How to Rebake Avatars Clothes When a Glitch Occurs in "Second Life"

Often times when you teleport into a region a glitch occurs and your clothes become the surroundings. In Second Life they use what is called baked textures; a piece of clothing you are wearing will contain many small textures that make it into one item, for example a shirt, a dress, and so on. If one of the small textures is not baked properly the glitch occurs, and you are now wearing parts of your surroundings. Read on to see how to easily rebake your avatars clothes when a glitch occurs in Second Life.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• PC or Mac Second Life Account Keyboard Mouse

How to Rebake Avatar Textures in Second Life

1. Gain access to your Second Life's client menu, called the "Advance Menu." If you have a Mac computer, press the Option, Ctrl and the D key. If you have a PC, press Ctrl, Alt and the D Key. This will open the Advance menu on the top gray tool bar.

2. Left click on "Advance" to open a dropdown menu and scroll down to "Character." This will open the "Character" menu.

3. Scroll down the "Character" dropdown menu and click on "Rebake Textures." This will begin the Rebake process, which will only take a few seconds.

4. Right click on your avatar and from the pie menu select "Appearances." When you can see your avatar clearly in the Appearance Editing menus, click on the "close" button inside the Appearance menu. Your avatar and textures will be fully rebaked.

Tips & Warnings

• Whenever your avatar has parts of the surrounding environment or spots on his or her body, try the rebaking process.