Normal and Specular maps available on the Design Studio

A new version of the Design Studio is available called 1.310 that makes it compatible with the latest update of the 3.10 mesh version of the babies.

This update also affects transfer boxes and the transferbox pro version making old boxes not compatible with the latest features.

So what´s New?

This new version brings support for normal, specular and diffuse maps  bringing all the new lighting features of advance lighting.

If you don´t know what are these new materials you can check it here

Normal maps has the same effect as bump maps but are generated on another way. Luckily there are lot of applications for turning easy to comprehend and generate on photoshop grey scale bump maps to normal maps as this plugin from NVIDIA that I have been using. It should be easy to find or make any tipe of fabric bump map and turn it into a normal map to be used on SL.

3.10 update available

The new 3.10 update is available for all parents. This new update adds support for advance lighting featuring new normal, diffuse and specular maps on skins and clothes. It also adds support for this feature to be used in conjunction with the design studio who´s update should also be delivered on a few days.

And as usual it also brings some small bug fixes here and there.

As it is such a big update it can only be delivered through the recovery of the baby.


Also to all parents of older versions of the baby remember that you are still on time to upgrade to the mesh 3.10 version on any recovery station

Prim Hair PS Files

As promised a long time ago (sorry about that), here you can download the original prim hair texture files to edit them and customize them in any way you want.

Just save the file as PNG or TIFF with alpha mask and upload your creation to SL.

Pony Tail

Pig Tail

The files are saved on Photoshop CS4 format but older photoshops should be able to open them.

Design Studio Skin textures

Some Tatu Designers has ask me for the original skin tones to make clothes that shows some skin (like bathsuits for example) and here they are. Download them and use them on your creations.

By the way, I´m still working on the prim hair, and even I have already finish with the modelling and textures, the fact of adding a prim on the baby has prove to be more difficult than what I expected. So expect an update to make all babies compatible for this feature.

Design Studio - Transfer Boxes PRO

A new Transfer Box is available and this time we go PRO.

Some designers have complain that the need of dealing with each unit at a time of a given product was a big cumber stone while handling a lot of clothes and that it made it impossible to sell them on the marketplace.

The solution was to make a transferbox with copy and transfer permissions but that would mean that the price should be so high that it will turn away most designers and that it would take a lot of time for the designers with high sales to have the inversion returned.

As I always preferred a micro payments system, so designers can pay exactly for what they want to use, I will be using a similar approach for enabling this copy/transfer boxes.

This way the script itself it’s going to be free but once you pack it and make it available for sale, you need to pay L$500 for getting a copy/transfer version of that dress.

It might seem a lot of lindens as it cost as 10 transfer boxes right now. But I think designers will agree it’s a good deal. It means for example that if your dress is sold by L$250 you will get all your investment back on two sales.

It also means you can mix both systems and just invest on copy permissions for you on dresses you know you will have no problem selling and keeping the investments even lower by just using it where you know you will get the lindens back.

It will also be possible for you to sell your outfits at lower prices like just L$50 or giving them for free as a way to attract clients with freebies.

You will be able to sell them on the marketplace or use any vendor software you want and even have a sale stand not only on your shop but on other clinics by using catalogue vendors.



Remember: You need the Design Studio to use this

How To Use it 

The use itself is very similar the regular transfer boxes and you should read the Transfer Boxes walkthrought for the general instructions.

Unpack the box and place the script inside a box you created

The script will ask you for debit permissions to work which you need to accept.

If the box you created is copy / transfer the script will warn you so you don’t lose control of your product. This is just a suggestion but the script but it’s possible to create copy/transfer freebies if you wish to.

Once you click Finish it will ask you to pay a certain number to the box to finish the process and make it ready for sale. If you try to transfer it without this, the information on the script with your outfit will be lost.

If you wish to copy your outfit while rezed, remember that shift drag will reset the scripts of the copied version so your outfit will be lost. Take it to the inventory and rez as many copies as you need.

You can still use it with the no copy vendor scripts I made available if you need to, or just make the item itself sellable.

Design Studio Walkthrought

Building new clothes is easy and fast with the Design Studio and is possible to share your creations with your friends or sell them.

You don’t need to design full outfits as you can design just a specific part. For example you could design just baby shoes, or shirts, neko outfits, etc. To do that the default wood texture is ignored by the Design Studio when it uploads the clothes to the baby. Still have in mind that when designing your clothes you must use all prims of that group. Not doing that will cause some errors on the baby´s clothes once you try to dress / undress him. This also means that short sleeves clothes won’t be possible.

