"Stretching" effect when displayed in SL

Hi, I'm very new to this, but couldn't find an answer after an hour of searching, so here goes...

I made a skirt using the CMFF skirt template. It looks fine, except the area in the front middle and back middle (kind of the crotch area) is stretched on my av in SL. It does not look that way on the SLCP test program, which must map it differently. I see the CMFF templates show some kind of expected compression or indentation in those areas, no doubt to allow for SL expanding it. How would I go about mapping a jpeg to my template so that it will look correct when displayed on my av? I use Paintshop Pro, but I have Photoshop Elements 2 also.

Thanks!

Welcome to SL and all of its weirdness. There isn’t a clothing designer around who hasn’t experienced the frustration of what you are describing. It comes from the way the avatar is made and how it moves.

You could trying changing the skirt to look right on you. But, what if you give or sell it to someone else? Their avatar will be different and you are back to the same problem. Most people design around the problem.

Don’t put any big pleats or designs in the middle. Put them on the edges and the two outside thirds of the skirt. If you have a hem design, make it small and inconspicious. Designs around the waist are fine. Once you get past the groin area is where the distortions get noticeable.

Good luck,

Jen

My first experience with this was making the lower part of a raincoat. I found that if I took a copy of the skirt, scaled the width to one half and put that in the middle and then blended the vertical edges with the original scale image it came out looking reasonable when worn.

http://www.throughlinedesign.com/secondlife/blueRaincoat.jpg