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Friday, November 30, 2012

FREE GIFT 4 MY BIRTHDAY/REZZDAY! *FIG* Ruffled Short Party Dress - Amethyst Amore Set

FREE GIFT 4 MY BIRTHDAY/REZZDAY! *FIG* Ruffled Short Party Dress - Amethyst Amore Set

Category: Clothing
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bonita/134/38/74
SL Marketplace: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/FREE-GIFT-4-MY-BIRTHDAYREZZDAY-FIG-Ruffled-Short-Party-Dress-Amethyst-Amore-Set-wHUD/4247165
Type: Mesh
Permissions: No Trans, No Mod, No Copy

Ruffled Short Party Dress - Amethyst Amore - Amy's Birthday Gift to the Grid!
Though a bit late, this is in celebration of my RL to SL Birthday/Rezday, November 28th to December 3rd. I will be extending the sale of this special set to December the 6th.
5 sizes, XS,S,M,L,XL
5 textured controlled by HUD
Dress is No Mod.



Textures:
Violet Vixen
Plum Pefection
Amethyst Amore
Purple Passion
Indigo Dreams

Included is a Body Suit matching in Style to the dresses that can be worn underneath and is available in all possible layers with mod rights. Also included as well as the usual Alpha Sets with mod rights.



Dresses attach to Spine as default, if you are already wearing something on that spot and do not have a viewer that auto adds attachment to this spot, right click the dress in inventory and choose where to attach it.

Wear the HUD, it attaches to the upper left of your screen. Touch the texture on the HUD you would like applied to the dress. It may take a moment to load.

I am currently still working on all the textures I want to put in a super set that will be like the summer dress in that there will be many to choose from including these and will be mod/copy.

If you would like another pattern or color combo on this dress, drop me a note, it will be 10L in advanced for the upload cost of a Texture.

Peace and Carrots,
Amethyst Gears

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Chinchilla Avatar Progress 02

I've since added the ears since my last post and I have gotten a satisfactory flexy tail in Second Life. I am currently finishing up the UV mapping  for the body and then the ears, eyes, jaw, tongue, teeth and nails will be done which should be much easier than figuring out where the seams should go on the body and hand/fingers.there are slight changes in the hips, body, and head since the last update preview. I have smoothed out the hips and body a bit and modified the area around the chin so that it doesn't look so frowny as well as pulling the cheeks out more.

I have done some quick tests uploading the full mesh before UV mapping in the beta grid and have found the level of detail made by SL to be satisfied that I am not going to be making my own custom LODs and also the typical Land Impact is around 32-36 prims. I will retest once I have the additional poses and am anticipating the LI to be around the 50s. With the Avatar split into 3 parts for body this should be around 15-30 LI per section.

I have decided that the body for the final will be separated out after rigging.
Head
Torso with arms
Hip with legs

This will allow me to assign 9 material zones per part so that changes to the mesh can be switched visually easily. 
Head - 4 eye poses per side plus face base = 9 mt
Torso - 3 hand poses per side plus 3 chest options = 9 mt
Hips - 3 toe poses per side plus 3 hip choices = 9 mt

The static version of the tail is still in limbo as I'm still in the planning stages though I should be able to pull off 9 poses for it.

I'm debating whether to have the genders separate but may update it later after initial release considering how popular it is and customer requests. For my first effort for a rigged avatar I am trying to keep it not too complicated yet have enough options to compete with traditional avatars so far as features and providing some customization.

I am also going to provide the UV maps in-world and out for free. My PSD bases though will be sold as a kit with a typical full perm EULA.

I am really looking forward to getting this ready for texturing as that is the part I most enjoy about 3D content. As I have several ongoing projects I switch between them when I'm getting burnt out on one, this allows me to regroup and figure out issues in the background while I focus on something else. This is why you may often times see me post about progress about various projects.

Peace and Carrots,
Amethyst Gears