Blush Bravin

If when you say tattoo and clothing layers, you mean the mesh layers that are worn in addition to the Maitreya body, then those do not use BoM. But if you use the system layer clothing parts, ie tattoo, top, bottom, etc then those use BoM and are baked onto your skin which shows on both your system avatar and your mesh body. I think you may be confusing the mesh layers that come with the body and regular system clothing objects. Hope I'm not confusing you further. Since a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's a graphic to better explain what I meant.

I'm wondering if it's just the skin or the actual sculpt, but Bille appears to be older than most, possibly any, of the previous heads. Here's hoping!

I recently downgraded Blush from Premium Plus to regular Premium, but before doing that I found a lovely houseboat up near the Newbrookes on sand. It's a really beautiful area with lots of landscaping even though it's on water. Houseboats seems as though it would take less LI. So I was curious to see if that's true because there's lots of landscaping around my houseboat. So I did some investigating. The "front yard" to my houseboat has 197 LI in vegetation and rocks. And below on the sea floor another 223 in LI. And I've not even included all the rocks and grass underwater just outside of my "back yard". I panned out to get a view of what the sea floor looks like with turning water rendering off. And there's lots going on under the water here. I'll be keeping my houseboat for what I think will be a long time as this is the first parcel I actually went searching for and requested using my PP perk. I've also determined that after living in every theme that houseboats are my favorite. And can completely agree that the idea of having 2048 houseboats is very appealing, but I don't think they require less work or land impact if built in the same fashion as my current houseboat region.

Are you using "add" when using the alphas? If you use "wear" it will only let you use one. Be sure you're selecting "add" to wear the alphas.

The thing that bothers me about the idea is imagining how people would landscape their yards. With so much space for landscaping I have the image of a lot of 'mini' forests planted inside the borders that do not in any way match or blend with the mole content. Logs has a very specific feel that I'm not quite sure could be maintained with really large yards.

This too is my concern. I have helped a person who wanted a super skinny body like she was able to get with 5.3. She was really upset that she couldn't be skinny with LaraX. I was able to get her a shape that was nearly identical to her old shape, and that was before we had the butt deformer. I'm pretty sure that with the butt deformer we could get the X bottom to be as thin as her 5.3. I have absolutely no issue with anyone preferring the 5.3 over the X as long as they aren't following a misconceived notion that the X can't get skinny, because it can. You just have to rethink how the body is going to react to the sliders, because if you try to get the same shape using the same sliders and numbers as you have in the past with 5.3 you will not like the result unless all your numbers were pretty much in the center of the sliders.

Couldn't disagree with you more. The changes in the thighs for me is a big difference. Sure if you keep your thighs super thin you may not noticed what an improvement there has been made to the shapeliness of the upper legs, but for me it makes all the difference. Also, the change in the pelvic region itself is so much prettier than it was with the 5.3 body.

I think you may be remembering a speculation that was posted as a map suggesting that the flipped and reversed pickle would fit in an area when people were speculating about future expansions. I may be remembering incorrectly, but I thought it was said in one of the meet the moles that the templates couldn't be flipped or rotated.

I thought you were referring to the houseboat "pickle" where the pickle bar is located. So here in Permaglow is where the "incident" occurred.

Pretty sure Three Mile Island is in the Trads where the green waterfall is located. I don't recall the pickle ever having a radiation incident. I think the only thing that bothers me about all these names is "official" being tied to any of them. None of them are official as far as I can tell. Lots of names have been suggested, and nearly as many have been forgotten. The ones that get used all the time end up being remembered. There are lots of names on that map that I've never heard before and am likely not to remember or hear again.

It's not a matter of being a "newb" or not. The LaraX responds to sliders in a much different manner than the previous body. So while the slimmer shapes are very possible, you just have to rethink how you use the sliders. So in that regard we are all "newbs" when it comes to making shapes for Maitreya X bodies. And as has been mentioned before, the newly released deformer will greatly aid you in getting the very thin shapes you may desire.

This ^ ... so much this!

While this is totally off topic, I'll go ahead and join in on the off topic posts, by saying that the fourth largest city in the USA, Houston, has no zoning. I've lived in Houston and I can tell you it's great in some areas and sucks in others. And the USA is not a monolith. Houston is not the only city without zoning, but it is the largest.

Love the result. You look gorgeous!

Love, I think you might have meant this for the other thread.

Have to say I was partially wrong when I first judged this thread. I really thought it was a train wreck in the making, but there have been some rather interesting, and non-negative, answers. Since I feel the need to stay on topic, though I'm not nearly as creative or insightful as some of you, so here is my rather ordinary two groups -> those who see the glass (SL) as half full and those who see it as half empty.

I typically attach to my left pec, because over time I noticed that it was my least used spot. Though that could not be the same for others. So my suggestion is to try on a few of your saved outfits and take stock of which attachment spots are your least used.

First thing I do when wearing the body is move it off of avatar center. Reason being that most worn pets need avatar center in order to function properly. Wearing your pet and your body on avatar center sometimes will lead to problems during teleport, creating the infamous ghosted body issue. During the time when I was more active as a moderator in the Maitreya Lara Friends' Group, I would often recommend to those having the ghosted body issue to move the body off of avatar center as well. So, BonnieBots is using a method that most certainly will miss some Lara users.

I am quite aware of the distances, but you miss my point. IMO it's an unnecessary ask when we have the means already at our disposal to span those, as you put it, short distances. Plus having to use the means of transportation I already mentioned ads to the immersion of traveling in Second Life.

I'm a cam shopper so anything that gets in the way of my cam is an annoyance. Anything that annoys me gets derendered. So here is a pet peeve of mine. I use FS area search extensively. I love the ability in area search to zoom my camera to the object of my desire; unfortunately, there are times when the zoom feature is grayed out so can't be used. I've never figured out why this happens with some items at an event and not others.

I love this necklace from Yummy for LaraX. Surprisingly it was released I think within a few days of the body's release. I love that the locket actually works and can hold two pics.

I have only seen one creator use the term "skinned" which was in the past couple of weeks and it seemed extremely odd to me. I've been buying rigged jewelry for years and never seen it called that before.

Looks the same as I've always seen it. Perhaps your windlight is different?

I know SL isn't the physical world, but I don't expect to be able to drive a car from North America to Europe. That's why we need boats, ships, and airplanes. So for me, Belli is just fine with its network of roads without running bridges to mainland.