 This session we are happy to introduce a terrific session called avatar personalization with classic avatars Our speaker today is Beth Ghost Raven Beth Ghost Raven is a middle school librarian and owner of the book and tanker pub in Victoria City, Caledon and the Ghost Raven professional attire at the OSCC expo zone 5 in open sim. She's communications chair for the virtual world's best practices and education conference communications chair for ISTE virtual environments network and is the liaison for Education groups in virtual worlds Welcome all let's begin the session Hi, I'm Beth Ghost Raven. I'm filling in at the last minute, and I hope there aren't any horrible mistakes in this presentation This may be way too much info all at once, but I'll put the slides on the web for you later Part of the learning curve for teaching and learning in open simulator and virtual other virtual worlds is the need to personalize one's avatar teachers Need their appearance to enhance and not detract from their instruction Students need to feel immersed in order to learn effectively and personalizing their avatars in my opinion contribute to this This presentation will help you to explore some possibilities for making your avatar and clothing look like you want them to look I love mesh for buildings furniture and shoes and jewelry But not for clothing our feet look basically the same but our avatar shapes do not I don't have a standard avatar shape And most mesh clothing does not fit me well My body image struggles in real life or physical life have left me with a philosophy that all of our shapes have value whether they are standard or not Especially if you don't have a standard shape classic clothing may work better for you as it does for me Although open sim does not have anything in the library part of the inventory for clothing These classic avatars from the federal consortium of virtual worlds and more are available in the shopping zone Right here at OSCC These are decent looking starting point and you can mix and match pieces of all of these I would encourage you to pick up everything there the Images in this are female, but there are I think an equal number of Clothing and body types for male avatars, too There are also freebies all over the open sim grid, but finding them can be a little tricky and time-consuming. I Will have free clothing in my shop on Expo Expo zone 5 as soon as I can get it ready and they'll be available all year the shop is to the east of the landing point The instructions and screenshots in this presentation are from the firestorm viewer Permissions are one of the trickiest parts of virtual world clothing Yes, there are aos in the shopping center and that's one of the most crucial parts of Appearance that's something I need to add to this presentation Something might say no modify in your inventory when it's actually only the script inside that can't be changed So try it and see If the item doesn't have any permissions listed after it It's full perm so you can change it in whatever way you want in this presentation Classic avatars and clothing are defined as any non mesh avatars in clothing shapes and skins work together to make the basic avatar body This shows the difference between shape and skin and how they work together to create an avatar The Carla shape and skin are from the Linden lab library in Second Life if you go to the VWB PE conference or to my shop in Second Life, I have a Whole panel that shows all of the different combinations When you're modifying something make a copy first It's really easy to totally mess something up when you're trying to customize it If the item is not copyable check with the designer to see if they'll give you another copy of the item Many designers are easy to work with and they're happy to share things So this is how you edit a shape You find your shape in the inventory that you're wearing that'll be what's in bold face and you either click the wrench icon and edit it or um you can Right-click on the shape and inventory and click edit So these are the sliders when you're editing your shape There are a bunch of different tabs at the top and you can go across the tabs and just play with the sliders and See what you come up with so these are The eye tab you can change how your eyes look on your avatar This avatar doesn't look like my Second Life avatar which is shown in the picture But I tried to get it as similar as I could the icons on the right Except for the alpha layer which is the cross hat shirt Show system items in your inventory if you show only clothing in your inventory These will be the only things that show up Remember make a copy first before you edit anything So in this jacket The upper fabric is a template created in furter shop Which cannot be altered in virtual worlds because it's in grayscale though It can be recolored by clicking the color tint box and that opens up the color picker I use the hex codes a lot so you can click on hex and get exactly the color you're looking for Make sure that you click okay when you've got the color you want before you close to color picker box So prim clothing and hair shows up as cubes on the inventory as objects and except for the AO or animation overrider you can wear or raise the object and edit it It's a good idea to use the post then and I'll try to There must be a free post then somewhere and you know I think I've got one I can put out in the wearing or worn cab of inventory on the top there Or you can click the appearance Menu you can right click on an object and choose edit Even if the object can't be modified if it is non mesh it can be moved I usually have to lower my necklaces and shorten my skirts because my avatar is shorter than the usual in Second life or in virtual worlds Some items have resize scripts in them if that's the case do not edit it But click on the object to open the resize menu be sure to make a copy before you make any changes if possible Sometimes you can do both you can resize it and you can edit it to get in just the right place on you What questions do you have? You can type questions and chat if you want Thank you, Beth We're getting some comments in it looks like some comments on customization meeting a lady's maid to dress Edith and kayaker Asks for ladies made also. Well any questions from the audience? Joyce is going to get some links for various avatars. Of course at the OSCC shopping zone Here at the OSCC conference. We have additional content including some of the animation overrides that people asked for and the these avatars and various materials to customize your your look if You have questions, please direct them to Beth Ghost Raven and want to thank her for providing this great content today