Zexen's SL Blog

Old backdrop, new avatar.

inspired by Zexen and thankyou so much <33!!

I’ve been looking into the Maitreya body, because everyone says the Kemono looks young (that annoys me) and also it’s butt is too big/not something you can change.

But I am a little put off by Maitreya. First, the heavy price tag, it’s almost 3k for the body alone, then 600 for the flat chest, and apparently you have to buy nipples seperately too? Wtf.

But more importantly, the UVs. Maitreya use default Second Life skin UVs which are HORRIBLE to work with, personally, because of TEXTURE SEAMS! If you are unaware, the default SL skin textures cut at the waist, and up the sides.

The Kemono doesn’t have this problem, the UVs are a lot simpler and don’t cut at the waist, and the texture is half of the body so it’s symmetrical by default.

So how do you fix texture seams? It feels like they are unavoidable. I have to work hard to avoid them even on simple UVs like the Kemono, on textures with more breaks it just ends up looking very bad.

If you really value working with textures, AV2 is okay. The fitmesh rigging is weird and also not a lot of people have updated their clothing for it, but the pre-fitmesh version was a decent base for me before I switched over to Kuroo. Try demos, use your shape sliders, and get crafty to cover gaps/holes. If you are an avid modder who wants to do fun stuff like making transparent ghosts or glowing emissive skins or retexturing clothing or stuff like that, I would definitely just stick with 2.0 until something better comes along. Which is sure to happen - people are always working on new bodies. The 2.0 is cheap enough  to use temporarily until that happens.

please don’t use the tail bones on your dongs, that is not what the tail bones are for. the hind leg bones work fine and don’t interfere with other common items. in general, unless what you are replacing is a tail, it’s probably a bad idea to touch those bones.

I’m currently drinking at the campgrounds near Rocky neck in ct

Just wanted to wish everyone a happy memorial day, stay safe and be good!!!!!