I am trying to make a female pants texture and when i load it into the game it doesn't show up.  Yes, I have it in the right directory and its a .png file.  What do I need to do?  I have followed this guide to no avail and have searched the forum before asking.

Here is the file its a mod of the xmas_cowgirl pants

What happened to the "My Textures" link.  I finally got around to making a T-Shirt, and I can't upload it...

Thanks,
Bullet

Your My Textures button is in very small text next do your default userpic on your RLC Social homepage and  this link should go there.

Adamski, I do wrinkles with the Dodge/Burn tool in Gimp, using a small, blurry brush and low exposure. Draw a few lines with Dodge for the upper sides of the wrinkles and then go along under them with Burn for the shaded undersides. Don't forget that the top-lit side of a wrinkle on the arm is below the shaded underside in the texture file. Keep the wrinkles small. On a shirt, I put them just above the waist where the fabric sags against a waistband. On the red dresses there are wrinkles radiating from the places where the laces pull the fabric tight, although they're a bit big and look more like a deliberate frothy fabric.

For gentler folding, use a larger brush and lower exposure. The Steph / SummerBreeze wedding dress skirt has a lot of dodge and burn strokes layered on top of each other on each layer of the skirt texture, and when I drew in the shadow under each layer I selected only what was empty space in that layer and not empty space in the next layer down and then drew the shadow (with Paintbrush, Circle Fuzzy (05) and black at 15% opacity, I think) not just along the edge of the skirt but along inside it in the darkened parts and just outside it in the brightened to give the shadow varied depth and extent to match the folds in the skirt:

To save a lot of bumping, here are the "how to wear" and "textures for dummies" threads.

[quote author=blujns link=1170239907/0#0 date=1170239907]to wear right clik on the pic and save to My Computer:C program files  redlightcenter redlightcenter resources female textures OR male  then edit your ini file:

My Computer:C program files  redlightcenter redlightcenter  look for myinfo  
The new system is alittle different now .
HeadMap=
EyeMap=
TorsoMap=
LegMap=
headMapDecal=
eyeMapDecal=
TorsoMapDecal=
LegMapDecal=
HeadMesh=
HeadState=idle
1stPerson=False
Scale=1.1
EarRing=
Eyebrow=
Lip=
Nose=
Nipple=
Navel=
Genital=
FaceMesh=
FootMesh=
Hair=HM_
HairMap=
Glasses=
GlassesMap=
Foot=
SkinHeadMap=
SkinEyeMap=
SkinTorsoMap=
SkinLegMap=
ClothingHeadMap=
ClothingEyeMap=
ClothingTorsoMap=UFUT_(filename).png ----- female dresses read:UMUT_(filename).png
ClothingLegMap=:UFUL_filename.png
SexClothingHeadMap=
SexClothingEyeMap=
SexClothingTorsoMap=
SexClothingLegMap=
TattooHeadMap=
TattooEyeMap=  
TattooTorsoMap=this is where your tats go for the upper body
TattooLegMap=lower body tattoos
FootMap=

Clothes go in the clothing section and tat's go in the tattoo section , Hope this helps Smiley if any questions feel free to ask[/quote]

[quote author=RudyVasalino link=1170239907/0#1 date=1170245311]DONT FORGET.. when ya change the MYINFO file.. click at the top of the MYINFO BOX ~ FILE.. SAVE AS.... then click SAVE.. It will tell you the file ALREADY EXISTS do you want to replace it.. click YES NEXT  minimize your myinfo file.. in case your changes didnt work

After you put the cloths ya want on... in your MYINFO File..... and ya want to change them, ya gotta click CUSTOM ~ DONT CHANGE... (it should put you in the cloths ya want to wear) if it was done right, THEN if they are the right ones.. click CUSTOM ~ SHOW CHANGES..

The files names HAVE TO BE EXACTLY alike.. with the .png or .jpg at the end of them[/quote]

[quote author=Shuqoyqa link=1170239907/0#2 date=1170248793]I recommend making a copy of MyInfo.ini before you start mucking around with it. That way you can get the make-up, tattoos, outfit and hair you've already chosen back very easily rather than clicking away through Customise for another hour.

"Don't Change" will copy the details from your saved MyInfo.ini file into the avatar you see in the customise window and running around, but because you (supposedly) didn't change ti doesn't bother telling anyone else about it. If you did change you'd (supposedly) have clicked "Show Changes", so that button shows everyone what you're now wearing in the customise window and also saves it to MyInfo.ini.
If you want to get the name of a particular texture or the hair colour line, you can log in, use Customise to get it on your avatar and click Save Changes to save it, then open MyInfo to see it. That's also what you have to do to change genders and check out a texture you've made for the other body type.
To show people your new texture, you have to edit MyInfo to include it where appropriate, save it, go into game, click "Customise" and "Don't Change" to copy it from MyInfo.ini to your view of your avatar and then click "Customise" and "Show Changes" to copy from your view to everyone else's view. If someone downloads it after that, you'll have to click "Show Changes" again for them to see it.

If "Don't Change" gives you the grey shirt with black ribbon at waist or crotchless blue three-quarter-length jeans, you've probably got the texture name wrong in MyInfo.

You don't actually need the old system's Decal lines any more. It's all done by the newer lines.

Some of them actually only appear if you're not using default, which is weird. You don't get a hair colour line if you have brown hair only if you have another colour, for example.

You can also deliberately wear underwear and outerwear the wrong way round or two layers of underwear but when you're showing both layers (little gold NUDE dolly) on the Legs textures, you get the "crotchless" look of that godawful default on the layer you're wearing underneath (in the SexClothingLegMap= line).

You can mix up the shoes too. There are two lines in there, one defining the style of your shoes and one defining the colour image used to colour them, just like clothing. Both are illustrated here. Skater works better than Daisies over that top, but the illustration's more obvious that way. The .msh file is the shoe shape and the .jpg is the colours.[/quote]

... and he said:

Is there a separate female skirt template? And the link, please, if so? Thank you.

with these templates i cant seem to make a long full length coat, any ideas of how we could have one implemented because id so love to walk around fully gothed up with a long full length black coat!

SAsmTOP: you can get two in by putting one into the underwear (SexClothing) line instead of underwear. Beyond that, I'm afraid you're stuck with sharing 65C3 combination files.

I haven't seen a UV map for the skirts, but they're pretty simple things and they follow the old Leg map, more or less. Front centre is in the centre, with right hip on the left and left hip on the right. The top 8 pixels won't appear in a Long skirt texture in use, and I think it's the top 32 of a miniskirt texture that don't show up.

You can't get long coats, cloaks or capes at present, and men still can't wear skirts or kilts. It's my opinion that the wings and skirts should be in a separate directory that both genders use. Capes could go there too. They'll have to scale for avatar scale anyway, and the backs of the shoulders aren't all that different.

Quick walk-through plus example of layers in use on male torso here, female waistline vertices marked up and example shown under the grids here and sicklittlepig's thread still exists here.

any templates for shoes? Can i just use the ones installed on the attachments/ textures dir as a template? Thanks

Help,  
This is all greek to me. I am trying to make a Father Guido Sarducci costume. I couldn't find anything on the forums about how to do the mustache or hat. I tried to do the mustache and my result is below. I also tried to do the priest collar. I decided to try a simple one first and elaborate later but that result was much worse. The alpha channel stuff is really confusing. I tried to just put a priest collar on the HMUT_blacktop file (yes I renamed it). I was gonna save it and ask for help with the alpha channel stuff after, but as you can see below the result was disastrous. I also saw a thread that explained how to wear the textures that you create a couple of days ago but I can't find it now. I am using Paint Shop Pro 5.