Making certain aspects of the Avatar Invisible?

Hello Everyone!
I know I have seen certain old posts about making avatars invisible here. But the answers remain largly ellusive (to me anyway)...

I am trying to build clothing that needs to conceal certain aspects of the avatar in secondlife, items such as shoes and boots. After designing several shoes I noticed they really dont fit my feet properly or nearly as good as actual shoes I can buy on SL. Regardless of how I size my feet (size 0) certain aspects of my feet always sink through the shoe, and it looks really bad.

I looked at a number of shoes the "Pros" make and they all seem to have little boxes around them that somehow reshape the foot and block certain aspects of the foot to make it "fit" the shoe better. After experimenting with "invisible prims" I discovered they don't work either, because they cannot make any part of the SL Avatar invisible. The boxes the "Pros" use seem to contain an element that makes part of your avatar invisible.
What is it?

I can make prims (that I build) invisible without any difficulty, using alpha or a scipt (somebody gave me) But I can't make any prims that can conceal certain aspects of the avatars body. I was just wondering if anyone could help me out in any way (or point me to a direction) where I can solve this problem. Any clues would be greatly appreciated.

I doubt its difficult, I just don't know how.
Whats the secret?

Thanks very much in advance!
Best wishes and Happy New Year!
SkyScraperGirl Cabaret

I had to solve this same dilemma a while back. Here is the key to making prim shoes. The special script which you are referring to is used to make an "invisiprim". These prims have certain properties:

1) They make any portion of an avatar invisible. This only includes the actual avatar, no attachments
2) they also interact strangely with certain textures and effects. They remove the "shiny" effect from prims. Also, if i remember right, they hide any textures that are transparent or 32 bit tga. This i would have to test in game again as i am not sure exactly.

How do you make prim high heel shoes?

First you make a pair of regular "shoes" which are the clothing item. Maximize their heel height and minimize the heel width, and texture them with a "clear" (100% transparent) texture. You will notice that when you wear these, your foot is distorted and very tall. Now you build your high heeled shoe. Now you are left with the problem that the heel of the avatar sticks through the base of the shoe. All that remains to do is add a prim which hides this (I found a quarter cylinder to be a good shape), and add the invisiprim script. Presto, everything inside the invisiprim which isn't a prim is hidden.

If you need an invisiprim script IM me in game.

Furia