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Rosele Maroon
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03-10-2008 13:10
How do I make shhoes with high heels -is it a texture ?
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Lindal Kidd
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03-10-2008 13:59
I replied to your cross-post in Resident Answers, but I'll go into a bit more detail here.

High heels (or any prim shoes) consist of three parts. A right shoe object, a left shoe object, and a shoe base. The shoe base is worn on the avatar shoe clothing layer, and distorts the foot mesh so that the foot will fit the high heel shape.

To hide the weird, distorted bottom half of the foot, each shoe object includes an "invisiprim". This is a transparent prim that also makes the avatar mesh it covers invisible. The end result is the illusion (sometimes imperfect) of empty space under the arched sole of the high heeled shoe.

Besides the invisiprims and the shoe base, a high heeled shoe can be made with as few as 4 or 5 prims...the sole under the toe area, a toe box, the sole piece that slants up from the toe to the heel, a sole piece under the heel, and the heel spike. They can also get far more complex than this, with added straps, bows, decorations, etc. etc.

The very best high heels (IMO) are the ones being made with sculptured prims ("sculpties";). These can be extremely realistic. See the shoes offered by makers such as Tesla, Crysis, Armidi, or Stiletto Moody.
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Rolig Loon
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Try Natalia's tutorials
03-10-2008 15:28
If you're just starting, maybe your best bet is the series of five shoe tutorials on Natalia Zelmanov's blog, starting at http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2006/12/day-94-creating-prim-shoes-part-1.html. She walks through steps for building several types of shoes, and uses easy-to-follow illustrations.