Question What's your workflow for changing clothing textures?

[Zblu]

So, extreme newby here, I tried to learn alone how to change clothing textures and found a workflow but it's far from perfect and I'm 100% sure there must be a better way of doing it.

What I did was opening the default decal in photoshop, changing the base color and putting a text were I thought the center of the shirt was, loading my custom made decal on VaM to see how it looked, turns out it was not centered so I repeated the previous steps 2 times until I was happy with it.

Took me a lot of time for something very simple. So I was wondering if you pros have a better workflow? A plugin, script or app I don't know yet where you paint over the clothes rendered in 3d and see directly your changes would be amazing but maybe I'm dreaming too much?

 

[Origin69]

All of the custom clothing is laid out slightly differently. It all depends on how the uv's are unwrapped, and some can be weird. You can save a uv template texture (the two buttons on the top right of the Clothing/customize/texture tab save it and open the file location.)
That may help you visualize things better.
Another useful method is to use a gradient grid texture like this to help you visualize the layout. Slap it in the diffuse slot, take a screenshot, and then open the grid in a program like photoshop of gimp and draw your decal over the grid in a new layer in the right spot and then hide the background to save an alpha png to use as a decal. unfortunately, without the original mesh the clothing is made from you can't do any 3d painting. There's no plugin, Just trial and error. If the texture you make is just a little off size or position, you can use the "tile x/tile y" and "offset x/offset y" to scale and move it around, but it needs to be in the right orientation with the uv unwrap.