Janet Voxel

I came from Mud/Mushes too. I thought SL would be the perfect medium for roleplay.... oh well, at least there’s fashion!

Soooo are you guys going to keep this eyecandy thread going or what?

It absolutely happens...fairly often. Just the way it was described too!

It’s alright and it’s normal. All of our avatars are works in progress. The first thing you want to do is learn how to do a shape. It’s not as easy as I’m making it sound. There’s a lot of sliders and some sliders affect other sliders. The thing is it’s one of the most important things you can learn to do in SL and really worth it. Give yourself time and commit to playing with them a little while each time you come on. It will start to make sense to you. Stick with it and don’t be afraid to experiment.

Mmmmm....m’yezzzz

Mo’ shirtless menz!!! NAO!

So did I....dangit!

Pixicat looks like it might be her style too; as far as clothes go. Moon just stopped selling one of those hairstyles she had on her IMVU avi. LCKY also makes great hair.

Yeah... I look at them. I can probably count on one hand how many times they’ve been a deciding factor though. If I’m on MP to begin with I’m either looking for something as a last resort or I don’t even know where to begin to look inworld. So 9 times out of 10 I’ve already made up my mind about it because I really wanted it or needed it to begin with.

As a consumer, I take most reviews with a grain of salt. If it’s ranty or nonsensical or is a sentence I totally disregard them. That’s about 70% of them. About 10% are novel length and a little too technical and critical of things I could care less about. The rest are thoughtful and helpful. What LL should do is add a “was this review helpful” or “x # of people found this helpful” line under a review. Really bad reviews aren’t a disqualifier to me as a consumer. But a little counter would let the creator know, yes that reviewer is crazy! I don’t often write a counter review. So that would be a much simpler option.

Love the car!

Aye, aye...cappin

From Montreal, QC but living in the US on the East Coast.

The good thing about appliers is they’re relatively cheap too. a few hundred lindens and you’ll have a basic wardrobe of appliers.

Sure you can. I’m one of those people that mix and match clothing all the time. The best thing to do is get items from the same designer. Those have the best chance of being mix/matched. Thats not always ideal. So the next thing you want to do is look to see if the mesh space to layer items. It is possible, but you want items that were designed to be layered to begin with. Obviously if you bought a jacket, it was modeled to be worn over some type of shirt. Think like that. Your next option is also good! Some designers make clothes that have the option to be tucked in or out, etc. Blueberry and Addams have options like that. Addams has a shirt/leotard that at the click of a button becomes just a shirt. Some other designers do this too. Those pieces are handy for layering. The last alternative: it’s ok to layer applier clothing with mesh. I had a sweater dress I thought would look cuter with some leggings and boots. But I couldn’t get it to work with all mesh. Some applier leggings solved the problem.

The best thing to do is join groups in the genres you photograph in and make sure to write good tags for your photos as well. Put your photo in the appropriate group. Now that you’re in some general groups, you should be getting photos in your feed from other people. Like the ones you really like, but pay attention to the ones that get a high number of faves. Now look at the groups they’re in. Stay away from the “Fave 2 get 2” groups. You should see other groups that you might not have been aware of, start joining those. As time goes on, you’ll start to pick up followers and faves, then you’ll start to have people that regularly like your photos.

One of my favorite heads is an older Catwa. It’s animated and looks very nice. Pre bento the most you could change was the head stretch and size. Bento heads are much more customizable, yet the non-bento is my favorite. I think the non bento heads are much cheaper than they used to be and might be worth looking into. If you are happy with your system head look and don’t want to change it, stick with your system head. Bento heads tend to take some getting used to and you’ll be tweaking it for a while before you have a look you’re happy with when you start from scratch. A system head and face won’t quite translate to a bento.

Don’t use CaWL, you lose out on more than you gain by using it.

Sadly, I agree with this 100 percent and it’s just not in the forums it’s in group chats that are supposed to be committed to creation too! On the flip side, some of the most successful businesses are are actually made up of multiple people. Its just people being people.

My thing with these kits when you have to apply for them is as follows: 1) The turnaround time is inconsistent. X creator gets nothing back for months, while Y creator has a fairly fast turnaround. 2) The application process doesn’t stop anybody from doing anything illegal with X body. 3) it actually makes creators not want to create items for it. 4) consumers complain about not having enough products available. Please body creators, make your dev kits freely available. The average person doesn’t want them and if they do, they might learn something and not ask as many dumb questions. You’re hurting your own business by frustrating fellow creators. Someone making crappy mesh, does not hurt your name one bit. There’s plenty of crappy mesh out there from designers you gave the kit to already! *drops the mic*

Ummm...like a ***** Cat Doll....remember them?

I believe you. Any guy I ever talked to about being a Gianni clone always told me they didn’t have much of a choice. I just assumed it was true.

You can layer mesh believe it or not. A lot of mesh is a few pixels away from the skin which leaves room to put something under it. It would take a bit of luck but its possible and if that fails you can always do an applier. Funny story: I put together an outfit where I was wearing fishnets as leggings. Sometimes creators put a pair of panties in the box or they come built in. Well these didn’t so I was standing there with my cooter out. I was going to just do appliers, but I tried mesh panties for some reason they fit! Then surprisingly, I couldn’t find a pair of boots to fit over the fishnets without sticking out in spots. You can mix and match surprising things sometimes.

Don’t forget to demo everything before you buy!

Also in the defense of a lot of guys. Those bigger bodies were pretty much all that was available up until very recently. They also had a lot of support as far as mesh clothing, as opposed to *cough* tmp *cough*. You have more options now, so you came back at a good time.