[SOLVED: Skin change works for human but not furry, please help!]

Wow Pussycat, thanks so much for all the info and tips! (great links in the .sig too). Will be sure to check them out (when my RL alter gets un-swamped with work lol). I suppose it's called "Feral" because of being completely animal? Eventually I'd like to have a human avatar with cat parts (head, tail & paws) but my design skills are not to the par yet, when I try to simply wear the cat head over human, back of the human's head shows through it. 

Actually, non-human avatars were not available on signup but they were right there in the "basic" mode, so of course I had to look

 

 

[SOLVED: Skin change works for human but not furry, please help!]

Oh, I got it! Just tried to edit one of the prims from the cat outfit, and it works

Thank you very much! 

 

 

[SOLVED: Skin change works for human but not furry, please help!]

Hello, 

a total newbie here. I picked a cat avatar, but I want to change the color  from the standard ginger to gray or black. I followed the procedure from some manual - edit outfit, select skin, choose a texture for head, upper and lower tattoos (picked a texture from my textures folder, there's a lot of stuff there, guess it was provided by default, for the moment I don't care that it doesn't resemble fur, just want to get started with editing). Also upped pigmentation for a good measure (which I suppose didn't work, I don't see any change in the edit menu when I do it). But there was no effect.

To be sure, did the same procedure with a human avatar (student), and it worked, the changes could be seen right away even before saving.

Is there something special about skins for furries? Do I have to create the whole avatar from scratch?

Thanks in advance!

 

[edit] here are screenshots of the edit menu just in case: 

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/2785/skinej.jpg

http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/2106/skin1.jpg