Basic information on our forum!

Human Avatars: this main forum is used for general questions regarding avatars & the wardrobe, such as looking for items to use, as well as finding/creating lists of wearables onsite.

Avatars: a sub-forum for showing off your created avatars and/or asking for or offering help in creating avatars.

Avatar Contests & Games: a sub-forum dedicated for user-run wardrobe/dressing up games!

Rate My Avatar: a sub-forum to post your avatars for critiques or scaled ratings by other users.

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Helpful topics in our forums! The following links are posted here for your convenience.

Custom Wearables: Check the CW Shops for any custom wearable needs! Custom Wearable Tributes IV

Avatar Threads: Whose Avatar Do You Love? III Rate and Critique the Above HA

Helpful threads for dressing up: Human Avatar Item Identification III Share your layering secrets II what are great item knock-offs you&;ve found? Redeemable Wig Streaks Guide? List of Borders and cutouts

Useful lists for specific wearables: Monthly Collections Wearables Previews Lips without Lipstick, Eyes without Eyeshadow v2 Giant List of Animal Wearables List of Naturally Curly Hair Items

WIP lists: The Great Menu of Food Wearables (WIP) Nonhuman/Animal Part Wearables Masterlist (WIP)

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If you see a topic that needs be updated or you would like one added to this page, please contact with a link to the board for consideration!

Can someone tell me what the 4 lines under my human avatar mean? And how can I tell how many posts I have? I need 100 to get into the blue building? Thanks

The hearts are to 'like' someone's HA or post, the trophy with the number is how many achievements you have, and the speech bubble with a number is how many posts you've made (which is currently 28).

Oh wow. Thank you for the information. I could not find it any where. I guess to get 100 posts for the blue building some of my posts might be a little simplistic.

Question, back several years ago i dont remember having this problem but how come when i add a backdrop or background to my outfit the rest of my avatars hair disappears? I thought it was a layering problem but even in the default hairstyles i cant get it to layer properly. Is it a glitch?

i need to know how i can get my avatar to wear diffrent eyes and mouths i can't get them to show

i seriously need help with my backdrops! i have several backdrop items i've been DYING to use and can't because it covers my body all over!!

@ loopa are you putting the Background layer below your Base layer? Which order you put things in can make a big difference.

[edit] if you put the Bucket of Icewater above your Base, then all you'll see is the backdrop.

thank you soon much didn't know I had to do that! That helps a ton!!

@/loopa you're welcome! :)

Playing around with the order of layers is one of my fave things in the Wardrobe. You can even hide the default Eyes and Mouth by dragging them underneath the Base layer; then you can try out the non-default eyes and mouths like or with no stray pixels.

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While I'm here ... gonna add an advert for my two Useful HA Threads:

Layering backdrop bits: floor, wall, sky, props, SFX for a directory of bits of background/foreground, including SFX like shadows, lighting, and colour filters

Any good gorey/medical items? for scars, wounds, bandages, and zombie effects

And 's: List of Naturally Curly Hair Items for Black style hairs with kinky and tight curls 3C+, dreads, afros, cornrows, etc

Happy Holidays

Hi, I need some help. I would like a non-human avatar and I saw your post above on how to cover up your person but it doesn't seem to be working for me? I read somewhere if I got white out it would cover up my person and have a white background but its not working. Would you be able to help me?

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@/xxAmby hi there! No worries; I'll be glad to help, and Subeta's wardrobe system can be very confusing.

Whiteout won't cover up your person, though you can't really tell that from looking at the item or its previews. It covers up all the background around the person (which can be useful for other things). Once you're playing around in the Wardrobe you can see more easily.

To cover up the person in your avatar and make a nonhuman one, the simplest item to use is Vanishing Cream.

Once you've got the item, then you get into the complicated bit ... how to use it in the Wardrobe.

Throwing together some screenshots to try and help!

the prologue: putting wearable items into your wardrobe

A rather obvious hurdle that tripped me up on my first day: if you want to wear an item, it's not enough to own it, you have to put it into your Wardrobe. That's the site's way of allocating that item for you to use on your avatars.

You can often do this as you buy an item: there will be a grey Add to Wardrobe button you can click:

[box=#d2d57e]if you buy from from an NPC shop:[/box]

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[box=#d2d57e]or buy from a user shop:[/box]

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[box=#d2d57e]Or you can add items from in your Inventory:[/box] once you've clicked on the item, look for the Move to Wardrobe link instead of a button, among several other options that you could do with the item.

