Monday, July 2, 2007

Wearing your templates

It took me a little while to cotton onto this particular tip:

Save your templates as Targa files (.tga) and upload them into Second Life, to be worn as shirts, pants, skirts, etc. It's essential for some tasks (for example, seeing where detailing and shading should start and stop on a garment), helpful for others (checking where fronts and backs match up, getting seams right.) The templates are incredibly helpful on their own for this sort of work, but it wasn't until I tried to place wrinkles on a pair of jeans the I realized how useful it would be to wear the template!

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