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Devious Bligh
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Join date: 18 Jan 2006
Posts: 2
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02-01-2006 23:08
Hello all, I'm making a skin for my character... I'm almost finished but I have run into something that bothers me, everyone says to save the image as a 32bit .tga.
When I do this each piece (Head, Torso, Legs) is around 1mb each. Is that normal? Or should it be lower, or should I be saving as another format.
Also, for the face, I saw that there was eyelashes, do I need to do an alpha map for them?
Thanks!
PS: after I have the 3 images uploaded, how do I combine them into a skin?
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Kris Spade
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Join date: 22 Sep 2003
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02-01-2006 23:57
Image should be 512x512 and only using 32-bit if using an Alpha Channel (ie: head with eyelashes.) Anything without transparancy should be saved as a 24-bit tga. Are you not shrinking the image down to 512x512?
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Reitsuki Kojima
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Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,328
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02-02-2006 02:33
Offhand, that sounds more or less correct.
TGA is baiscly the absolute least efficient way to store image data.
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Ben Bacon
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Join date: 14 Jul 2005
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02-02-2006 02:59
Don't worry about the files size, Devious. As long as the image size is 512x512, and you make the correct 24/32 bit decision (as Kris explains it) you are fine.
Your SL client compresses the image using JPEG2000 before it uploads the image, so the file size of the TGA is irrelevant.
After you have uploaded the 3 files, create a new skin in the appearance window, apply your 3 textures as tattoos, and save the skin.
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Devious Bligh
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Join date: 18 Jan 2006
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02-03-2006 00:31
Thank you all for your help  |