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    Lets talk about drapes

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    Posted

    Hello all.

    Would anyone be so kind as to recommend drapes of the Victorian kind please?

    The parlour is in dire need of some to fit at the windows as well as some to hang over the entrance to the parlour and study.

    :)

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    Creating a house keeper alt question

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    18 hours ago, Fauve Aeon said:

    You may run into problems with Victorian style dresses and mechanical arms and other parts because there’s no way to hide one of the sleeves, etc and you may have some of the same kinds of poke-through issues you’ve already experienced. You can always get her a key to wear on her back in the meantime if you want her to be a clockwork, there are lots. Maybe if you could show us a picture of the type of mechanical parts you’re looking for it would be easier to recommend some more things. There’s a dizzying array of all kinds of implants, prosthetics and add-ons. It’s just kind of hard to figure out the keywords in order to find them sometimes. You said that there were some examples? 


    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Wiccas-Originals-Eagleden-Arms-female-ADD/18682727

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/AZOURY-Arsinoe-Arm/18864117
    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Asphyxia-Heavy-Cyber-Arms-and-Claws/7061972

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Android-Arms-The-Leal-RX-1-Bento-CREATiCA/14039784

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/LEmporioPL-L33L00-Arms-Meccanic-Implants/16950820

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/KOHAKU-Arms-implant-Female-Shu-Mesh/14929942

     

    I second the Maitreya body for the most selection/compatibility But with add-ons you’ll need to read the description and try the demo to figure out the best fit. A lot of things are modifiable, but somethings are rigged and only have a limited amount of fit ability via the appearance modification  sliders. Another thing that I have noticed is that there are a lot of ‘no copy‘ parts for sale, and those commonly do not have any demos at all and many of them are not modifiable either. If they are modifiable, and you mess it up… Well they are ‘no copy‘ so it stays broken unless you know how to fix it. Proceed with caution on those by watching what the permissions are, I suggest mod and copy permissions for these kinds of add-ons.

     

    11 hours ago, Marianne Little said:

    Ah, in the era of mesh, it is actually more difficult than ever to use body attachments plus a mesh gown, unless they are made to be worn together.

    We have the obvious things like a fascinator, goggles, glasses, monocle, breathing mask and jewelry. These can be added to the head itself. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Wiccas-Wardrobe-Aki-Mask-No-1-BOXED/16411884

    My thoughts is that pure steampunk was popular in SL some years ago, before mesh. So it is a lot made by stores like Grim Bros, for classic avatars.

    It is hard to find bodyparts, in your case I would say you need a short sleeved dress for an arm. (I think just one arm is more cool that both). https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/DEMO-Arsinoe-Arm/18864118

    Or two: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Wiccas-Originals-Eagleden-Arms-female-ADD/18682727

    If you want one mechanical arm and something else for the other, your best option would be a long-sleeved BoM top.

    On a Lark has arm warmers, and to the best of my knowledge they are separate, left and right. They go almost up to the shoulder.

    Sad that OAL's other sleeves and gloves are in one part, you wear both arms the same time. Or else, their Lace sleeves would be 100% what you want.

     

    3 hours ago, Skell Dagger said:

    ContraptioN's "SK3L3T0 Series Prosthetic Arm" enables you to have only the hand showing. Multiple metal colours, too. I wore it with that exact same dress (using a male avatar, but it also contains female body fits for Maitreya, Slink F & HG, and Belleza Freya) in the below image and it fitted perfectly -

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    Thank you all ever so much. I now see the difficulty in not being able to hide parts of an outfit that was not designed to do so, or arms that do not allow you to hide all but the hands :)

    Creating a house keeper alt question

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    9 hours ago, BelindaN said:

    I think it's all been said already!

    My five alts use one e-mail. I have a family group and at my old Linden home they can all open shopping and use it as home base.

    I've had three viewers running on my best laptop, but the lag is epic so it only works for taking photos. Two is manageable, but it sometimes crashes.

    I have a decently powerful PC and am having no difficulty running both at max setting :)

    Creating a house keeper alt question

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    Mrs Hudson is now in place as head of household.

    She has already brought much needed order to the house, a gentleman without a house keeper is in a perpetual state of chaos, as one would expect.

    Now there is a semblance of order within my home, I would like to equip her with the very best body modifications to assist in her work.

    Would anyone be so kind as to recommend some steampunk or Victorian stores that sell high quality body mods?

    I am especially interested in the marvellous mechanical and manikin like body parts I have seen on the forums  :)

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    Avatar scale/height question

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    15 minutes ago, Blush Bravin said:

    When I buy a home, rather then make one myself, I nearly always scale down the house otherwise they are typically much too large for my avie. The nice plus is that typically I get some LI back that I then can use for decorating.

     

    14 minutes ago, Pussycat Catnap said:

    You can use a linkset resizer script to shrink things to their proper scale with some ease.

    I've got a free one here: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Linkset-Resizer-Script/1224156

    it is basically this one:

    http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linkset_resizer

    Plus notes on how to use that.

    Here is my comment a few days ago when mentioning this exact same thing:

    - which has some details on how to scale things in SL.

    Many thanks my friends, I was struggling to understand what was going on :)

    Avatar scale/height question

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    4 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

    Avatars in SL used to be much taller, but have started scaling down over the past 5 or so years.  Some of the furniture and items are still scaled towards the taller avatars, but typically you can shrink the furniture down. The Linden Home houses are scaled for avatars that are a bit taller than normal proportionate sizing, but they are still smaller than homes created a decade ago.

