Can't get the new stilettos to match skin

These new shoes are awesome, but could someone tell me how to get them to match my skin exactly? I have been here for a long time but can't figure these out, not much good at coloring stuff.

Do you want the shoes to change or does it come with toes? the next question is when you click them and look at the properties are they mod? Let us know....

a made a notecard of how to do it:

Need to tint something to try and closely match another colour in sl?

CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-D, to enable the Advanced menu at the top of your viewer
Under the Advanced menu > UI > Show colour under cursor
Now look on your viewer interface above your media/mini map controls and you're see a set of 4 numbers. These represent the RGB (red green blue) values of where your cursor is currently placed. Note that most things like clothes and skins are subtly textured so these numbers will change as you move your cursor around.

Ctrl Shift Y to set your environment to mid day. Now place your cursor over the object who's colour you want to match and copy down the numbers you have at the bottom right hand side of your screen. You only need the first 3 numbers and can safely ignore the forth.

Now with these three numbers you can go to the prim you want to tint to match. Right click the prim and go into edit mode from the pie menu. Click the texture tab and you will see two boxes, one labelled "texture" and the other "color". Click the "color" box and you will be shown the colour picker window. On the left hand side, you'll see Red, Green and Blue boxes with corresponding numbers. Enter the 3 numbers you previously copied down and you will have tinted your prim fairly closely. Do note it may not be an exact match due to a number of factors like the texture used but it will be pretty close and you at least have a starting point if you'd like to tweak it further.

i'm assuming you're talking about prim feet/toes .. so my above instructions may or may not work depending on whether the hud allows you to enter rgb numbers in directly or whether you have to use the +/- thing on the hud ... or you can try to tint the prim directly as per the instructions above.

Which designer's shoes are they. Some have different preset coloring systems. If they don't work for you, you can use the RGB method. Personally, it's too much trouble for my taste, I bought a few pairs from several designers, but deleted them all. I can't be bothered messing with it.

J's are he only ones I can match up with the preset skin tones.

I have seen quite a lot of people wearing these shoes - and if it is any comfort to you, nearly all of them look rather daft as their toes don't properly match, hehe.

Also, as the toes are usually sculpties. if you swing your camera away a bit, you get the really amusing sight of their feet turning into a bunch of huge bobbles - never ceases to amuse me that.

I am sure there are some wonderful ones out there, that match perfectly, but I haven't yet seen them.

So for now I am sticking to my 'classic' but less mutated looking shoes, thanks

These are great looking shoes but are becoming to much of a hassle to be bothered with. thank you all for your help.

You can never exactly match the skin tone, unless you keep modifying it to suit every single scene. Different weather conditions, lighting angles, elevation and time of day will greatly change the color of prims and sculpts and skin color; because the shoes aren't "linked" to the skin, they can't change to the same colors.

i use two computers. when my toes match on one, they look bad on the other. This suggests that even if they look good to you, they might look bad to other people, and there is not much you can do about that. Maybe ask a lot of people, and adjust to some unhappy medium.

Ewww I know ! I bought some of those shoes and refuse to wear them now because of how they do that - I think its gross LoL

I guess I am just the opposite. I tried a pair that were just toes at first. Now I am wearing Matrayia Gold or J's and I will never wear another opened system-toed shoe again.

/me shrugs

Which ever you like best is what you need to go with.

Part of the problem is that they will never match perfectly in all lighting because the toes/feet are prims and the skin is a mesh -- the same issue with getting the sexual prim bits to match perfectly.

That said, J's bugged me a lot at first cuz you cannot directly edit the coloring, but I did figure out how to use the Menu to add/decrease coloring to get a decent match after using the Advanced option to get the exact numbers I wanted to match (as detailed by Josh above).

There was a type of prim feet that a friend had where you stood on a box that they included - that box had a pose in it and a script in it that repositioned your camera view to be looking at your lower leg and foot up close and at a specific angle. You set your lighting good, then took a snapshop of that view, uploaded it as a specific size, dropped it into a HUD that came with your feet and that then let the HUD offer that snapshop as a texture choice for coloring the feet. When you selected it, it somehow auto-aligned the texture on the prim foot so that it was only using the part that was the foot/shoe (so you did not see the rest of the box/background) and the skin tone did match.

I have always stuck with Js just cuz they are the first that I found that I like, I learned how to adjust them, I spent tons of money on many styles and colors, and I had a hard time just getting in to the concept of prim *feet* rather than toes -- and the prim feet need two extra attachment points.

As an extra comment - given the number of prims on my Js shoes, I am pretty sure that all the pieces are regular prims rather than sculpties.

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