Importing Clothes

I have begun working on creating clothes, been creating textures for quite a long time in other games like fifa, but how do I import them into the game

System clothes in SL are textures applied directly to the avatar body, which means that they need to conform to the UV map for SL avatars. The sticky threads at the top of this forum offer quite a bit of insight about how that is done, and you can get Chip Midnight's templates there as well. If you are using 3D applications to create clothes, you'll want the obj files for the male and female avatar body, available in the downloads section of the SL web site (http://secondlife.com). You may also want to explore Search for in-world classes in making clothes. Several are offered each week and are free.

If you are interested in prim clothing, which is attached to the avatar body, you'll be able to import textures quite simply (at L$10 per upload) to your inventory. Use the in-world editing tools to shape and assemble prims to make the skirts, hats,... or imported sculpties for them ... and then apply your uploaded texures to them.

It's not a simple matter, but there are plenty of people to ask when you get stuck.

BTW, I'd suggest learning to not call SL a game. Many people bristle at the term here. Call it anything else ... a virtual world/community, and social networking platform .... but not a game.

For the clothing templates I'd also like to mention Robin Sojourner's templates (also linked in the stickies at the top of this forum). I use both Robin's and Chip's templates. The reasons are varied but mostly it's about the ease of seeing what you are doing with your creation........it's hard to see black on Chip's templates but for white Robin's make my life miserable. I suggest you download both sets.......they are indispensible tools for clothing making.

On the "game" vs something else. I say let them bristle. SL is just as much a game as anything else. Tip toeing around a word or term to discribe what SL might be for someone is silly......everyone knows what you are talking about so the use of a "preferred" word over another is petty nonsense. Many want everyone to call SL a platform which I have a hard time understanding........talking about platforms when compluters are involved means (to me.....this is my opinion) something more inline with an operating system. And Second Life is not an operating system. But, if that's your preferred word go ahead and use it. I'll use my preferred word...........which is "game".

It was just a gentle suggestion to a newcomer, Peggy. There ARE a lot of people in SL who don't care for the word "game" because it carries the unspoken phrase "It's only a ..." in front of it when many people on the outside talk about SL. It's so much more than that ... a business setting, a communications network, an educational system, a social environment. It's easy to see why plenty of folks in SL get upset by the implication that it's "only a game" when they are trying hard to have their professional involvement with SL taken seriously. Anyway, it never hurts to let a newcomer be aware that the word "game" is a hot button for many people. It beats letting them offend people without even knowing.

A "gentle" suggestion that sounded very much like a reprimand. People who want their efforts in SL taken seriously would do much better at gaining the respect they deserve if they would simply bite their tongues and demonstrate their importance through actions.....not petty offense to what SL is to other people. I could just as easily be offended by others insisting what I consider a game as something else.......but I don't. Why can't they do the same?

Relax. You know as well as I do that a lot of people in RL have a wierd negative impression of SL. If you tell them that you're running a business or doing charity work or teaching a class in SL, they say "Yeah, right.... in a 'game'?" You hear that often enough in RL and it can feel like a slap when someone in SL --- who ought to know better -- says the same thing. Personally, it doesn't bother me much, but I am sensitive to the fact that it bothers others when they hear SL called a game, so I try to avoid it. I was simply passing along that friendly advice as a courtesy to a newcomer. Sorry you were somehow offended, Peggy.

and go to Robins website and follow some of her tutorials. You'll make up your own mind what SL is to you, and thats all that really matters. Folks here can be very helpful, but sometimes get off track. We love them all, smiles. Good luck with your creating!

I['ve read all the tutorials and gotten all the templates. And now I know how to upload the file.Thanks ever so much.

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