Cristiano Midnight

Pirata (Dall-e 3/Gencraft/Adobe Firefly):

Missing you:

That is nice as well - I missed it scrolling down.

The first and second shades on the first post are best. The darker and lighter tones don't work as well with the mane.

I had no idea there was even a difference until a friend complained they were out of attachments. I am thankful for the extra attachments, though I don’t come close to even 38 most of the time.

I used to include huds in my outfits, but I find that it is easier to just right click on the item I want the hud for in my Wearing tab and select Show Original which opens the folder in my inventory window and I can attach the hud. I don't need the hud every time, so it is more convenient just to grab them when I do.

This is what it says under Wearing:

If they have bom tattoos, skins, hair bases, etc that would add many. Also, the mesh body, head, eyes, teeth, feet depending on wish mesh body, etc would be 10 or so right there.

Do they not? I have the original lifetime account and have 50 attachment points, I assume premium and premium plus are similar but I admittedly have not looked what they include.

That is stunning! I am excited about the possibilities with PBR. I have been using Substance Painter to churn out new textures. This came out beautifully: Original texture - not bad, but blurry up close: https://gyazo.com/c7c63ef1ef7fb278ad53cf3fb267f7db Replacement in pbr: https://gyazo.com/153730d43a4684257ba3a3af15252353 This morning I redid the pavement in front of my house: Original texture on right, new texture on left: https://gyazo.com/63e5aacf93bec7027806d5abf44434c9 This is the whole road repaved with the new material: https://gyazo.com/8a115136f159e97fb7a0f364edbc6f4a I am obsessed now with redoing every texture in my builds. 😱

One mistake I have seen some new users make is buying a head/body combination off of the marketplace, not realizing the body and head have no support from other creators. Definitely stick to the most popular brands. When you demo things, you can see what gets the most support. For male bodies, it is Belleza Jake and Legacy (and Kario to a much lesser degree). Jake is a good staring point as it is half off (I think 1500L still). If you go Legacy, avoid Legacy Athletic and just get the regular Legacy. There is not that much difference between therm, but Legacy Athletic has some issues with certain types of clothing if it is not made specifically for Athletic, and it does not have as much support. Avoid Signature Gianni/Davis, as a lot of creators have dropped support for Gianni and Davis has never caught on. Lelutka dominates in heads with EvoX, though there are a few alternate brands that support EvoX (Akeruka comes to mind). Most of the skins, hair bases and facial hair are for EvoX heads, so that gives you the most options. Lelutka just released a new male head with their latest tech, and they are updating all of their current heads in the next few months.Catwa used to be much more popular, but they lack support now and their HD heads did not catch on. Genus has some new 4k thing, but I was not impressed and again the content available is going to be limited compared to EvoX heads. Hope that helps if you have not yet settled on a body/head. Demo them all - body, head, body skin, face skin, etc. It takes awhile to find the right combination. You may want to search the marketplace for shapes - they will give you a good starting point for an avatar, and they come the shape usually for Jake and Legacy, with a style card that lists what skins, hair, etc... they used. The body shape does not matter as much, that is easy to tweak, so find a face that you like if you don't want to make one from scratch. Again, let me know if you need anything - I know this is A LOT.

I was in the same situation when I returned to SL in 2019 after being out for 10 years for the most part. I came back when BoM was not yet a thing on the main male or female bodies, and appliers confused the hell out of me. My avatar was not even mesh, but my friend bullied me until I got one lol. I blew through 400k L$ I had from selling off land in about 2 days. Then BoM came along and my avatar turned red and I had to scour the internet to figure out why. SL is complicated AF, and now we have so many new things to deal with, the latest being PBR. If you need any help, feel free to look me up. My 21st anniversary in SL is coming up in May, so if nothing else, I have pretty much seen it all (and wish I could forget some of it). Just make sure you DEMO EVERYTHING. A lot of creators can be a bit deceptive with their promo images and every shape reacts a bit differently anyway. If you need any clothing or other recommendations, let me know.

Creating a titanic themed image for a friend inspired me to create one of my own. In the movie, "Nearer My God To Thee" is being played on the violin as the ship is sinking. The anniversary is April 15th, which will mark 112 years. The film recently also had its 25th anniversary in 2023. This was created in Gencraft with a hyperrealistic model and a watercolor style.

This was an interesting experiment. I used Chat GPT to reverse engineer a friend's image, and then the results I got were amusing on the final image with my avatar lol. Here was the original: Chat GPT said this: The image displays a grayscale digital artwork depicting a sculpted male figure with a realistic, muscular build, reminiscent of classical marble statues. He has well-defined abs, pecs, and arms, with a subtle shadowing that enhances the three-dimensional effect. The man's face is in profile with chiseled features, sharp jawline, and tousled, medium-length hair. Two doves add life to the composition; one is perched gracefully on his shoulder, wings spread as if it just landed, while the other rests gently in his cupped hand. The background is a plain, light gray, putting the focus on the figure and the birds. The overall aesthetic is peaceful and harmonious. I fed that prompt with a few changes into Gencraft, and it didn't go quite as planned, but the result amused me lol. Honorable mention:

Bloom (created for a spring themed photo contest - Gencraft/Adobe Firefly/Fotor)

Lately I have fallen down the rabbit hole of creating pbr materials with Substance Painter and also Materialize, and now that a certain 3rd party viewer is testing pbr in beta I have started to retexture some things at my home as I create materials for it. Recently I undertook retexturing the walls and floor of my pool and also my pool deck. The bottom of the pool has a glass facade tile, the walls have a black ceramic tile, and the deck has a mosaic tile. Facade tile: https://gyazo.com/4502a579baa4503ee3e43a0a10031d1b Ceramic tile: https://gyazo.com/c2d513499dd76135cdd564b237ec3946 Retiled pool: https://gyazo.com/1a6d4bf83d0e007546b548da306927fa Mosaic tile:https://gyazo.com/1257502c72f4e8bca174e065d81317f9 Retiled pool deck https://gyazo.com/58c6f60022f4613090a586b3a66138c4 I never thought I would get excited about texturing after 21 years in SL (and teaching texturing classes in 2003 - eek), but pbr materials do excite me, I am really looking forward to seeing them more broadly used in SL in the future, and to see what improvements continue to be made to them.

If you want a free alternative to both, check out Materialize: https://boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/ Additionally, the GLTF Packer tool is also free and perfect to use with it to create importable pbr materials for SL instead of having to combine channels in Photoshop/etc..: https://aiaicapta.in/gltf-packer/

Could anyone recommend a good tutorial on using Avastar for rigging clothing in Blender? I am working on some clothing for men, I have the body dev kits, but I am struggling a bit with it. Any help would be appreciated. ⭐

Instagram challenges keep me occupied with AI lol: (Gencraft, Adobe Firefly)

Feel free to contact me if you need any advice. I have started integrating AI into all aspects of my RL work (not just image generation), and I am fully immersed in it now (and going a bit nuts). Happy to help - this applies to anyone. Some people can be very proprietary about this stuff, which quite frankly, is stupid. We are all learning, it is a brave new world of our AI overlords.

I am getting Clark Kent vibes on that last one though. You've got it in you. Good job on those, they look great. What did you use?

A subtle image I did for an Instagram challenge in Gencraft, Stable Diffusion and Adobe Firefly.

I went a bit crazy reimagining my avatar in Stable Diffusion

Is that the runway of Rupaul's Drag Race?