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Help with chest area on shirts?

Vibrance Taira
Registered User
Join date: 19 Aug 2006
Posts: 4
01-14-2007 20:41
I recently started creating clothes using CS2. Figured I'd start easy and make tee shirts, which looked great in creation. However, the skintight fit between the female AV breasts hides or distorts my artwork. Is there anyway to get a more realistic looking bustline - a tautness of fabric in that area? Changing the breast sliders doesn't work - the shirt completely forms to the rib cage. Maybe a trick in Photoshop? Any advice would be great appreciated :)

Vibrance
Bree Giffen
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Join date: 22 Jun 2006
Posts: 2,715
01-15-2007 08:49
Sorry there is no real way to get around it. Avatars can be modified quite a bit in the chest area for both male and female models but there's no taut shirt option. As a result any image placed in the center of the chest gets distorted. Even if you stretch your artwork in photoshop to look good on one chest it may not look good on another. I tried putting a prim between the breasts and found that it has the same limitations. Most shirts that I've seen usually put their logo or image in the upper chest area above the breasts. I suppose you can put designs below the chest as well.
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Dante Breck
Spellchek Roxs
Join date: 29 Oct 2006
Posts: 113
01-15-2007 09:26
Like Bree I sometimes strategically place a prim there but its not a good piece to sell given the degree of customization of avatars there. To sell it successfully I would have to also sell the prims and a how to guide on adjustment OR include a pre-defined AV shape.
Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
01-15-2007 12:21
No, there is no equivilent of the Poser or DAZ|Studio ability to adjust the "spandex" between the breasts. Sure wish there was.

The option of using a prim part to fake that might be possible, but would fit only a very specific avatar size and bust measurement. And even then, single prims generally can't take the right shape. There's no "cube with a radiused edge" or "plane bent with a rounded fold" shapes. To get the right shape for the way fabric tents between the breasts would take at least three prims, and matching texture across those prims, and into the shirt, would be a nightmare.
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