Evo or bom hairbases non existent??

[Derf Fairport]

I will probably get shot down for asking this, as I have done in various SL groups when I have enquired about it.. ‘just use an evox skin’, ‘update your av’ etc 

I wear a Lel head using the evo option as I have a character avatar that uses a unique skin that I do not change, the creator of it has now left SL so it will never be updated.  I would really like to buy and use some of new/current male hairbases out there but cannot because they’re all evox!  I would try to create one for myself but I don’t have those skills. 

Are there any out there at all or do I just give up? 
Many thanks 

[Rowan Amore]

14 minutes ago, Derf Fairport said:

I will probably get shot down for asking this, as I have done in various SL groups when I have enquired about it.. ‘just use an evox skin’, ‘update your av’ etc 

I wear a Lel head using the evo option as I have a character avatar that uses a unique skin that I do not change, the creator of it has now left SL so it will never be updated.  I would really like to buy and use some of new/current male hairbases out there but cannot because they’re all evox!  I would try to create one for myself but I don’t have those skills. 

Are there any out there at all or do I just give up? 
Many thanks 

Have you tried any of the hairbases that are included with the Evo line of heads?    If I recall, any BOM hairbase NOT for EvoX should work on the Evo mode.

[Lindal Kidd]

I've got the opposite problem...old flexi hair whose hairbases don't work with EvoX.

But switching back to Evo lets you use them.

[Rowan Amore]

6 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

I've got the opposite problem...old flexi hair whose hairbases don't work with EvoX.

But switching back to Evo lets you use them.

I use the ones that come with the head quite often.  Even some of the men's styles.

I know Stealthic has a nice Evo hairbase for men.  

[Blaise Glendevon]

35 minutes ago, Derf Fairport said:

I will probably get shot down for asking this, as I have done in various SL groups when I have enquired about it.. ‘just use an evox skin’, ‘update your av’ etc 

I wear a Lel head using the evo option as I have a character avatar that uses a unique skin that I do not change, the creator of it has now left SL so it will never be updated.  I would really like to buy and use some of new/current male hairbases out there but cannot because they’re all evox!  I would try to create one for myself but I don’t have those skills. 

Are there any out there at all or do I just give up? 
Many thanks 

What you're going to look for is hairbases for the SL UV. They might be branded for Catwa men's heads, or for the classic SL avatar. 

[Derf Fairport]

1 hour ago, Lindal Kidd said:

I've got the opposite problem...old flexi hair whose hairbases don't work with EvoX.

But switching back to Evo lets you use them.

Thanks for the reply, yes I tried those along time ago. They’re all samey and have no style to them. Specifically looking for styled ones. 

[Derf Fairport]

1 hour ago, Blaise Glendevon said:

What you're going to look for is hairbases for the SL UV. They might be branded for Catwa men's heads, or for the classic SL avatar. 

All those tend to be old ones, nobody makes of catwa anymore. It’s Lelutka Life!

[Jordyn McGregor]

Things like this peeve me too cos I wear a Catwa head that is not HD.  So it annoys me that a makeup store I love only does makeups for Catwa HD and 99% of skins, hairbases and makeups are now EvoX only.  I just shrug and think of all the lindens I save!

[Qie Niangao]

Hairbases are usually pretty inexpensive, but for something big like a skin, this is really not a good time to buy texture-based avatar enhancements. Skin creators are still charging full price for stuff that will look very old in a few months, as products with PBR ("Physically Based Rendering") materials start to dominate. I'm saving up for what I expect to be pricy update purchases for all my avatars. (This may not matter so much anyway for a "character avatar" with a "unique skin" that's, I dunno, like metallic or zombie or something that current materials are adequate to represent. And obviously won't matter at all to folks who don't use Advanced Lighting.)

I sorta don't get the whole Hairbase product category, though. They don't seem to come with any materials maps. Have I been buying from the wrong creators? I've had to create my own specularmap (for both SLUV/Evo and EvoX) to remove the shine completely from the buzzcut I usually wear under and around mesh hair so I can add a hint of shine to the skin elsewhere. I see a lot of hairbases painted on freakishly shiny scalps out there, but I can't believe I'm the only one to be bothered by this. (If I were wearing some of these other hairbases representing longer styles than a buzzcut, I'd be even more puzzled by lack of normalmap. How do people even use those?)

[Rowan Amore]

18 hours ago, Derf Fairport said:

I will probably get shot down for asking this, as I have done in various SL groups when I have enquired about it.. ‘just use an evox skin’, ‘update your av’ etc 

I wear a Lel head using the evo option as I have a character avatar that uses a unique skin that I do not change, the creator of it has now left SL so it will never be updated.  I would really like to buy and use some of new/current male hairbases out there but cannot because they’re all evox!  I would try to create one for myself but I don’t have those skills. 

Are there any out there at all or do I just give up? 
Many thanks 

NeXus still has BOM hairbases for Evo.  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/CheerNo/115/99/1693

 

[Persephone Emerald]

No Match has a boxes of free hairbases - Standard UV & EvoX. They might not be as nice as what your looking for though.

May I ask what creator you skin is from?

[Derf Fairport]

17 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

NeXus still has BOM hairbases for Evo.  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/CheerNo/115/99/1693

 

Thank you, I will take a look at these 😀

[Bowlslaw]

Volkstone has Evo BoM hairbases if you go to the 'old' section of the store.

[Psyche Starling]

Amacci has a box of free BOM hairbases on Marketplace; they're nothing dramatic in style, but they're unisex and include a lot of colors.