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New Year a New You or It’s MakeOver Monday!
Hey there Fab Free. Did y’all know that back in November of last year 55,000 people were actively playing Second Life at one time? 55,000! Each time I log on, I see anywhere from 40 to 50,000 people on the Grid. That’s a LOT of people. I couldn’t find any hard numbers as to how many of that might be new accounts but at least some are to be certain. And I wondered… how hard is it to get started now days. Back in 2009 it wasn’t really hard to get started but it wasn’t terribly intuitive either. Happily, I had a couple of good friends who also played and they helped me out tremendously. In fact, they brought me to “this great place with a ton of freebies called FabFree”!
Then right on the heels of all this musing of time past, another dear friend started modifying a new Alt avatar for himself and asked for a bit of input since he was designing a female avatar. Plus he, hadn’t really ever gotten into the mesh bodies or head before. As we worked he suggested a cool idea: what if Fab Free had a couple of posts about starting totally new in Second Life from the ground up. Sort of a No0b to Knock out in a few easy steps and for FREE.
So where are you going with all this, Juli? You may ask yourself. I’m glad you asked! I will be writing a series of posts taking us right from the beginning of starting an avatar and how you can start to fill your inventory and take the avatar from free beginning Linden Labs starter kit to a personalized maxed out Second Life Star.
So hang on… here we go!
FabFree meet Kerydwyn. I went ahead and started with a female avatar first simply because I am so much more familiar with female goods on the Grid. But I am also going to gender bend a bit here. So also meet Alistar. Just… wow. Second Life… why do you hurt me when I love you so much?
You can see there is a huge difference between the starter male and female. At least the female avi isn’t… embarrassing. It’s clear that way more effort has been put into the female side of things. Even the AO included with the starter girl was better. And yes, I hear you guys out there saying, “As usual.” Frustratingly, that trend has played out the entire time I was running around trying to find freebie starter items for poor Alistar.
So lets start with Kerydwyn. And bodies first. I knew I wanted a mesh body because of the bento rigging. Bento rigging basically adds more joints to the basic skeleton of the avatar so it can move more realistically. If you want to go dancing in SL… you want a bento rig. Some bodies are older and don’t have it so be careful to read the description of what you’re getting and try a demo if possible. But at 0L you can collect a bunch, try them out and pick your favorite.
I went with the Ruth body. It’s extremely basic in as far as mesh bodies go. The feet aren’t changeable so the body comes with three styles of detachable feet. But it’s a good starter mesh body. I also picked up the eBody curvy completely free on the Marketplace. It’s not Omega ready and it doesn’t have Bento rigged hands. But again, for free it’s not bad at all. The eBody full version is Omega ready and has all the bells and whistles… like finger nails… Since the body is not Omega ready, I couldn’t wear my skins that came with the starter avatar. But I found a skin color included that sorta matches. And though I searched… I couldn’t find an Omega System kit for the eBody. Even though it’s listed on the Omega website.
On a personal note, I found the eBody Curvy to still be too bubble butt for my taste. Even though I used the slider controls to make it as small as possible. I also didn’t like the way the vaginal area was sculpted. But that would change with the skin worn or other appliers added. So you’re mileage may vary.
Ruth Body on the left – eBody on the right – both with the “Leah” head from Kalhene.
I had already picked up the free Lelutka heads before Christmas, but I thought that might be kind of cheating. So I grabbed the lovely free head from Kalhene – “Leah”. I was also able to pick up a few free group[p gifts for later. And I will point you over to the list of Mesh bodies and heads right here on FabFree.
I really like this head even though it’s rather basic. It does come with a small HUD for eyelash length, 24 colors for the lips, a glossiness meter, a blink switch and a switch to hide the eyelashes. It also has a switch to “hide” the lips but all it did was take off any color I had put on.
The other “bad” thing… I couldn’t just use the Leah shape for the head. It’s a full body shape. And no amount of sliders could make that booty look smaller. So I ended up wearing the full body shape that came with the eBody. But the original face shape that comes with Leah is so much prettier. I may mess around with it more and see if I can slider it back.
Okay… so that’s it for today. Next Monday we’ll take a look at this same process for poor suffering Alistar. And we’ll talk about AOs plus hair!
I hope someone out there reads this and says “Just what I needed!” If you have any questions, comments, corrections or raspberries, feel free to holler at me here on the blog!
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Fabulous Finds 01.02.22 Edition
Lovely Leah
Heyya Fab Fam! I am so excited to be in the weekend… I changed shape! LOL No… not really. I’m just reporting on a new FREE Mesh head for us. I know some of y’all are happy Mesh Head collectors and I’m happy to getcha your fix! 😉
This is the Leah Head and shape from Kalhene. You can get it for free when you join the free Kalhene group. I’m wearing just the supplies from the free head gift. The gift comes with two shapes, one slightly more curvy than the other. The shapes are meant for the Erika Mesh Body (Also from Kalhene) but I am wearing it on my Maitreya Lara. So there are some neck issues that I assume would not be issues on the correct body.
In addition to the shapes, Leah comes with four complete body and head BOM skins. I’m wearing the ‘Sunkissed’ skin. The details are very nice and smooth. The body details are nice and well designed. I tried on each skin included and liked all of them. In my opinion, they are all rather light, even the ‘Toffee’ one. Four eye colors for the system eyes are also in the gift. I am showing the ‘Light Blue’.
Leah comes with a small HUD for five eyelashes and twenty our lip colors. It also has a ‘glossiness’ meter and a ‘random’ animations button. The gift also has BOM makeup for eyeliner, eyeshadow and lip color. I am wearing all three as well as the HUD eyelashes. In all, I think this is a very pretty shaped head. She’s very feminine even in profile. I will certainly being adding ‘Leah’ to my collection.
Shape + Eyes + Skin + Brow Shape + Makeup – Kalhene – Leah Mesh Head and Shape – FREE/0L – Free gift for the group – Kalhene Group is free to join
P.S. A big shout out and “thank you” to Fab Reader Dutch Galaxy for alerting me to this awesome gift!!
My Stuff ->
- Mesh Body – Maitreya – Maitreya Lara
- Hair – Fabia – Lilak
- Bodysuit – Little Diamond – LaLoba Bodysuit
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