists out of 3 options)

It's CAStable!

Why is this correct

Because we can CASt all the nice features on the object and make it fit our current interior style in our games! :)

Patterned CASTable

Why is this incorrect

Technically, even though all appropriate pieces are CASTable, when using textures like a wood texture or a pattern on the multiplier of your object and making it so it's CASTable, you have to make sure the downloader can still fully change your wood pattern into, say, a leopard pattern! :)

One CASTable area

Why is this incorrect

Because there are plenty of places to make CASTable! Which in this case could be the pillow area and the legs as well, which gives us 3 CASTable areas. Sometimes it can be tough to figure out what works with what, though it's always good to look at EA's objects and get some inspiration from them :)

Acceptable non-CASTable

Why is this correct

Even though these might be EA furniture, it does give a good look at what doesn't necessarily need any CASTing. Which, for plants for example, while it might be cool to make the leaves area a CASTable feature, it's also understandable why this would be a non-CASTable area. Same thing counts for stencils as shown on the chair :)

Jump: Guidelines | Jump: Assessments | Jump: Examples