Tutorials:Body Shop Meshing Introduction

Introduction

Want to create new clothing, body shapes, hair meshes, accessory meshes, and the like? This is the right place!

What do I need to know before I make meshes?

Required Knowledge: Before you can begin working on Body Shop meshes of any type, you need to have a solid basis in recolouring/retexturing Body Shop meshes! You cannot just jump into meshing from nothing. For one, the tutorials assume a basic level of knowledge... And additionally, a good solid level of experience in recolouring/retexturing helps a lot in understanding the whats and whys of the meshing process.

If you are not already an experienced Body Shop recolour artist: Body Shop Recolouring Tutorials - do some of those tutorials, get some experience under your belt, and then come back here.

Where do I start?

We have a series of beginner clothing/body tutorials which teach the basics of creating a new mesh package, editing, uv mapping, and chopping together mesh parts (also known as "Frankensteining") - these are the basic techniques that you will use for most meshing, and from there, you can move on to more complex things like accessories, hair, or more complex body/clothing edits.

For those first tutorials, see: Body Shop Meshing Beginner Tutorials

What will I need?

For most of these techniques, you'll use Body Shop, Milkshape, and Unimesh. If you need anything else, the individual tutorial will tell you what will be required. While Milkshape is a pay program (costing around $25), it is a great program for the price, and no other program will let you do such major edits for so low a price.

For more information, and other options if you just really don't want to use Milkshape, see: Body/Hair/Accessory Meshing Tools

Frequently Asked Questions (Read the FAQ!)

Still have questions? Try our FAQ...

See: Body Shop Meshing FAQ.