Skins & Shapes?

Hello all,

Well last nite decided to get a new shape. Was'nt real happy with my newbie one. Anyways a friend took me to a place and I got one that I really like the shape and I liked the skin too on my computer but I looked at myself using my brothers computer and I was pale as a ghost. So I bought a tan looking one. But dang it is dark on my screen. But great on my brothers computer.

Do I just live with it? My brother tried messing with my video card setting but to lighten me up on my computer it washes other stuff out. The video card is a brand new one from this weekend. Could it be that I am using Windlight and he is using the regular one?

Just wondering what you would do?

Bec

Hi Bec,

You just answered your own question. Windlight will show avatars differently from the regular client. Not much you can do about it, although I´ve had _some_ success messing with the sliders in prefences, in WL a lots of skins still look very very different.

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With WL, the best luck I have had with skins have been the really photorealistic ones. Things tend to get a bit washed out in WL so the more contrast and detail the better you'll look. Also, the better you'll look in the regular client too! I'm not sure where you got your skin, so I'm not saying it's a bad one, but for future reference, look for skins with a good full spectrum of detail and shading.

added: Oh, and your skin will look different on different moniters, as well as different video cards. A good example is, a while back I"d posted up for some feedback about an item I'd made, and I got a lot of it. Many of the suggestions were that I shouldn't use just solid black and that I needed shading in my texturing. the item was a piece of clothing. But I could see all the shading and detial of the verigated texture on MY screen! lol one person even thought I'd just used the appearance setting and plain black. I was almost in tears after having worked so hard on it, but then It did teach me a lot about how differently things are viewed based on whether you're on a CRT or flat screen moniter, what the vid card is and so forth. Just remember that you're the one who will be looking at you most

Thank you for your replies. Will stick with the tanned skin for a bit. and dumb question but what is phto realistic?


Bec

No dumb questions here Bec .. just some dumb answers sometimes
Looking at skins you should be able to work out if the 'complexion' is a slightly blurred photo or a perhaps more fine-detailed artwork. Debate on which is better could run into many pages but I'd say that artwork ones are getting ever better in the 16 months I've been SL-ing

That's totally dependent on taste...I hate photoreal skins on my avi, and I don't think they look any better on others in Windlight..

Just what it says. A picture so realistic that it looks like a photograph. In the case of skin, skin that looks "real", not like tan paint.

A lot of skin makers start with "photosourced" images of skin...that is, photographs of actual skin. Then they use Photoshop to blend, match parts, and add shading.