The LL Mesh Avatars

To expand on my last post here are the current Mesh Avatars from LL

Like I said the Monsters are cool and some you just cant get with out Mesh

Now the people are they that much better? Then system people?

Is Mesh avatars good for Second Life?

Linden Lab is famous for doing things they think are good that causes a problem and makes a ripple that is felt for years. Like removing last names made a division between old and new members and took away one of the ways people made communities around the names, They thought getting rid of magic boxes would be good because anyone can now sell on Market Place. But the down fall is now you don't need land to keep your magic box so no need to become premium to get your 512 or linden home or even the need to rent land. Hence lots of abandoned land.

Now don't get me wrong I love mesh! You can make things in mesh that would be hard to do in just prims and sculpty is good but can be a PIA. Sure the system hands suck so replacing them with mesh might be good so you can walk around flashing the peace sign. and Mesh feet..... Well the ladies do like there shoes in SL as much as RL so that is easy.

Next is Mesh clothes. The big claim to fame for Mesh clothes is they don't look tight like system clothes. But I just know many of the fashion bloggers who are clamming this is SL are sitting there in RL wearing yoga pants. So with Mesh clothes to get that loose fit to mimic what cant be as tight as system clothes you have to use standard sizes, alpha layers to change the shape you love so much and worked to hard to perfect. Liquid Mesh may fix this but that is way to new.

You all know I am big on SL for cheep because I think more people are a good thing in SL and not everyone wants or can spend money to play. Mesh is still new so it cuts down on the variety of clothes available and worst it takes away years and years of freebies that were available.

Sure with applying more mesh designers may come around but lets face it they are confusing. If they don't do Omega or Slink your limited not to mention all the other brands. We all know the one thing we all need more of to keep people playing SL is more confusion.

Now past the clothes we have full mesh avatars. Sure they have a place. The monsters (LL calls them vampires) are cool and with out mesh you are not going to get them but human avatars? Can you not get the same look from moving sliders or buying a shape? Now LL is putting each new member in Mesh as soon as they come in world. How long before they go to Yars and get tons of free stuff they can't wear?      

Petite Size Comparer

How tall is tall? How small is small? There are so many brands of Petites in Second Life it is hard to decide what one is best for you. So I decided to build a petite size comparer and put it in my Avatar information section. In front of the Kitaro Museum of Art and Antiquities and 1L$ Store and Aquarium fish store 

Because of how Petites work you can't use a scripted height detector.

The only way to do it is make a prim the exact size as the avatar

Move it up just a bit each time

Till the top of the head is just covered

You have to drag it up and not adjust the numbers

A few it took a bit more because they keep moving

I used demo versions for many

Some have there ground offset a bit off

For them I had to make sure the feet were just covered and then the head

Position adjust repeat  

The finished project :)

 I plan to do a review of each of these so look for them

Another oops

When building the petite size comparer that I will show in the next post I had another oops. 

Free petite avatar

You may have noticed the ZooKeeper is a petite in one of her forms. While most petites avatars cost between L$700 and L$1200 there is a free one available inworld. 

This great item was made posable by Caverna Obscura there store can be found here Caverna Obscura it can be found in the petite section (use the transporter inside the front door) you want to look for a wall vendor that looks like this: 

There are 2 versions 0.4 and 0.3. They are called Minikin. The avatar comes with everything you need to make your self a petite including skin tinting and a hud to change your camera view. Clothes, wings, and hair are not included but they do have 4 boxes on the floor below some basic under wear and bikinis to start you out but even better then that they also give you some free untextured mesh forms for you to make your own clothes. In a future blog I will show how you can make your own clothes, wings, and hair. 

I also plan to put some stuff for free out in the avatar information area at my Kitaro dollar store. Also a great way to thank Caverna Obscura is to buy an outfit from them (most are around L$400). This is a great thing they are doing for the SL community. 

ZooKeeper

My Family photo was a bit old and missing a few of my Alts so I decided to update some of them. Here is zooKeeper is all her current forms.

Something is not right here

Is it add to, replace current, or something else? Charles Rob Darwin was evolving or was this the missing link?