SL Cert - Basic Textures

SL Certification

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• SL Certification Process
• Roles Guide
• Certification Guide
• SL KB Style Guide
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Skills Lists:

• Land Management:
  Basic, Intermediate, Advanced
• Textures:
  Basic, Intermediate, Advanced
• Terraforming:
  Basic, Intermediate, Advanced
• Scripting:
  Basic, Intermediate, Advanced
• Event Hosting:
  Basic, Intermediate, Advanced
• Machinima:
  Basic, Intermediate, Advanced
• Building:
  Basic, Intermediate, Advanced
• Sculpty:
  Basic, Intermediate, Advanced
• Marketing:
  Basic, Intermediate, Advanced
• Tutoring:
  Basic, Intermediate, Advanced

Other Information:

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Overview

This is the criteria required for a person to become certified on texturing for Second Life.

Audience

Anyone who intends to demonstrate that they have texturing skills. This would be very useful for Second Life builder for example and texture artists.

Pre-requisites

Basic understanding of the Second Life user interface, basic skills in a graphic program outside of Second Life, and some money in the Second Life account to upload textures.

Testing Criteria

Ability to apply an image to an object, avatar body part, clothes or sculpt map in order to colorize or shape it, or to create particles (temporary animated holograms). Creation of textures that are ideal for the use within Second Life to create certain visual effects.

The texturing skill set can be divided into the following sub-categories:

1. Creation of the texture outside of Second Life

2. Valid texture upload formats and recommended sizes for best rendering quality.

3. Use of the texture in Second Life

4. Permissions

All skills should be demonstrated as a combination of theoretical (multiple-choice) test and practical application inworld.

Basic Level

Basic level certification candidates should demonstrate an understanding of the use of Textures in Second Life. This includes the following topics:

1. Texture creation outside of Second Life

1.1 Surface texture creation (the “skin” of objects, maps, avatar body parts, clothes and particles)

1.2 Sculpt map creation

1.3 RAW files

2. Texturing inside Second Life:

An understanding of the several categories and uses of textures in Second Life should be demonstrated:

2.1 Object Texture - Texturing the surface of an object or terrain to colorize it in it’s texture tab

2.2 Clothes texture, Body texture, Eye texture, Skin texture - Texturing a body part or clothes of an avatar in the appearance editor

2.3 Sculpt map - Applying a sculpt map on an object’s sculpt map tab to shape the object

2.4 RAW file - Knowing what this is and how they are used in Second Life. (Theoretical test only).

2.5 Particle Texture - Using the textures to create particles with a particle script

3. Upload formats and sizes

3.1 Upload formats as to date: jpg, png, tga, and bmp There should be a basic understanding of which are good for which results (quality, transparency, loading times etc.).

3.2 Upload sizes in pixel: Knowing the basics, which sizes work well and which totally not, size minimum and maximum etc.

4. Use of the Second Life texture tab in edit mode.

4.1 On the basic level, at least the repeats, rotation and offset settings as well as the check-boxes for transparency, full bright, glow, and flipping should be well known, and understanding of them should be demonstrated on the object.

4.2 Applying textures and color with color picker on objects should also be demonstrated.

5. Required permissions on objects to change textures, required texture permissions, and the change of object permissions with texture/sculpt map permissions should be well understood. A texture artist should know already on the basic level, that full permission is a MUST for commercially used textures and why.