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SL standard skirt mesh and clipping problem
Xiamara Drake
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Join date: 22 Feb 2006
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02-25-2006 21:47
Hello!

I am trying to create a long tight skirt using SL's basic skirt mesh.

I set the slider bar to the tightest fit setting, and it looked ok.

The problem is when my avatar walks, her legs clip through the front and back of the skirt :(

Is there any way to avoid such clipping, or is this normal with the SL mesh?

Thanks,
Xiamara
Maeve Morgan
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02-25-2006 22:02
It's normal, it's also why most most skirts are on the short side.
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Yoiko Yamabushi
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02-26-2006 04:49
As a suggestion, you might ant to create a generic pair of pants of the same color, and wear these under the skirt. That will help eliminate the clipping.
Merlot Andalso
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Join date: 19 Jan 2006
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02-27-2006 07:18
Maybe using a prim for the skirt might work. I'm not sure how to do this as I am just learning myself, but I would think that based on what I have been reading, that this technique just might work. Anyone have any insight?????
Dianne Mechanique
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02-27-2006 07:54
From: Merlot Andalso
Maybe using a prim for the skirt might work. I'm not sure how to do this as I am just learning myself, but I would think that based on what I have been reading, that this technique just might work. Anyone have any insight?????
Prims skirts are a good solution for some of the problems of the horrible SL mesh, but I don't think they are going to help with this particular problem. Prim skirts move even less when the body moves than the mesh skirt, so the odds are your legs will go through even more.
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Blaze Columbia
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02-27-2006 08:59
Just make some 'Glitchpants'

I borrowed that term from Ginny Talamasca of Dazzle because it makes perfect sense--you are working around a 'glitch' in the skirt layer.

Yoiko suggested the same thing above. You wear pants that are the same color/pattern of the skirt, so that skin doesn't show when your legs clip through the skirt. The clipping is not eliminated, it's just 'camouflaged' in a way so that you hardly notice it.

And even prim skirts will have some clipping occur, unless they are hugely poofy, etc. So many prim skirts, like Dazzle's, come with 'glitchpants'.
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Xiamara Drake
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Join date: 22 Feb 2006
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02-28-2006 10:16
Thanks for the advice everyone. I just may try to make "glitch pants" for my outfit :)
Katt Kongo
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03-12-2006 01:08
From: Blaze Columbia
Just make some 'Glitchpants'

I borrowed that term from Ginny Talamasca of Dazzle because it makes perfect sense--you are working around a 'glitch' in the skirt layer.

Yoiko suggested the same thing above. You wear pants that are the same color/pattern of the skirt, so that skin doesn't show when your legs clip through the skirt. The clipping is not eliminated, it's just 'camouflaged' in a way so that you hardly notice it.

And even prim skirts will have some clipping occur, unless they are hugely poofy, etc. So many prim skirts, like Dazzle's, come with 'glitchpants'.


Borrowed the term? Or the idea?
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