Hello again, Friday.
Clothing must be the biggest market in the metaverse, and it’s easy to understand why: Everyone needs them. Not everyone needs houses, or furniture, or whatever else there is to be had, but everyone would want to be dressed. There are two approaches to make clothes: Layers and attachments. Nowadays, most clothes are a mixture of the two, but using sculpt meshes for clothing makes for a more ‘natural’ approach, as they won’t look as flat as layers. Thus, I made my first experiments with sculpted clothes this week, and for you good people, here’s a rexxed denim version of them. Enjoy.
Source: Denim Sculpt Outfit
P.S.: Anyone who doesn’t like the rexxed print on the bra can just change its texture to the one of the panties (or even edit that to make their own print on them). As usual, please refer to the tutorial on how to import these exports.
See you, next Friday.
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realXtend has provided free hosting for your avatar for some time now, but it may not be very widely known. You can host your avatar shape, clothes, textures for free at realXtend project’s servers.
Use Avatar creation tool from the realXtend client software to save your stuff there. You can then use the account to access any realXtend world. This means that your avatar will travel with you from world to world, unchanged. Note: World server admins can override your avatar – this feature is meant to preserve world theme – for example in Ants world all the avatars may need to be ants.
Service provider: realXtend
Click the picture above to download also the Jaana Avatar model – you can use it with the free account! If you want to generate your avatar from a photo, follow the instructions in the Maxping article where Sylvester Stallone avatar was created as an example.
License: Use at your own risk. 
Go and get the free account here.
February 21st, 2010
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I just spent whole evening building a new avatar look. Clothing looks like the most problematic part for me, but hey, it is no different in real life… Now it is possible to export the new avatar into a gif animation. For free at Evolver! Here’s a sample what I got out of it:
Follow the white rabbit... click me!
.. and now back to make the next one!
Use this script to define a new skybox, set light conditions, fix the sun position and avatar landing coordinates upon arrival. A must have for every realxtender.
Author: realxtend, Jani Pirkola
Platforms: tested realxtend 0.4
Download the zipped scripts here maxping_rexscripts. Unzip to Python folder at the server, see tutorial http://www.maxping.org/virtual-life/other/fresh-look-for-your-realxtend-world.aspx
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a dreamstime.com photo (included in the downloadable zip file), I made a basic male for those who don’t want to look like a celebrity like Stallone. The photo was from a chef, hence the name.
Download the files here.
Platforms: realXtend, Ogre3D
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Dozens of wonderful shirts for free.
Author: http://www.secondlife-shirts.com/
Platforms: Opensim, Second Life
License: My interpretation from the ToS page of the web site:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
When I started my Second Life journey, I made some avatar shapes that I felt were important for Virtual Worlds somehow. Trinity (Carrie Ann Moss) from Matrix is definitely one of them. Here’s the shape for you, if you end up doing better, please contribute back for everyone! Also, take a look at Neo.
Download trinity.xml here. Here’s instructions how to import/export the shape.
Platforms: Second Life, Opensim
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
