Anna Nova

Interesting reading. I was honestly of the opinion that a new body needed a fat ass, and huge boobs. But recent event have proved that's not right. I am having great fun finding clothes for Maitreya's LaraX Petite. Maybe there is room for more human-scale bodies, like Lucybody Vania. The key is clothing.

Whilst I am still wearing Lara Petite, as well as LaraX Petite, I am not buying any more non-X clothes. That isn't to say I am throwing all the nice stuff I've collected, or any new gifts, just not shelling out. The really good thing to come out of all this is that even Lara Petite is a body in it's own right, and I don't have to fear something 'stealing' the 'chest' mount point (and making those huge boobs show).

There is also a Groupie 500L gift card (400L to join), but it needs using by midnight today!!!!

'Wear' should be labelled 'Replace'. IMO it should also trigger a 'do you real mean to remove 14 other BoM layers?' question.

I REALLY don't like sellers who advertise 'FREE' and charge, even 1$L. It's called lying.

Meva is very good. And new stuff seems to be LaraX too. Mea (the creator) is very nice to talk to.

Could be. I tend to be a 'shoot from the hip' kinda gal. Sorry.

So you all think I should buy things to help the poor creators, even if I have no use for them (for bodies I don't want to own)? Or if they contain technology, like V4 autohide, that actually makes the item unusable? Or perhaps because they have a history of leaving their customers in the lurch, like a certain body creator? Not gonna happen. If you want me to buy it (that is spend my SL allowance on it) then it has to suit me. And that is all I said.

I will not buy anything but LaraX Petite rigged clothes from now on. I've operated a 'no Lara Petite, no sale' policy for a year now, and it worked well. With a lot of older clothes that are rigged for Lara Petite fitting after a bit of alpha-ing, I already have a huge LXP wardrobe (in my CTS Wardrobe, of course). For my alt, it's LaraX or nothing. My other major policy shift is that I now check the demo for what version of built-in Maitreya Autohide script it has. V4 is a no-no, and that rules out Blueberry - and I was buying the megapacks without much thought before. The CSR tells me that I can remove it, but then I have to have 456780000 versions for all the different colour combos - not gonna happen. Of course, no demo, no sale... I encourage you to get tough with the Creators too, they want our money, they have to suit US.

Well inspired by @taisiyakarpenko, and the rest of you, I went out and spent my allowance... I can never decide which color, so I always buy the fatpack - which is why my wallet isn't one.

That might just be the most beautiful SL Avatar Picture I have ever seen. Thank you @taisiyakarpenko

I'm especially fond of seeing how inventive the funny names for bodies a certain contributor doesn't like can be.

It sure is pretty, and Rainnn is a place to watch, but nothing much for LaraX or LaraXPetite yet.

The bulk of the re-rigged and new-for-LaraX clothes seem to be sexy stuff, for half-naked girls. Still looking for clothes that I would wear to go shopping or to visit Mom.

I find I have to re-order the layers quite a lot (Maitreya+Lelutka+any-bom layers). The hairbase bom looks to be at the bottom of the list of layers (so under the skin bom) until I do 'Edit Outfit', and then immediately 'Edit Outfit Parts', using the Firestorm viewer. It's as if that process 'stimulates' the re-layering to be correct.

I have had some success with Warm, but it is very expensive (L$2500), and has a steep learning curve. For that much you can buy a lot of clothes! https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Warm-Full-Body-Deformers-HUD/24812569 I'll be interested in other replies.

I think there is also the 'political' reason for sticking with Onyx and Maitreya. They have been super loyal to their customers through the years, and that cannot be said of certain other popular body makers. Many of the clothes makers will give us free updates to LaraX over time, and many will want to sell more new clothes. I know which ones I am going with.

or.... LL saw a way to charge a VAST amount of REAL DOLLARS for changing a database entry... and we Clueless Captain Oldbies encouraged them, because we have Real Dollars to burn on such frivolities.

Useful if you sit on the....

and when we say 'new', this V5 script has been out for years, but many of the Big Name (like Blueberry, for instance) clothing designers still use the V4 script (and make it no-mod, of course). So for them the only recourse is to use the 'Show all' button in the Lara(X) hud - Alpha page to reset after putting the item on, before doing your own cut settings. I am now boycotting all V4 script users, unless they let me delete the script. That includes Blueberry sadly.

Well I started off negative about this. I still think the marketing is atrocious, but.... There is a full-body Lara Petite (not X) hidden in there, and that means my boobs won't pop out if I accidentally remove the add-on while getting ready for (bed). Now I got something out of this too.

Well, I woke up to this! Got my LaraX Petite, and I am totally underwhelmed. I do not want a GenX THICK butt. If I wanted a thick butt I'd have bought Slink Cinnamon. The sad thing is all the designers who are saying that they will be only working on Twitter (formerly known as LaraX) from now on. Sheesh. Maybe it's time to make a male avi and go to Nille's.

Sim crossings.

The other Lucybody bodies are mostly BoM only, no HUD, but the Atenea has an alpha-cut HUD. I don't like Atenea much, it scores too high on complexity, but the other Lucybodies are excellent for specific uses due to their low complexity. I like Lucybody Vania as a low-weight Lara Petite - one good thing about it is that chest does not respond to the shape sliders, so you can use them to fix the fitting of clothes. The other thing to say is that the creator, @Ongoe Allen, is very accessible on Discord, and responds to questions well.

Have you seen the thing they want you to sign before you can take money out at their ruinous exchange rate? Not worth it for under US$10... @Prokofy Nevahas the best answer. IMO.