There are some sim builders who just get it right. I’m always impressed by realism in SL, and Baileys Norge has it in spades.
I only had a short time to take these photos, so I cammed rather than walked to the locations. I will certainly be going back for a closer look in the coming days.
The attention to detail is really noticeable, including touches like mist over the water. On our land I wanted a light beam through the trees (aka a “God ray”). But I didn’t want it static, I wanted it to track the sun (I eventually wrote the script for this after a lot of experimentation, as I was just learning the capabilities of LSL at the time). Features like the mist on the water make me think things like “How can I script it so the mist appears to burn off when the sun rises?” 😉
Today I was setting up for an event later in the week where the theme is light and dark fairy. I chose dark as I have a better selection of goth things than happy fairy things, and while you’ve probably seen most of these items before in various posts, this is a new combination.
If I remember correctly, I purchased this wonderful skin from Lumae for a similar event over a year ago. The skin comes with these fabulous ears in three sizes that match the skin perfectly.
The dress is Lara fitmesh, and there are Slink versions of it as well. I’ve posted full details in the blog before. Once I had the dress, I started searching for other bits and pieces to fill out the look. The lace bottom of the dress is nice, but I sort of wanted something even more tattered looking. Surprisingly, a tattoo achieved nearly exactly what I had in mind, and when viewed from a distance, the tattoo seems to blend into the dress.
There are a lot of appliers and HUDs going on behind the scenes here! I thought I’d show you a screenshot with most of them attached so you can see just how complex this outfit is 🙂 There are HUDs for body and head skins, wing control, my Lara and GA.EG control HUDs, the top, bottom, and feet tattoos, nails, lipstick, eye makeup, and Omega relays OMG 🙂 I haven’t bothered showing the HUD for the hairstyle. All in all, I think there are 15 HUDs involved! The list below is going to be long!
These jeans are available at Kustom9 (open until 10th April), and are available in dark blue, light blue (shown), washed blue, gray, and black. They are L$279 each color, and worth every dollar of it. The detailing in staggeringly good, with broken strings and tufts sticking out at all the edges.
The jeans are in fitmesh only for Lara, Freya, Isis, and Hourglass. If you have one of these bods, I highly recommend you scrape the money together and grab them. They are sure to be one of your go-to jeans forever!
Jeans: Destroyed Mom Jeans – Light Blue by villena
This pretty little dress is one of three from Azul in March. The other two gifts are the same dress in different colors. Perhaps Azul needs a scripter to write them a texture change HUD? 🙂
Azul is FREE to join, and there are a number of past group gifts available at the store.
This dress comes in standard mesh sizes, plus fitmesh for Lara, Venus, Isis, Freya, eBody, Fine, Curvy, TMP, Hourglass, Physique, and Ocacin.
Shortly, I’ll be hosting a Best in Tattoos event at Eden. As I’m running the show, I can’t join the contest, but I certainly can look in theme. So I went looking for a nice full body tattoo to wear to the event, and this is what I found!
This is a fairly old tattoo and is only L$50 (L$45 if you join the FREE group and buy it in store). While it’s old, it certainly doesn’t lack in features, with four levels of “fadedness” – super dark, dark, medium, and light. I’m wearing the medium in these photos.
The pack includes a set of system tattoo layers upper and lower body, and crucially, a set of Omega appliers so you can wear it with your mesh bod!
The artwork is nicely done and all of the seam matching is really good too, with only one minor issue on the inner arms that’s hardly noticeable. You may notice that silly me forgot to switch on the tattoo layer on my hands before taking these shots, but be assured that the tattoos do extend onto mesh hands and feet that support Omega.
Tattoo: Purple Pink Flowers Full Body Tattoo by Natti
Aeon and I get a lot of pleasure out of redecorating our land every major change of seasons. As it’s now Spring in SL, we were looking around for something to fit for Spring and Summer this year, and we came across this green house, which we both really loved.
We put it out and started filling it with plants and some furniture and nicknacks, when I realized that somehow we were running out of prims.
We have two adjoining parcels, and somehow I’d forgotten which parcel our main skybox was on 🙂 So I had to pick up the new green house and all its contents, and switch it with the woods that cover our other parcel, so we could even out the prim allocation! What a pain hehe.
Here’s a view from the deck outside so you can see the woods.
I’m not going to list every object in these pictures, but I will highlight a few. Firstly, the flag is a proposed design for a Flag of Planet Earth. Both of us think this is a very cool idea!
Next, let’s look at some close-ups. The hanging lamps in the foreground are by C-Outlet.
We both dragged out our collection of potted plants, and even with both of our collections, realized we probably didn’t have enough to convincingly fill the space. So we went and started looking and ended up with a really nice collection from Compulsion.
At the moment, we have a large fountain in the middle of the space, but while Aeon loves her water features, I’d rather there was something like a lounge and coffee table taking up that space, and then we could do away with the beanbags in the photo above. Perhaps we can get it sorted out soon! Either a smaller fountain and more plants, or some seating.
Don’t forget, click on the pictures for the full sized view, and as usual, all our land with the exception of our house is publicly accessible (we hate ban lines). You’re more than welcome to come and explore or hang out and relax. SLurl below 🙂
I found this simple, pretty dress on the Womenstuff hunt back in January. I’ve been waiting for the weather to warm up so I could show it off.
The dress comes in standard mesh sizes plus body specific fitmesh for Lara, Hourglass, Physique, and TMP. It also has a 10 color HUD with some plain and patterned textures, from pastels to bold pinks and reds! I’ve worn three different ones in my photos.
This is a great little dress to wear out shopping, walking around, or even dancing! Another fine addition to the wardrobe, and if you were lucky enough to find it during the hunt, totally FREE!
Our good friend Kat really likes her furries! Here she’s showing off a really cool vixen outfit. Furr-ocious 🙂
She’s taken a mix of bits and bobs from various outfits and combined them into this wonderful vixen which looked super cool the other day. She has a habit of changing outfits often, and when she hit this one I went “Whoa! I need to photograph that!” She was happy to oblige!
Let me see if I can hit the highlights of her look. First, this is all on the Utilizator 2.0 Avi. She’s taken the skin and shape from the Fruitsalad Orange Fox avi pack, plus the paws, feet. head, and tail from the Vixen Chinchilla Mod, and added a skirt and top from clothes from the S4 outfit. Told you she was keen 🙂
Finishing touches include the knee pads and ankle bangles. I think you will agree with me that this looks absolutely fantastic!
This amazing little mini was hiding in my unopened items from the Womenstuff hunt back in January!
It’s fully materials enabled and glitters beautifully when you move. The glitter layer is on the complete inside of the skirt and gets great exposure when you dance. Sizes for this include standard mesh and a one-size-fits all fitmesh, plus body specific fitmesh for Lara, Hourglass, Physique, Isis, Venus, and Freya.
The pack also includes a face and body light to help the glitter really sparkle.
The dress cut drastically low at the back so your underwear choice is rather limited hehe.
Dress: RIKKI azure Iridescent Glitter Mini by MARIPOSA
I’m not sure where I got this skirted swimsuit but it’s really nice! I have a sneaking suspicion someone gave it to me 🙂
It’s only in fitmesh for Lara and the fit is super good, you can easily wear it with no alphas at all. And the reason for my suspicion about where I got it is it’s only available in a gacha in the store, and I very very rarely play gachas. There are a number of different colors and a couple of rares with additional cute bows.
I love the heart cutout 🙂
I really like one piece swimsuits and this is a wonderful addition to my collection!
