Help drawing vertical lines on shirts needed!!

I am trying to do a vertical line up one side of a shirt but it is giving me hell.
i understand that i should use the template and look at all the parts of the body and stuff but i just cant get it right,

If anyone can help or point me in the right direction of a tutorial i would be most greatful.

Thankyou

The problem with trying to do straight lines is that it'll only be straight on the avatar it was created for. Your best bet is to create a skin from the templates and take screenshots to use as reference. Use mine or Robin's templates (linked in the sticky thread of links at the top of the forum). You need their grids. The LL templates don't have enough detail. On your screenshots plot out points on the grid that would appear to be a straight line. Use those as reference points when you create your texture. Hope that helps.

Chip is right; because of the way that the sliders work on the Avatars, a line that looks perfectly straight on your AV will only look straight on yours. (And only when yours is standing in the pose she/he was in when you took the screenshots.)

However, before you despair, take a look at people wearing striped shirts. Do you see any lines there that are perfectly straight? Clothing wrinkles when it's worn, and the stripes, checks, etc. follow the lines of the body, and the lines of the wrinkles.

So you might want to go the other way, and build in a few wrinkles, where the stripes aren't straight. Then, instead of looking like something that was supposed to be perfectly straight, that got warped by the avatar wearing it, it will look like a wrinkle on a real shirt, and no one expects them to be perfect!

Hope this helps!