Luca’s Mesh Foundry

Kitty romps

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Hello, kitties!  Today, I’m showing you a very basic romper for the cheetah.  And the big news, a new hairstyle too!

The romper is one piece and is for Busty Fitted Torso only.  It’s mod and copy, and comes with the AO and UV maps, and it has a specular map installed (although this is not included in the full perm textures).

I’ve been looking for a new hairstyle for the cheetah for a while.  My requirements are a little demanding 🙂  It has to have a good auburn/strawberry blonde color to match my look, it has to fit the Kemono head, and bonus, it has to fit my human avatar as well.  I really liked some neko hairsyles from Ayashi, but they were just too big front to back, and not having a resizable version was a deal breaker.

I ended up going to look at Exile, who created the “Kissing Strangers” style I usually wear with the cheetah, and found this!  Even though it has ear cutouts for human style ears, it works really well, and it certainly changes my look, which is what I was after!

And of course, the color set is from the same creator as my old hairstyle, and yes, bonus, it fits my human avi too 🙂

 

Prey

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This cute mouse is available at the Kustom 9 event, and is a purrfect fit for any neko or feline 🙂

The mouse comes in a number of colors, and it has a HUD to let you control the two animations (yes, it’s animesh) and three poses.  For L$99 per color, I just couldn’t resist!

Also, since my last photos of the cheetah, I have a new bento tail!  This one is from Catseye, and it’s really quite well done.  The pack includes three tail… widths, I suppose you’d call them – thin, medium (shown), and thick.  Each width has two versions, one in the normal position, and one at a lower position.  These are rigged mesh, so you can’t move them, so checking with the demo version is a must!

There are a number of sitting, walking, and running animations included in both the tail and an AO.  The HUD to control the AO also lets you set the tail length to extra long, long, medium, or short.

The HUD, while it does the job, could be better.  In particular it would be nice if it gave you access to all of the animations while sitting.  However, if you’re a scripter, is should be straightforward to do a custom HUD to overcome this small issue, as it’s using the ZHAO script package and the scripts are full perm.

Lastly, there is a texture HUD included that allows you to texture and tint the tail.  The tail is broken up into four parts, making it easy to get something like a cheetah tail right out of the box.  But if the texture HUD won’t get you to your desired fur markings, the kit also includes the UV map so you can make your own texture.  And there’s an applier included that you can load your custom texture with (it’s even full perm so you can sell you texture customization easily).

All this for L$299.  Another superb product from Catty over at Catseye!

  • Mouth attachment: Cute Mouse / Black by MishMish (marketplace store, mouse only available at Kustom 9)
  • Tail: Bento Tail Feline by Catseye
  • Whiskers: Catseye Whiskers – Female by Catseye
  • Dress: Sleek Sexy Dress (Busty) by Luca’s Mesh Foundry (marketplace link)
  • Body: Kemono by Utilizator and Fitted Kemono Torso by Starbright
  • Cheetah mod: “Cheetah Neko” ~ Natural by Catseye
  • Hair: Kissing Strangers by Exile
  • Nails: kemono nails by Glutz

Sleek

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I’ve been added a few dresses to my cheetah’s wardrobe, after all, I can’t run around as a fierce warrior all the time!

This little dress is only L$50 on marketplace, and comes with UV and AO maps so you can do mods for it.  It only fits Fitted Busty Torso, so please be careful and know what you’re buying!

The rigging is pretty nice, and there’s even just enough room under it to wear a pair of Wretch Kemono Panties with no clipping!  Yay!

 

Cat’s in flowers

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In an upcoming event at Eden, we have a Best in Florals competition.  While I was browsing for an outfit for this Saturday’s event, I came across this dress for kemono.  I’ve bought an outfit from this creator before, and while it was nice, I was a little underwhelmed with it, so much so, I didn’t photograph it.  So I approached this one with caution (as the creator offers no demos).

However, this worked out really nicely!  For your L$50, you get four versions of the dress, all sized for kemono with the fitted torso.  The difference is the use or lack of materials.  I’m wearing the one with full materials enabled (which is very subtle in a photograph), and it looks excellent.  My only niggle with this dress is it’s a tiny bit loose below the arms, but it’s hardly a drastic problem at L$50.

Overall, I’m quite happy with this dress, and will certainly wear it to the event!

 

 

Gothic kemono

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Even after four and a half years in SL, sometimes an event comes up that requires clothing you either just don’t have, or what you have, you’re not happy with.  Yesterday at Eden, we had a best in gothic look contest, and while I had something picked out from my outfits list to wear to the event, it didn’t have a skin applier for my mesh head (which I’ve grown rather attached to 🙂 ) so I couldn’t update the outfit to include my head.  So, right at the last minute, I though “I wonder if I can do a goth kemono?”

I found this wonderful little lace trimmed dress on marketplace for only L$149, so I grabbed it, and then sort of struggled with skin and head appliers for the kemono too, until I remembered the MicroMeow 🙂

This dress is only for the Busty fitted torso from Starbright, but as usual with kemono clothing, comes with both UV and AO maps and it’s modify, so you can make your own textures for it.

I paired it with the standard kemono gloves and boots, and for the event I wore the hair that comes with the MicroMeow.  But I found this hair that suits the gothic look even better for the photo shoot!

And as a bonus, the dress comes material enabled too!

Kute Kitteh

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Here’s another free look for the kemono (at least the kemono specific clothes are free 🙂 )

It’s really interesting that the kemono can fit into a lot of my mesh hairstyles with hardly any modification at all.  It turns out that as my human shape was only just a few inches taller that the default kemono shape that came with the busty torso, I hardly had to tweak anything.

Now the free stuff 🙂

The top and jeans are both available on the marketplace for L$0.  The top comes only in one size to fit the busty torso, but has both a materials and non-materials (shown) version.

The jeans are super for a freebie!  They come with a multitude of sizes including both animal and human legs, and a few other mods I’ve not even heard of yet (hey, this is my third kemono post hehe).  The pack also contains a top for multiple torso versions, but it’s sort of bright orange, which doesn’t go really well with my hair, so you get the other top 🙂

The ears are Bento enabled and flick around with a super cute animation, although it does stick, so I wrote a reset script to drop into them to keep the animation going.  Contact me if you want a copy.  They are really fox ears, but work really well for a feline character.  They were also free at an in-world location.

And the eye mods are just fantastic.  I’ve been looking for some eyes to replace the standard ones that come with the avi, and these were available on the marketplace, again for L$0.  w00t!

The rest of this outfit I had (the hair, the tail, and the whiskers).  Of these, only the whiskers were free.