T-Shirt Template Tutorial finished

Hi Addict!

Ummmm... I made it in Photoshop.

You can download the UV Map (which isn't a template, although it's frequently called one,) from the Second Life website here.

However, once again, that's not what I used. I downloaded models that use the same UV Map, also from the SL Website, but here, took them into LightWave, subdivided them, and made my own UV Maps, which I posted on my site for everyone to use. You can download them here.

On the other hand, if you're looking for samples of finished clothing, you can get some, once again from the Second Life Website, here.

Hope this helps!

hi Robin,

Thx for the info and links,
it helped 100%
I guess if i took the time and effort to look around i would have stumbled on it myself hehe
so a million thanks for letting me take advantage of all your hard work

if there's anything i ever can do for you just let me know .

regards Addict

Woohoo, I made my first t-shirt! Thanks, Robin. It's just plain white with a dragonfly (original pencil art) on the front, and it looks great. I'll wear it when I play my next show.

I have found it before, where is it.

thanks

Oh, ow, so I need to be an artist too? Wee... Ok, thank you!

Rose

You're welcome, Addict and Chronic!

Rose, ummm... you don't need to be an artist to do this, no.

There's no sense of composition, color, relative values, or aesthetics needed at all. No message you want to communicate, or knowledge of how to manipulate the viewer into feeling the emotions or connecting to the thoughts you want to share.

So there's nothing that would have the slightest thing to do with my definition of "artist," anyway.

You just need to have a reasonable grasp of the Photoshop tools. That's all.

Hope this helps!

Sure, as my stick figures look worse than a 3 year olds. And no, I am still learning PS, but I swear that isn't a pattern fill or some such, and you said something about brushs, so that means drawing, thus ya gotta be an artist.

Rose

Another thanks to you, not only for the tutorials, but for going through iterations of them with your first questioners. I'll be a lot more confident when I give this a try!

I tried making a simple t-shirt using Gimpshop and everything appeared to go well. The images on my screen matched the images from the tutorial. But when I flattened the image and saved it to a targa file the black parts that are supposed to end up transparent just ended up black. What am I supposed to do to get the cover layer to act like an alpha mask for the image?

Truthfully, I dunno. If you find out, let me know, k? I can go to GIMP from PS 6 for free if I can figure this little problem out, it's not saving the transparency layer, and I dunno why.

Rose

I have read in several places about being able to preview clothing in SL before downloading it, but I can't figure out how to do it. I followed your tutorial ( great stuff) and I have a wonderful new blue shirt but can't get the details together about bringing it into SL
Please help with some more details - desperate in Immerland.

I could not find Preview Clothing in any of the menus so I just upladed the shirt and it just came in as a texture - then I couldn't figure what to do!

<smiles> <pets?> It's ok, hon. First, when you upload, you select Upload, select the .tga file, then you will see the image you just created in Robin's tutorial. There should be above it a drop down menu that will have "Female Upper Body" "Female Lower Body" "Head" "Male Upper Body" "Male Lower Body" etc... Choose Female or Male Upper Body (what sex did you design this shirt for? That's the one you use). Then you can click on the image and drag it around into different posisions and get a good look at it before you click Upload.

Now, you have uploaded the tga, it's in the Texture folder, what do you do now? You go into Apperance, click on Shirt, Remove your current shirt, make a new shirt, and look, you will see two boxs on the upper left corner. The upper one is for texture, the lower one is for color/tint. Drag the texture from the texture folder of your inventory onto the upper box and it should apply that to the new shirt. Adjust the settings to suit and hit "Save" and vola! It'll now be called "New Shirt" in your Clothing folder in your Inventory. Right click, Rename, give it a descriptive name, and hit Enter. Done!

Enjoy!

Rose

'Tudes! - Attitude Clothing, don't wear just clothing, wear a 'tude!

I opened your template with GIMPShop for Windows (http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294), the very nifty hack that provides a more PhotoShop-like interface to The GIMP. I then followed your instructions and, after fumbling around a bit, was successfully able to create my first T-shirt with my own content! To put it concisely, "You Rock!"

