Recent Randomness

As I just posted, not a big fan of mesh bodies yet.  But I am becoming a guarded fan of mesh hair.  Don't get me wrong, I love the bouncy flexie hair.  But the tendency of long prim hair, flexie of otherwise, to interpenetrate one's avatar body was off putting to me.  The new mesh hair does not do this, because it retains the same location respective to your avatar's "skeleton".

This has some odd side effects of its own, but in general for really long hair I prefer this effect to the standard prim hair effect.  I recently happened to see some hair that covered an avatars chesty bits rather effectively and decided I wanted some.  So, I managed to track down the the vendor.  Sadly, I missed the budget 99L hair in this style when exploring the shop, at least until after I'd purchased the hair shown below.  But that hair is in multiple colors and I think looks a tad better than the promotional hair.  Regardless, you might want to visit Catwa if you like this sort of look.

Also shown, me in the same hair riding the roomba around at Club Stiletto.  Why?  I ask, why not!?

Past time.

A while back I visited the Medieval Faire event for The Relay For Life charity.  Sad to say by the time I've gotten around to posting this, it is long past.  But it was quite fun to visit.  In addition to the typical booths full of goodies you can buy to help the charity, there were events, and individual activities.  I spent quite a lot of time trying my skills at the archery range, but sadly, I never got close to cracking the scores of the top 20 shooters.  Apparently my skills in SL don't match up with my skills in RL.  Anyway, below is an image of me attending the event in elf gear.  I would urge to visit any future Relay for Life Events.  They are always fun to explore and the benefits go to a worthy cause.

Mesh goes whole body.

I've become a fan of mesh clothes, for the most part anyway.  And to some extent, mesh hair.  But I'm not sure mesh bodies are quite ready for the prime time.  First of all, they need to work with mesh clothing makers to fit standards.  I'm not going to tie myself to a single builder for every piece of clothing. Also, there is the issue with everyone not only being shaped the same, but also having pretty much the same small set of faces.  I have seen some mesh bodies that allow you to keep using your system head, so you can still look like you from the neck up, but I don't think that is the final, or best solution.

Never the less, I decided to explore the options and tried out some free and low priced mesh bodies, at under 400L for several shapes, skin tones, clothing, SDK and two different mesh heads.  It is possible I would be more impressed with the expensive ones, but in my experience in SL, once you achieve a certain level, price becomes as much a mater of prestige as of practical benefit.  With that in mind I purchased a modestly expensive mesh body that came with an SDK allowing you to modify the skin and a small set of clothing.  This was in addition to several different shapes. Even one that was ostensibly male, though I would more accurately describe it as flat chested with booty. Over all, I found the new mesh body interesting, even attractive in some ways.  I tried out the rather chesty "D Cup" version of the shape, and I will tell you this, it attracts horny men much more than my usual small or flat androgynous shape.

The builder also sells several sets of clothing in various fashions for between 10-50L.  So clothing for this avatar is not expensive.  But the avatar does not fit standard mesh clothes.  So the wardrobe is limited.  On a happy note, prim and mesh hair, and shoes, work fine with it.

The image included here is of me wearing the D cup shape, included clothing, mesh hair from another vendor and prim boots from ADN.  The picture is as usual taken at Pair A Dice.

I'm baaaaaack.

I know it has a been a long time since my last posting, but RL has been a bitch.  So, with few visits to SL and not lot of energy for extraneous stuff I just haven't had anything I felt worthy.  But that is changing.  So, soon, you should be seeing more from me here.

In the mean time, I hope you've been having a good pair of lives.