Salt Peppermint

you can import the dae. SL avatar into Photoshop which is on SLwiki

you can totally import 3d models into Photoshop to draw directly on them, a pretty big part of PS is 3d..

the issue is the same in maya and blender. the only way for now you need to import the jewellery kit into the body kit and copy the weights from there. it's only a workaround and does not give 100% good results because some weights are still missing, so the rest remains trial and error. for now that's all we can do

I personally don't work in Blender but in Maya, however the basic process here is the same. making any kind of mesh fit you will need to skin it to the body you want it to work (wear) with. hence you would need the dev kits of the meshbody or if you want it wear on a system avatar you use the SL avatar as you did. They all use the same skeleton, but they all have different base shapes and weights. You bind your mesh to the skeleton and then copy the weights from the body your choice to your clothing piece. then you need to smooth the areas that are jaggy when you rotate the bones.

to make mesh fit a certain body perfectly, you need the weights of that body, hence a dev kit is needed. everything else is doing it by trial and error, uploading multiple times on beta grid to try to get as close as possible. before the dev kits, we used the standard SL avatar to rig to and made standard sizes that would not react to sliders. this is something you can still do and try to play around to get as close as possible to your shape, then alpha out the parts that clip through your uploaded mesh clothes

*scratches her head* ...

cape are very very tricky in SL. It's really like Wulfie explained. If you make it animesh it's just a lot more work . another workaround is to make a fixed pose with your arms down and make the cape lock that on wear. that's how I rigged my cape. but of course you sacrifice the shoulder movement for this

hey guys, wanted to share a Substance Painter tutorial I made as I have been asked by many. There are many different workflows for Substance , this one particularly shows how I set up my textures with the help of the baked lightening filter and using embossed details. Hope it helps ❤️

pet peeve: people leaving bad reviews on mp before even trying to reach out to the creator and ask for help or a fix. as so often it's just a simple mistake, or the person not understanding or not reading the description..

you actually do not need money to start a business in SL.. to be back to the original topic. If you know how to do all this and you are sure there are many customers are willing to pay for it, that's exactly what you should do! I can only support that

but to come back to the org topic.. I still would love to know what are the skills you are bringing to SL @riverjoy? that would be a good help for answers..

not they are not just tints. Look I show you what the difference it. First snapshot is my actual made black texture, second one is used a white texture whit all lights and shadows and then tinted inworld to black. same goes for colour. third is the actual purple I made, second one is tinted into purple inwolrd using the same base texture. it is really not the same and loses all the details. all of these are shot with exact same graphic settings, same materials, same wind light. There is a lot of work going into making proper colours. it is not as easy to just slap a tint onto it, maybe it work

colours don't work by just a tint , at least not for the most. you need baked in shadows, baked in lights. and those differ for light and darker colours and need adjustments because we do not have PBR in SL. so we use work arounds to make textures appear properly. If you use a tint hud and just tint the mesh, depending on the colour, it ruins the actual texture and I don't think that a creator would want that either, at least I don't.

Damn... forgot to turn my mic off 😂

@riverjoy what are your skills that you are bringing to SL?