Sunday, 12 July 2009

Striped polo shirts

Finally some new products: a set of striped polo shirts in all imaginable colors...

A stylish, striped polo shirt that you can wear at almost all occasions. There is a large choice of colors, including some "unusual" color like pastels and "seconday colors". The fabric shows natural folds and wrinkles with shades and highlights. It's collar is also very realistic, with shades enhancing the 3D effects.

Free demo available! (in steel-grey)

Two versions are included: one "tucked" version that leaves your pants/belt etc fully visible, and one "untucked" version that covers the upper part of your pants. The "tucked" version uses the shirt layer, so you can adjust the tightness in the appearance editor, the "untucked" version uses the jacket layer. For the jacket layer you can *not* adjust the tightness. Tip: if you want a loose "untucked" shirt, wear a loose "tucked" version underneath.

The shoulder/neck area is a very difficult area to make clothes for: many mesh triangles come together and move and stretch in unpredictable ways, depending on your shape and your pose/animation. For a plain shirt this doesn't matter, but for a striped shirt like this one, the effects can be clearly visible. Unfortunately, nothing can be done to prevent this and all striped/patterned shirts in SL suffer from this.

The collar is painted, not sculpted. Hence, it also suffers from distortions when you move. On the other hand, it makes the shirt easy to wear, without complicated adjustments being needed, and it doesn't occupy any attachment points, so you can still wear your necklace etc.

In my main store, you can buy:
- all 14 colors individually (L$ 80 each)
- a number of packs with 3 colors each (L$ 160)
- a "fat pack" with all 14 colors (L$ 500)

Obviously, the bigger the pack, the higher the discount :-)

Available colors:
- blue
- cyan (light blue)
- brown
- green
- light blue
- olive (yellow-green)
- pink
- purple
- red
- ruby (purple-red)
- teal (blue-green)
- yellow
- black
- grey