Full-Body Alpha Question

[Tasman Perth]

I'm trying to make a costume for halloween that is a ghost.. I want to essentially be my normal avatar, except be partially invisible. I've been playing with the new alpha layer "clothing", and found its a piece of cake to make a "clothing" alpha that makes either all of me or parts of me invisible. I'd tried making a 50% transparent tga in gimp and loading that texture on the head/upper/lower/etc. on the alpha configuration popup. But it doesn't work... Not sure why.. Not a real whizkid on gimp/alpha layers etc... Help!!!

 

Tas

[Freya Mokusei]

Yep, alpha layers are two-state. Parts can be either entirely visible or entirely invisible, but not percentage-opacity.

Solution would be a rigged mesh body (where you CAN alter transparency of each face). Utilizator sell one, I recall.

[Tasman Perth]

lovely.. there goes my plan.. A mesh body is not gonna look like me, so thats no good.. Unless of course, I'm misunderstanding a "rigged mesh body"....

 

Thanks

Tas

[Monti Messmer]

Yes and No

You can export your shape into e.g. Blender then re-import into SL.

But that leaves out your skin !

And all the little movements you cannot "rig", hands, eyes, mouth ...

Monti

[Trinity Yazimoto]

hum, i cant be online bec im at rl work.. but if i rem well, an alpha layer is a lil more complex than a simple transp layer. At least if you use the alpha layer. u can use this trick for any clothing layer but, indeed, you will see your skin under the transp clothe.

contact me when im inworld. i can make ur alpha layer for you, and there are even alpha layers pack with all kind of them. ive a folder such like this, but i cant rem now if i found it on the mp or inworld and even how much i paid for it or if it was free. but once ill be online i can check this if you need.

so let me know inworld if you still need help with this or not.