Sec Life Tools/Tutorials. Tutorial: Perfect and Easy Compositing! « -{ Royally }- My friend Laleeta requested help with how to cut out partially transparent items from their background, quickly and easily, in order to composite the image onto a different background in Photoshop. There are a number of ways to go about this. I recently had to deal with this very issue when I was making the vendor ads with a partially transparent skirt, and I found one way (limited to SL) that works very well, very quickly!
There are a few steps to this tutorial, and I went into extreme detail so that any skill level of Photoshopper can use this trick, but overall it’s very simple and basic. This should also work for gimp but I’m not sure of the exact commands on gimp. Any gimp users that can provide gimp translations, give a holler in the comments and I will add them to the post. Here’s a finished example, one of my vendor ads, the original inspiration behind figuring out this work flow. The detailed steps with pictures after the cut –> First, we start in Second Life… 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Day 142: Creating Prim Hair Part 4 (Flexi) This is Part 4 of the creating prim hair tutorial. Like the prim shoe series, I promise not to mention hair for a while (at least as a tutorial) :P In this tutorial, we are going to create a flexi hair texture. We will then add the texture to the prim hair we have been working on. You will need Photoshop, the "Tutorial Prim Hair" from Creating Prim Hair Part 3, and a "Full Transparent" texture to complete this part of the tutorial.
The Prim Hair Texture folder at Sirena Hair has been updated for this tutorial. If you dont have Photoshop, you can pick up the updated Prim Hair Texture folder for free from Sirena Hair. If you dont have the "Tutorial Prim Hair" from Part 3, there is also a ready-to-use version in the updated Prim Hair Texture folder at Sirena Hair. Finally, you will need a fully transparent texture file. OK...here we go :) 1. So far, we have been using the "Tutorial Hair Texture" we created in Part 1 of this prim hair series.
Mode: Normal Strength: 80% 2. 3. 4. SL Forums - Multiple Animation Script Required. SL Forums - Iris opening door script, using a torus. This script enables you to use a torus as a simple touch-activated iris door, for science fiction or organic building projects. It uses a torus as the prim for the door, and opens or closes the hole in the torus to operate it. To use, make a flattened torus, the height and width you need for your door, and about 0.1M to 0.05M thick. The 'door frame' for this can be another torus, or an oval or round hole in another prim. // Iris Open Script by Cera Murakami - 7/21/2006// Touch-sensitive iris opening door// Toggles open and closed state for a hole in a torus as an iris door// Put this script into a flattened torus. // ----- Global Variables ------------------integer g_OpenNow; // True (1) if iris is 'open' now default{ on_rez(integer param) { llResetScript(); } Note that the same script should also be able to be used with a different prim shape for the iris door prim, by changing the specifications in the two llSetPrimitiveParams statements to suit the other prim shape.