Can you tell us exactly what fiddling you did? I did my own fiddling and I thought that I had produced a decent shirt. But when I looked closely at the neck and arms I saw a white tint over my skin. The alpha value should have been zero there, but instead it was non-zero (albeit very small).

Edit: Actually, when I open the template in Gimpshop, turn off all the layers except the texture layer, turn off all the channels except the alpha channel, and zoom to 800%, I can see a ton of noise in the alpha channel. This noise is producing non-transparent pixels on the neck and arms on my t-shirts. Is anybody else seeing non-transparent pixels on the neck and arms when using this template?

2nd edit: I did notice one oddity: The layer mode for the "Cover" layer is Normal when it seems like it should be multiply. When the layer mode is Normal for the Cover layer the neck and arms are black, so I simply disabled the Cover layer. When the Cover layer is enabled and set to multiply mode the alpha channel noise seems to disappear. I produced a TGA file and made a t-shirt with high hopes. But this time instead of white tint on the neck and arms I saw a dark shading. The non-zero alpha was still there but the RGB values were black instead of white. I will try fixing the texture layer.

Robin,

Thanks for the awesome guides and templates. I've already made a few things on my own (with trial and error) that turned out quite well. But this information will make my learning process a bit faster... and hopefully more efficient.

And, I didn't realized that I could preview before uploading... this should save me some L$!

Thanks again.

Mia Darracq

Hello i am very new at trying to make clothes but i seem to be a lil lost hehehe.. is there a tutorial step by step using paint shop pro using the templates that are offered by second life....i was in a lesson but nothing was explained to well and i was wandering if i can get some help....

Thanks so Much !!!
Foxy

wondering if anyone can help, dont have photoshop, got paint shop pro but you cant save file 32bit tga. file. anyone know any other file that will work?

Robin,

I loved the T shirt Tutorial, thank you so much. Do you have a female version coming soon?

was just wondering if you ever made any other templates such as pants, jacket, gloves, anything...

Thanks much for the templates, I got it when I first started playing almost a year ago, nice to know it is still being used

That's my question too Robin, obviously TShirts are fairly unisex but it would be nice to have a scooped neck, high waist one - they call them croptops, among other things, in England - I think they're called belly shirts or tanktops in the US (tanktop is a sleeveless jumper in England, errr jumper is knitted top!?).

Another (related) quickie - I used to have a set of UV clothing, wearable versions of all your body maps (wrong name I'm sure), but they appear to have vanished!? Where can I get some more please?

Thanks

Cat x

In answer to my own question - it clearly states on Robins excellent website that UV suits are available from: Benten (17,105), going to get mine now )

The value of these suits is that you can see exactly where the contour lines fall on a 3D body shape!

Cat x

Robin, thanks so much for providing the in-game UV suit!! I was having a really hard time figuring out the template with all the lines not seeming to make sense, and seeing where the lines fall on an avatar in-game should help tons!!

Hi Everyone!

You are all very welcome.

About making other articles of clothing in the same way; I'm afraid that I have no plans to do that.

The T-Shirt was a special case.

I did it because of the number of people in game who don't want to learn to make clothing; they just need a custom T-Shirt to promote an event, advertise their store, or let people know about their favorite band or political sentiment.

Someone asked, on these forums, how they could just do a quick T-Shirt, and someone else replied that it wasn't that simple; this wasn't Cafe Press, where you could just plunk a design on a ready-made shirt.

And I thought, well, why can't it be? If that's all they want, then why make them go through the whole learning process, especially with a learning curve as steep as this one, just to make a simple shirt that says "I'm Joe Schmoe" on it?

So I made the template.

I'm glad that so many people who do want to learn to make clothing have been able to use it, and learn from it. After all, it's an example not only of a shirt, complete with alpha channel, but of how to setup a reusable template to design clothing.

But I'm afraid that I don't have time to make all the various articles of clothing that are possible.

Besides, if I did, all the clothing in SL would start to look the same; and we don't want that, do we?

Robin, thank you so much for this. Helps out a lot!

Thx for this, Robin. It gave me an idea, how to do things.

This thread should be a sticky.Only my 2 cents.

greetz

Altern8