In-world custom T-shirt designer? Let new users create.

[animats]

Has anyone ever made an in-world T-shirt designer?

There are many sites which let you design a T-shirt using templates, text, and colors. But SL lacks something like that. You can make up a T-shirt with Photoshop or GIMP and Robin Wood's templates, but that's a bit tough for people who've never used graphic design programs.

So, visualize this: a kiosk that makes T-shirts. You go to the kiosk in world. It has a big screen, which is a media web page, and that runs the T-shirt design site. The user designs their shirt. When the design is done, they pay the vendor, and the web site delivers the newly created T-shirt to them in-world.

Behind the scenes, there would be a bot that logs in, does the upload, and sends the texture to the customer.

Might be a fun project for someone in the clothing business. Have a kiosk in your store as a traffic builder.

[Rowan Amore]

18 minutes ago, animats said:

Has anyone ever made an in-world T-shirt designer?

There are many sites which let you design a T-shirt using templates, text, and colors. But SL lacks something like that. You can make up a T-shirt with Photoshop or GIMP and Robin Wood's templates, but that's a bit tough for people who've never used graphic design programs.

So, visualize this: a kiosk that makes T-shirts. You go to the kiosk in world. It has a big screen, which is a media web page, and that runs the T-shirt design site. The user designs their shirt. When the design is done, they pay the vendor, and the web site delivers the newly created T-shirt to them in-world.

Behind the scenes, there would be a bot that logs in, does the upload, and sends the texture to the customer.

Might be a fun project for someone in the clothing business. Have a kiosk in your store as a traffic builder.

There ARE a few stores that sell t-shirts that also include instructions on how to put your own design on them.  It's fairly simple to do since I was able to figure it out.  Having something like this for new people might be a good idea.

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/evani-May-DEMO/19369923

Edited August 18, 2022 by Rowan Amore

[Tazzie Tuque]

2 hours ago, animats said:

So, visualize this: a kiosk that makes T-shirts. You go to the kiosk in world. It has a big screen, which is a media web page, and that runs the T-shirt design site. The user designs their shirt. When the design is done, they pay the vendor, and the web site delivers the newly created T-shirt to them in-world.

Rather ambitious project.  Sounds like you are talking about BOM shirts as opposed to mesh.   I would like to see a few creators, do some new mesh templates for T shirts in sizes that reflect what the market is using these days.  The ones that are out there are pretty outdated in terms of available sizes.

[animats]

19 minutes ago, Tazzie Tuque said:

Rather ambitious project.  Sounds like you are talking about BOM shirts as opposed to mesh.   I would like to see a few creators, do some new mesh templates for T shirts in sizes that reflect what the market is using these days.  The ones that are out there are pretty outdated in terms of available sizes.

It's just an image.

Your logo here. Blank T-shirt image. Fits all SL avatars with standard UVs.

Here are the instructions, from Robin Wood in 2005. There's a free template that has all the layers you need for compositing.

This is easy to do if you know how, and have a suitable graphics program available. Most new SL users won't have that or know how to use it. So something that makes it really easy would be helpful. It doesn't have to be super-fancy. Start with maybe a dozen free designs and a half dozen fonts.