[Opensim-users] On Mesh Avatars and skin creation

[Storm Singer]

Where are you accessing the net from? Can you get them to unblock it?  What
about using an different source, like a public library if you've got one,
the librarians often know how to turn off the filtering or they forget to
turn it back on. Another option is renting time at a computer café. Bring a
thumb drive though, so you can download the video tutorials from that site,
and make sure you virus scan!

Also, robin woods' skins are totally awesome for modding in gimp-
everything's on it's own layer and you can change the entire skin color by
changing the base layer on the newer skins. They're psd files, but they
open fine in gimp. Just don't change anything but visibility on the
"fancy"layers that are Photoshop scripted, and export as png or tga like
any texture. Any Alpha hanging around still renders as black on the avatar,
iirc.

In a few places there's also measured UV tracings for the default avatar
(color-by-number, anyone?), and I remember seeing a tutorial for making
highly realistic skins from photos of the users... I don't remember where,
but if you google making second life skins you should find it eventually.
On Apr 11, 2013 12:03 PM, "Robert Martin" <robertltux at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:53 AM, dz <dz at bitzend.net> wrote:
>
>> Some of the best mesh avatar resources, including working rigged meshes
>> and tutorials can be found at the following link.
>>
>> Avatar Meshes <http://blog.machinimatrix.org/avatar-workbench/>
>>
>> ..
>>
>> You are on your own for the skins....    I'm not sure what you mean by
>> greyscale reference skin...   maybe you mean skin design templates???   I
>> have always used these...
>>
>
> that avatar workbench site does not pull up for me (wayport.net may have
> it filtered) any sites with mesh downloads NOT that site??
>
> a trick i am trying to make other colors of skins is to start with a
> greyscale skin and then use Gimp > Gradient Map to change the colors
>
>
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> Robert L Martin
>
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