Quiplash

I just realized that I should have posted my original question here, instead of the business forum. Anyways I have the question posted under the same title in the ' Business, Land and Economy ' section.

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Snickers

1. Photoshop (or GIMP or Paint Shop Pro). Most tutorials are designed around Photoshop so if you have that, start there. A friend of mine designs SL clothes in GIMP and it's free. I've never used it so have no idea how it works.

2. Some starter templates. See http://robinwood.com for a good t-shirt template and lots of interesting stuff about SL clothing design.

3. The freebie SL Clothing Previewer.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/10...9/slcp_win.zip

This will save you lots of $L in uploads since you can tell how stuff will look and make sure seams match.

4. Either Chip Midnight's or Robin Wood's avatar UV maps. You need those to locate seams and cross clothing boundaries.

Good luck.

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Maleigh Dirval

I have a question, is the Robin Wood's can b used on Male or is it only for female. If its only for female, where can i get the male version, say basic for underwear or jacket for free?

Lo Jacobs

The 2D UV avatar templates (head, upper body and lower body) are for both male and female avatars.

To design a jacket, you must utilize both the upper and lower body templates. There's tons of beginner info if you just google it.

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Conifer Dada

A bit more - basically adding to what's said here already.

I use Photoshop for making clothes textures and outfit shapes. Often I make an initial fabric pattern in Paint! and then enhance it in Photoshop.

You need to know how to make transparency using alpha channels to make Targa files to upload to SL. Sounds complicated, but fairly simple once you've learned to follow strictly the set procedure. There's a lot of tutorial info on the official SL forum - I think under 'textures'. Transparency is important if you want to make garments that have more intricate shapes than can be achieved just using the in-world sliders.

I use the CMFF templates creating when the clothing textures. They are free downloads, so if you damage one by saving wrongly, you can always get another! The templates have lots of layers with different giudes on - when you come to save your texture, you need to turn off (i.e. make invisible) all the guide layers, just leaving your actual texture (the Ps process I use requires one to add a blank transparent layer too, but there are various methods).

It's best to try out textures on the Beta Grid, because uploading is effectively free. It still costs L$10 per time, but you always have lots of L$ although they are not 'real' in that they can't be exchanged for RL currency like on main grid.

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Here's a link to Chips Templates, which he generously allowed me to host.

http://duchyofdarkmere.freeforums.or...file.php?id=77

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Walker

Alternatively, install OpenSim on your home PC, and login to your private island on that to test textures.

Then you don't have to worry about the beta grid going down for hours, days or weeks (as has happened many times in the past). Hell, you can even carry on working in OpenSim if you home internet connection goes down.

Macphisto Angelus

yep and it is a HUGE time saver as the uploads are as close to instant as you can get.

When I modded Eloh's skin to that freebie Zombie one I made I did the whole thing on my standalone.

I am 99.9% sure Quip has it installed already but for others reading you can get the quick windows install version here:
http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/do...imSetup0.6.exe

Other install versions:
Download - OpenSim

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Zuleika Deere

Apart from making alpha transparancy (tga files) you can also make png files.
NCI teaches free classes on clothes making. Look for the class called Clothing - Graphics Templates.

I teach it on Saturdays 6.30 AM, but there are others teaching it at other times.
The schedule is here: http://nci-sl.org/education/Schedule.pdf

Baby Daxter

Hi Quiplash. The tutorials i am using too learn Photoshop come from a few different website. First of i'd reccommend starting at Mermaid Diaries, she has great beginners tutorials from how too use the templates too some basic texture making.

Mermaid Diaries: Natalia Zelmanov's Second Life Adventures: Build (Tutorials, Techniques, etc)

Next i'd recommend visiting this weblink. It's from the main SL Forums and has lots of links too great tutorials and tips.

SL Forums

And finally i'd mention too visit this forum it has tips and tricks in using both photoshop and gimp.

Graphics In Secondlife :: Index

Good Luck

Candide LeMay

Why do you want to make clothes for newbies?