Marianne Little
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This sale should have ended, but it is still sold for 60L on the Marketplace. Only 2 Li!!
I bought white. This could be a modern room divider? The backside is pretty too, you could have a fireplace or some art on it.
I show it in default size. This wall/shelf can be stretched a little and stay 2 Li, and quite big up to 3 Li.
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They call it 'skinned' when jewelry is rigged for bodies. I get a 'Silence of the lambs' feeling. 😆
Yummy has a few more necklaces for LaraX, Sigma too, and Kungles has their last necklace 'skinned'.
I hope Sigma and Yummy work their way back and includes LaraX. It is some pieces I am in love with.
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Finally, some skinny jeans. They include 2 "in boots" versions that fit in surprisingly many boots. Not thigh high, but overknee boots like these. Sadly the Blueberry boots I have do not fit. It will have to be BoM jeans with many boots. I think I will buy 2-3 of these jeans.
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/friday-Weekend-Jeans-Deep-Sea/25468567
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It is really much in LaraX sizes in new events. I picked up a lot from Fameshed, Anthem, and I even found a new favorite necklace from Sigma in the Belleza event.
I am not sure if I am a fan of rigged necklaces. The stores should include an unrigged version too. It looks like some stores only rig necklaces now.
Sigma, Ysoral, AwaWay, Yummy and Rawr has started to get some jewelry with LaraX rigging. Very good for belly piercings, garters, overarms and other things that Lara size absolutely do not fit. So far I only have a necklace from Yummy, one from AvaWay and one from Sigma.
I have not seen much jewelry for LaraX in weekend sales yet, only a belly chain from Ysoral. I am hoping that will change.
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It is about time the system is changed, @Patch Linden @Abnor Mole
To set the abandoned home back first is frustrating people. To get the same home day after day after day is not a good feeling.
It could make less popular themes more attractive, if people could roll and hope for a better placement, instead of the one they absolutely do not want.
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Payment in Amazon vouchers?
Can I use them without paying shipping to Europe, custom duties, tax and VAT... 🙄
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Not much editing, adjusted levels to get a little bit contrast, added vignette and signature.
Wow, I am glad the skin pack had a nipple cover layer...
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14 hours ago, alpcon1 said:
Hi and a happy new year to everyone.
I have the free version of the ebody curvy body and cant sort an issue I have with the toes to the feet. This then restricts what shoes I am able to wear e.g. nothing that is open toe.
I have included a link to a pic. https://prnt.sc/0EN8DCxCCqqh I am wearing stockings in the picture and the darker band is supposed to be the foot detail of the stockings and cover the toes.
I am guessing as the body is free there is no solution to this but thanks to anyone that can help.
So it is not a skin that gives you the dark color?
The answer over is what to do with miscoloring from a skin. That is not the same as wearing stockings or socks.
A BOM sock texture will texture your toes - around every toe separately - but not the nails. Maitreya has an add-on layer that shapes a cap over the toes, so the stockings look perfect. If that is what you want, look for a "group joiner" in the Ebody store, join the group and ask there, maybe Ebody has a solution... I use only Maitreya, so I do not know other bodies.
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On 12/29/2023 at 1:05 AM, Esther Bunny said:
I went to the event (TSA) from the Facebook post. No matter how much I was looking, I could not find demos. I went to the Mainstore and found demos for the denim skirt with holes and the high waist jeans. These clothes do not have LaraX size. I was mainly interested in the high waist jeans.
Is it 'normal' for the TSA event to not have demos? Was I blind, or the demo sign not rez for me...?
It was an Addams vendor close to it, and I could not see any demo there either.
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More Rowne: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rowne/128/128/2
I was there 10 min ago and this Happy Weekend offer was still up. Top, skirt and leather pants. (The bow isn't LaraX, but several sizes)
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6 minutes ago, JamesDarkside said:
I had someone help me shrink this one before and it not show but i can't figure out how to do it again and i forgot who helped me out last time.
Go in edit appearance- edit outfit- body parts. Find your eyebrowshaper. In SL official viewer, it looks like a head in profile. In Firestorm, it is a brown shape looking limke a short wig. It is often named something brow or brow shaper.
Click the wrench next to it, select 'style', NOT eyebrows. Set all sliders to zero.
If this eyebrow shaper is no modify, you have to find another one that is modify.
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Forgive me for not reading all the pages. 😪
I want to know how avatars will look in PBR. At this moment, I do not care for showy regions and pretty snow and will not read +30 pages about it.
- Must bodies, hair, clothes and all the other things we wear, be optimized for PBR?
