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Monday, October 8, 2012

Fashion Update: Four New Tops for Women!

If you go into the Marketplace beta and select the category "Main Avatars - Female - Tops" from the drop-down menu, you will see no less than four new tops available, one each from the designers Mochi, Maxwell Graf, Vanity Fair, and Real Burger!

Check back for more photos!

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Just Another Evening at the Beginner Zone...

Clothing Galore!

It`s been a busy day in Cloud Party as dozens of avatars are experimenting with the newly-released ADK (Avatar Development Kit). Here are examples of some new clothing designs:

The T-shirt Vanity is wearing (second from right) is a limited-edition gift from Mochi, thanks Mochi! :-)

One thing we all notice is that there is a much higher level of detail possible on the clothing in Cloud Party than there is in Second Life. The tiny details of the patterns are incredible to see.

Men's Freebies on the Marketplace

Well, I have sorted out my problems with the women's shirt I mentioned in the previous post (turned out I have to start from the .dae file and not the .ma file), and I have been experimenting with various clothing pieces and textures all day.

I have placed two men's items up to give away for free via the Marketplace, a blue horizon T-shirt and a green camoflage pair of pants (the camo pants are modifiable, the T-shirt is not). Click on the image below for a full-size version:

Happy shopping!

Today I also created my first ever shoes and hair, but they are UGLY ugly ugly and NOT for sale ;-)

Adventures in Shirt-Making

Well, I have discovered that I have to review/re-learn all the Maya stuff I learned two months ago while I was learning how to make clothing for the first set of avatars. Darn! I am trying right now to reproduce the women's shirt from the Avatar Development Kit in-world. So far I get something like this when I try to wear it: