Thank you Tad and everyone else who's been looking into this area. I haven't played with the collar making kits but I have one and I find this thread very interesting.
@Tad: I was following ok until the images (maybe I got distracted by "willy-nilly", which is an expression I've always liked
). Specifically, I got confused as to which is "My texture" and which "What SL sees", as the server (?) decided to post 4 images but allow me to open just 2 (the ones that seem to be the same file of course....
) ). I'm guessing the flat one is "My Texture" (the one I ca nonly see in thumbnail) but I'd be really grateful if you could explain that part a bit more/again.
I think I understood the basic idea regarding the offsets. But maybe not....if you can't change the offsets in the collar itself, are you changing the offset in the texture itself to replicate what you would normally do on the prim?
Thank you
(10-02-2012 11:55 AM)Tad Carlucci Wrote: The color is not random. The texture Offsets select which pixel from the texture to smear over the sides. If the Offsets fall between two pixels (0, the default DOES), then you get a smeared stripe with the top being one pixel's color, smearing to the bottom, being the other pixel. Same for right-to-left.
Repeat 0 can be useful, but you don't want to just use it willy-nilly.
I seem to have confused the board. Here's what I was trying to say .. sorry if it's repeated for you.
The color is not random. The texture Offsets select which pixel from the texture to smear over the sides. If the Offsets fall between two pixels (0, the default DOES), then you get a smeared stripe with the top being one pixel's color, smearing to the bottom, being the other pixel. Same for right-to-left.
Repeat 0 can be useful, but you don't want to just use it willy-nilly.
I made some examples.
First is "Your Texture" it's small, but it's just 4 colored squares.
Next is "What Second Life Sees". I tiled it to Offset (0,0) and scaled it up to smear things together. Notice how the center is a medium gray .. that is what Repeat (0,0) sees there. You could use TINY changes to the offsets to move the color smeared on the face away from that gray to one of the two-color-smeared areas or even into one of the just-one-color-near-here points.
* Tad Carlucci sighs. My posts are getting lost.
* Tad Carlucci sighs. My posts are getting lost.
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