Saving and using Multiple Appearances

Morning all! I am new to SL and still getting the hang of things. One question I cannot seem to find an answer to is this one.

Can I create multiple versions of myself, appearance wise not just clothing, and wear them like I have changes of clothes?

If so, how and where do I save these versions?

Thanks in advance!

Simi

Now, a question I can answer in full confidence Simi! LOL

When you're in edit appearance, select Make Outfit. this will prompt you for a name and a menu for saving clothes and/or avatar parts. This creates a folder under the Clothing section and it's simply a matter of dragging the folder icon to your avatar for a quick change of avatar/clothes depending on what you save.

Be mindful though that No Copy items will move from wherever they were into your folder.

edit: an afterthought.
If you look in Library, you will find under clothes or objects, I forget which, an array of avatars you can use to start your own library

Thanks Bilbo99 Emu! I appreciate the help.

Simi

My pleasure Simi, enjoy SecondLife

What I do is I make the basic shape, now that I have settled on one. It's has a Bare Skin all makeup set to O. I Have a copy of it tucked away. When I log on I save it as a new shape, called Today. I do what I want with it, clothing and skinwise, sometimes saving outfits as described abaove, or if doing my own hair and makeup just saving skins, Brenda day, Brenda night, Brenda Ho...etc.But I always have that basic backup copy.

A word of warning on making outfits. There was a glitch in SL, that I am not certain has been fixed, regarding making an outfit that contained no-copy/no-mod clothing items. What would happen was that the clothes did get moved to the new outfit folder, but in spite of being no-copy/no-mod, the names of all the clothing items that were moved became the default names for new items, like "New Skirt", "New Shirt", etc. . It still worked, but this makes it difficult to locate your "XYZ Vavoom" outfit, when it no longer has that name. And you couldn't change it back, as it was no-mod!

When you save an outfit, there are checkboxes for shape, skin, hair, and for every attachment point. I noted this morning that although I checked all the boxes, including the one for head where my prim hair was attached, it still failed to copy the readily copyable prim hair into the new save set. I had to manually copy that. So right now, you may still need to copy prim items by hand.

For any clothing and appearance saved set where ALL the parts are copy and mod OK, the default "Save Outfit" method works well, and creates a folder in your Clothing folder for the new look. You can move that folder wherever you like after that.

Ceera is a shapeshifter in SL. I change appearance A LOT! *giggle* I'd be lost without a way to save multiple looks.

Safest method:

What I personally do is I create a 'look', without any clothes or no-copy/no-mod stuff first, and save that. Then I dress her as I choose, and drag or copy the clothing items, prim hair, and other more sensitive parts from folder to folder in my inventory, to build a clean appeareance set. I also keep a nude version of that look, so I can change to that appearance and dress it easily in a no-copy outfit that I may want to use with multiple body appearances.

I make a folder called "!Avatars", and in that I have folders for male and female forms (yes, I do both), and within those folders for "complete looks" (clothed full avatars), Human, Furry, etc. In the Furry folder I might have more folders for avatars from different makers, and may have even more folders in each of those for specific looks! *laughs* I probably have over 100 saved appearance sets, as Humans, Foxes, Wolves, and other species, in both genders and various sub-forms. Viva la difference!

Hmmmm ... <mental note: stalk Ceera in-world for glimpse of the XYZ Vavoom outfit>

*Laughs* Good luck!

That particular outfit doesn't exist, though I heve several that the name would fit quite well... and which you'd likely only get to see by private invitation, if you were a very special friend! *blush*