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Originally Posted by Cindy Claveau  Hypatia's explanations are much more detailed than I could offer, however I wanted to interject a fine point:
In order to create clothing or skins specifically designed for the SL avatar, it's best to use one of the avatar templates -- Chip Midnight has probably done more for the benefit of content creators than anyone I know with his high resolution, layered templates. They even have a color coded layer to help you match seams. The Poser model/mesh is based on Poser's P2 (that's version 2), and is used for two main purposes: creating animations/poses or for trying on the clothing offline which you create with the mesh template.
Other methods may work, but in my experience the link between the SL avatar and Poser is only close enough to provide a few rudimentary tools. Clothing created for Poser normally comes with a bump map layer which is already baked into the SL mesh, so you'd have to really know what you're doing to come up with a good finished product.
For me it's just much easier to start with Chip's templates and create my own stuff. | You don't use Poser at all... except in this case Poser and/or Daz Studio was used to export the character and its texture.
the rest is done in an outside application. Yes, I use the templates that Chip and Robin have made (both are great) and in fact, they help in a lot of things besides just texturing, I have used them to be sure my uvmaps are aligned correctly.
Baking a high res to a low res mesh is not a "rudimentary technique" in fact it's a pretty high tech technique capable of stunning realism for a lower res game model, if you exploit the method to the full. It's obvious though that it wasn't in this case.
I really can't say if Minnu is going to be guilty of breaking the licensing terms, it is clear that she's used the texture of Danae's though. If she claims "yes I used Danae's texture, I paid for it on Renderosity and I believe I have the right to use it" she may have a real leg to stand on.
If she claims "gosh I got it from 3dsk/googleimages and omg I think we accidently made the same exact skin and how dare you accuse me of taking your texture blah blah lie blah" then I'll have no respect for her and she will lose. The skin creation process is too complex to "accidently" make the same exact skin from the same resources, and the fact that Danae used several models in her skin creation makes this even more unlikely. It's quite literally impossible to do it.
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"To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?"
"I suppose so," said Alice.
"Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad."
"I call it purring, not growling," said Alice.
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