Many designers not only have a business in Second Life but have extended their market to other grids. Outfits that have been selling well in Second Life are now exported to the other worlds to fill the need of decent clothes to wear. Exporting sculpted prims or textures to create system clothes like shirts, pants and…
We all are getting more and more used to the materials in content creating. In this picture you can see the 4 pillars I created on a flat surface. The most left one is just the textured prim, the next one has defined the bumpiness. Number 3 has a specular map for shininess and the…
Fashion Designers who wish to move beyond system clothes with Flex and Sculpt attachments, but who do not know how to create their own mesh can purchase Full Perm Mesh Templates from creators such as Meli Imako. Many of these Templates come with textures for the garments, but the real fun lies in adding your own ‘fabrics’…
Have you ever been struggling with matching the seams? I have until I found this amazing tool. When you have a copy of Photoshop in the extended version, or when you are handy with the painting tools in a program like Blender you won’t need this tutorial; you work directly on the 3D model… but…
Have you ever been wondering how to get your main store up in search results? Well I have for many years. Somehow the way Search works and worked seemed to have been a very well-kept secret. It might have something to do with the parcel description, the name and the traffic, another somewhat unclear process…
Sometimes you find a nice texture in a repository site, but you cannot use it in your templates because it is not seamless. Yet this is not a very hard problem to solve. In 4 easy steps you create a seamless square texture that you can use in your designs.
Now CGTextures has decided to exclude Second Life users from their license, does that leave us helpless? NO WAY! There are a few very good texture repositories on the web where you can download free textures that can be used even for commercial projects.
Even when you wear a shape that is the proper size for the mesh garment you have selected, there are times when your body will poke through. Alpha Maps are a special garment, custom fit for each mesh garment are provided to control this. Full Perm Mesh Designers (usually) provide the Alpha Map Garment, as…
Just a quick & easy tutorial on how to remove background from your SL avatar images using GIMP. A very good tutorial we stumbled over in YouTube made by Intoxicate Resident. Thank you!
Today I had to install a new version of Phoenix Firestorm and all of a sudden I noticed that the Texture Tab of my Edit window had changed dramatically. Although most of the settings can be found in the new window, there is a difference where it comes to the texture tab. Just when I…
In January of 2013 Adobe disabled the activation server for Photoshop CS2. Recognizing that they may still have some customers running the software, they set up a page on their website where these customers could download and re-install the software if they needed to.
“A TREND is a line of general direction of movement, a prevailing tendency of inclination, a style or preference, a line of development, or the general movement over time of a statistically detectable change . In a few words, “trend” is a synonym to “tendency”.” ~Wikipedia~
Yesterday I bought myself a pair of big(ger) bottoms, but wearing them I discovered a nasty gap between my belly and my hips. This can easily be solved by creating a new alpha layer to wear with them.
In the image you see the complete script open in the script editor of the Firestorm viewer. Although this is considered to be a very simple script I know that there are people that shiver at the thought they would need to change something in it. I am going to explain this script so everybody…
This tutorial shows how you can make a simple form using a background image as a guide. Under resources you may find a nice script that you can use in this landmarkgiver.
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