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Got it! The 'washing out' isn't something I considered, but it's a very good point I also like to be able to ever so subtly tweak/tint. I think you've sold me on just all mod

Got it, and thanks for the input - I appreciate it! My only issue with mod is where I want to provide certain colours for less than the fatpack, I think people will be able to tint pale clothing as they please, which defeats the purpose of colours/fatpacks to an extent for me? I was considering only making the pale colours no mod in order to provide mod versions, or just making the fatpack versions fully mod? This is a little bit off the original topic, but I was wondering what your thoughts might be on this?

I'm nearing the end of a shirt meshing project, and I've modelled three different sleeve versions for it and a couple of different collars 😆 I could split the iterations into different shirts, but I've been toying with the idea of making a hud where people can choose which sleeve/collar etc on the one model. It seems transparent parts (alpha) increase complexity, however - is this so? So walking around with essentially several different mesh pieces and only a few of them visible might be too taxing on viewers, I'm thinking? Does this make the concept non-viable? With hair that has style huds, I figure it's not as bad because the tris are probably low enough to justify

Thank you! Informative 🥰

I was actually wondering about the no-mod debate I've seen on social media lately... Is anyone able to elucidate me? My confused and maybe incorrect take on what I'm reading: -It seems creators make their mesh no mod in an effort to prevent their stuff being ripped, but I've seen it said that this entices people to rip their mesh? -I've seen people mention scripts that are possibly effective in preventing things from being ripped (they... delete the item if its rezzed (??) ) -Where a creator makes several different single colour versions available, surely no mod would stop people from just... buying the white dress and tinting it whatever colour they like?

Thanks guys! That'll be next on my list to experiment.🤖

Damn! Thank you, that was in depth, helpful!

Im wondering how it might be possible to limit arm movement on a garment so that whatever animation the avi is doing is still possible, but an arm for example wont have its entire range—say if an avi is lassoed by a rope above the elbows then lead along, that should prevent upper arm movement only. Is this possible?

I think this belongs here? Im curious how animesh hair works. Presumably animations are made for when the avi turns/walks/runs etc. But does it have its own AO, or some sort of scripting process that triggers each animation whenever the avi performs each movement? Anyone who can elaborate? Ive seen scripts on the MP that apparently mimic your avatars movements on the animesh attachment—if so, would it be just a matter of setting the right deformations for your mesh? Sorry if this is the wrong place for this!

You will still need to tweak the weights of your mesh, because your mesh will have a different number of vertices in different places to the legacy mesh, so when you interpolate weights/copy them approximately to your mesh, it won't deform in a way that conforms exactly to the legacy body. Around joints too you have to be more particular, as if you use smoothing, you'll often end up with super bendy, noodle-looking arms, not arms that follow a natural-looking bone structure. Because of this, I don't usually smooth around the elbow, personally. You need a sharp bend for it to look realistic. I smooth where posing the armature shows all jagged vertices and not a smooth surface, to try to work out an average weighting between vertices, and more often on parts of the body that are more gently contoured. It's often a matter of finding which bone is deforming the mesh you are working on, which I do by going down the list of bones affecting a vertices, just to make sure that I don't have a foot affecting an arm or something. That can happen sometimes if you have normalise or multi-paint on, so where you are running into problems with weights constantly appearing, it can help to turn them off (just be wary when subtracting of zero weights!)

Hey! I've been trying to create a BOM tattoo for one arm only and am using the legacy body. I've tried a few things, but can't get a tattoo to show up on one arm - I've tried putting the skin on a universal layer too, and reordering so that the layer with the tattoo is above the skin layer, but I can't get it to show up (even if I just select 'blank' and take everything off, the arm does not show up white!) I feel like I'm missing something integral. Any ideas?