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Keef’s IMVU > Developing Tutorials > Q and A, Neck Issues Develop Q and A: Neck Issues Answers to regular questions I get asked on my homepage, PM and in the forums. "Ouch! >.< I just returned to imvu after going through many comp changes. only difference is now, I'm wokring on my new product line and its a full body tatoo series with some textures on the neck portion of the head peice. The neck looks fine in previewer, but in imvu the neck texture looked ok the first time I wore it, but now, its doesn't look at alll like what I made. I can load the same .cfl in previewer and it looks spot-on correct, but in imvu its messed up, anyone have nay ideas what could be happening to it?" Orig Forum Post Neck Issues I had the same issue on my Geisha skins, It’s the shirt you’re wearing that’s the culprit. Change the shirt and the neck texture poofs. Change it back and you’re all good. It's been on my list to play with and figure out what’s exactly is happening. My unproven theory at this point is that depending on the shirt what neck texture the skin uses varies. By default the skin uses the bit of neck on the body map, on others it uses the neck on the head map, so literally you need to make 2 necks. Of course now I have to experiment and prove my theory right or wrong, always loved chemistry lab I’ll be back and post my results... .......................................................... Yep, 2 necks are flipping. Here’s what’s happening... I made a basic white skin, texture map intact and made the only color on the 2 necks. The neck on the body is blue The neck on the head is red. Now here is the same skin texture with two different shirts. On IMVU and some developer meshes the skin maps only with the neck from the head. Yet on some other developer meshes the body neck texture is used. Looking at the snaps some of the head neck is at the top and the bottom half of the neck is the body neck texture. I took a random product sampling from the catalog to find a pattern. Head Neck All IMVU I tested... Abby Shirt, Hoody, Baby Tee, Button Downs, Daisy Oxford, Spaghetti Straps Tight top in Deep Purple Ruth (shown) Wedding Dress M9 Bandeau top Ruth Black Lether Coat M9 Brocade Corset Ruth Body Neck 'Sandy' Bodysuit Cass (shown) EZ Tee KittenKat Neo-Stiches White top WM Little Black Dress Cass Bigger Bust KimberlyLin The Dolly KittenKat The clothing meshers neck choice will determine the neck used. Composite products that that use the neck will all use the body neck and not the head neck. The solution for skinners adding neck details is to make the neck pattern on both necks so no matter which neck the mesh calls on your skin pattern stays intact. Unfortunately they are not mapped the same so it's more than just a copy paste.

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