getting flexy skirts to fit

Please could someone help a newbie.
I have purchased a number of flexy skirts that I just cannot get to fit right. I try editing the skirt object but I cant workout how to make it look as it did on the shopping picture.

Q
how can i reset the object so that I can start from the original shape

Q
any hints how to best edit the object

Thanks
Caralyn

1. If you're working from the original, there isn't a way to revert to original. Assuming you have a copy/mod yes, transfer no skirt, you can politely ask the person you bought it from if they'll kindly send you a replacement if you've messed up the original. Some will if they still have a transaction record of your purchase. Keep the original in its own folder and make copies if you're going to do any editing on it (this goes for any prim attachment that you have) if possible.

2. Depending on what you're trying to fit, moving it up/down to the waist with just the blue arrow, or if it's not large enough or too large, the white boxes on the stretch (push in to go smaller, pull out to go larger). If you edit the size, you may need to edit the position as well.

Hope this helps.

You might want to read the following thread: /109/48/156723/1.html .

Interesting. But a question I have always wanted to ask designers: why do most flexi skirts expose the butt? The flexi always seems to start halfway down the butt or lower. Even editing doesn't seem to fix this. I always guessed it was an SL limitation as there are only few designers who have totally got it right with this IMO...so is there a limitation? Like AV feet and skinners - it's just hard?

There is no way around that..as soon as a prim is made "flexi" it also becomes "phantom" ..ie..it passes through the Av body as if it was'nt there...most designers use a "glitch" meaning a set of underwear with the same textures as the skirt hiding the Av parts that show through...Just a limitation of SL.

Rax.

Yes and no.

You can bend the properties of the flex item in such a way that it does hide the butt and still be a flex item. However, that involves making the butt actually look bigger than the stupid SL baked skirts do. Flip the flex item over and it'll fall a different way; play with the gravity, softness, tension, etc, and it'll fall and move a different way.

These only work in hiding the butt at a standstill. Flying, running, backing up fast, will all cause the butt to show through unless your flex item is stuck out at a 90 deg from your waist and is tensioned enough that it might as well be non-flex.

Play with the flex settings. You can get some interesting results from it. (I do not recommend playing with the flex settings on something you bought, play with it on a plain cube that's been flattened, or a plain cylinder that's been hollowed and cut, but not on something you bought. If you screw up something purchased, you may have no recourse to getting it back to the way it was.)