Free Templates Part 4 - Final CMFF Master Templates.

I think many may have talked about but I cant find it anywhere. Incredible!

Where do i find the 512 and 1024 free CMFF body template textures INSIDE SL?

Thanks and CONGRATS!!!

(s CAF

Okay it might just be that its late for me, or even that my RL work is working me too much...

But have the boy's templates vanished? I checked the temps here and couldn't find the mens, and SL's website doesn't offer the regular male templates either. I am blond...so i may just be missing them. Thanks for the help!!!

Both the male and female avatars are actually the same mesh with the same UV mapping so there's only one set of templates.

you can get the templates now from here though:
http://www.ccccybernetics.com/avatar_databank/

These aren't color tinted like Chip's and Robin's (although if I can find the time I hope to add that as well), but atleast they are the correct UVs.

Cheers!

I am new to this, Can anyone help me out and tell me how to Create an avatar??

Hello Donatella You've come to the right place. There's tons of information here you should find useful. Can you be a little bit more specific? There are many different things that make up an avatar like the shape, skin, clothing, attachments, hair, animations, and so on. You might try starting with the sticky thread of links at the top of this forum section. If you specify what particular aspect of avatar creation you're wanting info about it'll be easier to direct you to useful info.

I am new and I was wondering if someone could please show me around?

Lillyflower, try asking in the Resident Answers section of the forum and you're sure to get plenty of offers. Not many are likely to see your post in this thread.

Even with your beautifully designed templates, one area I always have trouble with is in the crotch of underwear or skin fitting clothing. High up on the inseam where the left and right leg join at the very center of the crotch, I always get some unintentional color bleeding on the inner thighs.

Is this some kind of quirk in the manner that SL applies textures to that part of the mesh or am I just not figuring out which UV’s to use?

There's a row of polygons on the upper inner thigh that only receives about two pixels of texture but stretches to many times its normal size when the leg moves. In order to avoid getting the color bleed you pretty much have to avoid those polygons entirely. That leaves a stripe about 1-2 pixels wide you can safely use. The best way to determine what polys to avoid is by wearing the template as a skin and examining it. Where the template grid is blurred beyond recognition you know those are polys receiving very little texture and that are subject to a lot of stretch.

Thanks for the response I'll give that a try.

I don't suppose someone could make a template that shows exactly where to place panties/bikini bottoms/shorts/men's underwear, (maybe one for each or almost for each?) so as to avoid that color smear problem?

That would be GREAT. Sort of fill in the lines

I think there are some underwear templates floating around but I don't know where. A handy way to make your own is to wear the templates as a skin. Take screenshots from multiple angles and then draw your bikini line directly on your snapshots. Use that as a reference to recreate the line on the flat template by paying close attention to where your bikini line intersects the template grid lines. Also pay attention to where the grid looks blurry or smeared in your screenshots. That indicates areas of bad stretch and insufficient texture resolution on certain polys.

Thanks Chip!

Wearing that template has REALLY helped!
But hey, is there a male upper body template?
I have the topography ones and must admit I don't really know what
to do with them. LOL!
Thanks so much!

There's really only one avatar mesh and one UV mapping. The default male and female shapes are just morphs of the same mesh. That's why there's only one set of templates. The topography guides are intended to represent the av shape relative to the UV mapping so they do have male and female versions. They're just meant as a visual aid to help you understand how the templates relate to the default shapes.

Thanks Chip!

I was away for a funeral so haven't had a chance to get back here
for a while.

I love your templates.
Thanks so much for doing them for us.

What do we exactly do with the templates to make the skin we want. Are there any websites that tell us what to do and how do deal with our finished product.

Have a look at this thread, Tanzie: /109/ef/286583/1.html

Also look through the other sticky thread of links at the top of this forum section, and through the links included in the first post of this thread. There's lots of information out there.

Heya Chip. Thanks for making this available.
I have a question though: why does the mesh in the template
not match the actual wire frame of the avatar? If LL changed
their mesh, then are you planning to update the templates?

They do actually match the wireframe, but the mesh is subdivided to give you more seam match points to work with. The darkest lines of the grid pattern on the template correspond to the polygon edges of the mesh.

I'm sorry but they don't. If I wear the templates as skin and then switch to
wire-frame mode (by pressing shift-control-R) then you clearly see that
there is hardly any resemblence (though I only looked at the chest).

They really do You may not be looking at the right set of lines, but the polygon edges are there in the templates. It really is irrelevant though, because the grid lines are there simply to help you locate match points for details that cross UV seams. The templates were generated procedurally from the actual avatar mesh which was subdivided a few times to create a finer grid.

Lovely new base templates for the SL world to use. I miss the simple lined layer but I am finding that using yours in combination with the original base templates (v 1.1), its getting the effect I need to learn.

Yours sure is helps me re: shading. although Im still unclear how the shading works since, depending on the sim you are in, the lighting source could come from any direction in relation to how your character is positioned and angled within a room. Any ideas?

Krystal

PS: Any chance that you will ever just put the shading on a seperate layer (sans the diagram)?

Prior to windlight you could get away with shading for pretty strong directional lighting without SL's own lighting conflicting with it too much, but since WindLight's shading is much more dramatic it's no longer such a good idea. You want to shade as if the avatar is being lit only by diffuse light front above with plenty of bounce off the surrounding environment. Keep your shadowing subtle and not too well defined. That way you won't have too much trouble with it not blending with a given sim's lighting conditions. If you're familiar with different 3d rendering techniques what you want would be similar to the look you get from domelight rendering or global illumination.

I do not have the ability to run windlight me thinks as I am using SecondLife on linux (which is still in beta). AT any rate, does your recommendation mean that I should disregard the shaded layer since it might be irrelevant?

Kat