Hi All.  I was following a tut... to the letter... to make an outfit with the body... But when I tried the surface selections, they did NOT go on as I had made it.   this is what it's SUPPOSED to be:

Here's what I got.  WHAT HAPPENED?

Your projection mapping is along the X-axis instead of the Z-axis maybe?  It doesn't look like any UV mapping was done.

Thanks for replying... I don't know about the X or Z axis stuff... lol...  No, there was no mapping in the tutorial...

that looks like you were doing that for aiko3 if you go to the product page at daz at the bottom there is a template file download or you could see if snowsultan has aiko seem guides here in his freestuff that should help you out a bit more.  cause from the size and position of your texture it looks like you don't have the full template saved for your texture.

Thanks Halfdragon. I'll try that... Now to find snowsultan! lol

make sure you don't crop the image or you'll end up with it looking like that again

Halfdragon, AAAAAH OK... Is this what you're talking about, instead of just the body? where would I save this at? THANKS!

You dont need all of the materials on one image , but what you do have must be lined up with the template and the same overall size.  

Textures should go in the runtime/textures folder anywhere you want them. I made a folder for my textures so mine reads runtime/textures/markr/v4bodysuit   etc.

you might want your texture in the same folder as the vendors texture though, that works too.

The UV coordinates are in relation to the entire template.  For example, if your wanted to make a texture that made the figure appear to being wearing gloves you can't just crop the hand area of the temple.

What above post said. To reiterate, the images used in UV maps are "stretched to fit" in a way. That is, they should maintain the same aspect ratio as the original template. So by chopping off the half with the "extraneous" bits, the image gets stretched to take up the same amount of space. And when it does that, whatever you painted is no longer on-template. Thus wierdness happens.