Making Textures to dress your Poser people.

It's just like dressing a Barbie doll!

To start you need a template of the Poser Leotard, this is what you use to make your texture. If you don't have one, you can make one using Steve Cox's UV Mapper

OK, so Step 1, open your template in any graphics program, I use photoshop because it has layers and it makes it a little easier to work with, but any program will do..

Step 2, draw whatever you like onto the template, but stay within the lines! I am turning this example into a bikini because I felt like it! You can make virtually anything you like, this template is particularly good for lingerie and little tank tops because it fits quite tightly. Use the T-shirt if you want something a bit looser, but you can't have the bottom half unless you use this one (or the unitard or catsuit, but that's another story!)

 

Step 3. Now you have a nice little bikini. Remember that everything that is white in a texture map will be transparent. You can do anything you like with it, your imagination is the only thing stopping you. Save this as anything you like, perhaps textureTEX.jpg, just so you know which one is which.

If you want to cheat and use the one that I have made, although it might be a little rough, you can download the texture and transparency here.

Just be sure to make the texture really big, the bigger the image, the better the rendering quality. The one that I am using here is actually 1000x1000 pixels!!!

Go on, look down, you know you want to!

 

Now that you have the texture made, you need to make the transparency. That's the easy part. Just convert the image to grayscale and invert it so that everything white is now black, because black in a transparency map is transparent.. And this is what it should look like...

This one you have to save as textureTRANS.jpg

So there you have it. You have just made your first official Poser clothing texture, unless of course you cheated and used mine! If you did, you might get a shock cause not all the lines line up properly!

Hope I'm not confusing you too much yet, if not,

then click for the next page!!!