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[spoilertitle]* The main part: how to use the Wardrobe *[/spoilertitle][spoilercontent] [box=#d2d57e]1. When you open the Wardrobe[/box] When you click on the Wardrobe link from in the Personal menu (up at the top of the screen), it loads to this splash screen:

You can (mostly) ignore the text on the right ("Beta Wardrobe" and "New Wardrobe" headers); just look at the line up at the very top, "Subeta Wardrobe". Those words are links: the first 4 are different tabs you can use to build your avatar:

Items -	different wearable items that you can stack onto the avatar
Base -	a few basic settings like skintone, sex, facial features
Skins -	special options that give you a different Base. Skins are gained through site events (eg you can get zombie skins during Survival in February), achievements, etc. Ignore this one for now
Hair -	lets you set style and color

Then these 3 are for admin:

Outfits -	if you save any avatars, they will be stored there to admire, reuse, share, and edit in the future
Organize Items -	this opens a new tab to a system for sorting your wardrobe items into Drawers
Back to Subeta -	opens in a new tab so that if you click it you don't lose the avatar you've been working on

[box=#d2d57e]2. The tab you want is the ITEMS one.[/box] These are the parts of the Wardrobe:

LEFT: what items you've selected. CENTER: how they look. RIGHT: items to pick from.

Here, I'm using just three items for simplicity, including your Whiteout:

(Note the left column list is not just those three: you can't remove Hair, Eyes, Mouth, Nose, or Base. But you can hide them underneath other items.)

[box=#d2d57e]3. Selecting and ordering items[/box] Clicking on an item in the right section selects it: it will get a little box around it there, and also appear in the left column.

In the left column, you can drag-and-drop them up and down on that list to arrange them how you want. The order that you put them in makes a huge difference!

Here, I've pulled the Used Blue Paint Can to the top. You can see on the item's hover preview that it completely covers the full rectangle of the avatar. And yup, in the Wardrobe, pulling it to the top of the list, above everything else, completely covers them.

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Now, about that Whiteout ... Everything is the same as before, except here I've highlighted the Whiteout by putting my mouse cursor over it. Now the right-hand preview is showing what it would look like if it was the only thing on my avatar. Still makes no difference to the final picture, though, because it's still stuck underneath the Used Blue Paint Can.

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But, if I drag the Whiteout up on top: then it makes the area around the human white, while still not affecting the human itself. That still shows up as blue, because right underneath the Whiteout is my Used Blue Paint Can, and nothing can show through that. [/spoilercontent]

[box=#d2d57e]Or here's the TLDR of how to hide the human: [ol]

find a full-screen item eg Vanishing Cream

put it into your Wardrobe

go to the Items tab

select the item

drag it up to the top of the left-hand list

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Then you can add other things in on top of the Vanishing Cream, like your chickens!

Oh yes, a final point ... click the green Wear Now button to set your assembled items as your avatar. Sometimes I forget to do that. ;)[/box]

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Depending on what sort of non-human avatar you want to make, there are lots of items you might enjoy using as a human-coverer and a scenery-setting background.

here are a few (cheap) ideas

Plain
Patterns
Pictures

You just gotta get ones without a cutout (human-shaped hole): These are no good here because they still show the human.

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If none of those take your fancy, there are hundreds of different backdrops to choose from.

how to find more backdrops

If you want to browse all of the backdrops and see what looks fun, try opening up the Wardrobe, going to Items, and then selecting the filter Layer: Backdrop and unticking the checkbox for Owned. Then you can try them out whether you have them or not!

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(You can't wear ones you don't have in your Wardrobe, but it's still fun to see what's available.)

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And, of course, you can combine bits and pieces to make your own, DIY backdrop. That's my hobby: Layering backdrop bits: floor, wall, sky, props, SFX

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There is loads that you can do without having a human in your avatar. Just for fun, here are some of mine:

a few examples

Private Outfit	Private Outfit	Private Outfit
Private Outfit	Private Outfit	Private Outfit

Thank you SO much! I had found an old forum and I feel like I was doing what it said but it wasn't working. I think I got it! Yay! I will have to play around with it more tomorrow but my person is gone now. Thanks so much!

edit: im a complete idiot and its late....oops -_-

https://subeta.net/forums.php/read/872771/List-of-Naturally-Curly-Hair-Items

aww pls add this to the first post

I've recently used a couple of these topics and noticed they could use some updating by their owners: Tattoo/body ink/scar items (WIP) Many broken item names, outdated, and a bit messy/hard to navigate overall. Altering Wearables -Masterpost- Outdated

I'd also like to recommend a couple to be added: The Great Menu of Food Wearables (WIP) Directory of food wearables (still a WIP, but is being actively worked on) Layering backdrop bits: floor, wall, sky, props, SFX Super helpful directory of layerable items for backdrops Zombie Cover-Up For Bases 1-10 Handy list of methods for recreating all 10 natural bases for when you're a zombie

Awesome thanks for letting us know! I'll check on these to add and make sure to clean up the list. <3

Great job, thank you!

wow you all are very helpful with all the layering