Dark skins still need light palms

[911 Steampunk]

Has anyone else noticed that all these dark skins have dark palms?  It's like skin creators have never seen a black person before:

 

http://www.vitamindwiki.com/Most+people+have+pale+palms+which+do+not+tan

 

How many other people have noticed this??????  This is a BIG mistake skin and mesh makers are making....

[Callum Meriman]

If my small community in SL can be extrapolated out into the greater population most people wearing the skins have never seen a black person either.

[Alwin Alcott]

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911 Steampunk wrote:

This is a BIG mistake skin and mesh makers are making....

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I think most can partly agree with the remarks you make, compered to REAL peoples skins,, but you derail here... it is no big mistake, it is just done different than in SL than reality... thats a HUGE difference in view..

We all know SL has a ltot from RL, but it's not completely the same, also whiter skins and all other things are slighly different to reality.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

It's more than likely true of feet too.  Probably this happens because the creators are just coloring a regular skin to make it dark rather than making the hands and feet from scratch.

[Bobbie Faulds]

If you look at the template for the lower and upper skins, there is no way to color the palms and the soles of your feet. It's all one color with shading added, like between toes, light shadings for where light hits, etc. It's a limitation of the SL template.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

I disagree.  The SL template has one arm and foot, but it does have a 'top' and 'bottom'  Here is the LL template.  As you can see it does have a 'palm'.  



 

 

[Bobbie Faulds]

That's the clothing template, not the skin.  The skin includes for the tips of the toes, for instance.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

The same template is used for both when you start skins from scratch.  Here is a more detailed Higher Resolution Clothing & Skin Templates by Chip Midnight from the  SL Wiki page that is for skins and clothing.  As you can see the layout is the same.

 



 

 

There are also 'full perm' skins available that are minimally highlighted and shaded and colored that can be used as a starting point for skin creation.  

Some skin templates for mesh bodies may be different but this is the template for the legacy avatar that a lot of mesh bodies also use.