Own textures in-game?

Um, May I ask how I would get my own textures in-game?
Is there a certain format I have to follow?
That doesnt require paying? I cant buy L$ because I do not have a CC

Hi Wes,
welcome to SL.
You won't come around to pay a little for texture upload. File upload (texture/image/sound/etc..) costs L$ 10 each. But actually you don't need a credit card. You can buy L$ if you have paypal.
Afaik the LL paypal billing needs to be funded on your paypal account. Others as slexchange allow your bank account instantly to be debited.
For upload you use File->Upload Image or File->Upload Bulk. All uploaded files will be show up in your inventory in the appropriate subfolder. The available image/texture formats for sl are jpg, bmp and tga. For textures and actually all the time tga is recommended. For tga encoding use no compression (e.g. in photoshop) and 24bit depth tga for textures without alpha channel or 32bit with alpha channel that is used as transparency layer. Other features as custom bump mapping etc. are not supported though you can prerender your textures in an external program for effects.
Regards,
Leff.

I dont have Paypal either. That really sucks. So very MUCH
I guess I have no way of getting L$ than

What do you do in RL if you need money? You get a job. Well, you can do the same in SL. Check the Help Wanted forum.

Another option is you can start a business of your own. If you're program-savvy, you could create scripts to sell. No uploads involved there, so it's free. If you've got building skills, you can make objects to sell. You won't be able to texture them as well as if you had a little cash for uploads, but there's plenty you can do with stock textures and other existing free textures.

If you'd rather buy L$ than earn them, it's not like your current lack of a credit card or lack of a Paypal account is the end of the world. Got a bank account? If so, you can have a Paypal account within minutes, and you can probably have a debit card within a week or so if you ask your bank for one on Monday.

Don't have a bank account? Well, assuming you're of age to be in SL in the first place, I'm sure you have some sort of means of income, right? Scrape a little money together, go to the nearest bank, and open an account. Most banks these days will give you a checking account for free with a startup deposit of as little as $50 or so. You might even walk away with a free toaster or something if you go at the right time. Lots of banks are offering gift incentives for your business. (All this is assuming you're in the US, by the way. I don't know what getting a bank account might be like in other countries, but here it's pretty easy and painless.) This probably goes without saying, and forgive me if it's not my place to point it out, but a bank account is something everyone should have anyway for reasons well beyond Second Life.

Anyway, the point is where there's a will there's a way. Don't give up so easily.

Depending, of course, on where he lives.

If he's under 30 days old, there's always money trees. It doesn't take much effort to make the small amounts of L$ that it takes for texture uploads.

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If you just want generic textures rather than something of your own design, there are plenty of places where you can get loads of them for free. If you have L$1 you can buy a texture box from Yadni's with thousands, or there's the GNUbie store, or the Shelter....

Seriously, if you don't even have that much, I'll give it to you.

You might want to do it yourself, while at it. There's literally few requests being posted there a day, if any. Leaving aside most revolve around virtual prostitution, with the number of new accounts hitting ~1k a day, it's still unemployment rate in 99% range for the newcomers.

By telling people to 'look for SL job' you're pretty much wasting their time. There seems so few job requests in SL and so few actual fields of work (most requiring highly specialized skills) ... someone looking for one is probably more likely to make money faster just with camping on a chair or hitting the events in hope for some prize money.

Hooray for your positive outlook. As I said before, where there's a will there's a way, and I stand by that. What is wasting time is sitting around complaining about not having money, or about how there are so "few jobs".

Just quickly glancing at the help wanted forum, in addition to skilled labor requests for texture artists, builders, and animators, I see lots of unskilled jobs advertized as well. There are several jobs for dancers available, one for a personal assistant, one for a butler in a castle, a groundskeeper in the same castle, one for a game host, etc, etc, etc. Just because you might not want any of those jobs yourself doesn't mean it's a waste of someone else's time to suggest they look into it. I don't know about you, but if I were as desperate for L$ as the OP here seems to be, I think I could find worse things to do than play butler a few days a week.

It's realism, sorry if the reality isn't up to your rosy expectations ^.^


Please note, am not trying to waste time complaining about 'so few jobs'... am pointing out because the jobs are so few, it's a waste of time to actually try to find one. Anyone in look for money is better off either camping for startup money for their own business (if they have skills) or probably buying the L$ off the market.


Don't "just glance", actually read them.

At least half of these 'skilled labour requests' are actually 'skilled labourers' looking for job, not the other way around. Then yes, you have a request for "escorts" and a couple other spots, and there's no "etc", that's _it_.

