Archive for the 'GIMP' Tag

My First Outfit

29 June, 2008

Purple Satin Mini Dress Purple Satin Mini Dress In Sit Position

This is the first clothing I created in SL. It’s created from a shirt, pants and prim skirt.

Tip #1: It’s important to make “glitch” pants for any outfit you make that has a prim skirt, as if SL is being laggy the skirt can take a while to load, and you don’t want to appear half naked in front of everyone. (That sounds like a bad dream….)

The outfit is based upon the tutorials Creating Clothes with GIMP, Flexi Skirts Part 1 and Flexi Skirts Part 2 by Natalia Zelmanov.

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Getting Started Making Clothes

26 June, 2008

There are three main ways of creating clothes for your SL avatar:

  1. By just using the Edit > Appearance menu within SL.
  2. By creating clothing with your preferred image/drawing programme and then uploading the images for L$10 each in to SL, and then using the Edit > Appearance menu within SL to complete making the item of clothing.
  3. By using prims to create clothing within SL.

There is also sculpted prims, but as I’ve not learnt anything about them and how to make clothing with them, that topic will need to be left to a later time. The use of sculpted prims for clothing isn’t currently widespread.

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