hello again, and welcome. thanks so much for viewing my work. and a double thanks to those who take the time to comment, especially because i've been lax in that regard recently. this is one of the things i've been working on while wrestling with how to approach the next step in making the Acolyte outfit. someone asked for some spandex materials, so i refined my lycra a bit (as seen on the Dive WIP) and made a 10 color material pack. if anyone would like to download it, you can find it on ShareCG for now. the materials can be used for both commercial and personal renders, distributed free in an unaltered zip with attribution, and used as the _basis_ for products with attribution. meaning don't just take them as is and sell them, but don't worry about using my lycra to figure out your own shader as long as you credit me. i also made this dynamic sleeveless catsuit. i'd like to distribute it as a freebie, but there's some UV stretching at the neck i don't like. i'm not really sure why it's there, and it annoys me. if anyone can give me advice about how to improve an existing UV map without totally altering it, please PM me. i paused on the acolyte outfit because i hit the wall of texturing. i'm hoping you and anyone you can point at my work might help with one side of that. in the first place, i'm not sure what to make. what kind of trim would you like? what kind of main fabric would you like? what colors? in my head, the Acolyte is an outfit for a student wizard (which means there needs to be a V4 version, as well as probably an Antonia version). i'm not thinking Harry Potter (i'm a heretic- i really loathe most everything about the whole franchise), but i'm not sure how to describe what i _am_ thinking. i can say i want everything to be simple and basic enough to work in a lot of different roles. in the other, i'm just bad at texturing. i can get better, but for now i suck. it's not even the seams issue, so getting a 3d paint tool wouldn't help. it's the pure making a material that looks real, but is simple, one color, and doesn't have tons of burned in specular. i'll upload the materials and catsuit here as well as ShareCG, but i want to change my name here first. my account here is so old that i wasn't yet using kobaltkween, as i do pretty much everywhere else. i hate to change, but i really want to keep that identity consistent for distributing stuff.