ElleC
3 years ago
Hey all. I dipped my toes last night into SL and have some basic questions about BOM.
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ElleC
3 years ago
Do you just wear your skin like normal i.e no appliers?
ElleC
3 years ago
Does the skin also apply to the mesh head? I demo'd a mesh head with tattoo skins so I wasnt' for sure how it worked. Thanks
Tillie
3 years ago
You wear it like the old "SL skins".
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Tillie
3 years ago
On the body and on the head you usually can enable "BOM".
Tillie
3 years ago
Basically this switches on a special texture, similar to the media texture.
ElleC
3 years ago
Thanks Tillie ! Does the head and body need to be enabled in the HuD for BOM?
Tillie
3 years ago
So the skin from your body gets "projected" onto the mesh body/head.
Tillie
3 years ago
You need to remove the alpha layers for those locations.
ElleC
3 years ago
oh ok
ElleC
3 years ago
so just the eye alpha
Tillie
3 years ago
Or else you will only see the "BOM texture", which is something like bright red.
Tillie
3 years ago
Yup.
ElleC
3 years ago
Thanks!!
Tillie
3 years ago
The nice thing of this is that you are not restricted to the 3 layers mesh body have, anymore.
Tillie
3 years ago
You can just wear a skin, add freckles, blush, tanlines ...
Tillie
3 years ago
the whole bunch. :-D
ElleC
3 years ago
so it's like the old days
Tillie
3 years ago
Yup.
ElleC
3 years ago
nice
Tillie
3 years ago
It works more or less well depending on which skins and which body/head you use, as the mesh things are different from the SL body, so bits get stretched or compressed differently.
Tillie
3 years ago
But lots of stuff works quite well. :-)
NewYearSameMe
3 years ago
I see you
NewYearSameMe
3 years ago
I mean I saw you !!!
Tillie
3 years ago
✿Kirsten✿
3 years ago
no alphas, take them off, make sure they are enabled (usually a button or switch) in your head and body, Some skin makers are making them separate - a head skin and a separate body skin, so you have to wear both, some are making them all in one, so it depends. The separate ones will be skin layer- body skin and head skins on tattoo layer.
✿Kirsten✿
3 years ago
The body skin will say "add head skin" on your face, lol
✿Kirsten✿
3 years ago
they above are BOM, make sure BOM is enabled in your head and body
✿Kirsten✿
3 years ago
but yes, you essentially wear skins and tattoo layers just like you used to de pre-mesh head and body
✿Kirsten✿
3 years ago
Unlike before though, skins won't just work well on whatever. The best ones are made specifically for a certain head.
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