How To Skin Match In Second Life

Adjusting peel colors plus BOM
(Baked on Mesh)

Adjusting Peel Colors from Mesh Heads or SL Heads to Mesh Bodies and as well BOM Baked on Mesh

The PROBLEMS(due south)

We had ourselves purchased a female mesh head, a Normie, that was low priced and looked good. It did not come up with a skin though. We and then realized that skins oftentimes cost more than the mesh head. So we resurrected some skins nosotros had made and just made a head pare HUD that works for Omega, and also Omega makeup, and sell that equally a product at a low price. Since it is just a caput skin, yep, it must be matched to the mesh body. In our case that is Maitreya. But then we wondered in the process of updating this product, what if I were to buy a skin that can do both Maitreya bodies and an Omega set head? Would I not have to worry at all about cervix skin matching? Since and then, mostly in curiousity, I have purchased more than x skins. Only ii skins required no cervix touch up, although some came shut. And since some skins did non allow an assortment of skin colors or even a demo on the one skin color offered, I had bug there besides - lighter or darker than I wished. Well what I constitute is that there is no guarantee that skins volition lucifer your mesh trunk with your mesh or SL head. I have to admire that some of the more than expensive skins even carried a warning that they could not guarantee no neck issues between mesh body skins and their own mesh head skins. I would beleive that perhaps some mesh heads have rgb colors differently than mesh bodies. Maybe this is because 1 or the other begins with a tint already there. Or perhaps the departure is glossiness. I am not certain. But yep, it does sometimes happen that a pare will do a match all past itself. Simply I would find information technology best non to count on information technology. Use the demos if there are any. And of class, like our product which is simply head skins, accept notation that adjusting volition be necessary.

And and then nosotros plant that mayhap since we made our own head skin, we found it easier to adjust skins with that. But after more and more experimenting, we institute ways to live. And unfortunately, this information does non seem piece of cake to come up by. Some different thoughts below where learning helped:

ADJUSTING MAITREYA BODY COLOR

Maitreya, well, I but honey the company and their product. They seem to arrive piece of cake also to adjust their skin color - that is if one knows how and reads a bit of their information. One would go into skin colour. If trying to match Maitreya to your mesh head, then first select a Maitreya skin mesh a scrap lighter than the head peel shade you are trying to match to. Then of class, look at it where it joins with your head, ensuring that your hair is not on your caput to stop y'all looking everywhere.

Next, Get to Advanced and information technology will drib down some adjustments below.

H: Hue or Tint if you lot prefer

S: Saturation: how intense is the color

L: Luminesence (brightness, only also takes hue into account)

As Maitreya will tell you lot, (L) luminesence has to first be adjusted to something less than 100 to permit adjustment of the other two settings. Something almost 90 or less. Then in the colors, if you know what colour tint you lot need, click on that. And then conform the (H) tint, (Southward) saturation and last the (L) luminescence to lucifer the colors of your head. For our sold skins that use an Omega HUD for mesh heads, the tint (H) value will be always 0 to 21. That is because for Maitreya skins, our head skins have slightly more red. The actually tint of our head skins is 21 - and the variations of lighter and darker effect lumininescence and saturation, but for us, the tint is always 21. But note that since you are only calculation a little flake of tint to a color already there, you might have to add more read, a value of less than 21, in club to get a lucifer. Hopefully that makes some sense. But the real upshot is to set brilliance at 90 or lower, and then change to accommodate. We constitute we could get corking results. However, sometimes second life would take a few seconds earlier showing the states the new value, and sometimes nosotros had to piece of work at the values under advanced Maitreya settings for skins for a chip. Just then, in one case you have it, you are done and can salve it all in a safe place. In my instance, I try to get the color right offset. Then at the stop, and only at the end, is when I bring up luminesence a scrap since I often need the Maitreya skin lighter besides.

