Oscar's shopping diary

  

Hello everyone. Oscar here again.



I stopped by Stiletto Moody to buy a pair of high-heeled shoe.
As far as I know, this store serves a lot of Second Life models.
While back, shoes with realistic toes were very rare and what they offered was the best in the market.
Stiletto Moody is a top brand of the shoes industry and the pricing is also very much up there.

Their product is sculpted prim.
I know mesh has become the center of the Second Life fashion.
If I speak of the toes and shoes, Slink has introduced their natural feet and add-on footwear which has established impeccable reputation for the realist appearance of the toe and how mesh feet seamlessly connects to the ankle.

This is a picture from a posting of the passed when I wrote something about good looking underwear.
If you are interested in this posting, please refer to the below link.
http://oscar.slmame.com/e1264461.html

Let's take a look at the high-heeled shoes I bought from Stiletto Moody.

As you can see, toes look stunningly realistic and design of the shoes are superb.
I struggled to match the color of the feet to my ankle. I eventually pulled out my Photo Shop.
Took snapshot of the feet and ankle, load it up to Photo Shop, grabbed the color of ankle and obtained RGB value. I entered the same value to the HUD, but it still looks just a little off.
This could be due to my sky setting, so I will not pursue the road of color matching anymore.


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Above was pro and next will be the con.
The trend of Second Life fashion has entered the era of mesh.
Top brand like Stiletto Moody should at least consider keeping up with the trend.
Brand name value and quality of the products are high. Why not go mesh?

Another thing I want to point out is the usage of invisible prim.
It is not like I have checked all of their products but it seems like they are still using invisible prim.
with the latest viewer, invisible prim can show some glitches.
As many of you may know, these type of shoes are covered with invisible prim.
What ever that is protruding from the sculpted feet/shoes will be invisible.
This was working perfectly fine before, but now it doesn't work so well.
I believe There is a setting of how to render invisible prim under certain kind of environment settings.
I tried to mitigate the problem by changing settings but failed.
Eventually I had to wear alpha layer of some other shoes.

Summery
Stiletto moody shoes looks great but they should keep up with the trend.
It would be better if they go mesh and use alpha layer instead of invisible prim.
  

Hello everyone. Oscar here again.

I found this thing called Liquid mesh at REDGRAVE.

I bought the demo and brought it back home.

Up until now or recently, the best we could have done to wear mesh clothes was to select the size that is close to your avatar and adjust the shape to the clothing.

This liquid mesh will change that forever.

I read the note card REDGRAVE is giving out to explain what liquid mesh is.
Long story short, Liquid mesh is not perfect because there is a limitation due to what Second Life can do.
BUT! Liquid mesh provide what we wanted. Being oneself and being unique.
Check out some pictures I took.

This is something we can not do with ordinary mesh product.
This mesh jeans adjusts the size to my body, not the other way around.
It's amazing!!!


Making but size 100 is a bit too extreme, but it doesn't look that bad after all.

I like this new technology, and this jeans looks nice.
I will go back to REDGRAVE and buy one of these jeans.



  

Hello everyone. Oscar here again.



If you thought this is a posting of coffee or something
I'm sorry. the blend I'm going to write about is blending the color.

nnnn.... The word blend is kind of tricky here. I'm not going to mix anything.



Well anyway!


In my last posting, I wrote about adjusting the blend layer for mesh hand.
This mesh hand comes with blender on tattoo layer, mesh wrist, and mesh hand.
The color of blender has to be adjusted so that the connection of arm, wrist, and hand
blends in.

I love shopping, but adjusting color is always a pain in the XXX lol

Spent some time trying to get the color as close as to my skin.
I figured it is impossible to get it done perfectly.
The skin I'm wearing is so meticulously drawn that the color of forearm and inner side of the arm is different. People usually get tanned on the outer side of arm so skin tone is darker and the skin I'm wearing replicates that. The blender layer is one color no shadow whatsoever so If I adjust the blender to my forearm color, my inner arm will not look right.

I tried my best to make it look good enough and here is the result.


I wish I can tell you how I did this, but all I did was spent some time clicking here and there.
  

Hello everyone. Oscar here again.

I know it is not a season for this kind of outfit yet.
As a matter of fact, it is said to snow today in Tokyo.
But I just wanted to wear some summer outfit today!
Good thing about Second Life is that season does not affect what I should wear.
I understand that people tends to buy seasonal clothing even in Second Life
but that does not always apply to me lol






I have to admit that I did not to well on color adjustment of my arm blender.
There is abvious color differences between arm and from wrist to hand.
This is going to be my home work until my next posting.

::1bp:: Glomesh Halter Skye
erratic / jessy - studded shorts / blue1
Slink Womens Natural Barefeet (Mesh RIgged)
Slink Ilena Sandals Blue
Slink Mesh Hand Casual  

Hello everyone. Oscar here again.

I bought Spanish Jumpsuit few days ago.
http://oscar.slmame.com/e1314985.html

Last time I posted some picutres, I wore black. Today I'm wearing light blue.






For detail of what I'm wearing, please refer to the link I posted above.