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Monday, January 30, 2012

Kit: Appearance, summary, 2012

Appearance--summary
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The instructions here are Viewer 3.2.   The details and illustrations may not apply to other viewers.
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Quick Fixes
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My business outfit

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Vocabulary
"People"
  • Outfit:  avatar body, clothes, attachments, everything
  • Avatar: (1)  a body as you see it, possibly including clothing and attachments 
  • Avatar: (2) your identity, including name and what you see on the screen as you.
Wearables
  • Object: you can wear as attachment (may look like clothing, hair, etc>)
  • Skin: Texture you can wear that looks like skin 
  • Clothes: Things you can wear that look like clothes
Other
  • Box: containing clothing. You rez it, click to open, and copy the contents to your inventory.
  • Wear: command to the system ( right-click on the item name in inventory) to put something on your avatar
  • Attach: command to the system  ( right-click on the item name in inventory)  to link an object to a selected point on your avatar,
Distinction: Outfit, Avatar
Avatar is used with several different meanings as noted above.  Outfit is sometimes used for clearer reference to a body as you see it,  possibly including clothing and attachments.
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Right-click on your avatar menu
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Changing things
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Three ways to change your appearance. 
  • Put on a new outfit or avatar
  • Edit the appearance of the outfit you are wearing
  • Change attachments on the outfit you are wearing
These are different things. Don't confuse them or they will confuse you.
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Changing outfits is the easiest way to change your appearance.
Appearance for beginners 2012 
This is also the easiest way deal with an avatar-outfit that rezzes incompletely or as a white cloud.  
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Get other outfits
You can find many other outfits--free and for sale.  Most will be called avatars, the legacy term.  You will need to handle them in a legacy way:
  • When you get an avatar, it will probably be in a box.  Don't wear the box.
  • Rez the box,, click to open it, copy the contents to your inventory.  
  • Your new clothes will probably, go into your clothes folder, not your outfit folder
  • It will be a subfolder with the name of the avatar-outfit 
  • The subfolder will hold all the clothes and body parts needed for the avatar-outfit.
  • You put it on by dragging it from your inventory onto your avatar-outfit.
A few places to find outfits, free and for sale.
Appearance 102: Hyles Infohub newcomer resources
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Right-click on your avatar: menu: Edit my outfit 
This option lets you select body parts and attachments. Here you can also modify body parts like skin color.
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Right-click on your avatar: menu: Edit my shape
Use this to change your body shape: Be shorter, taller, thinner, fatter,etc
You will get a window with various controls on your body and body parts. Try moving the controls and see what they do to your appearance.
Appearance 103, Edit your shape, start learning
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To save your current outfit
You save an outfit you want to keep by a click on the Save As button on the outfit window.  Be sure to use a name you can recognize later. 
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Problems:  My avatar doesn't look right
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