NORMIE OMEGA HEAD ADJUSTMENTS

The above info said that you could conform Maitreya peel tinting. How about Normie Skin tinting. Well, you lot tin can, merely exist careful. It will damage eyebrows and eyelashes, and yous will have to fix those two at the end. So exist sure and only piece of work on a copy of a normie caput.

Highlight the whole head and edit. I usually just change the gray scale of the colour tinting to brand the head darker a bit to effort and go a friction match to a body skin. It frequently works. Just unfortunately, the tint likewise becomes the color of the eyebrows and eyelashes. And then we need to put those dorsum. How to do that?

Again, edit the Normie head. At present on your edit listing, click "face". Now click away from the caput and clock away from information technology for a second, and next only left click the countenance and eylash area ane at a time. I merely and then add the color black instead of the light greyness color on each. Can you add together crimson or dark red or the like? I would think and so. Then when done of course you will want to save your adapted normie caput tinting also.

BOM = Broiled ON MESH

Information technology seems that this could exist a slap-up alternative if you take a skin that can come close to matching both the body skin and the caput skin that is sold as a complete skin unit. I admit being a fan of "Esode." Esode tin be pricy, simply I discover that they tin practise good work. Even if they practise not lucifer exactly, one of their skins had a hud with it where I simply used a slightly unlike hud choice for the trunk than the head. Merely let me become to the primary issues.

The idea of BOM, backed on mesh, is that if y'all take an original older second life skin and you lot wish to utilize that rather than spending a fortune, perhaps you lot can. Yous would put the old skin on the second life original body particular that is going to be under your mesh. In my case, I frequently had a torso applicator for Maitreya pare, such that for BOM I simply needed to Omega BOM my mesh head - which is Normie in this example. However, I did notice that a number of mesh heads like Lelutka and some others are omega ready just like the Normie head. Well, as ane author said, think of BOM as but letting what is on your torso prove through onto the mesh in a higher place. And so then, put the skin you wish on the Second Life original skin beneath. So well, Omega at to the lowest degree today as I write this has an Omega BOM for free. How squeamish of them. So I used the Omega "head version" and left clicked information technology for the BOM. It worked. Yet, until I learned what I was doing, the first two attempts I got a totally red colored Normie head. I then learned something that it seems few people warn you about. Yous have to remove the "alpha" hibernate body stuff from anything where yous wish a BOM effect. And so, what I did was instead of using the Normie Total Trunk alpha hide item, I went back to my Maitreya supplied body alpha with no alpha on the head version. And so it worked. The red head was gone, and the right skin showed.

I found the next part confusting. Do I use Omega applicators or HUD to add maekup on top of the Normie Mesh caput? Or should makeup exist on the Second Life avatar skin below? I am not certain, but it seems that maybe both could piece of work depending on the mesh head. Only in some cases, I did employ the normal makeup tattoo that is used for second life heads with BOM - broiled on mesh, for mesh heads.

SECOND LIFE HEADS

Should work as the BOM mesh heads do above, but much less work. No BOM applicator needed. Merely add the head skin if you have it.

NECK BLENDING TROUBLES

Oh, one more than thing to note nearly neck blending areas. It seems that some skins like to put shading in that location to mimic existent life shading under your chin. Simply then what if you mesh head instead does non do the aforementioned shading and just has its normal skin color at that place? Yes, that can exist a trouble. A few times I would stare from a distance and I would detect that my head and body seemed to match, but the neck did not. And yes, some people claim to either give abroad or sell neck fixes. Oh, I accept also found some skins sold that include both the caput and body skins, and withal, oddly, they have non only a neck problem, but a bad i. At times bringing up the Maitreya hud and clicking "neck fix" on or off under skin tones might fix it or at to the lowest degree exist a chip meliorate. Sometimes the neck area is a real pain.

SUMMARY

Promise this helps someone. I found much of this out the hard way. Simply it seems now that I know this, that awful neck not blended area can be stock-still in a few means.

- Hunter Bronet

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