     

    I see, many thanks :)

     

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    Creating a house keeper alt question

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    55 minutes ago, Matty Luminos said:

    To make her an officer on your group, go to the group profile, Members and Roles tab. I think the Officer role is already created by default but if not, click on Roles then New Role, and make one. All you need to do here is give the role a title that suits Mrs Housekeeper, then you go to the Members tab, click on her name and tick the box at the bottom to add her to the role.

    Rezzing on your land will depend on whether you have bought mainland, got a Linden Home or if you are renting. If you've bought the land, and it's owned solely by you, or if its a Linden Home, then all you need to do now is go to About Land, and set (not deed) your land to your group. Once you've done that, Mrs Housekeeper will also be able to rez her own items on the land (make sure she has the group tag active over her head to set the object to the right group). At this point you can go through the abilities given to that role to ensure that Mrs Housekeeper has all the abilities she needs to run an efficient household.

    If you are renting land, or if you have Estate (private island) land, the land will already be set to a different group. In this case you will also have to add Mrs Housekeeper to that group as well.

     

    16 minutes ago, Garnet Psaltery said:

    Just a note that not all private island land is already set to a group.  I leave it up to my tenants to decide whether to keep it in their name or set/deed to a group.

    Thank you both so much :)

    Ill give her the keys to the servants entrance tomorrow :) 

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    Victorian kitchen utensils and ingredients question

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    19 hours ago, Myzabella said:

    I saw a wooden cutting board with herbs on it in this store: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pure Dreams/132/108/18

    They also have hanging dried herbs, potted ones and other nice food/kitchen stuff you might want to check. And yes, your kitchen looks great! :)

    You were so right! The herbs and especially the vegetables are the best I have seen :)

    I accidentally bought the fatpack ;)

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    Creating a house keeper alt question

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    Hello all :)

    I have created a club so I can give her the role of officer but cant work out how to move her from member to officer.

    How do I achieve this?

    Also, I made the mistake of shopping for clothes demos with her and accidentally purchased herbs and vegetable fatpac :(

    How do I give her permission to place the items in my home?

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    52 minutes ago, Matty Luminos said:

    I'm not familiar with any of those stores but Maitreya Lara is the most widely supported body for clothing (along with that Lucybody I mentioned earlier, which fits the same clothes). The next two would be Belleza Freya and Slink Hourglass; both of these two suit a fuller figure whereas Maitreya and Lucy are slim.

    For heads there are literally dozens to choose from, and no brand is particularly better or worse, though Catwa, Lelutka and Genus have the most options for skins and makeup. Best bet for a head is to find your preferred skin first, because skins are often made for just one brand. Even if you go BOM, not all skins fit all heads nicely (but they will usually fit all bodies).

    For skin I want something with an aged look. Skin fair is not available, I think its packed :)

    How to optimise an object for uploading to SL?

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    Posted · Edited by VonWulfen

    3 hours ago, anna2358 said:

    Hey guys!  Isn't it nice to meet a new builder who actually wants to learn to do it right?  Instead of telling us how skilled he is and how terrible SL is with his 'superior' models.

    Welcome VonWulfen.

    You are too kind :)

    I am very inspired by so many marvellous creations I have seen :)

    Now I want to make it into a meat pie.

    Any tips on how to make a pie crust are most welcome :)

     

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    Creating a house keeper alt question

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    15 minutes ago, Matty Luminos said:

    No. None that you'd ever want to touch with a ten-foot barge-pole. There are some old ones, from back when mesh was a new thing, and they are all utterly hideous. They'll be buried somewhere in your Library, if you ever feel like giving yourself a scare.

    Many thanks again :)

    What are my best options for a widely supported mesh female body and head?

    I would like to make use of all the cool Victorian clothing & Steampunk attachments, especially ContraptioN, Hotdog items.

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    1 hour ago, Skell Dagger said:

    As I recall, Gretchen is one of the default starter avatars? Assuming that she is a system avatar (no mesh body parts) then it should be easy to create (or find) a full body alpha layer. I'd suggest looking on Marketplace first, as there are plenty of free sets of different alpha layers there. You'll primarily want a torso alpha that leaves the hands unmasked, such as a long-sleeved shirt alpha. For the remainder of the body you can either use a pants alpha and shoes alpha, or you can simply create your own in your inventory (New > Clothing > Alpha Layer, then wear it, edit it, and tick the small box beside each section that you want to alpha out, then save it).

    Many thanks Skell. I managed to get an alpha that came close but a small part of the neck is still visible. On a good note I found a free dress that will do for shopping for demos :)

     

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    15 minutes ago, Matty Luminos said:

    Gretchen is non-mesh so she will have to wear the system alpha layer that comes with the clothes. If there is no system alpha layer, the clothing is for mesh bodies only, and not suitable for Gretchen. However you could make it work by borrowing alphas from similar outfits. 

    If she wants a free mesh body with a hud, send her to Lucyshoes. If the Midnight Mania is still running, she is in with a very good chance of winning one. The Lucybody fits clothes made for Maitreya, which are very widely available.

     

    Many thanks. She has entered the draw :)

    Are any of the starter AV's mesh?

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    Mrs Hudson has now arrived at the house :)

    She went shopping for demos but is having some difficulty with body parts popping through the clothing.

    I remember I had a hud when I purchased skin and shape for myself. It allowed me to hide problem body parts.

    Is it possible to do this with Gretchen AV?

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