Opinion on This Niche Thing?

[Fanta UwU]

If I do work more with clothing, what is the opinion of this?

I'm thinking, if rigging for clothing, that I would be exclusive to these bodies.

These bodies being...

Belleza (Mostly Freya, but I will support Venus and Isis as well)

Signature Alice

Slink Hourglass and Physique

These are for the female bodies however.

Male clothing (as I do want to cover the males!) will be for Signature Gianni - Belleza Jake - Slink Male; as there isn't a whole plethora of mesh bodies for them unlike with female bodies where I name a whole bunch off the top of my head!

Sig Alice - Maitreya - Belleza Freya, Venus, Isis - Ruth - Kemono can be turned female - Slink Hourglass, Physique - Yetement's BBL - Altamura - TMP Legacy

Thats all the bodies I can think of that are out there! 12 bodies! While men have just... five! (Geralt and Altamura is counted in)

Mains of Female; Maitreya - Belleza Freya - Slink - Legacy. Mains of Males; Gianni and Jake (I have not seen a slink male... maybe ONCE).

My thinking is that if I make clothing that is not focused on Maitreya, will first; be a good niche; and secondly; the lack of support for these bodies is overwhelming. A whole lot of designers are exclusive to Maitreya and don't support the rest out there. In the fashion forum, I had asked what their preferred body is and from I understand people prefer the maitreya simply because of clothing options... nothing about the shape, complexity, or anything. Just clothing options! 

And personally, I find it annoying. I have been forced at times to wear Maitreya simply because of this as I'm an RPer and enjoy the other bodies (Hourglass and Freya) way more than Maitreya. But the darn clothing options being only for Maitreya when the clothing suits my character; hence FORCING me to wear Maitreya! Hence giving me MORE of a reason to NOT rig for Maitreya and focus on other bodies! So that way there is more options for these bodies!

So my niche in making clothing (and makeup because I do enjoy makeup making) is probably going to be a little all of the place to cover these bodies in what I deemed is needed. But it will primarily be a fantasy (low and high), victorian, Japanese-inspired, medieval... Generally fantasy-ish.

Overall, with this in mind, what is your opinion on a designer such as myself focusing on other bodies that are not Maitreya? Is it a loss of customers or will it still do well?

PS. Sorry if I seemed a bit ranty about Maitreya! It's getting a little on my nerves about how I am forced to wear a certain mesh body for my RPs..

[Alwin Alcott]

1 hour ago, Muiregwen said:

Male clothing (as I do want to cover the males!) will be for Signature Gianni - Belleza Jake - Slink Male; as there isn't a whole plethora of mesh bodies for them

 

signature geralt
tmp legacy
Adam
Ex machina Davide ( and one more i think)
NX Nardcotix David
Niramyth
altamura (?)
and there are more

 

[Fanta UwU]

I did include Geralt and Altamura in my count of five, but I forgot about Ex machina David (they just came out with a new head and body combo after all! Saw it on Flickr). Niramyth, I forgot about too... Adam, yes, there is also the Eve body they made too. TMP Legacy, true, both female and male...

So that'd make it about 10 which is fairly equal then...

Gosh, there is more out there!

I'm probably going to include Niramyth as well. And Geralt. But there is still the lack of male clothing out there for the guys! I'll probably do the main bodies as there is a lack of clothing all around in general but include the others as well...

Female List of 'Niche' - Hourglass, Physique, Belleza (All Three?), Sig Alice

Unfortunately no Legacy as of yet till they email me back. They lack some clothing but its picking up it seems. I might do Tonic too as I heard several people in a Discord like Tonic.

Male List of Niche - Jake, Gianni, Slink, Niramyth (need to search them up), and Geralt. Perhaps the David body too?

Some research still needed to get those male dev kits!

[Alyona Su]

Many creators have discontinued support for Venus. So those of us still using have money to burn. My alt uses the Legacy, so that always is a search term when I shop MP - I will only ever demo (and often purchase if well-made) for Legacy. Just saying that if you do support these bodies, make it very clear in your marketing and description. I also have Tonic and in their group: Tonic users also are clamoring for content.

It would be amazingly refreshing to see a creator supporting multiple mesh bodies and Maitreya NOT being one of them. I'd have to frequent that creator just for props!