Getting your Avatar Together
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The document provides tips for creating and customizing an avatar in Second Life. It discusses making outfits by saving shape, skin, eyes and clothing selections. Clothing can be flat textures applied to the skin or built from prims. Free items and groups help new users get started dressing their avatars. Shape, skin and hair determine the foundation while clothes, accessories and colors provide variety in virtual worlds.
Getting your Avatar Together
- 1. Getting your Avatar together Avatar together by Rosmairta Kilara
- 2. Making an Outfit Go to the Edit menu and choose appearance (or click on your av and choose appearance) Click the make outfit button on the bottom right
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- 5. The New Outfit Click all the buttons with white boxes and that will save everything about the outfit into a folder - shape, skin, eyes, clothes To get back to this look just select the folder and choose replace outfit
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- 7. Opening boxes right click on the box and choose open the contents will come into your inventory as a folder
- 8. Wearing Things Things Choose an item and right-click it to choose wear The icons show basic pieces like undershirt, shirt, jacket or pants
- 9. Skins make a difference! highlights, makeup, eyebrow color/contour and shading are on the skin itself TaP Jill LP WR
- 10. A head skin template - top skin designers command high prices
- 11. Shape is the foundation The size & shape of eyes, nose, lips, the height of cheekbones and body shape are all determined in the shape Me Male3 BB Kimberly Jill
- 12. Shape can be edited - & there are shape designers
- 13. Modifying clothes Some clothes are no modify... full stop You can make clothes without a base targa but it is just like painting on skin... no seams or detailing Basic avatar clothes are created a tga fabric that part isnt editable inworld You can do is change the colour and fit
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- 16. Prim-made clothes For clothes that arent flat to your body designers use prims (primitives) to actually build the shape Hair, shoes and skirts are the most common prim apparel... and you often need to adjust their fit
- 17. Edit selects the whole object
- 18. I really just want to edit one part
- 19. Tip & Tricks Make a copy before you start editing Play with the sliders to change the fit If you are editing prim clothes always use a posing stand to stop your avs movements
- 20. Finding Freebies The designers of Second Life offer many free items for avatars under 30 days old There are groups like New Citizens, Inc (NCI) who specialize in helping folks There are freebie emporiums like Free Dove, Yadnis Junkyard and Stillman
- 21. Please enjoy a fun-filled and well dressed Second Life!