Christina Ponnier

I wasn't kidding, and thanks for letting me know that I am alone in my ignorance. And for the explanations. And Qui said it's best to wait for Bento. But thank you and for Phil - it's the hands and feet mainly, which are very ugly on the standard.

Pussycat Catnap wrote: Phil Deakins wrote: I'm not against mesh bodies. I am only curious why some people prefer them when, from what I've read in posts and heard in chats, clothes can be problematic. Clothes used to be a problem. But these days if you're using one of the top 4 brands (Solarian, Maitreya, Belleza, Slink) fitmesh clothing is pretty easy to come by. And if you're on an offbrand, applier clothing is usually also easy to come by unless you're on one of the very rare brands that excludes Omega. I've actually started getting notecards from shops saying they are dropping support for standard sizes. Just a few at present, but its beginning to go that way. Applier, omega, Bento? Just a few foreign words. I don't believe I'm alone here (or perhaps I am) but it does seem like loads of research and learning and money. It's like you need to be either very vain, or geeky and enjoy the challenge. And then maybe it will all be better in a year.. and maybe it's best to wait....for Bento.

Syo Emerald wrote: Your current problem is very simple: There is no current problem. I figured it all out, as I'm sure many others would. I was sharing my experience with the OP and anyone else who might find it interesting. And I did not conclude that mesh body + clothes is bad or good. I haven't decided. The main issue for me is probably more the financial investment - is it worth it for me?

yes, I agree with you, and I think you are specifically talking about the whole mesh body and clothes experience here. I had my first experience yesterday. I tried some demo mesh bodies - Belleza and Maitrya, you know the ones. I got the skin tones to match my Redgrave Leona head. I couldn't decide which of the two brands was better. I tried to make smaller breasts and it just made them look weird. So then I thought maybe big breasts are not so bad. So now I want clothes, and it didn't take long to find Blueberry. I bought some demos. The jeans I got were a very tight perfect fit and I was reminded of the pre mesh skin tight stuff only with a nicer texture and leg bottom. Then I bought the jacket and top and I could see my elbows popping out and I thought 'annoying'. Then I read the notecard saying 'please to do the alphas on your body hud'. So I went into inventory and found the hud again and did as requested and this worked a charm. Now I looked not too bad - a near perfect clone of so many others doing just this. But maybe just a t shirt. So I buy the demo and put it on - where did my body go? I put the t shirt on and now I'm invisible . OK how to fix this, remover all attachments and start again. and now to get rid of that alpha masking at the elbows. And here I am - and yes it looks good but is it really worth it? I'll just walk around in these demos for a while and see if I get sick of it or become fonder of it.