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INTRO SECOND LIFE FASHION SERIES

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

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ELAINE POLVINEN'S  SL VIDEO TUTORIAL INDEX

Here is an informal index to the videos I have created for Second Life. Please keep in mind that while some of these videos represent finished products others are just rough guides completed as an aid during a class project in that was in progress.

OVERVIEW
Fashion Stuff on Buffalo State Island - This video will provide you with a tour of the fashion project areas on the Buffalo State island in second Life. It starts out in front of the Research building and shows you how to buy flexi skirts for $0L and use the video tutorials. Then you fly to the students work pier and can buy for $0L the franimation overrider. There is an example of the student fashion vendor exhibit there as well as a new vendor for you to buy for $0L. A student example of a Brand Logo board is also there. Then we fly to Poseball area and pose our avatar to position it for a Snapshot to disk. Next, we fly up to the Fashion Runway and wear the frannamation overider and practice walk up and down the runway. Now it\'s time to teleport over to the student fashion collection vendor exhibits from last springs Intro to Sl project. Then we walk over the to Sears Industry exhibit and dress our avatar in one of the garments. Now we visit three of the student fashion boutiques and wear some of the SL items and check out the same items in RL on the students ZAZZLE pages. We end our tour by showing you how to operate the fashion project slide show in the big black box over the exhibit

Overview of OpenCourseWare Learning Modules - This video is an overview of the OpenCourseWare Learning Modules [listed below]I that I created for the "Introduction to Second Life for Fashion-Getting Started Series"

 

TEXTURES

1 About Textures in Second Life

Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life Series. First in the series. This video explains the difference when using textures in Appearance and Create functions in Second Life.

2 Fiber Textures in Second Life

This video is the second in the Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life Series.
This video explains how to use the fiber textures in the Appearance menu to create fashions.You can loccate the textures from this video on Buffalo State island [113,110,25]

3 Making a Seamless Texture for Second Life

This is a third in a Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life Series. This video explains how the user can scan in anything with a texture and use the offset filter and the clone tool to create seamless edges for a in repeat texture to upload to Second Life.

4 Making a Stripe Texture for Second Life

This video is the forth in a series titled
Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. This video shows one fast method to create a custom single repeat stripe texture and also a stripe in repeat texture to upload to Second Life to use in Appearance for fashions.

5 Recolor Stripe and Create a Plaid Texture for Second Life

Recolor Stripe and Create a Plaid for Second Life
This is the fifth is a series titled,
Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. This video explains the how to recolor a stripe texture and how to use the stripe texture as a foundation to create a single plaid texture and an in repeat plaid texture to use in Second Life.

10 Multi Print Texture for Second Life

This is the tenth in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. This tutorial demonstrates how to quickly develop some simple patterns in Illustrator to create a multi-print texture to upload to Second LIfe and use in Appearance. This multi print texture tehnique will show the user how to quickly create a nice looking custom printed outfit for use in SL. It would be helpful to complete the Level I Basic Function series for Illustrator first.

Half Drop Texture Pattern: This video illustrates how to have a half drop pattern repeat and to rescale and test it in the SL previewer before you upload it.
Making a Translucent Background on your Seamless Texture Swatch: This video tutorial demoonstrates how you prepare a channel so that a portion of your texture will be translucent. The lighter the channel layer image is the less transparent the texture is in SL

18_Rescale Premade Repeat Patterns for Second Life

This is the 18th in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. This video demonstrates how to take a variety of previously made repeat patterns and rescale them for uploading as a texture file in Second Life for use in Appearance. It also illustrates how to make a channel on a partial section of one texture to make it appear transparent or translucent in SL.

 

FIRST T-SHIRT AND PHOTO LAYOUT IN SECOND LIFE [series]

STEP I: Make Your Own Second Life T-Shirt w/Robin Wood's Template: Download Robin Wood's T-Shirt Template and follow along to create your own T-Shirt in Second Life.

STEP 2: Make Outfit in Appearance, Save it & Set Permissions: Step 2 is to make multiple garments in Appearance to match your new T shirt and then set the file permissions for your new garments
STEP 3: Pose with the Poseballs/ Snapshot to Disk this is step three to create a presentation for your first T-Shirt outfit.
STEP 4 - Make Transparent mannequin SL - Once you have created your garment and created a transparent mannequin from your snapshot you can upload it to Sl and use it on a display containing your fashion items.
 
