Show Color Tool – Image #1 In Second Life many new products require some color matching to look right. The most notable of course is prim feet and shoes. Also, the skin color of genitals, which has led me to wonder if male color blindness includes black and white blindness… If you have been to one of SL’s Chippendales-like places you understand that comment. I suspect part of the problem is the number of different ways devised to match the color… Continue reading
…apered into the leg for better skin matching. There is a geeky thing about color matching on sculpties and mesh. If either is done well, the edges where things meet are nearly invisible. We see the problem most pronounced in the front and back flaps used with miniskirts. Color Matching No matter what we do, color matching remains a problem. Too many things affect color in the viewer. I used the 3.2.8 Development viewer to take some of these pictur… Continue reading
…matching pair comes close to your skin color. It is a handy idea for skin color matching. But, that means you have to use the socks and feet that come from the same kit. The change from color to transparent means there will never be a hard seam where the foot and ankle/leg join. That means you can design shoes without having to have a strap to hide a leg ankle seam. Using Texture Files This video is about how to use RedPoly texture files. But, no… Continue reading
…a database. This is supposed to simplify matching skin colors. There is a color matching tool built into the HUD too, which was easy enough. However, since the HUD has a synchronization feature that sync’s the HUD and web configuration, it is important that once you use the HUD to set color you get the CSS color code (e.g., #DDEEFF) from the INFO option and paste it into the web site. Also, on the female parts there is an ‘Easy Touch’ feature tha… Continue reading
…of tutorials on dress making. Yet, one of the things most have left out is color matching between prim clothes and … I guess AV clothes, the clothes one sees in the appearance menu. The image from Meara D shows the problem. Getting the two to match and blend together since Windlight has been a problem. While this may be old news to some of you, I just found it. What The Fug has a tutorial on just this problem. Also known as ‘WeHateWhatYourWearing’… Continue reading
…nd up with at least a 4 pixel border. Then paint it in with an appropriate color. Patterns present a problem of needing to change colors as you paint in the bleed area. Solidify solves that problem by doing it for you. Select your texture and modify the selection by expanding it at least 4 pixels. Now we have the bleed area. But we also have some of the skin area that is inside the template pattern, not just the edges. We DO need to exclude the ma… Continue reading
…e&Fingertip tats are colored white, they are easy to tint. Most of our old color matching hassles came from a skin that had a texture with a color we needed to tint to match another color. Somewhere in this blog, I wrote how to do that… found it. Geez, 2011. Here: Color Matching in Second Life. Use the menu’s Developer->Show Info->Show Color Under Cursor to get your skin color and put that set of RGB numbers into the tat’s Color/Tint. Watch out fo… Continue reading
…ust for color tweaking. It provides for inner and outer labia using preset colors and a colorize section that lets you tweak the color of everything. See the image. The V color HUD As I noted in my previous review, a special texture is used to avoid the problem of the SL UV Mapping distorting textures between the legs. From looking at the HUD it looks like one can use either the SL UV or the special UV The V uses. I didn’t experiment with it. I as… Continue reading