Making Avatar Clothes
Things have to fit together like halves of a clamshell - so a difficult part is getting the seam-lines to be invisible. The most difficult part, perhaps, is making allowances for the distortion of going from the flat template to the 3d avatar.
![](http://www.tiger-swallowtail.com/space/11-20-04A.jpg)
Things have to fit together like halves of a clamshell - so a difficult part is getting the seam-lines to be invisible. The most difficult part, perhaps, is making allowances for the distortion of going from the flat template to the 3d avatar.
![](http://www.tiger-swallowtail.com/space/11-20-04B.jpg)
This highly protective warrior outfit has about a bazillion layers. I just made this - I didn't think about taking pictures when I was working (who cares anyway), but here's the finished outfit top half unflattened in Photoshop.
![](http://www.tiger-swallowtail.com/space/11-20-04C.jpg)
Here I uploaded the lower half targa file to the Second Life previewer, where it can be viewed as an image, hair, top, eye, etc. The checkerboard indicates the transparent area that I made in Photoshop with an alpha layer so that some avatar nudiness can happen. The box on the top right is the bottom of the foot.
![](http://www.tiger-swallowtail.com/space/11-20-04D.jpg)
This is the same file viewed as a woman's lower body. I preview a trillion times as I check and mend mismatched seams or other discrepancies.
![](http://www.tiger-swallowtail.com/space/11-20-04E.jpg)
I uploaded the top of the outfit, and paid $10 Linden. Then I can use that uploaded texture to make articles of clothing. This could be used for an upper-body garment (jacket,shirt, or undershirt) and a pair of gloves.
![](http://www.tiger-swallowtail.com/space/11-20-04worn.jpg)
Osprey is modeling the finished outfit - that's my neighbor Art-in-Munich's house and Salazar's tower behind. I wanted to make some spikes and stick them in the garment, but I wound up putting the deck on my head by mistake when I had the tiny prim selected and was moving it - so now there's a wee tiny prim lost inside my deck. I moved the deck around but I can't see the stupid thing. I usually make things bright colors if I'm working with small prims, but I didn't do that. Oh well. Then I TPed to Numbakulla to work there and SL crashed. It's been a little touchy lately. Yesterday Enj IMed me as soon as I got online and we went bungee jumping at Spitoonie. She said she'd been crashing all day.
Update: I went to Numbakulla ans made 5 purpley spikes for each leather cuff/top of gauntlet (can be either). I tinted the scabbard purple. Actually I hate purple but the color just evolved as part of the design.
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