This skirt and top outfit is a FREE gift for members of FabFree, which is FREE to join of course 🙂
I like floral patterns on black. In this case, it gives me a chance to incorporate some pink into an outfit without it clashing with my hair too much lol.
The top and skirt are separates, and both are sized to fit Lara, Isis, Freya, Venus, Hourglass, Physique, TMP, and the five standard mesh sizes. Alphas are included too.
Here’s a past group gift from smesh. smesh is FREE to join, and there are a number of group gifts available.
There are fits for Lara, Freya, Isis, Tonic Fine, Tonic Curvy, Physique, Hourglass, and Altamura. I’m wearing BoM panties with this – the suit does nothing for your modesty!
This is a FREE group gift from MeHoney, and their group is FREE to join.
This bodysuit is super well fitting (although I noticed a few tiny clips in exaggerated poses, but I’m guessing it will be fine for normal wear). It’s sized for Lara, Lara Smash Boobs (I didn’t even know there was such a thing!), Legacy, Legacy Perky, Reborn, Reborn Juicy, Kupra, and Kupra Corset.
Included is a twelve color HUD, so this will suit everyone!
If you have no interest in the technical side of Second Life, feel free to skip this article.
I run Squid to cache textures, mesh, and other assets that the Second Life servers asks the viewer to fetch to render regions and avatars. You can read all about using Squid with Second Life via Firestorm’s website. It’s quite a lot of technical work to set up, and I wouldn’t recommend the casual SL user attempt it. However, if you have the spare computer resources and know what you’re doing, it can speed up rendering of frequently visited regions tremendously, and save on bandwidth too.
As I’m a software geek, I have an engineering mindset, and let me tell you, we engineers love to measure things. So once Squid is set up, you can use something like Calamaris to measure the performance of the external cache. Here’s a screen shot of my performance statistics for just over a week.
I’ve highlighted the interesting numbers in yellow. I did 567764 requests (asking SL to send me a texture or a mesh, etc) and of those, I found 373864 assets already in my cache, giving me a “Request hit rate” of 373864 * 100 / 567764 ~= 65%, which is pretty good!
Even better are my bandwidth savings. Without Squid doing its thing, I would have loaded nearly 14.5 gigabytes of assets. As it was, I loaded less than 2 gigabytes, saving me over 12.5 gigabytes of download. I saved 87% of my bandwidth requirements! And Squid estimated my “browsing” performance improvements were a 671% speedup. That’s pretty cool!
I said “even better” at the start of the last paragraph, but saving bandwidth is exactly what I’m tuning for.
There are a lot of knobs and switches in the Squid configuration file. Depending on which cache replacement policy you choose, you’ll get either more cache hits or more bandwidth savings. I’d rather have large assets like mesh instantly load and then perhaps take a little longer to texture. You can achieve this by tweaking the cache settings after seeing what the cache performance does on average. That’s why I said at the start that you have to know what you’re doing 🙂
This is a group gift for members of the teleporthub.com group. The group is a tiny L$10 to join.
The top and dress are all one piece. Included are sizes for Lara, Lara Petite, Legacy, Legacy Perky, Kupra, and Reborn. There are a few places where you’ll need to employ your body’s alpha to prevent clips, but all in all this is a very nice combination, and the neutral colors suit me. I’m sure this will get a few wears!
This is a FREE gift for members of the teleporthub.com group. teleporthub.com is L$10 to join, and gives you access to gifts from creators all over the grid.
Sometimes, simple is just perfect. The simple subtle stripe on the fabric combined with the ombré looks great! There are sizes for Lara, Lara Petite, Legacy, Legacy Perky, Hourglass, and Kupra. There is even an alpha included.
