Another generous prize from the Womenstuff Hunt to show you today. Don’t forget the hunt finishes at the end of the month, so you still have a few days to run and find some wonderful outfits. Don’t delay 🙂
At Tam’s Trousseau, you are looking for four copies of the hunt item. That’s because there is sooo much in this outfit I’m sure Tam had to break it up just to keep it all organized! Included in the outfit we have the top and skirt in standard sizes, and fitmesh sizes for Belleza Isis. Freya, and Venus, EVE Pulpy and Slim, Maitreya Lara, Slink Hourglass and Physique, TMP, and TONIC Curvy and Fine! Also included is the hat, the fun sunglasses, necklace, bracelet, earrings and the apple blossom tattoo with appliers. And if that’s not enough, there are matching sandals suitable for Slink Highs. Wow.
More wonderful fitmesh! Have I mentioned I like fitmesh? 🙂 Another prize from the Womenstuff Hunt going until the end of the month. Hurry and find some wonderful free (or nearly free) outfits!
This set of shorts and top comes with a HUD with 4 color combinations that will suit most people (even us redheads!) It’s in standard sizes and has fitmesh sizes for Maitreya and Slink.
Wow, just wow. This wonderful fitmesh dress is just fantastic for a hunt gift! It has fitmesh in standard sizes and specific sizes for Maitreya, Slink, and Belleza. This is another prize from the Womenstuff Hunt going on until the end of the month. Run out and find some wonderful outfits just like this one!
The dress makes brilliant use of materials and comes with a face and body light to get the glitter to really sparkle! To appreciate it, you need the Advanced Lighting Model on in your viewer. The designer has even included matching sandals for Slink High feet, and a matching clutch as well (not shown). As I said, wow!
Dress and sandals: NILSAH blue glittery mini Maitreya by Mariposa
People are so creative, and then they name their dresses “Dress R12” hehehe. This is another hunt prize from the Womenstuff Hunt. Don’t forget you have until the end of the month to get out there and find some wonderful new outfits!
The dress is in standard mesh sizes. Unfortunately it’s not workable with Lara without some umm major shape surgery 🙂 But it looks great on system!
While out on the Womenstuff hunt, I came across this wonderful mesh corset in both black and white versions as this month’s FREE group gift from GLITTER! It’s not fitmesh, just standard sizes, but you can’t complain, I mean, it’s a gift! I love the generosity of some designers, and I hope I pay them back at least in some small way with these blog posts 🙂
It’s a little tricky on Lara, but ohh it’s worth it. I know what I’ll be wearing to our next burlesque event!
Over the next few days (maybe weeks!) I’ll show you some of the hunt prizes from the Womenstuff Hunt for August. It runs until the end of the month, so run out and find some L$0 and L$1 hunt items!
Retro one pieces seem to be in at the moment, at least in SL. This is the second one I’ve come across in a few weeks. It comes in standard mesh sizes and also has fitmesh sizes for Belleza, Maitreya, and Slink.
The big thing with the new version of the SL Viewer and the new release of Firestorm is Avatar Complexity. Linden Labs have an article and video on it. I thought I’d find out just how complex some of the usual items I wear are.
A naked avatar (and I mean completely naked with no hair, no nothing, gawd I look weird bald!) has a render weight of 1000.
System layer clothing, and foot shapers seem to have no effect on render weight. I added multiple layers and the render weight didn’t change. Alphas, as you would expect, drop render weight (but they seem to have to be a big alpha to much affect the number. Wearing the Slink hands and feet alpha has no effect. A full body alpha drops you to zero, but I suppose hands and feet on a standard systems avi are so simplified… *grin*).
Now, to get to my “base” naked avatar that I use to build outfits that force me to use system layers (by which I mean, I can’t use Maitreya Lara), we have:
Mayfly Deep Sky mesh eyes x 2: 2350
Slink Casual hands 2.5 x 2: 4552
WoW Skins Lashes: 3046
Alli & Ali Serafine Hair Fire: 34231
Slink High Feet 3.1 x 2: 5136
Slink Flat Feet 3.1 x 2: 4752
So, if I am wearing Slink Highs, my render weight is 50315 or 49931 for Slink Flat feet.
*Gulp* now for Maitreya Lara:
Maitreya Lara Alpha: -400
Maitreya Lara 3.5 body: 7338
Adding all this up, Lara in addition to the above, we have 57253 in Slink Highs and 56869 in Slink Flats. Whew!
So, the really big contributor is my hair. Serafine is a short bob, so let’s see what a rigged mesh short bob (very similar to Serafine) weighs.
ICONIC COCO: 44351
!!!!
And let’s see what a long rigged mesh hair is:
Exile Stone Cold Seduction: 1277
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This last number makes it abundantly clear that it doesn’t matter how complex the object appears to be, but in reality the software is directly measuring how well designers are making their meshes (be it prim or imported mesh via DAE).
I predict that we will see serious designers start to list the render weight on their market place listings to try and differentiate themselves from others with similar products. We sure live in interesting (Second Life) times!
