it's probably a shoe base you're wearig that has the a white "texture"?

Edit the shoe base, click the color, make it transparent

a shoebase? Did I step back in SL time....

mishaselene: oh snap! probably that! I forgot showbases had color and have not taken my body alpha off in years!!! thank you

I am so confused by all things SL

kirsten_corleone: Grazia2: It is a shoebase! haha it's been ages sicne i've SEEN one

not sure I have worn a shoebase since 2008 or so

kirsten_corleone: i wear a lot of platforms and got tired of adjusting my hover height

oh, how do you do that?

I can't remember and I am hovering

I just had to do this a couple days ago, myself.

i mean how do you adjust your hover height, I can't remember how to SL, I feel like an alien on Mars

kirsten_corleone: oh man just wait till you discover BOM

kirsten_corleone: in Firestorm you just click the little phoenix icon and hover height is on there - there are other ways, but that is where I fiind it easiest. Gyazo

mishaselene: I've been using bom for my genus head but still using layers for my body so this was a first for me hahaha. Oh so confusing. But it's all sorted now thankfully thanks to you all!

Xiola_Linden: important, only people in firestorm will see you with that hover height

the correct way to do it across all viewers, is to use the hover height in your shape sliders

nimil: is BOM a new purchase or a re-delivery?

kirsten_corleone: depends on the store, but BOM is basically all of us using makeup layers again instead of having to fight with appliers

now we can layer makeup again!

nimil: luckily i never use it. hence the old school shoebase

Xiola_Linden: i have to use it a lot cause the shoe bases only go up so high and i like to wear big chunky boots lol

not for nothing but I got a cramp in my foot arch just from looking at how your foot is bent in this picture for too long.

BOM is basically working like the media texture... which you can use to project youtube videos etc onto any surface.

Only here, the displayed stuff isn't a video, but the actual texture layers on the SL body.

So you use the old way of wearing a skin, by actually applying an SL skin (or several layers of them) to the SL body, which all get baked into one (old feature)... and this baked texture then gets mapped onto the mesh body.

That surely works best if you have a mesh body that is closer to the original SL body, cause it will have less flaws and/or designers have to fix less things to make it work. That's why some mesh body/head creators released new versions of their stuff.

^-- kirsten_corleone

I resisted BOM for a long time, but then one of the girls I dance with on the regular had us in a costume with layers so I had to figure it out quick.

maxwell_graf: hah, only in sl. my days of platform heels that resemble torture devices are behind me irl.

Tillie: great explanation. thank you!!

It's to do with your shoe base. Edit it and switch its texture from blank to transparent.