a little shove in right direction

ok im a bit new and im looking for some help, i like the clothes here and wanted to create my own, i have adobe photoshop cs3 ,gimp and a personal learning maya, but im still not shure of how to go bout this, im not too good with tuts and i would like some help if ther is any to give .

You need to make sense of how the UV map is wrapped around the avatar... To start get the templates ... http://goodies.onrez.com/shop/chipmidnight/ (^_^)

Then... To help make sense of light and shadow and the placement of most common "bits" you'd want to have some skin textures for reference... Get that stuff here... http://eloheliot.blogspot.com/ (^_^)

And, seek out inworld clothing classes and tutorials. Most are free and I attended a GREAT one over in Livingtree the other day Robin Sojourner. (^_^)y

wel i made abra erlier but it was a little wonky when i put it on , as it was atextur i made to an undershirt. it looked bra like in the texture i mad ebut in gam eit was all over place

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Which will be held again tonight at 6:00 p.m. SLT in the Livingtree region, in the meeting area behind the texture tutorial. Free, donations welcomed but not required, and lots of good class materials an stuff.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Livingtree/122/69/25/

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Well... That's a start. Truly, at first, try wearing grid textures as a skin so you can see the alignment/misalignment, shrink/stretch issues that exist on the avatar mesh. Plus, pay close attention to the alignment lines on the templates. (^_^)

Sizes, positions, scales and such to move cleanly pixel to pixel once worn. So... Looking at the danger areas and seeing how the templates "fit" first will help you in regards to alignment and such as you continue your work. (^_^)y

Nehehe... She's gonna be busy tonight, for sure! =^-^=

She was busy last week too.

An even though I make no secret that she is a close RL/SL friend of mine, I do hafta say: I found this class to be very informative and learned a lot from it. An I've been here f'r a bit.

aww ill be in bed im gmt and im up at 6am for rl work

Aww!

After this run ends (end of November), I know she plans to pack up the materials and put them into some sort of book form. She also had some materials that might help now on http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/SL-Tuts/SLTutSet.html as well as having the texture tutorial in Livingtree. Both may be useful for you.

Even if you can't make it to a live class, Robin has a self-paced texture tutorial in Livingtree that is second to none. I can't say enough good things about it, and she has landmark givers there for the Ivory Tower of Primitives (building tutorial, self-paced) and the Particle Lab (how to script for using particles, self-paced).

thank you very much for the help and i will go look around at robins