creating items

[SwiftXShadow]

Are there any tutorials in creating stuff?

 

i tryed looking in google, and google videos.... but didnt seem to find sumthing helpfull.

I mean something like really basic, i mean how the hell am i suppsoe to turn a cube..... into a piece of clothing.... or what ever item :S!
Expessaly since that creating thing seems complicated!

[Persephone Emerald]

I recommend joining an in world builders group for beginning builders. Happy Hippo or Builders Brewery comes to mind. I think both groups have classes, tutorials & free building materials for group members. Torley Linden also has some very good videos for the basics on YouTube. I'll add some links for a beginning building videos below.

I also suggest taking apart free items to see how they're made.  Touch an item & go into the Edit menu. Then you can see how many prims it's made out of, what textures are on each surface, & what sort of scripts are inside it, among other things.

 http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/NewMedia/SecondLife/HowToBuildInSecondLife.html

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruQ082gKH1o 

 

 http://www.youtube.com/user/Torley#g/c/CB0477BF7641F5EA

When doing an internet search on Second Life building, it's a good idea to limit your search to the past year, because older videos may apply to older viewers with a different User Interface (UI) than what you're using.

[SwiftXShadow]

are there tutorials to make clothes.... out of.... umm cubes.. or prisms or w.e they are

[Persephone Emerald]

Clothing is generally made with an outside program. Most clothing is made on the clothing or system layers, though some clothing is also made with prims or mesh.  There are some tutorials in world & online, but I haven't used them myself.

[SwiftXShadow]

so are there tutorails to make clothes or weapons with outside programs

[PeterCanessa Oh]

There are hundreds of classes in creating all sorts of things from dozens of groups and in several formats.  You can also try asking people.  The big thing is, don't try to run before you can walk.  Learn how SL works and how to build ANYTHING and you are half-way to building EVERYTHING.

Go to Kuula sim, NCI's main site.  They are a helper organisation who offer classes throughout the week.

[Lyra Blackthorne]

Go to search/events/education and you will find many inworld classes on building.  Don't worry to much about what you learn to build, as all building uses same skill sets.  Learning to make a magic wand will help you figure out how to make a house or a dress. 

[Marianne Little]

http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/

This blog is old, but the tutorials is well made and the avatar and templates has not changed. The only new things is mesh, but that is still fairly new and you should try some of the clothing tutorials here first.

 

 




[Eloise Baily]

Clothes are usually a mixture of two things.

System layers - your shirt, pants, underpants layer etc.. These clothes are created by drawing them in programs like Photoshop or GIMP.

Prim and sculpty (and now mesh) attachments.

These are the parts of your clothing that are little yellow boxes in the outfit folder. These are made of either a collection of prims, sculpties, mesh objects, or a combination of them. They are harder to make I think, but you can buy ready made templates for nearly everything and just put them together if you want to start somewhere simple and play.

Google for Eloh Eliot skins. They are wonderful, free and a great way to start playing with textures.

GIMP is a free download for manipulating graphics and there are loads of tutorials on youtube. Just search secondlife clothing and go from there

It seems daunting to begin with but making clothes, even if only for yourself, is really good fun. 

I should know, I'm crap at it but I carry on anyway

[Nefertiti Nefarious]

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SwiftXShadow wrote:

so are there tutorails to make clothes or weapons with outside programs

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There are many, many classes and tutorials.

OR

Search at Google for this:  Second life tutorial clothing

You will come up with hundreds of pages.

 

For creating the clothing, I use the free graphics editing program, the GIMP from www.gimp.org

 

[Ishtara Rothschild]

A Google search for "second life clothing tutorial" turns up 1,460,000 results. Just saying.

[Rufus Darkfold]

To make a really really simple (as simple as it gets) prim skirt/cape:

Rez a cylinder. hollow it out to 95%.  Taper it to get the shape you want.

If you want a cape, path-cut it until it looks like one.

Go to "Features" and turn on "Flexible".   Play with all the flexi parameters to see what they do.*

Drop a texture on it and/or color it.

 

voila!

 

*You can also use the primcontrol HUD to do this.  It is free and open-source.  It has the advantage that it does not freeze the selected prim(s) as edit mode does, so you can actually see what each param does as you change it.

 

[Morgaine Christensen]

Has been many good posts here with lots of good advice.  NCI and Builders Brewery has many classes, all are free to attend. However, Don't Forget to TIP your instructor--most spend countless hours creating classes, compiling FREE materials for their students, and teaching. I an sure none of them get rich off teaching these classes, but do it out of wanting to share with others what they know. Show your appreciation, tip well.

Mermaid Diaries is one of my personal favorites since she delves into many many different types of creations in SL. It may be old but will provide you with lots of information http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2006/11/build.html I am saddened it is no longer kept up to date.

Goggling "SL Clothing Tutorials" comes up with tons of urls to research...just have to spend some time following the links to find what you are looking for.  Not to mention there are countless tutorials on building, mesh/sculpty making, gimp/photoshop on Youtube.com

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Clothing_Tutorials



http://www.squidoo.com/secondlifeclothingtutorials

Above all else, prepare yourself for a vast and complex learning experience....learning one thing often sending you off searching in another direction. I have been in SL a long time and learn something new everyday. 

Good Luck, but most of all, enjoy your SL.