FASHIONCAD.INFO

INTRO SECOND LIFE FASHION SERIES

OpenCourseWare by
Elaine Polvinen Professor,
Buffalo State College
Fashion Textile Technology

[only for non-commercial use]
Module Nine: Prepare for the upcoming Fashion Show in SL & Set-Up Frannamation OverRider

Items you may need review with from previous modules/videos. You will locate most of the items listed below to review (and more) in previous learning module videos.

  • Creating custom garments using the Appearance Menu
  • Opening boxes (object)
  • Copying, modifying and renaming the flexiskirt templates
  • Organizing Inventories
  • Branding and naming individual garments from an outfit
  • Creating and/or renaming a folder
  • Renaming a file
  • Creating a notecard [next module]
  • Setting up Hovertext on your package [next module]
  • Building a package for your fashion garment collection
  • Setting permissions
  • Uploading your own custom design texture file
  • Creating, previewing and uploading your own UV mapped avatar garment file
  • Wearing and practicing on the runway with your animation overider
  • Putting wigs on
  • Anything else?

Franimation Overider

The Franamation Overrider is PRIM object that contains a script that turns selected annimations on and off to control your avatars walk and pose.

If you go to the Work Pier on the BSC Island you will see a box that says Frannamation OverRider.Right mouse click and select "Buy" and you can locate the items in a floder in your inventory. The Frannamation OverRider will be there along with a variety of model poses.

The Franamation Overrider script responds to commands that are typed into the chat field. Before you type a command type /

This is the Sexy Slow walk is already oaded and these are the poses that are loaded .

These are the poses that are loaded:

Model pose 1
Model pose 4
Model pose 6
Model pose 11
strike-a-pose static

The avatar walk will always be the Walk: Sexy Slow until you stop the Franimation Overider. The poses will cyle through every time you stop your avatar.

Wear the Franimation Overider on your avatar spine.[locate it in inventory right click and select WEAR on spine]

In the CHAT field you can type the following codes if you like but you may not even need them after a bit of practice on the fashion ramp.


/ao on
Enable the Franimation Overrider

/ao off
Disable the Franimation Overrider. This will make you revert back to using the default animations.

/ao hide
Make the Franimation Overrider attachment invisible (if you don't like it to appear with your current outfit)

/ao show
If invisible, make the Franimation Overrider visible again.

/ao reset
Reset the Franimation Overrider script. This can be useful if the script is acting strangely, or if you just want it to reset and re-read the default notecard.

/ao nextstand
Immediately switches you to the next standing animation in the list, or the first one if you're at the end of the list.
The video below will demonstrate for you how to get the Frannamation OverRIder, How to attach it to your avatar and hide it and how to turn it on and off, practice walking and how to detach it.

Frannamation OverRider Set-Up 
The video below will show you how to customize the annimations in your Frannimation OverRIder so that the poses your avatar strikes do ot interfere with the clothing to create.
Custromizing Your Frannamation OverRIder

ASSIGNMENT

  1. Go get your Franamation OverRider and practice putting it on, activation it, hiding it,making it visable again and taking it off.
  2. Test the poses with all of your final grouing garments that you plan to wear in the show and modify the poses if your avatars legs stick out of the garments in some of the poses.

    [instructions to complete assignments are in video tutorials above]

Module Ten Create a layout presentation image of your fashion collection
[FashionCAD. INFO home]
©, 2008 by Elaine Polvinen, all rights reserved