In the case you mix up the baby´s textures you can always reset skin and clothes textures to the original ones on your´s baby´s edit options.

These diagrams will show you the correct prim groups you must complete when designing your own clothes.

The Design Studio is copy / no transfer so you can make as much clothes as you wish. Still if you wish to transfer your clothes to a friend or sell them, transfer boxes are available. Be shure to test the transfer box clothes are correct before using the “finish” option as you won’t be able to change them after that.

Both the Transfer Boxes as the Design Studio come with an automatic rename function to easily track your creations. Once your final design is saved to the transfer box, just add a nice photo to show your creation.

Updates:

From 2.10 update of the baby and 1.2 of the Design Studio. There is a texture that represents the skin of the baby. Use the default wood texture as a transparent texture, and the skin will be shown on that particular prim.

This is for all of those custom creators that asked for short sleeves and other great possibilities.

Transfer Boxes walkthrought

To pass your creation on the Design Studio to someone else just follow this instructions on how to use your transfer boxes.

Once your clothes are ready rez a transfer box near the baby. Click on the Design Studio and choose "Transfer" and "Box". You will get some dialog about the textures beeing accepted by the transfer box.

Touch the transfer box and a menu should appear, please never open the transfer boxes.

The options are:

Name, Transfer, Erase, Finish

Touch name and tipe the new name on open chat to rename your transfer box. The object will be renamed and a text will appear over the box.

Transfer will transfer the clothes to a nearby baby so you can try them. As usual with all clothes first you must go to “edit” on the baby´s menu and choose “new clothes” before you can transfer them.

If a clothes doesn’t appear ok at first time, try to undress and dress again your baby to see if your creation is correct. This is a current bug about the order in which the baby´s information is transferred, and the baby´s changing clothes before it has all the texture repetitions information and it will be probably be fix on future versions.

Erase will lose all the current clothes in case you want to do it again.

Once your design is on the box touch Finish, after that you won´t be able to edit your clothes anymore and the box transfer the information by just touching it as skin boxes does. Now your design is ready to be sell or transferred to a friend as a gift.

Changing the box texture could be a nice idea to show your creation.

Making a vendor

This will show you how to setup a small vendor for no-copy items. A script is included with each transfer boxes pack that you can use to set one up. Just Follow this small instructions.

Create a box; this bow will be the actual vendor so you can use any design you wish to give it, doesn´t need to be a cube.

Drop all units of the same design inside the content of the box. In our case we drop 5 copies of our ugly dress inside.

Drop the vendor script inside the box “No copy item seller” is the name of the script, drop one inside.

Change the name of the box  Edit the box and name it with you dress, Example: Tatu Ugly Dress

Change the objects descriptionto  $price + description. The script places the description as a hover text and reads the price from there.

Example: $200 Ugly clothes

Don’t forget the price and the dollar sign as the script will detect that.

Touch the box to reset the script This will make the script read the description and the content inside.

Accept the Dialog A dialog will appear to ask you handle your lindens, this makes it possible for the object to return the money if there isn’t more stock or if they pay him an incorrect amount of lindens.

That’s all

You vendor will show the description and the number of units being sold, in case it runs out of stock it will send you a message and won´t accept any other sale.

Transfer Boxes already available

The Design Studio´s Transfer Boxes are already available at clinics and Xstreet. Comes on 5 and 10 units packs and includes a simple script to set up a vendor for no-copy items.

Just drop all copies of the product and the script inside a prim which will be your vendor and add a nice photo of your dress to the box texture to show your product

The objects price is read from the object's description and placed as a hovertext.

You can set the description on the GENERAL TAB just like the Object Name.

Example: $300 party dress

The script will read the price from the description so long as you have it in the format above. Remember you must put "price$ info". The dollar sign must be in there for the script to work.

If the vendor runs out of stock it will send you a message and not allow any other sell

Baby Tatu Design Studio

One of the new cool features of the upcomming Baby Tatu version is the ability to build your own clothes for the baby. The Design Studio will allow you to build, manage and transfer your creations to your baby. You will also be able to transfer your new summer collection to friends or start your own business as a Baby Tatu dress designer.

Soon i will include some videos of the Design Studio at work