Trinity Blakewell

***Bangs Head Against Wall*** Found a houseboat parcel I really liked. Noticed today that the FPS had dropped dramatically...so I went searching for possible reasons. Guess what? One of my neighbors has like a DOZEN CasperVend dropboxes in their houseboat! Yes, I've reported and derendered.

FAGA has moved to a different kind of subscriber group. You click on the sign when you get there.It doesn't fill up an SL Group slot. @EmmaAshton - the Velour gift was a bunch of free Venus skins (muscular version only - Rose Kiss, Frost, Amber and Brownie). Unfortunately they did not include male skins in this year's gift. I wonder why they didn't include Valley...it seems to be the most popular of their new colors. On the other hand, Rose Kiss is likely one of the most popular shades overall with Velour.

LOL, yes to this. I am on freebie overload, between about 10 Advent Calendars, Cosmopolitan's Christmas Tree, Shop and Hop, and now this. Have to get my inventory back under control again!

I'm doing about 10 -12 Advent Calendars this year, mostly fashion and home furnishings. Here's some ratings and reviews on some of the fashion ones. I'll try and post a few more later. Note that the brands that are giving out a mix of older and newer items are all over the board with body support. While most items are in Maitreya and Legacy sizes, support of other bodies will vary. Blackstone - free, group not required. Keeping about 50 -60% of total gifts. It's a mix of mostly older and some newer items, most are not. up to recent quality. The gown in the center is an exception, it has a great use of materials WellMade - group required. Keeping: about 50%- 60%. The big catch here is basically everything is either Christmas themed or predominantly red, with the exception of the blue dress on left. So, while many of the gifts are fairly nice, I'm bundling them up in a Christmas archive after the season. Glitz - group required, previous days items on sale for $L25. Keeping most of them, but let's face it, I won't have much opportunity to wear. Glitz is known primarily for lingerie, sexy dresses and evening wear, and you'll get a representation of all these in their gifts.

But EvoX kind of changed things as far as mesh heads and skins. EvoX skins can't be used on heads that don't include EvoX mapping. Right now, that's the dominant skin type supported by designers.

I wonder if the priority of updated releases is based on feedback about shortcomings with the home styles. For example, the traditionals were small, and had small rooms (it created such a big market for add-ons!). After creating open floor plan options for the Chalets and Sakura, LL realized that the traditional florplans could benefit from the same approach. Houseboats were also on the small side, and perhaps as the Stilts and Newbrookes were being designed, someone had the idea of adding houseboats that were more "house-like" and inspired by those designs. With Victorians, being small isn't an issue. Even the one-story design is large compared to one-story traditionals. And the two story models are pretty spacious. Not many add ons are available for the Vics that increase living space...it simply is not needed. I can't see them benefiting from an open floor plan as much as the traditionals did, either. I could see them adding one or two designs to the Log Cabins, and to the Stilts. The log cabins because it might be nice to have more variety, and the Stilts could use a larger model or two.

I think it's the new norm at some events, and not just the ones mentioned above.I've said before, I don't mind at all people using pre-made meshes (full perm) for their designs, as long as they do quality texturing. Many of the vendors at those events just plop a color (usually bright) on the mesh, and don't bother with any detail in the texturing. I don't get why people would find that appealing, but apparently some of these vendors are making enough money to stick around.

You can, of course, build your own add-ons, but if you're not experienced with building mesh, it's likely going to add up in the Land Impact pretty quickly!

If it's something I don't like personally, and in my line of sight, that's what Firestorm Derender is for. I personally go in at each location, do an area search, and derender problematic stuff (visually unappealing and/or highly scripted) and then block plus derender for tv's, radios, musical instruments, jukeboxes, etc. But occasionally, there are things that really need to be AR'ed. CasperVend Terminals (I've come across that multiple times!), excessive numbers of breedables (ditto), etc.

Right - that's why I went back to houseboats.

So, I've been trying to get one of the newer houseboats, this weekend and today. Just getting discards in older regions. Really, all but the latest (where I'm stuck till tomorrow) have been decent locations. This is the first one that is the basic "slot" layout with houseboats very close on the right and left. One thing I had forgotten is just how blatant many of the houseboat owners are about violating covenant and encroaching on their neighbors. I have already AR'ed three, in three different regions. Obnoxious, tall border images Structure encroaching on my parcel A Caspervend Terminal

OK, I see one thing about this body that I kind of like --- the curvy legs. But I think it's still way too exaggerated. And those little stick arms!

Interesting. I had an extended amount of time this morning where I was not able to teleport back to my linden home (goes to check to be sure everything's there)

That's a cute sim, and I'm glad they brought it back this year. It's a little difficult to manuver, since the stores are really small, the doors are closed, and the snowfall gets in the way of selecting and zooming in.

Naria Panther has a video on YouTube today. She points out that it's likely that people who like Kupra and just want...more body...will likely love it.

Tweaked the body shape a little...here's a more mature look.

My latest look

I have used the shoulder deformers too. I think for me the Maitreya bodies just look a little more stiff, not "soft" - and believe me, I played with those shapes for like three years, it wasn't like I hadn't tried a lot of things.

Hi everyone, I was a long-time (well, for virtual worlds) Maitreya user and just bought Legacy at the Black Friday Sale. The biggest change I've seen between the two is that I like Legacy better for a curvier body. Not an exaggerated curvy body but a realistic one.I was actually "OK" with Maitreya for this but now that I've tried it, I think Legacy is better. My chief incentive in buying Legacy was that Maitreya hasn't updated in a long time, and there are some clothing brands (especially Asian designers and those doing goth/urban stuff) that are not supporting Maitreya very well now.

I didn't even know about them! Thanks for sharing the info.

Bentley and I are busy decorating our Linden Home for the holidays, but I wanted to take a minute to share this cute top I got from Tori Torricelli during the Black Friday Sale. The jeans are a group gift from Rowne and the boots are from KC Couture, my go-to for shoes now since they always have fatpacks on sale for the weekend sales. Bentley, of course, is from Jian, also picked up during the Black Friday Sale. I have a Cocker Spaniel IRL so have been enjoying Bentley a lot in SL.

Well, I went and did it. Hedged my bet as far as having Lara as my only mesh body, and got Legacy while it was half price. I've been saving Legacy and EBody clothing in my inventory for a while so I'm prepared. I still have all the freebie body skins from Velour that they gifted last Christmas, and picked up the three most frequent shades that I buy for head skins that weren't in that freebie set (Snow, Rose Kiss, and Valley). So, I'm well set to try my new alternative whenever I have the time.

For those of you who are looking for free head and body skins, you might want to checkout Boataom ASAP (like today, CyberMonday, cause I don't know if this is a limited time thing) and get their free body skins as a group gift. The group is free to join, and there are a bunch of head skins on the Group Gift wall as well.

See this web page for more info: https://www.meshbody.com/classic

Here is that new FANCY DECOR bathroom set in the front small room of a Coniston Newbrooke home. I even had enough room to add in a FANCY DECOR Felix Bathtub although I had to move the spout down a little so it was below the window. Here's what I changed/added: Frosted glass panels in windows Marble block for shower floor changed tile texture cause I didn't like the one that came with the kit Lights above the sinks.