Balloon Creature Guide and Resources

Here are some texture resources for Balloon Creature. Don't have the avatar yet? You can buy it on the Second Life Marketplace for 350 L$.

How to customize the Balloon Creature

I have set the Balloon Creature to use these baked texture layers:

These choices are pretty much arbitrary, and you can set them to whatever you want.

In addition, the BOM (Universal) layers are numbered in the avatar's asset list, in hopes that the game automatically detects what order they should be applied in when a user applies all of them at once. However, if they don't do that automatically, I would recommend rearranging them to be in that order. If you're making your own textures, it's not a bad idea to follow the numbering scheme as well.

When designing the UV maps, the top of the canvas is the part of the balloon segment that points upward. For "horizontal" parts of the avatar, such as the tail or snout, the top of the canvas points towards the body.

Texture Layers

  • arm.back.png

    arm.back.png

  • arm.front.png

    arm.front.png

  • head.ear.png

    head.ear.png

  • head.neck.png

    head.neck.png

  • head.snout.png

    head.snout.png

  • leg.back.png

    leg.back.png

  • leg.front.png

    leg.front.png

  • tail.png

    tail.png

  • torso.png

    torso.png

  • shirt.torso.png

    shirt.torso.png

  • shirt.sleeve.png

    shirt.sleeve.png

  • pants.bottom.png

    pants.bottom.png

  • pants.sleeve.png

    pants.sleeve.png

In addition, if you would like to use a more "advanced" technique, we have a freely-available "texture dummy" model, which you can download from File Garden.

If the above link is not working, feel free to message me for a download. My SL username is @s4rc.

Please do not redistribute, sell, upload to the grid, or attempt to reconstruct this template model as an avatar! I would be a little annoyed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I sell or distribute Balloon Creature addons, mods, textures etc. to other people?

Go for it, and no permission is needed! I highly recommend linking back to Can I Get The Real Stuff?, this website, or the shop listing for the avatar, wherever you sell/distribute your work. All I ask is you do not sell things you did not make and/or do not have the permission to sell.

Are there rigged clothes or devkits for the Balloon Creature Avatar?

There are some rigged clothing pieces that come with the avatar in the form of shirts and pants with sleeves of varying length. Devkit is TBA.