- If they are not, how will we look with our pre- PBR avatars?
- Will our enviroment settings look bad in PBR? Must we have PBR settings?
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Avatar is not edited, the image on the left is only cut and placed over the image to the right. No more.
I need to change my signature to the new year.
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21 hours ago, Persephone Emerald said:
Maybe they could give the body & the developer kit to popular skin & clothing makers (esp. lingerie) on the condition that they'll show it in ads and hype it. Isn't this partly what Maitreya did when they made LaraX with Velour skin tones? or when Kupra, Reborn & GenX were marketed by clothing makers?
People kept hearing about these new bodies and seeing that clothing designers were designing for them - designing, not just using pre-made templates. The accidental release by Velour about LaraX ahead of schedule really stirred up interest too. This chatter makes people want to try a new body. Then if it is actually good and interesting, they convince themselves that they need it.
19 hours ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:I'd actually go in a different direction and say given the way things are now (with how many bodies there are and how many designers are rigging for), a brand new body would have to win creators over, first - ideally before its full public release. I've seen some new releases that customers absolutely loved, but went unworn due to lack of available products.
In my own personal case, Anatomy fell into that category for me. I was ready to switch day 1 and we were all pretty hype in the Discord, but I can't consistently build the varied wardrobe I get with Legacy, so I haven't yet invested. Still holding out hope, though, because it's got every single feature I could ever possibly ask for (even body GLITTERRRRRRRR) and some fun shoe designers that adopted it alongside Maitreya, Legacy, Reborn, etc.
A body really needs to give creators a reason to adopt a fourth (fifth, sixth, seventh ack) rig into their workflow. There are already way too many bodies to rig for. Even just on the consumer side, I'm looooong over the way the body system works in SL in general (everything else I play gives you a single body that's highly flexible and everything just fits - so nice), so I would imagine those making clothes might get a bit burned out from time to time, too.
I used the words "big guns in the community create for it", it was taken as bloggers when I used "Influencers" after?
I meant creators. I am not sure if a free creators kit would be enough.
The big and powerful creators rig for the top three- four bodies and release news often. And add-ons like Juicy. They have to be in every event and every sale.
Is it a benefit for them to start with a new and unknown body? It takes a lot of work.
I think creators have to be paid to do it.
At least expenses covered, and a free stall in events for the new body. If the designers have to pay for it themselves, I think many will wait and see if the body takes off. And then the small amount of content strangles the body. People who want it, say they will wait and buy it when they see they can get content, creators wait and see how many people will buy the body... beep... dead. 😩
One thing that would help would be to get the body out to as many as possible, to a low price. So that is why I said earlier, you have to be rich in RL, because this will be a money out operation, not a money in. People do not change body as often as they change head. If I won the lottery in RL, I could roleplay SL business. I could not live on what I earn on a new body. I think that time is over.
Start with a low introduction price, give out a body to group members monthly, give out a free body in Flickr contests etc. Those who win a free body and already have it, name the avatar they want the body sent to. And maybe a free body for newbies? Let us say that newbies under 30 days get the body for free. Include a small pack of clothes. Of course this would be used to outfit a lot of alts, but who cares. You are rich and don't need to earn money. Let people make 100 alts and pick up your body. You could also have prices where they can win gift cards for clothes. Gift cards from the creators who create for your body.
* you = general you
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Another sale item from Bazar, the Ina fireplace is only 3 Li and it is big, 5.8 m wide and 3.8 m tall.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/L A Dreams/66/171/23
It is good if you need a fireplace for a big room. The wood wall is only this color, but the base and the part over the fireplace is texture change. The set is modify, so you can select white and tint it. I tinted it blue and green. I tinted the wood darker.
250 L for the Ina fireplace set. I have other autumn decor, but the set is cheaper than the fireplace alone. 1 Li for all the other parts each - art, pumpkins and vase.
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Also Kraftwork, Happy Weekend sale, Canucci Wine Cellar, 4 parts, 3 woods, all for 60L.
Light oak, graphite and dark oak. No change for the metal hardware. The wine bottles is grouped and will be really difficult to use other places.
The land impact from left to right: 4Li, 4 Li, 6 Li, 5 Li.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/KraftWork/230/122/23
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Run to Kraftwork and see if you catch this Pantry display filler before it goes up to full price.
9 Li decorated, 1 Li empty, 3 wood colors. 100 L for all, the Saturday sale.
The decor is in several groups and it is shadows on some parts. It will not be easy to use the decor in other places, you may manage it with some editing. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/KraftWork/230/122/23
The other two Pantry parts is the China filler and the Kitchen filler. Both stand next to this, they are not on sale (250L each) and they have been in weekend sales before.
