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Jim1 Charlesworth
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Join date: 6 Oct 2009
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10-16-2009 02:37
Hi my character in second life is a Caucasian male. when the characters have no clothes on they all wear brown shorts. I added some pants that cover the shorts and now I want to color the pants to blend in with my characters skin color. what is the rbg numbers for this color
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Rolig Loon
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Join date: 22 Mar 2007
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10-16-2009 06:09
It all depends on which part of the body you mean, what angle the global and local lights are hitting it, what time of day it is, what artist designed the skin, whether you have a tan or not ....... Try using Advanced >> UI >> Show Color Under Cursor to do RGB samples of skins around you, and visit any merchants who offer skins to get a feel for the wide variation in base tones. You'll see that (thank goodness) the color of skin varies quite a bit in SL, the same way it does in RL.
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Rhonda Pinion
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Join date: 23 Jun 2008
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10-16-2009 09:43
From: Jim1 Charlesworth Hi my character in second life is a Caucasian male. when the characters have no clothes on they all wear brown shorts. It sounds like you have a system skin on, and they are PG (nether regions covered shyly). There are several freebie male skins lurking around in SL to start you off. Check out different freebie locations, like Free Dove, just to name one, and pick one up. Once you are free of your shorts you can start looking at different skin stores to pick up demos. Try them on to find what you like. And then start saving. Creating "yourself" in SL takes time. |
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Chosen Few
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Join date: 16 Jan 2004
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10-16-2009 10:11
Few people seem to know this, but Photoshop's eyedropper can sample color from anywhere on the screen, not just inside the Photoshop window. Grab the eyedropper, hold down the left mouse button, move it onto the SL window, and release it on a patch of your avatar's skin. You'll now have the approximate skin color.
Note, it won't be an exact match, though. First of all, in-world lighting conditions can drastically affect the apparent color. Second, and more importantly, what makes skin look like skin in the first place is the fact that it's not just one uniform color. Look at your own real skin right now. What color is it? It's impossible to say. Every point is a slightly different color than every other point. Skin has wrinkles, granularity, patches, translucency, scars, and imperfections of all sorts. A realistic SL skin will mimic all these same properties. There is no single RGB value that covers the whole thing. If there were, your custom skin would look just like the default (unrealistic) skin your avatar has when it's wearing nothing at all.
This is why skins tend to be expensive. It takes a skilled artist, and a lot of time, to make one. It's highly doubtful you'll be able to just slap any single color on a pair of shorts, and have it match.
I'd recommend replacing the skin you've got with less PG-rated one. As Rhonda suggested, there are freebies around, or there are literally thousands you can buy. And of course, if you're so inclined, you can make your own. It will take time to learn how to be a skin artist, though. There's no way around that.
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Tristen Clarence
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Join date: 28 Feb 2009
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10-19-2009 11:03
From: Chosen Few Few people seem to know this, but Photoshop's eyedropper can sample color from anywhere on the screen, not just inside the Photoshop window. Grab the eyedropper, hold down the left mouse button, move it onto the SL window, and release it on a patch of your avatar's skin. You'll now have the approximate skin color.
Note, it won't be an exact match, though. First of all, in-world lighting conditions can drastically affect the apparent color. Second, and more importantly, what makes skin look like skin in the first place is the fact that it's not just one uniform color. Look at your own real skin right now. What color is it? It's impossible to say. Every point is a slightly different color than every other point. Skin has wrinkles, granularity, patches, translucency, scars, and imperfections of all sorts. A realistic SL skin will mimic all these same properties. There is no single RGB value that covers the whole thing. If there were, your custom skin would look just like the default (unrealistic) skin your avatar has when it's wearing nothing at all.
This is why skins tend to be expensive. It takes a skilled artist, and a lot of time, to make one. It's highly doubtful you'll be able to just slap any single color on a pair of shorts, and have it match.
I'd recommend replacing the skin you've got with less PG-rated one. As Rhonda suggested, there are freebies around, or there are literally thousands you can buy. And of course, if you're so inclined, you can make your own. It will take time to learn how to be a skin artist, though. There's no way around that. Oh wow, I didn't know that! That is really useful, thanks. |