[BUG-202552] Add viewer-replaced textures to let mesh show skin and clothing textures

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How would you like the feature to work?

Add a new texture for each clothing type. Whenever the viewer sees one of these textures on an object worn by an avatar, it replaces that texture with the texture of the corresponding clothing piece, solely for display purposes. Some default texture should be provided in case the corresponding clothing type is not worn, or the object with the special texture set is not an attachment.

The clothing types for this purpose would be:
gloves, jacket, pants, shirt, shoes, skirt, socks, underpants, undershirt, skin, eyes, hair, tattoo, and fullbody (final composite texture, with the same UV mapping as skin)

Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?

This feature would make it possible for mesh creators to solve the various compatibility problems that arise between mesh avatars and Linden clothing, and greatly reduce the burden of texture creators wanting ot make their skins and clothing compatible with multiple mesh brands.

Handling the compatibility this way (with a viewer-replaced texture that never causes the skin and clothing textures to actually become part of the mesh object) avoids the various copyright concerns with allowing mesh to take on skin and clothing textures.

Links

Related

• [BUG-5893] This feature is aimed to avoid the use of "appliers" in mesh body parts and mesh wearables #13802
• [BUG-10495] Update the SL clothing system for mesh #820
• [BUG-8132] Add LSL functionality to access Avatar Baked Textures #15767

Original Jira Fields

Field	Value
Issue	BUG-202552
Summary	Add viewer-replaced textures to let mesh show skin and clothing textures
Type	New Feature Request
Priority	Unset
Status	Closed
Resolution	Unactionable
Reporter	Brilliand (brilliand)
Created at	2017-11-08T12:25:16Z
Updated at	2017-11-08T19:43:27Z

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Whirly Fizzle commented at 2017-11-08T16:27:57Z

Hiya Brilliand,

LL are actually working on adding this feature!

For details, please see:

• https://modemworld.me/2017/05/26/sl-project-updates-212-new-project-applying-baked-textures-on-mesh-avatars/
• https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/407043-ll-announced-a-project-to-bake-textures-on-meshes/

This feature is often discussed at the Content Creation user group, which is held most weeks - see http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Content_Creation_User_Group for meeting dates/times/location.

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Dan Linden commented at 2017-11-08T19:05:53Z

Thank you for your suggestion. We've reviewed your request and determined that it is not something we can tackle at this time.

Please be assured that we truly appreciate the time you invested in creating this feature request, and have given it thoughtful consideration among our review team. This wiki outlines some of the reasoning we use to determine which requests we can, or can't, take on: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Feature_Requests

Thanks again for your interest in improving Second Life.

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Grumpity Linden commented at 2017-11-08T19:43:28Z

Hi Brilliand,
Whirly is correct, we're working on it as baked textures on mesh. Please follow those developments and we'll be glad to see you at user group if you can make it :).