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What fun :)
Today I decided I was allowed a free hour to remember my good old days in Second Life®, when all I had to worry about was… to chat with friends and look for exciting new things While consulting my balance on XStreetSL, I came across daiz Papp’s ORACUL-Girl Xstar AO. I was not aware of daiz’s most excellent work, mixing mocap animations and hand-made ones, but I thought that at…
Second Life Jewelry Fair 2009 opens today!
Ready to admire some creative work in accessories for your beloved avatar? Well, what better opportunity but to take a jump to the Jewelry Fair 2009, which opens today … there go my few remaining L$, lol. Ah well. Most of it goes to charity anyway.
Flowers in your hair
If you’re going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair If you’re going to San Francisco You’re gonna meet some gentle people there [...] – The Mamas & the Papas, “San Francisco” (1967) On the very first day I visited a public sandbox, Cyrus Apollo, whom I had no idea who he was, gave me an unexpected gift: a white rose, handicrafted with care and love…
Hair Fair 2009 Becomes Candyland!
Yes, it’s that time of the year to jump over to Hair Fair, 2009 edition, and shop until you drop… it has just opened a couple of hours ago for the private party, and the styles are just wet from the hairdressers’… well, almost! The theme for this year is “Candy Land”, and, as usual, it’s packed full with the best hair designers in Second Life® — all crammed to…
Excellent customer support from the Kunglers!…
I usually don’t write things about fashion… I leave that to the pros! This time, however, my focus is on a particular aspect of the very competitive market of fashion design in Second Life®: custom service. We all know that the vast majority of fashion designers (and, indeed, most in-world-shop-based content creators) establish themselves as mostly an “automated shop”. The rationale behind it is that people are used to shop…
Lag Myths Dispelled
Fashion shows have always been popular in Second Life, and with the current generation of highly talented fashion designers bringing a unique — and very realistic! — touch to high-quality clothes in SL, it’s interesting to see how, in a little less than a week, people have been talking about “rules of conduct” on a fashion show. In fact, they’re much less “rules of conduct” but guidelines of what you’re…
Real Life Fashion For Second Life Avatars
Last year, American Apparel, a popular US clothes brand, opened a shop in Second Life with a lot of positive press. Avatars could get for a few L$ relatively faithful replicas of their clothes in SL. Their project lasted almost a year or so, and then, as they finished their experiment, it was shut down (with a promise to return in the feature). The media interested in reporting all sort…
Heel sounds on your shoes
In my never-ending quest of looking for fashionable improvements (believe me, it can entertain me for ages ) I found out a cute thing about some fancy shoes: they have nice, realistic-sounding, heel-clicking sounds. Sure, I know it’s a “novelty” item — it scares people off the first time you start nagging them with the clicking sounds, then they begin to make silly comments, so it’s also a great way…
Sitting down with flexiskirts [UPDATED]
Every girl who tried a flexiskirt once (how can you resist not buying them…?) knows about the problem: they look fantastic when standing up, but completely nasty when sitting down. The image here shows what happens. Flexiskirts, unlike mesh-based skirts (also known as ugly Linden skirts) simply don’t follow your avatar’s skeleton, but gravity. There is nothing you can do about it: the skirt will always be “inside” the chair…
You aren’t a true SL fashionista if…
… you don’t know where the fashionable shops are! Now, thanks to Ana Lutetia, you’ll know. Thanks, Ana, for providing this crucial information
A tool to aid designing clothes
I came by chance across this interesting item on SL Exchange: AvPainter – SL Clothes Design and Preview Tool by Pootle Trollop. I don’t have Windows, so I haven’t tried it out, but the author claims it’s possible to upload a .tga file for your clothing and apply it visually to a polygon mesh representing your avatar (this mesh is freely available from Second Life’s website). This should be able…
A template for clothes design
Chip Midnight is often in the forums telling people how to design perfectly-matched clothes. His “secret” is developing wonderful new templates, based both on Linden Lab’s own, and on images he has captured in-world to understand where the many avatar polygons join together. This uppr body template is an attempt of using both Chip Midnight’s templates (his layers are marked CMFF) with the rest of the “standard” templates. I also…
The concept of ShareWear
Well this is probably a very silly concept, but here it goes… Good clothes design in Second Life is actually very cheap! Some of the best designers (like Von) do amazing creations and sell them for as cheap as L$ 150 (you can search for “House of Von” in the Find Places and teleport there to look at her most excellent clothing store – and there are bargains there!). In…
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