The new UV layout for the female avatars are ready. I am also including the torso, clothed legs and nude legs models with this release in .3ds and .obj format if you want to use a 3D painting tool. This new UV layout does away with shared and reflected arms and the side of the head. The new UV layout also attempts to make it easier for you to do over the shoulder straps and necklines. I am not going to update the older howto right now, if one of you is feeling frisky please do so to help the newest members get up and running. I have included a sample outfit to help visual the changes too.
This head layout shows how both sides of the head (ears excluded) are not reflected.
The torso layout shows that the arms are separate now. The patch to the right upper side is the neck.
For both male and female avatars in RLC there are 2 separate leg models (3 including mermaid tail). One is for being clothed, the other nude. The nude version has a separate area for the genitals. We did this so you could have higher resolution texture maps for pubic hair etc... and still keep the overall map size down. This UV layout changed the least.
Clothed
Nude legs
Genitals
If there is enough time before the next release it makes sense to have the genital patch texture be totally shaved. That way you could easily/quickly make a variety of designs...wedge, strip etc... as tattoo layers for pubic hair.
Below is a link to the middle LOD (level of detail) models for the female exported in both Wavefront .obj and 3DStudio .3ds format. These include the torso/head, clothed legs and nude leg models. This is the model you see the most in RLC.
http://www.dreamcontext.com/female/female.zipI will leave it up to you if you want to reattach the torso to the different leg sets.
This new layout will go out with the next release of RLC. We are hoping to start the QA cycle tomorrow. We are also aware the texture submission website is not functioning. Hope to have that fixed soon.
