ADVANCED TUTORIALS

Introduction

 

This Tattoo Developer Kit is for anyone who wants to make their own tattoo appliers for personal use or any designers who want to make tattoo appliers for sale in store. The tattoo applier is for apply tattoo texture onto Aesthetic body. 

 

You CANNOT use SL-UV tattoo textures on Aesthetic body because SL has a different UV template than Aesthetic UV template or as so called "HD-UV template"

 

This developer kit requires basic knowledges of textures making, modifying and scripting skills.

 

Please read TERMS OF USE carefully before you use the developer kits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What is HD-UV template ?

 

It is a custom UV template for specifically using with AESTHETIC Advanced Mesh Body. It allows us to make bigger size textures for full body up to 5 times more resolution than SL-UV template. You will see more details of your tattoo textures from using this HD-UV template.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Contents in this folder

 

1) Scripts (Full Permissions)

 

1.1) Simple Tattoo Applier Script  (main script)

This is a main script that sends UUIDs of your textures to the tattoo layers on Aesthetic body. Before setting your item for sale, you must change this script's permissions to "NO-MODIFY, NO-TRANSFER" to protect your UUIDs, otherwise, your texture UUID might possibly be stolen.

 

1.2) About Button Script  (optional)

This script is for making an ABOUT button on Applier HUD to show your store or product information. You have to change the information in the script before putting it into HUD.

 

1.3) Default Button Script  (optional)

This script is for sending the blank (invisible) texture to the tattoo layers on Aesthetic body in order to remove/clear the tattoo textures from the body.

 

 

2) Sample Tattoo Applier HUD

This is just a sample applier HUD that we made as a guide only. You can try using this HUD to add the tattoo to your Aesthetic body. This sample applier HUD is not transaferable because we want to encourage you to create your own HUD object so that the creator of the HUD will be your name.

 

3) Tattoo HUD interface

This is a sample HUD template we gave you as a guide. You may use and edit it, add your product image, or you can design your own HUD interface.

 

 

 

 

 

4) Tattoo HD-UV templates

Save these tattoo HD-UV templates (face, chest, back, left arm, right arm, left hand, right hand, pelvis, left leg, right leg, left foot, right foot and nails) into your computer and use them as a guideline layers to make tattoo textures. These tattoo HD-UV templates are different than SL-UV templates. That means you cannot use SL-UV tattoo textures to make tattoo appliers for Aesthetic body.

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TIP:

If you want your tattoo on the Aesthetic body to be able to modify color by using [HUD] color, we suggest you make tattoo texture in white, NOT black. If you make tattoo texture in black from the beginning, when you use [HUD] color to tint, you will see nothing happens, black is still black. It is just like you paint any colors on the black, you will still see it black. Therefore, white tattoo texture is the best default color for using [HUD] color to tint. Or you may make 2 color options; black and white tattoos.

 

5) AESTHETIC Compatible tag texture

Put this tag on your product image or ad to say that it is compatible with Aesthetic body.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to create Tattoo Applier HUD

 

1) Upload your tattoo texture into Second Life with alpha channel in TGA format / 32 bit or PNG. Right click at your texture and choose "Copy Asset UUID".

 

2) Open the Simple Tattoo Applier script and paste your texture UUID in the body parts (where the tattoo will appear) command lines. 

(You can refer the body part names from Tattoo UV templates)

 

Example #1:  Assume if UUID of your chest tattoo texture is 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000. Put the UUID at torso front side line behind the chest tattoo command only and delete other unused body parts command lines as following;

llSay(channel, "chesttattoo|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000");

 

Example #2:  If you want to make tattoo on your back and left arm. Assume if UUID of your back tattoo texture is 11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111, put the UUID at torso back side line behind the back tattoo command. And if UUID of your left arm tattoo texture is 22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222, then put the UUID behind the left arm tattoo command line, and delete other unused body parts command lines as following; 

llSay(channel, "backtattoo|11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111");

llSay(channel, "larmtattoo|22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222");

 

TIP:

You can wear multiple tattoos by separating applier HUDs. Each applier HUD must contain only one UUID for one specific body part command and delete other unused body parts command lines. However, each applier HUD has to be for different body part, you cannot wear multiple tattoos on the same body part area. 

 

You may read the instructions inside the Simple Tattoo Applier script for more details.

After done putting UUID, do not forget to set the script permission to "NO-MODIFY, NO-TRANSFER" and click save.

 

3) Build a prim object for making HUD and drag the modified Simple Tattoo Applier script into the root prim of your HUD.

 

4) Test it by clicking at your HUD to send the tattoo to the body.

 

5) If it works fine, set the permission of the HUD to "NO-MODIFY, NO-TRANSFER". (This is to protect your own texture UUIDs)

 

6) You can make "DEFAULT" and "ABOUT" buttons using the default and about scripts provided in the developer kit.

 

7) You can either design your own HUD interface if you want, or use the Tattoo HUD interface texture provided in the developer kit.

 

8) Now you are ready to sell your Tattoo Applier HUD. However, to make sure people know that it works only with Aesthetic body, you need to put the AESTHETIC Compatible tag in your product images/ads and put a keyword "Niramyth Aesthetic" on Marketplace, so people can search for your product.