Here’s a more daring outfit from the Womenstuff Hunt, this time from Vaxer.
This outfit, including the stocking and chains, is all one piece for Lara, Hourglass, and Physique. There’s a ten color HUD included too, so you can find a color scheme that suits!
There’s some really nice detail in the metal parts, and the fit is excellent. Another fine hunt item from a great creator!
Lately I have taken an interest in doing clothes texturing, using purchased full perm models that allow one to selectively edit texture faces. While I have pondered selling some of these, which is what most people do who work with the full perm models, so far I have just been tinkering for myself, in order to get unique looks and/or make outfits that reflect ‘me.’ The full perm models are not inexpensive, being in the range of 500L to 1500L typically, as the expectation is that one is selling your new creations and thus eventually recoup your expenditure. However, if the cost does not deter you… follow me on a little path to see what you can do 🙂
For this first installment I will focus on something simple (and very small!). The common component in all of these outfits below is the Angel skirt by Gunshot, which is also a very reasonable 250L. This is a teeny-tiny skirt that really doesn’t cover much at all (which… frankly, was my goal). 😀 Now most people would supplement this with a pair of panties but I chose not to.
The skirt contains three material faces that can each be textured in different ways. They can also be different between front and back but the design of the skirt tends more toward it being the same all the way around front to back. The Gunshot package for the skirt contains models for all of the major mesh bodies as well as four sample textures, a shadow map, and a UV map. All of these latter items can be used in an external graphics program to create your own textures, which can then be uploaded to SL and applied to the mesh model.
In this first outfit, I textured the skirt with an opaque white band around the top, and the two main layers all in lace, to match the lace top and the lace cuffs on the sleeves. This is an example of where I mixed and matched a ton of things, along with the custom pieces, to get just the look I was after, an innocent snowflake faerie (okay, maybe just snowflake faerie…)
For this one I wanted to match the skirt to the top, which is also a full perm model. Before I found the original model, I had purchased a version of it from a vendor who had made her own texture for it. As I liked that shade of blue I wanted to match everything to it, which I did with the Angel skirt and the full perm sleeves from another full perm creator. In this case the top two bands of the skirt are solid, and the small band along the bottom is a lace pattern that matches the lace along the bottom hem of the top.
Another vendor who took the Gunshot Baude top and created a nice texture for it is ArisArisB&W, who applied a pretty denim pattern. I created a matching version for the skirt across all three texture bands.
And finally, back to lace, this time with a rose tint and a slightly Victorian look (is not sure the Queen would approve). Here I used the actual Gunshot Baude top with the Angel skirt, modifying the lace pattern from Snowflake to be a little softer in color (as well as a bit more see through… blushes!).
While these examples of re-texturing have been pretty simple, they’ve been fun in allowing me to make things that are just right for what I want. 🙂 In future installments of Do It Yourself I hope to show you some more complex examples.
Back to Photoshop! More lacy and frilly things await! Cheers!
I was walking down the street one day, in the merry merry month of… Febuary 🙂
It’s always May and Spring somewhere in SL, and a little mini dress never goes astray 🙂
This one comes in sizes for Lara, Physique, Hourglass, Curvy, Fine, TMP, Freya, Isis, and Venus. It also includes a twelve color HUD to make sure you can match your color scheme. Another wonderful hunt item found!
Hashtag have their Spotlight event going on at the moment. I picked up this little Grecian themed dress along with two other for L$5. There are some FREE gifts at the event, but most cost a few lindens or so.
While only in standard rigged sizes, this is a very nice dress, and fits Lara really well.
I usually don’t mention locations in my posts, but my shoot location is well worth seeing. It’s a full sim done as a modern Greece island, and the creator has done a fantastic job. I recommend that you have a look at it for photo opportunities!
This neat little dress from Vaxer comes with a seven color HUD to select your combo. The dress is in fitmesh for the five standard sizes, plus specific fitmesh for Venus, Physique, and Lara.
Here’s a daring outfit for a club night. Opposite from Vaxer comes in both black and white, and includes boots for Maitreya. Slink, and TMP. The clothing is on system layers plus has appliers for Maitreya, Belleza, Slink, EVE, eBody, and TMP.
