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It's much easier than all this now, little duckling. This tutorial was posted a looong time ago...
Basic rundown:
1. Open each of your finished eye .package files in SimPE. Click on the Texture Image resource. In Plugin View, you'll see your eye, surrounded by checkerboard. Right-click on your eye and choose Export. Export a .png format of your eye to a folder somewhere on your computer. Name the .png something descriptive - i.e. blue eye. Repeat for all the colours you want to make defaults.
2. Open an existing default replacement eye .package file. You're welcome to use either of mine on my eye uploads (Blasphemy and Precious Jewels are both available as defaults). You'll see there are textures in it, too. Click on the first one and see what it is - you can look at the image and I think there's a little text thing (uuface_eye_blue or something like that) for the resource as well to tell you what is what.
3. Now, right-click on the eye already in the default package and choose Build DXT. This will allow you to bring in the texture for your eye that you'd like to use instead. If Build DXT is greyed out look for Numenor's tutorial in the Object Creation & Texturing forum about recolouring objects in SimPE's object workshop - it has links to the nVidia DDS Utilities you will need and further info on setting it up. If you do have Build DXT, go ahead and choose the corresponding .png file you exported with your eye textures - if you've got the light blue default eye open, choose your light blue eye .png. Let it import the textures (it'll pop up a black box and take a sec) and then you should have your eye in the file, still surrounded by checkerboard. Click the Commit button.
4. Repeat step 3 for all the other eye colours in the .package file. Make sure to commit after each one.
5. Save when you're done.
6. Put the now-edited default file in your Downloads folder (take out any existing default eyes!) and load the game or Body Shop and see if it worked.
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