How Can To Design My Traditional Dresses? Plz Help Me.

Hi, everyone. I want to design my traditional dresses (ao dai), it's look like traditional chinese dresses (cheong sam). I asked one instructor in SL, he said i must make one by prime. But i dont know how to do that. Please tell me how to make template for it and detail to design it in photoshop (or 3dmax). Can i save of prime to use offline? Thank you very much.

Your instructor is probably right. To make a cheong sam, or a sari, or any draped dress like that, you will get the best effect if you make at least some parts with prims -- probably even sculpty prims if you want the very best appearance. Unfortunately, until you get quite a bit of practice with manipulating prims in SL, this is going to be quite difficult.

Meanwhile, though, take a look at some of the free Asian clothes in Yak & Yeti at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Salzburg/178/77/27. Many of the things they offer do a very convincing job with standard SL texturing. You might get some ideas about how to make your own...... or at least get some free clothes to wear for now. (BTW, I have no connection with that shop... I just discovered it a while ago and liked what I saw.)

I have made and sold cheong sam dresses before in SL. A typical "ao dai" Vietnamese dress, as shown in the Wikipedia article, would not necessarily require prims to make.

That dress is pretty simple in appearance, with a raised collar similar to the "Mandarin Collar" that might be the only part I see where adding prims would be a benefit. And even that can be managed without prims, by using an alpha channel to define the edge of the collar.

The sleeves are tight to the arm, the bodice is form fitting, and the skirt is a simple straight skirt. Details of how the front closures are fastened is simply a matter of texturing them.

Now, if you want a more softly pleated look for the skirt, as in some images I have seen of this style in the 1800's, you could do that with flexi-prims, using several hanging strips of partial cylinders.

The conical hat would require one normal cone prim, plus either several flat and/or flexi prims for the cloth strip that ties the hat in place, or a single sculpted prim under the chin plus a few flat flexi prims for the hanging parts of the tying cloth.

If you specificly want the hanging strip/bag sleeves, similar to the traditional Japanese Kimono sleeve, that has to be done with prims attached to the forearms, and to make it look decent, the person would have to wear an Animation Overrider suitable for a Kimono or similar garment, that keeps the forearms generally level. Otherwise the attached hanging prims on the forearms look really bad in many normal avatar poses. Japanese Kimonos in SL tend to use these forearm prims, but many who wear them do without those prims in the outfit, because they just don't look good without a suitable Animation overrider controlling how you walk, run, sit or otherwise move.

Thanks for your reply. Can u give me a video or demo to design dresses by prim and photoshop?

Start with the following post (the link is to one of the "sticky" posts at the top of this forum), and follow all the links in at least the first post of the thread, and you'll get a wealth of tutorials and templates for clothing making:

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i tried by many way and i joined some class in sl, but i can't do that. Who can help me to make it? i'll pay for that. thank you.