Underpants Alpha

Ok, this is the alpha I use for my undies. You can ajust it for other designs. Mostly just putting it here because it does have a pretty cleaned up crotch, you shouldn't have much if any bleeding down the legs with this. Gosh that sounds bad when I reread it...

Feel free to take that and use it for whatever. I'm not sure how it will work on male AV's, be interested to know. I cant wait to see all the pretty new undies ya make ^^

*edit* I forgot to mention. I resize all my templates to 1024 for texture clarity, if you use 512 resizing it should be fine. Also I use paintshop, that shouldn't be a prob, but I thought I'd mention it as I know the majority of you use photoshop.

WOW! Thank you Whisper! This is one of those things I have *always* had trouble with when designing. Thank you so very much!!

Very generous of you Whisper

Thanks, Whisper! That will be very useful because so far, I've really sucked at undies because of the bleed down the legs.

You're wonderful!

omg....THAT post didn't sound good either! LOL

this is an incredibly awesome contribution! i can't even count how many times i've heard about people having trouble with this.. more than anything else.

i propose that this be kept as a sticky thread in this forum!!!

i will (try my best to) remember you when forming my next group. it's well-desreved.

Thank you Whisper. Once I make some more undies, I'll send them your way.

Thanks Whisper !

Is it ok if i place this on my SL Snapshot website under templates...And if you wouldnt mind could u put up a sample texture aswell to show how the image and alpha interact...

Please use a horrible texture so that no one will take it and profit LOL

Here's the link to the texture examples I am starting

Texture examples

Sure Davo. I'll be in paintshop alot today, so I'll stick something in later. Gosh I didn't think it would be so well received lol. Kats those undies you sent are SO cute thank you! Gonna go up and edit the original post now. Forgot the mention that I changed it to 1024 >.< There's something that could throw a beginner.

So does that mean work on the template at 1024 then reduce to 512 just before uploading?

No Bobby, you can leave your completed textures at 1024 for upload. This will make the textures a lot crisper. As long as everything is properly located in the image the clothes will appear as they should
Great website davo, here's a textured one (used a default texture in PSP, nyah nyah thieves ^^)

And here is a picture of me wearing the demo undies. You can see I lowered the waistline a bit to make em look less like granny undies. You can also raise the cut on the legs, for g string etc. As long as you stay inside the lines you 'shouldn't' have any problems with bleeding. Also if you want to go for more of a shorts type cut, or some other interesting design, you can experiment outside the pantie shape. Just remember that you have to fully upload the image to make sure it doesn't bleed. For some reason it doesn't show up in the preview window. Personally I'm just fed up with the lower body template and after spending 3 hours the other day hopping in and out of game to fix a pair of underpants I decided to share the end result. I have saved the undies alpha as a layer in my lower body template, makes designing a little less frustrating for me, and hopefully for you all too ^^

hmm the pic didnt show up. Lets try again...

*edit* grrr, I'll just drop the image to you in game Davo, it's being stubborn.

I didnt know you could work at 1024 thanks for that. I am temepted to resize all the existing templates to 1024 as well. Though it will probably look blocky unles Photoshop can upsize it well.

Keep in mind the larger the texture, the longer the rez time. An image at 1024 x 1024 made by you may rez just fine on your machine because it's already in your cache from when you uploaded it, but for everyone else, it will take quite a while to rez. I would strongly caution agaist using 1024 sized textures for anything at all in SL. The smaller the better. 512 provides more than enough detail.

Yep yep, there is really no reason to ever make a texture bigger than 512x512 unless maybe if it's going to end up 10x10 meters. 512 is good for clothes. 256 is good for box textures.

hehehe, yeah but I'm evil, check my new armor line ^^

Ok I had a try at the alpha last night and it was brilliant. Very much appreciated Whisper. Are there any more alpha layers like that kicking around other than the examples with the template pack.

What is the best way to make something like lace underpants from the alpha GIF. Is it best to just look for a lace texture to put on a paint layer or to try and get the lace texture as part of the alpha channel to give a true lace effect?

It's up to you bobby. Just play around. Sometimes I surprise myself when I'm doing something, ends up looking totally different than I had intended, but better, and I just sit there, looking at it, thinking, "wow, did I do that?"

I'm bumpin this just cause so many found it so useful =P

Very useful. I wish there was a few more alpha masks around apart from the ones in the templates kit.

While we are discussing textures I would just like to remind you that aesthetics should not take precedence over performance. A 1024x1024 texture takes up 4 times as much memory/bandwidth as a 512x512 one, and 16 times more memory/bandwidth than a 256x256.
So unless you enjoy lag and the "clothes not rezzing" syndrome, please keep the texture resolution within sane parameters.

bump

512 max on upper/lower textures, -PLEEEEEASE!!!-

just do some math...

upper + lower underwear textures: near EIGHT times as long to dl (and everyone in the room, including you, will only see grey or very blurry clothing for a -very- long time...)

+ upper + lower outerwear: SIXTEEN times as long.

and that's not including skins, jackets, socks, all the other possible numerous pieces going into a complete outfit...

considering current average netspeed and machine capabilities, that's just the breaks of it... can appreciate how proud you are of your work, but the detail will be enough to 'infer' itself at 512. no, doesn't stand up to close scrutiny, but unless you're making them special for photographic studio purposes, it's just plain -mean- to do this to the residents!!!

i think that along with permissions, texturesize should be in a lot of product info... 'fact, have to write myself a note to do so...