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Yesterday, 31 Dec, I was in Bazar and bought a bedroom set. It is no sign in the store or on Flickr that tell when the sale ends.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/L A Dreams/66/171/23
As you can see, it is not a sale on single parts or on all full sets. You have to go there and see for yourself.
Bazar has some really low Li furniture. The amount of 1 and 2 Li decorative stuff is really huge. Make sure to inspect Li before you buy.
To give you an idea about the price, I bought the Milena Bedroom PG, all parts shown, for 611L.
The bed has texture change. I first thought it was too greige, but I changed my mind after testing it.
Edit: It is also 3 wood textures on the wall behind the bed and the chair. The side tables can change the table and the legs. Try out in the store.
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19 hours ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:
Despite spending the majority of my time in SL as primarily non-human and often some variety of creature/animal, I'd actually hate to see more bodies specifically made for alternative avatars.
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I'm not in the anime community, so I don't know how they'd feel about having bodies made for them and what specific quirks exist in that market. If anything, I'd guess they probably want a greater assortment of updated heads. From what I've seen on Flickr from those using the Utilizator heads, they're primarily wearing the usual bodies - Maitreya, Legacy F, and Reborn.
I cut some parts here, I will reply:
The human bodies is used by (almost) all non-human avatars. And anime/loli use the human bodies we already have.
Everything is covered. The market is oversaturated.
What a new body would have to do, is to win people over by making them belive this is the perfect body for them instead of the body they already have. So marketing would be it. Massive marketing, and the big guns in that community would have to create for it. Show the body in all the ads, have the big influencers talk about it. Everywhere people go, they see it.
Make people believe they need it.
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I think the female body market is
- Thin/medium sized
- Top heavy (exaggerated breasts)
- Bottom heavy (average/small breasts, wide hips and butt)
- Hourglass, big breasts, wide hips, big butt
- Flat chests, big breasts, rolls and squishy
- Special bodies, anime, special directed for the furry market
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I think the top 4 (5) places is already taken. I am sure Maitreya will release a LaraX with the flat chest. And all the addons for Reborn makes it very hard for another thicc body. Maybe a body that comes with all the juicy and squishy parts already in place could take off... maybe... with expert marketing, introduction price and creators already on board.
That leaves a market for special bodies. Perhaps a body with all the asian clothes designers on board, directly aimed at the Anime and Loli market. Kenomo is super old, is anybody using it at all? That could be something. A body that can use V-tech rigged clothes could be popular. I do not think V-tech could sue the creator of such a body. It would be a new product, same way as the bodies that can use Maitreya clothes.
Maitreya is No Modify. Even if very few users need modify rights, the market part that want Mod is very hard to sway over to a No Mod body. I am not sure how much it hurts Maitreya that it is No Mod, but in this very oversaturated market for female bodies, Maitreya should make Lara and LaraX bodies Mod as soon as possible. Every customer count.
I am not saying this because I want a very thin body, but it is an opening for a body where Kate Moss is the thickest body you can make. A body that appeal to those with an unhealthy view of their body. The question was not for a body that would be 'responsible' to make.
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I think a body for men that is as big as Aesthetic could be popular. Aesthetic is really old.
A body should not have a new UV. I see barely any skins for Aesthetic. It is recolored versions.
Maybe it could have 2 versions, a custom UV body and a SL UV body, in the same pack? If people do not have to invest money for a new UV body, they can use the SL UV body with all the old skins and tattoos. And if creators want to pick up on more details, everyone with this body can switch over to the new UV and keep all the rigged content. A new UV could be as popular as EvoX, if people already had a body ready for it.
Aesthetic is popular among the male furry population. A body need to be mod, for it to win support in this market. Easy to get content creator packs for the professional designers. Personal creator packs included with every body.
I think big Hulk bodies is yuck, but (most) men want big muscles.
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10 hours ago, Persephone Emerald said:
LOGO and Akeruka heads will not work with Lelutka appliers. They can all use the same BOM layers, however.
Ah, I do not bother to get the heads then. Even if I use layers a lot, I will not limit myself to only layers. I like to have the option for both. And Lel appliers is found everywhere, it is so easy to get.
I love Lel default lashes too, and their full face animations. Other heads is not feeling the same for me. I am very lucky to have many different heads now, all the free ones and the ones I have bought.
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Yep I thought it was wild when I saw Sigma called it skinned. Lo and behold, Kunglers did it too. Maybe it is the next word for jewelry 'skin tight'?