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Flexiprim skirts, one avatar’s opinion
By Celebrity Trollop | May 25, 2006
I have to admit that I love the way the flexible prims move with my avatar, whether she’s dancing, slinking, jumping or flying. But at this point, most of the flexible prim skirts I’ve seen and worn in world come as discreet pieces of fabric arrayed around my avatar’s waist, not one unified whole piece of cloth, and to me that makes them a touch disconcerting to wear. It leads to what I call The Seven Year Itch Glitch. In that movie, Marilyn Monroe is wearing a fabulously sexy little white dress and stands over a subway grate. When the subway rumbles past underground, the skirt flies upward every which way as she coquettishly tries to tame it.
Flexiprim skirts make me feel the same way except everywhere I go in Second Life, there’s a subway grate under foot pushing the skirting pieces up over my waist. Most of the flexiprim outfits I’ve worn and liked in world have shied away from using flexible prims as skirting material and instead used them as scarves, ribbons or other adornments where one can achieve the same incredible sense of bounce and motion without having to feel like she’s flashing the entire sim with every step she takes. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I guess, unless you’re in a PG sim. :D)
I really hope the incredibly talented fashion designers in Second Life can find a way to overcome this limitation — because I’ll be so excited to wear something that really flows and moves like a single garment.
Topics: Flexiprims, Opinion |
Once the flexi-prim skirts were released, I ran out and brought a few, and had the same permanent ‘upskirt’ feel as I was walking around.
I had a toy with the settings on them, trying to adjust it so it was a little less flashy, but without too much luck as yet, hopefully others will have more success!
Posted by: Venice Craven on May 26th, 2006 at 6:39 amI’ve been trying to make a flexiprim skirt, and I’ve been running into this issue. It looks fine when my avatar stands still or turns, but when she walks, the whole thing inevitably goes streaming out behind her. Even when I just used a single cylinder as the entire skirt, this happened. So I’m not sure — for some types of skirts, at least — if this can be fixed, but hopefully someone will come up with something.
Posted by: Miriel Enfield on May 26th, 2006 at 3:18 pm