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Destiny Rossini
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Join date: 23 Feb 2007
Posts: 4
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08-23-2007 06:44
I'm hoping that somewhere out there is someone who considers themselves a flexi skirt expert and is willing to offer me a little bit of time (preferably inworld) to help me perfect the flexi skirt.
I've made a few and even sell them, but they are never quite as good as I'd like them to be. I see so many pics of what seem like perfectly formed flexi skirts and I've literally played around for hours and hours with different settings, hand manipulating panels and I just can't get my skirts the way I want them.
Take the attached photo...I love the idea of this dress and have literally been working on it for hours, trying to hand adjust all the panels. I'm happy with the front of the dress, but the back...arrgh...How can I get this to a more acceptable quality at the back?
Thanks in advance for you offer of kind help!
P.S I always start with a prim-skirt builder such as Vint's or Ged Larson's to get the basic prim skirt shape, but I find it never quite fits the hips/butt area as snugly as I want, hence the manual manipulation of the panels...
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Chocolata Oxberger
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Join date: 10 Apr 2006
Posts: 51
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08-23-2007 07:01
I'm not an expert in this area, but the designs I have seen use pants instead of a skirt for the glitch layer. As far as the actual prims, they usually meet about waist - crotch level (depending on the design) and blend in with the pant layer. With that method, that is the closest to form fitting you can get so you don't get the poof from the skirt mesh.
Forgive me if you are already doing this. I didn't see exactly what was used posted.
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Destiny Rossini
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Join date: 23 Feb 2007
Posts: 4
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08-24-2007 04:20
Thanks Chocolata! Yeah I've pretty much done that. Used a pants layer instead of a skirt underneath. The issue I have is that the front of the prim skirt looks best if it starts at the waist, but at the back I can only get it to look decent starting under the butt...which means it's uneven when you compare front to back...maybe I should try and get a better pattern match on my glitch pants (not all stretched) and try to start the prim skirt lower at the front, at the same level as the back... By the way, Id be happy to pay someone for their time...or in fact would be willing to do just about anything if you are a true expert at prim skirts  |
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Storm Thunders
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Join date: 31 May 2006
Posts: 157
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08-24-2007 05:55
I'm no dress expert. That said... your glitchpants cloth pattern isn't lining up with the dress bodice, and it looks stretched out of proportion.
Slap on some grid clothes so you can see how the textures are positioned. If you don't already have some, you can get them at Robin Wood's texture tutorial in Livingtree.
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Cat Fratica
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Join date: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 153
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08-24-2007 08:06
From: Destiny Rossini I see so many pics of what seem like perfectly formed flexi skirts... You have seen many pictures but have you seen any being worn that are as perfect as you are trying to make yours? Vendor pictures are often manipulated and the actual skirts look nothing like the pictures. I manipulate my photographs to look as close to the actual skirt as possible but even then I avoid certain poses, particularly ones from behind, that can look awful. You need to study more girls bums! Prim skirts can look great but if you camera in close, which you rarely do unless it's your own that you are trying to perfect, you will see all the oddities. The pattern repeat on the pants layer is completely different to the shirt layer - and it cannot be adjusted in world! Once you have got the pants layer how you want it then fine tune the pattern repeat on the prim skirt to match in size. There will always be certain poses and angles that look completely wrong - after all, an SL skirt is completely different in form and behaviour to a RL skirt: it is in many completely unattached sections and actually enters your body! We get used to judging an SL skirt for what it is - it can have it's own charm and qualities - how does it look when dancing or landing? In your picture the pants texture seems to be much larger than the shirt layer - if you remake that in a much smaller size (I forget the relative proportions) it will look much less apparent - but even with a plain single colour dress the bum will show through with a slightly different shade and texture... Although not my personal taste the overall look of the dress is excellent and an adjustment in scale of the pants texture is the only adjustment I would suggest. The other way to get round the bum protrusion thing of course is to have a more flared skirt - I sell a few of those that I really like. Anyway, if you want to look me up in world and compare notes please do  Cat x
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Betty Doyle
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Join date: 15 Aug 2006
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08-25-2007 19:30
Ged Larsen's LoopRez has a very nifty feature that perhaps you haven't found yet called backangle. It's there to fix this very issue. What it does is angle the skirt out more at the back. Play with the degree of backangle setting until the skirt covers your rear end.
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