Okay, I designed my latest shirt with the male mesh in mind. I couldn't resist trying it on with my female av, even though I thought the result would look scary because of the distortions.
And... wow! This shirt also works on girls! ^.^ Those who know me, know that I'm a bit of a tomboy. I'm a tomboy with a blue shirt, now!
Despite my boobs, the distortions aren't all that important. I don't have big breasts so I can't tell whether the stripes would work on a larger rack. It will most certainly work on flat-chested tomboys. Yippeeeee!
Anyway, I'll keep doing stripes, tartan, and other patterns. I like them, both for the technical challenge they provide me with and for the cool look.
I bake my stripes in Blender now that I know how, to prevent distortions (basically, by aligning textures on Empty objects). Before that, I used to do them in Photoshop by drawing rectangular vectors, checking the result in Daz, and tweaking the vectors until they looked right. That's the method I used for my striped sweater. It's a bit tedious, but it works.
Just be aware that Daz' imported avatar isn't perfect and suffers distortions of its own (especially the central line: vertical stripes look all wonky in Daz compared to SL).
