Custom Collars - making the inner edge alpha transparent

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RE: Custom Collars - making the inner edge alpha transparent - Kayleigh McMillan - 07-16-2013 06:36 PM

(07-16-2013 03:44 PM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: So they used offset (on the Edit panel, Texture tab) of 0.5 instead of 0.0 .. good to know.

Question, when you're testing the spot, can you test both with the rectangular sample they give you and with a 1024x1024?

One of the tricks to making a collar look really good would be to use a 1024x1024 image. While that can't do a thing to help with pixalization right/left, it will give you a lot more detail in the narrow up/down (the gray line in your example just above).

Hi Tad

I do think that works I applied as you suggested a 1024x1024 texture and it works indeed perfectly the same.
The result is ofcourse blurry as I made a fairly thin sample texture fit in the 1024 hight but I think you are right a higher quality can be achieved if it is made on a rectangular texture and the border color remains the same as well.

P.s. I just double checked the prim face of the borders and both horizontal as well as vertical the offset is 0 so they did not change anything there besides the default prim setting.
What they did do though is make it so there is no texture space at all on the borders.
The texture repeats both vertical as horizontal is 0.00 for the borders.

I thought of one downside when it comes to working with a square texture might give more quality but the pain is we need to be able to visualize how that will turn out in a cropped version as the collar is a cylinder which they sliced begin: 0.250 and end: 0.750 so we have no full face of that hollowed cylinder to work with but indeed 61px by 1024px.
I for sure have not enough visualisation in me to see how that would turn out if I was to work with a 1024x1024 texture because in the length we would need to make the texture extremely streched to achieve that.
I bet they made slices just so the collar could be thinner than 10 cm the smallest possible setting for a prim.
In fact KC are just a bunch of prim torturers just like me XD

RE: Custom Collars - making the inner edge alpha transparent - Kayleigh McMillan - 07-17-2013 12:23 PM

I made the template with the red dot available in my kitty shop, ofcourse free of charge Tongue

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RE: Custom Collars - making the inner edge alpha transparent - Malayaa Resident - 07-17-2013 02:24 PM

(07-17-2013 12:23 PM)Kayleigh McMillan Wrote: I made the template with the red dot available in my kitty shop, ofcourse free of charge

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Thanks Kayleigh for that "priceless" template, I will be down to get one tonight after work!!

Malayaa

RE: Custom Collars - making the inner edge alpha transparent - Devilness Chant - 07-17-2013 09:19 PM

Thx Kay I grabbed one too. Smile

RE: Custom Collars - making the inner edge alpha transparent - Kayleigh McMillan - 07-17-2013 09:58 PM

(07-17-2013 09:19 PM)devilness chant Wrote: Thx Kay I grabbed one too.

You're welcome I'm glad it helps Smile

RE: Custom Collars - making the inner edge alpha transparent - Boudicca Amat - 07-21-2013 06:00 PM

Thank you so much for all your help Kayleigh

RE: Custom Collars - making the inner edge alpha transparent - Devilness Chant - 07-21-2013 06:11 PM

I've seen some collars that have the texture in the middle but it's still transparent all around? How is that done? I tried it but ended up with the color on the edges?

RE: Custom Collars - making the inner edge alpha transparent - Kayleigh McMillan - 07-21-2013 10:50 PM

(07-21-2013 06:11 PM)devilness chant Wrote: I've seen some collars that have the texture in the middle but it's still transparent all around? How is that done? I tried it but ended up with the color on the edges?

Frankly I have no idea Dev I have seen them as well.
As we get them without modify rights and can't change the edges with an other texture color or an 100% alpha textures it seems impossible from what I have noticed so far, but who knows maybe there is an other secret about this not uncovered yet Cool

I hope these tips are shared here as well by those who do know.

RE: Custom Collars - making the inner edge alpha transparent - Boudicca Amat - 07-22-2013 02:46 AM

I am loathe to criticize the KittyCatS creators as they have done, and do, a marvelous job on almost all counts.

But I have to ask - what IS the point of supplying us with a collar template, and a collar demo prim - if neither of these actually let us see what our finished product will look like before we go to the trouble and expense of uploading a permanent texture??

I'd like to call for KC's to update the collar kits with a fix for these issues. It wouldn't take a great deal of effort, but would result in many, very happy, content creators Smile

RE: Custom Collars - making the inner edge alpha transparent - Kayleigh McMillan - 07-22-2013 08:30 AM

(07-22-2013 02:46 AM)Boudicca Amat Wrote: I am loathe to criticize the KittyCatS creators as they have done, and do, a marvelous job on almost all counts.

But I have to ask - what IS the point of supplying us with a collar template, and a collar demo prim - if neither of these actually let us see what our finished product will look like before we go to the trouble and expense of uploading a permanent texture??

I'd like to call for KC's to update the collar kits with a fix for these issues. It wouldn't take a great deal of effort, but would result in many, very happy, content creators

I agree, it would be so helpful if these things were fixed.
No criticism from my part either but more for the sake of freedom in design.