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Long shirt?

Kattyn Razor
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Join date: 27 Sep 2007
Posts: 11
04-13-2009 20:18
Okay, this might be a dumb question, but I can't figure out for the life of me now to make a long t-shirt. So. What's the trick? ;P
Rolig Loon
Not as dumb as I look
Join date: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 2,482
04-13-2009 22:15
Instead of applying the texture to a shirt layer, apply it to a jacket layer. Draw the bottom end of the T-shirt in Photoshop using the pants or skirt template and apply it to the bottom section of your jacket.
Iyoba Tarantal
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Join date: 15 May 2008
Posts: 279
04-15-2009 15:07
The undershirt layer also makes a good long shirt though the fit is tighter. If you want to tuck in a neat tail, it works. I have even rezzed sweaters as undershirts.
Robin Sojourner
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Join date: 16 Sep 2004
Posts: 1,080
04-17-2009 12:04
Ummm.. Iyoba, the Undershirt, like the Shirt, uses only the Upper Body material zone. It can't descend into the Lower Body, since none of those polygons are on the map. So you can't make a shirt that is longer than that division between Upper and Lower body with either the Shirt or the Undershirt.

The Jacket, on the other hand, uses both the Upper Body and Lower Body material, so you can make a t-shirt that extends past the top of low-rider jeans. (It's also the only way not to get a visible seam at the intersection of those two material zones.)

Rolig, of course, is correct here. The Jacket is the only way, without using prims.

Neither the Undershirt nor the Jacket have any "looseness" in them, so both are skin-tight. The Jacket takes it's "looseness" from the Shirt and Pants that are below it, if any.

"Looseness" of course isn't actually looseness at all, though. It's the polygons that make our bodies being pushed out a bit. All non-prim clothing is just a texture applied to our polygons. So, really, it's all painted on.

That's why you can see the color of your ankles or your socks under your pants. It's not the color you are seeing; it's really the polygons that make your ankles being distorted to look like pants. :D
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