PRACTICE PUTTING GARMENTS TOGETHER

6 Make a Garment in Second Life

Flexi 1 & Fiber Textures This is the sixth in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. You can loccate the textures and flexi from this video on Buffalo State island [113,110,25]

7 Make a Garment in Second Life

Flexi 1 & Fiber Textures This is the sixth in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. You can loccate the textures and flexi from this video on Buffalo State island [113,110,25]

8 Make a Garment in Second Life

Flexi 3 & Fiber Textures This is the eighth in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. You can loccate the textures and flexi from this video on Buffalo State island [113,110,25]

9 Make a Garment in Second Life

Flexi 6 & Fiber Textures This is the ninth in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. You can locate the textures and flexi from this video on Buffalo State island [113,110,25]

11 Create Simple Prims to Enhance Garments in SL

This is the eleventh in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life.
This tutorial demonstrates how to create simple prims (and apply textures and/or colors to them) to enhance the outfit you created in Appearance with a multi print texture. Create a simple prim belt, stand up collar, puff sleeves and cuffs. Place all prim accessories into garment folder in inventory.

12 Make Outfit in Appearance Save and Set permissions in SL

This is the 12th in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. Make an outfit in Appearence, save it and set permissions.

20_Using a UV map

Using Robin Woods flat Jpg UV map 1024 px by 1024 px in Illustrator and then in Photoshop to create a very simple bodice. Once the bodice is previewed and then uploaded into SL a skirt from Appearance along with a custom texture is added in addition to customizing a flexi skirt [with open permissions] from the Buffalo State island to create your fashion outfit in Second Life. http://www.fashioncad.info/

POSE & SNAPSHOT TO DISK/CREATE PRESENTATION PACKAGES
Overview of Packages - Different Types of Packages in Second Life

STEP #1 Prepare First Pose in Second Life: Take snapshots from Second Life poses and set them up in Photoshop to have a single background, a border and your avatar name.

STEP #2 Using Poseballs & Snapshot to Disk in Second Life: Use the poseballs and take multiple snapshots to disk in Second Life
STEP #3 Prepare First Second LIfe Mannequin in Photoshop

13_ Pose Extract Background Make Channel Upload to SL

This is the 13th in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. Pose your Avatar with new garment, Extract the Background in Photoshop, Make Channel, Smudge background on duplicate image behind original to make sure there are no white halo pixels around edge. Test in SL preview to make sure background is transparent then upload to SL.

14_Make Presentation Package in Second Life

This is the 14th in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. Make a Presentation package that has your Posed Avatar w/transparent background on it and load the contents with your garments. Name the package, set permissions and place it into a folder in your inventory.

19_Prepare Fashion Exhibition Vendor in SL

Preparing Your Exhibit Vendor (Jim Wheelings Free vendor) and Brand Logo Board in SL for a Fashion Collection Exhibition Project.
- how to set-up your vendor
- how to double check premissions of your presentation packages
- how to place presentation packages and POSE texture files into the vendor
- how to set permissions on your vendor
- how to customize the outside of your vendor with your custom textures
- how to build, prepare and set permissions for your Brand logo Board

APPEARANCE & FILE ORGANIZATION

Organize Your Clothing Folder in Second Life: Delete items you do not need, rename files and set-up folders for your clothing items
 

15_ Appearance and Prim Hair in SL

This is the 15th in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. This video addressess the difference between hair made in Appearance and Hair that is created from Prims. It also show how to prepare a bald head base to wear under prim hair.

16_ Identify and Organize Clothing Files in Inventory in SL

This is the 16th in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. Identify and Organize Clothing Files in Inventory in SL. Try clothing on and delete whaat you do not want to keep. rganize what you do want to keep in folder you create.

17_File Organization and Setting Permissions in SL

This is the 17th in a series titled, Getting Started with Fashion in Second Life. File Organization and Setting Permissions in SL for your fashion Garments. For this project we are opening all permissions and giving the clothing away for free. You can adjust these permission settings if you want charge for the clothing that YOU make for SL.You can locate the garments from this this video on Buffalo State island.

Set Up Your MY_COLLECTION Folder and Fashion Outfit Subfolders: How to name, folders and files inside or those folders and check each individual file permission setting before you drag and drop files into a package.

Setting Up a Fashion Collection Package: This Video Tutorial demonstrates how to set up a plain boxed package with texture on the outside and a bow, how to set permissions and drag and drop your items into the package so that a user can get the "contents" of the package as a folder in their inventory.

 
 

ANNIMATION

Setting Up Your Franamation OverRider and Practicing Walks and Poses.
Customizing Your Franamation OverRider: modify the script to use the poses you like
 
 
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