Editing cloth textures

[Corvus]

I have an idea. SOme of members can make closes themselfs (as in 3D other game) and sell them for A$.
I can do that (have some selfmade clothes in 3DSV). But we need a downloadable example.

[Lover]

Hi Corvus,
I think this could be a great idea! If you (and other people who are able to) can agree with the A-Team about a fair price, we all wll have a benefit. More (and "faster") new dresses for us and more income for development.

Lover

[Corvus]

Does staff read this topics?

[Lover]

Usually: Yes

[nana]

yeah good idéa

[himmi]

great idea ... the creator could become xx% of the income when user bought it

[VeronicaZ]

I've purchased $20,000+ of 3d content from various online sites like turbosquid, daz3d, renderosity, renderotica, etc and I have been working with the achat staff and converting textures to use on achat characters.  If it works out achat could be a pretty awesome resource for all of us who have been waiting to take the daz3d and poser still render stuff to the next real-time interactive simulation level.  I've been reading the copyrights for all this stuff I purchased and it's legalese but it says I am cleared to use this stuff for commercial products.  woohoo!  I've already converted 3 dresses and would think the artists on the poser communities would like to start selling clothing options for achat.  I think I'd never turn my computer off again if this happened.  What a great evolutionary step/merger that would be.  cheers!

[sinnnn]

I like the idea.  One question, will you be able to gift someone with outfits?  Not just oufits, can you design your own props for example: pretty jokers, or handcuffs.  it would be just like UtherCloset(you can make outfits, create your own designs and even change your avatar even more).

[Lover]

I write to this topic as I want to recall it for us all. I lwant/need more clothes and I hope, the A-Team will think about this idea.

[tom]

Hi,

we would like to introduce a new experimental feature. It enables you to create or modify textures for different clothes. The new textures cannot be used to wear and show to other AChat users, it is only an off-line development feature. Our goal is to offer this possibility to see if AChat users are interested in creating new clothes with texture modifications, and if quality works can be done this way. If both answers are 'yes', we intend to create the possibility of posting the best works in the shop, but the exact way is not planned yet. For now we would like to encourage you to try this tool, and post pictures of your work here in the forum.

How does it work?
When you are offline, type in the chat window the word 'tex' and press the 'Send message' button. A new window will be displayed, where you can select different clothes, and save or load the textures of the selected cloth in png format. To edit the saved texture you can choose your own way, we will not suggest specific texture editor and/or method.

To help texture editing here you can find UVW maps for the textures:

cloth_UVW.zip (http://www.funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/forum_pictures/cloth_UVW.zip)


Short explanation about height maps:

Height maps are grayscale textures, where the different grays between black and white mean different 'heights' on the surface, giving the possibility to add the illusion of fine geometry structure (-> bumpy surface). Please save the following height maps and try to load them to the cloth textures, you will see how they create the described effect.

height_map_1.png (http://www.funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/forum_pictures/height_map_1.png)
height_map_2.png (http://www.funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/forum_pictures/height_map_2.png)

or zipped both together:

height_maps.zip (http://www.funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/forum_pictures/height_maps.zip)


After loading the height maps they should appear on the cloth as follows:

working_height_map.jpg (http://www.funnyadultgamesplay.com/forum/forum_pictures/working_height_map.jpg)

If you cannot see this effect that means your video card lacks of required shader functions!
In this case we recommend to get a video card which supports shader model 3.

We will kepp adding information about this new feature according to your questions posted in this topic.

Regards,
tom

[hentaiboy69]

sounds interessing.

i had take a quik look, but from what i see, i don't had found a way to select a specific dress. two can be the reason:

1 - the clothes dev team had set are the basic one for all the dress they had create (don't  think so!)

2 - this option must be added soon

if i was a little able to use a graphic program, it will be nice to give it a try!

edit:
a request.....give as the chance to create tatto too or work on skin! it will be really interessing! plus, this is a chance to create a personal look.....in future it will be nice if we can modify our personal wardrobe for a little amount or, why not, use it for create a particular gift

[bluedenim]

I know I'm a technophobe, but let's see if I'm at least capable of grasping the concept.

we go to the Achat log-on page (done that)
in the message box type in "tex" and send it (done that)
a new message box called texture viewer pops up (done that)
out of the choices of clothes, from tops to stockings, I can choose
Save diffuse Load diffuse Reset diffuse
Save normal Load normal Reset normal    (tried those)

and I then have to find an item of said clothing in png format on my computer to upload?

Please can someone come round and show me what to do, I may be 19, but I feel like 9 when it comes to things like this.....
presumably I can upload a whole personal wardrobe? It sounds fantastic, but I'm not sure I'm capable.

[hentaiboy69]

alll correct......i give you an hint: creat a dedicated folder for it, so you know where to look for the text.

i don't have try it yet, but wonder how it will be

[medjai]

my first experiment


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Opened for comments and suggetions 

[sexilicious]

ok i must be a blonde when it comes to this cause i have no clue how to input the textures i want. am i suppose to find a texture i like first online and save it or what