Second Life University - How to Modify Your Avatar's Skin

Second Life University is a project that aims to teach people all about the vast virtual world of Second Life. Watch Boston Blaisdale as he shows you how to modify your avatar's skin.

Topics covered in this video:
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Purchasing face skin that is compatible with the head you are wearing
1:45 - Purchasing body skin that is compatible with the body you are wearing
2:06 - Wearing a basic system skin
2:27 - Wearing the correct alphas for your head and body to be Bakes on Mesh (BOM) compatible
2:46 - Unpacking purchased skin
3:07 - Wearing the face skin using tattoo layers
3:42 - Wearing the body skin to match face skin
4:07 - Adjusting environment settings
4:20 - Wearing the neck blend to fix neck seams
4:29 - Reordering layers in the outfits menu
5:08 - Customizing your avatar with different Bakes on Mesh (BOM) layers
5:59 - Explaining differences between system skin and tattoo layer skin
7:00 - Displaying various ways skins are sold by Creators
7:55 - Purchasing tattoos from the Second Life Marketplace
8:23 - Adding tattoo layers to your avatar
8:44 - Suggestions for more affordable options for skins

Video Production by @BostonB

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Topics covered in this video:
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Purchasing face skin that is compatible with the head you are wearing
1:45 - Purchasing body skin that is compatible with the body you are wearing
2:06 - Wearing a basic system skin
2:27 - Wearing the correct alphas for your head and body to be Bakes on Mesh (BOM) compatible
2:46 - Unpacking purchased skin
3:07 - Wearing the face skin using tattoo layers
3:42 - Wearing the body skin to match face skin
4:07 - Adjusting environment settings
4:20 - Wearing the neck blend to fix neck seams
4:29 - Reordering layers in the outfits menu
5:08 - Customizing your avatar with different Bakes on Mesh (BOM) layers
5:59 - Explaining differences between system skin and tattoo layer skin
7:00 - Displaying various ways skins are sold by Creators
7:55 - Purchasing tattoos from the Second Life Marketplace
8:23 - Adding tattoo layers to your avatar
8:44 - Suggestions for more affordable options for skins

[TraderTimmy]

I appreciate your tutorial. To be honest, I hate trying get my avatar skin to look right. It's a nightmare. Really. It sucks because everything else is fairly intuitive. Hats and hair go on your head and are pretty easy to tweak. Clothing, the same. But skins - EeK! The most frustrating of all things avatar related.

[joenine]

Hi Boston, great video as always. The moving of layers helped me get rid of the neck line. Thank you. Always learn something new with you videos. Keep up the good work. A suggestion for a next video which I know is abit advanced, is what is SLUV mapping used by different head creators. It interests me as I know different head creators use different mapping. Just want to understand why and what are the differences. Thanks

[qitamnova]

Great Video Boston! Thanks for all the explanations on the different types of heads and bodys.

[evansblack]

Very helpful indeed! Now I know what to do with Stray Dog skins :)
Thanks very much!

[nflisrigged]

I got a mesh body and head
Thank you
All my clothes fit now
I was around in 2007 SL
Love the new stuff

[Kanelamiel]

1st comment! Giggle! Thanks for this series... I learn a lot!

[dukemarriott]

All of your videos are very helpful and I appreciate the effort you put into making these. Kudos and blessings to you. You are a boss. 8-)

[nbailey]

I wish you could make over my avatar you are fantastic and I love all your avatars!! still cant fix my neck problem!!💌so I wear necklaces to cover it up!

[missydazywolf]

ingolly i just learned from you :) how to up my eyebrows over the skin . i always had to take off and reapply lol

[HumAiClub]

Where did you get the body skin 3:50 ? I can't find it or where to purchase it, I purchased Not Found - Keon Skin Light Brown (Lelutka) but only have the head and can't find a body skin

[apocryphicdeath]

I don't understand: I went to Not Found and purchased the Vih skin (sorbet) and the Hera Maitreya body skins (sorbet); but he head and upperneck tones do not match the lowerneck and body tones despire both being sorbet, and there are no "neck fade" elements included in the pack to bake onto the mesh. What did I do wrong?

[isabasoom]

Hello...i tried to find the store LeLapeau but i didnt get anyathing in search or even at SL market...could you please release the landmark here? Thanks in advance. Great and useful videos you have here:)

[richardanderson]

Very good info but would like a more detailed video too.

[ramonaalba]

How to know if the skin is compatible with head and body.. SL newbie here.. I struggled a lot with fixing my avatar's skin head and body. Right now I'm using the classic mesh body and genus head.. I'm also confuse what clothes to get cause there are a lot of options like. Maitreya.. Legacy.. Curvy.. Which is compatible to my classic mesh body.. :(

[gamingranggers]

hi boston... i really like second life because second life is the first metaverse that i played maybe while i'm still very very very young. i like join some community here, and i feel all pwople here are in same frequency and mind with me.... by almost 1 month, in second life i meet amazing people, in second life i learn some about avi, language, finance, knowledges, and experiences from residents. and i feel i understand about all things technology more, whatever at art. i like u second life, i wish you more...👍 can u make the clothing operation and others easier? i think not all people can play second life... it just for almost people who understand programming and setting avi. or maybe they're have an experience about this game or they're easy to understand. i need maybe 2 days to understand all basics of secondlife.. but no with all my friends. so can u do this? so thanks uuu... second lifeeee....

[suzyukla]

what i know is always buy the same skin for head and body from the skin store has to be the same

[fabrice]

je recherche la boutique secondlife qui vend les skin

[chantel]

Hiya Boston, not sure if you will see this but I had a question regarding the skins, please? I use a skin layer for my face, and the body (Velour) contains both a system body skin AND a BOM body skin layer - which would I use for the body? Or do I use both?