Month: May 2024

BeSpoke Faun

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This is a slightly scary one.  The mythology around fauns is filled with stories of them playing tricks on humans, and being indifferent to the results, as long as they get a chuckle or get what they want.  If you’ve ever seen the movie “Pan’s Labyrinth”, you’ll know what I mean.

At The Warehouse Sale, there’s a FREE gift for members of the FabFree group from BeSpoke, who describe themselves as “a collective of artists, deviants, and makers”.  If you’ve not seen their work before, it tends to lean very much to the darker side, as do most of the items available at this event.   This free Bento faun head is no different.

There are dozens of items in the pack, including two female and two male heads to support both SLUV and EvoX mapping, female and male skins and starter shapes, eyes, addons such as the black nose and deer dots makeup I’m wearing here, and the horns.

The HUD is extensive, and it has all the usual options you’d expect with a modern head, including HD texturing for lips, eyes, eye shadow, and brows, various teeth types (I’m not showing you those, some of those really are scary), a load of static and non-static face animations, normal mapping for some facial features, and more.

I took the head parameters from the starter shape and modified a copy of my usual body shape accordingly.  The settings I used were all the default ones in the head’s starter shape with the exception of the mouth width and lip fullness, both of which I dialed down to make the mouth smaller, which to my eye suits the pointed chin far better.

The only tiny issue is the head has a slight halo that shows up against transparent backgrounds (you can see it in the second photo), but for FREE, this is a wonderful gift if you’d like to dip your toes into fantasy RP, or play the darker side of furry.

Oh, and if you’d like to look slightly more human, there are human style eyes in the kit instead of the goat eyes 🙂

Tita

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This is a FREE gift for members of the teleporthub.com group.  This group costs L$10 to join, and gives you access to a large number of FREE gifts from creators all over the grid.

This is actually quite an old gift that I must have missed when it came out back in February of last year.  Never mind, I’ve found it now!

Sizes include Lara, Lara Petite, Legacy, Legacy Perky, Reborn, Kupra, and Kupra Kups.  It’s also probably tight enough to be worn with jeans.

Included is a HUD to texture the bottom and top of the suit separately.  There are two types of fishnet for the bottom, or you can choose opaque.  All three choices are in both black and white.  For the top section, you can choose from eight plains and patterns.

The suit also comes with another HUD to choose from a selection of phrases to be displayed on the turtleneck collar, if that’s your thing.

Zee

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At the Très Chic event, one of the FREE gifts you can pick up are these rather amazing thigh high boots.  The sparkles are animated and you can switch them and the materials on and off via the provided HUD.  They come sized for Lara X, Reborn, and Legacy.

I kept them, because, you know, they’re shiny!  But I didn’t think I’d even wear them with anything, having seen the matching dresses at another event last week and deciding such, shall we say, “sequined extravagance”? was not worth the asking price for what would probably be a one-off wear.

But!  Announced in the creator’s group today, the matching silver dress is on sale on her marketplace store for L$90 but only until Satuday (SLT).  This is a significant discount from the price that was asked at the event last week.  So I bought it 🙂

There are sizes for Lara X, Legacy, Reborn, and Waifu.

Milli

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Très Chic is celebrating their 5th Anniversary, with the event opening yesterday, and running until June 10th.

I managed to get in today after only a few attempts.  Tip: switch on World->Show Friends Only and cam shop to save yourself from lots of lag.  There were approximately 50 avatars present when I visited.

There are lots of FREE gifts which you can pick up just by joining the FREE event group.

This dress and cardigan (the creator calls it a jacket, but I’ve never seen a knit jacket!) are separate pieces, and the dress is quite nice on its own or with the cardigan.  Both pieces in this gift come in the one color, and there are fits for Lara, Reborn, Legacy, and Legacy Perky.

Pop

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Here’s a FREE outfit for members of SLF&O from a store new to me: ZEX.

The sweater and skirt are separates, with skirt and sweater sizes for Lara, Lara X, Legacy, and Reborn, and additional sweater sizes for Legacy Perky, and Reborn Waifu.

The store group is also FREE to join and there is at least one group gift available.

  • Outfit: Pop Fluffy Sweater & Skirt by ZEX
  • Body & hands: Lara X by Maitreya
  • Face: Jennifer by GA.EG
  • Hair: Ruda2 by Monso

Barbiei

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This is a nice FREE group gift from Boldbae.  Their group is FREE to join, and there are a few previous group gifts available.

The dress is sized to fit Lara, Legacy, Legacy Perky, Reborn, Kupra, and Kupra Cups.  It comes with a ten color HUD.

Oranges

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I’ve mentioned in passing before that I have a greenhouse on one of my parcels at ground level.  I’m not much of a green thumb in RL as I live in an apartment, but I sure can be one in SL 🙂

Owning a greenhouse means that I’m always on the lookout for new plants to display there, and today I noticed a FREE group gift from CJ Creations.

This is one of two colors of a very pretty vase of lily of the valley.  You can pick these up from their store for FREE with a FREE group join.

While these are beautiful to photograph, the vase and flowers are very small, and weigh in at five land impact.  They have a resizer, but I know the land impact will go up if I resize them, and as object limits are tight at my place, I’ve shelved them for the moment.  They may eventually find a place in my house at their original small size.

But the real story here is orange trees!  While walking out of CJ Creations store, I noticed these orange trees in planters.  Before the greenhouse, I had an orangery, which I made in Blender as one of my first 3d modeling projects.  Having an orangery calls for orange trees, and back then I found some and made planters for them, and things looked nice.  But!  How I wish these had been available back then!

The  trees come in three different color pots, and you even get a lazy (static) Siamese cat as a bonus (not shown).  The orange trees are four land impact and the pack of three (and the cat) are L$249 at the store.

P.S. My greenhouse is open to the public.  You’re more than welcome to come and visit.