Stephanie Misfit

*By Swirly* is giving out a free BOM skin and shape for LeLUTKA Lilly till the end of the month, no group required.

Prim building, and the amazing prim builders that we lost with the introduction of mesh. I feel that in some ways SL lost a great deal with the introduction of mesh. A lot of creators have a solely commercial rather than community focus now. I'm not saying that you shouldn't make money from SL, of course not. But in the past, people came to SL, participated in the community and were inspired to create with the tools that were available to us all. Shopping malls and shopping sims, rather than events. Yes, some of them were gaudy, but there were some really good ones too. Hell, just give me main store releases like we used to have rather than this endless stream of events. I've noticed that some "stores" that release in events don't even have an actual store, not even on the marketplace, they just release their stuff in events and then you can't buy it once it is gone. And of course, my old friends. They are all still on my list, even if they haven't logged on in over 10 years, just in case they come back. And guess what? Sometimes they do. During the pandemic I've seen 2 of them return after many years and they were both really pleased to see that I was there and hadn't deleted them. Apparently everyone else had either removed them as friends or had left. It was interesting to hear about the lives they had been living in the years they have been gone.

Have you tried online tools like this? https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/ There's a few of them out there.

Guessing this is for furniture, since you mentioned animation menus. This should do what you want and it integrates with AVSitter, it is very hard to find anything off the shelf that works with that. I have made a bed with themes, different textures, and coloured glow using this. It does sub menus to avoid things getting too confusing I believe, but I did not need to use those. Marketplace link, and a link to the documentation so you can check all the features too. There is also an in world store so you should be able to see it in action. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Black-Tulip-Script-Theme-Texture-Change-Materials/6890527 http://blacktulip-scripts.blogspot.com/2015/02/script-theme-texture-change-materials.html If you want to try to find something else for furniture try searching for "texture change AVsitter" in scripts on the marketplace and see what else comes up. I also came across this which seems to do a lot of the same things but it sounded a little too complicated for me (but I may just be lazy!) https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Theme-O-Matic-Texture-more-change-system-mesh-and-materials-supported/9448836

My horror interior at Iris. I promise it can't really be seen from outside and the outside building fits in nicely with the sim. My outside area there, with rides and dancing. I like to hangout there with my partner but it is open to anyone and both my house and this space get a fair bit of traffic from new people, including last night's day old naked lady with a hat who enjoyed dancing in my living room. Don't live right near an infohub if you like privacy.

I usually ask them what they can give me in return for the lindens. I'm yet to receive a response, they just move onto the next potential victim.

Valentina E (Maitreya only) and The Secret Store have lovely things.

That would depend on whether or not you wanted to roleplay using the HUD. My alt has one of these things purely as a fashion accessory and ignores all the HUD stuff. The baby doesn't look miserable.

Yes, primarily black metal but also some death and prog bands. I've met a couple of people in SL to share black metal recommendations with, and people into other genres as well.

It's a bit hard for me to tell from that picture, but the hair might be from Action Inkubator. They will certainly have something very similar if not.

A change of look. Loving the stockings from Luxuria that I got at the Salem event.

Slink now has 4 BOM heads for men. They are priced at 2k each, which is pretty affordable compared to most competitors.

Terrible to read about the emotional toll this took on the Genus owner over these months. So glad to hear this is over. Yes they did update to BOM and I find a lot of skins look really good. I am currently using a Genus head on my main (though like you I am not a fan of the HUD) and Lelutka Evo on my alt.

I would never run around wearing that many attachments, but I have certainly made a few outfits for photos and hit the attachment limit.

Woman here, posting as requested. This is a picture of my alt.

Disagree with what? I didn't say it's not offensive in SL, or that some people are not offended by it. If I thought that, I would not have even noticed it or commented on it. The point is, that unlike in real life, it is comparitively well accepted AND rewarded by people favouriting pictures of avatars who do it. Same as people getting their kicks creating pictures of abused female avatars, which is offensive as hell to any woman who has experienced domestic violence, or those who have been impacted by it (ie a large number of people). And well known events are happy to accept morally questionable avatar items because they are so widely acceptable to SL users. People would not be making them if they did not sell well. However, if you dare raise the issue of morality in SL you are criticised as some kind of puritanical freak, so don't dare do that.

I was just thinking something similar the other day, about how some things that are definitely not OK in real life are just fine in SL. Take cultural appropriation. We all know now that if we are white and wear items that have great significance to other cultures, we are going to cop a lot of flack about it. But if you have a white avatar on SL and want to take a pretty picture for your Flickr, the sky is the limit! Make that white avatar a geisha, or put her in a Native American headdress. Nobody will bat an eyelid and you'll get heaps of faves. And kink! It's perfectly OK for your avatar to walk around with her and body face beaten up, and for you to post pictures of her on your Flickr because "no kink shaming", never mind the increasing issues in the world with violence against women.

Had some fun messing around in Photoshop on this one.

SOLD

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Reorfin/156/92/40 Priced to sell at only 6.9L per metre.

Changed my look. No more pale skin and white hair. And its time to make use of all the sci fi stuff in my inventory.

No way would I buy something presented like that. It looks terrible and it indicates that you don't take your business seriously. There's an easy solution though, just ask for help in the appropriate section of the forum. You will probably find someone who owns the correct full version of the head who is willing to model for you in exchange for receiving your products for free.