In the meantime, there's been ~1 k people introduced into SL. Try to guesstimate the likeliness of actually getting that work, when your initial odds are ~1:1000? _that_ was my point, not that people might not be 'desperate enoug to play a butler for few days".

Oh, and incidentally "when there's a will, there is a lawsuit" appears closer to truth than your version, generally... but that's another story :>

dunno, when i started the crap stipends were a joke .. how i made upload money is by making friends, playing slingo, gambling and selling my work *shrug*

Why is that pessimists always say "but I'm just being realistic"? It's so sad, really.

What it really boils down to is what psychologists call self-fulfilling prophesy. If you expect things to go badly, your subconsicious will find a way to ensure that they do, and then your conscious mind gets to go "see, I was right; it was realistic to expect crap." The thing is the opposite is also true. Approach a situation fully expecting to succeed, and you likely will. Ask any champion acheiver, whether they be in sports, business, the arts, etc. They'll all tell you that.



That's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard. Because something may be relatively scarce or challenging to find, it's waste of time to look for it? To me, if something's hard to acheive, it makes it that much more worthwhile to try.

RL jobs are hard to get too, especially if you go in with a pessimistic attitude. Does that mean it's not worth trying? "Waste of time," for shame. Nothing worth doing is every easy.


That's a matter of opinion, and it depends entirely on the individual. For what it's worth, in RL I've been self employed almost my entire adult life, and I'd always recommend to people that they're better off working for themselves than for others (both in SL and in RL), provided they have the drive to make a success of it, which not everyone does. That is why I only suggested getting a job as one option among many. To dismiss that option outright as being "unrealsitic" without even trying is silly and irresponsible.



Uh, I did actually read all the ads I cited. By "quick glance" I simply meant that one can very quickly see just by looking at the post titles on the first page that there are several jobs available. I thought it rather obvious that reading the ads themselves after that was the next logical step, and the only way I would have been able to know what they said in order to reference them as I did. I guess next time I'll have to quote every word or something in order to avoid silly accusations like this.

In any case, it only took all of about five minutes to read all those ads in their entirity, so it can still be referred to as "quick". It's hardly the monumental task you seem to want to imply.


And the other half are people who are looking to hire, which of course is the half I was talking about. Why is that hard to understand?


First, what's wrong with beig an escourt if someone is so inclined? You make it sound like it's something no one would ever do, or if they did, there must be something wrong with them. That's so wrong.

Second, there is plenty of "etc". New ones pop up all the time. In fact, nine new job listings have appeared in the half day since my last reply to this thread. Several of them are seeking relatively unskilled laborers*, such as event cooridinators, performers, sales people, DJ's, and actors, as well as a few requests for those with Photoshop skills. Except for the Photoshop-related ones, none of these jobs requires the laborer to spend any money on uploads, which by all appearances was the OP's main concern here anyway.


*DISCLAIMER: No offense was intended to the event coordinators, performers, sales people, DJ's, and actors of the world by the use of the phrase "relatively unskilled". Obviously those who are very good at those jobs (and any other jobs) are skilled at what they do. I simply meant that what people tend to refer to as "skilled labor" in SL generally has to do with specific tasks such as texturing, 3D modeling, and scripting, and that the afore mentioned jobs do not require skill in those particular areas. No inference that others cannot be equally skilled at their specific professions was intended.


You act like getting a job is akin to winning the lottery or something. It's not a question of odds in any way, shape, or form. First, as you well point out, a sizable portion of those 1,000 people won't be looking jobs anyway. Second, since when does getting a job boil down to anything other than determination in the end? If you want something, you do what it takes to get it. For a job, that means contacting the employer, making a good impression, and selling them on hiring you. It's not about probability; it's about proactively making things happen, period.



Spoken like a true pessimist. Even assuming this cynical (and not quite clever or humorous) statement has any truth to it at all, I think you're forgetting that the lawyers who would file all those law suits all have jobs, and they all got those jobs through force of will. They didn't sit around bitching about how law school might be a waste of time, or about how the odds of getting hired by a law firm are too slim. They did what it took in order to get what they wanted. They applied their will and they found their way.


Anyway, I see little point in continuing this off topic debate. I've said all I care to on this subject. You're a pessimist; I'm a relative optimist, and it's unlikely unlikely we'll ever see eye to eye. I'l be enough of a "realist" to accept that fact, and I'll move on.

The important thing is the OP's question has been answered many times over. He can make his own decision on whether or not to look for a job, persue one or more of the other options mentioned, or both.