Moving ears? Can do. The normal way of making them twitch by rotating them seems easy enough. Hmm... animated ears that really morph instead of just rotate would be sweet... Let's see

Well not sure if that is wise from me to propose a feature for your great avatars but what I haven't seen so far in any avatar would be retractable claws...
I mean .... Lions are cats too so they can retract them o..o

That + the usual stuff like muzzle talk (on type and voice) ;)

A muzzletalk-like system will be in, of course. As for the retractable claws: interesting idea, I've seen it on Sylver Bu's tigers. I'll think about it!

One thing I've been missing in my wolf - the only thing I've really been missing, actually - is movable ears. :)

i second kailrim's idea of retractable claws. come summer when i can get to working on my own stuff i was hoping to explore the idea myself. I'm sure you can do a much better job than I with it though.

And being a lion myself i've always tried to find a good lion av, and so far despite all the good ones out there i have yet to find one that has a good looking mane. and until flexible sculpted prims come around i dont know if it'll be possible to make a really good mane. But yeah, not really a "feature addition" but something to think about. If anyone is going to get it right its gonna be you ^^

I think it might have also been SL or even a setting i missed in graphics, but i did notice that the really crisp fur texture's i saw in your previews for the wolves didnt look as good in SL. again i'm more liable to blame SL for that than you. but yeah. If you know any tricks to retain the crisp texturing, go for it. ^^


can't wait to see the preview. i wish you the best on the project :D

The mane will not be flexi, I'm afraid. At least not as long as there are still no flexible sculpts in SL. It will be very detailed, and if I do that with regular flexi prims, it would be just too much for the average computer.

And speaking of which: while my shots are not edited, they have been taken with a powerful graphics card. The setting to look for to keep the textures crisp is "Anisotropic Filtering" which can be activated in the advanced hardware setting in the SL preferences. That and switching on anti-aliasing makes SL look much better, but you really need a beast of a graphics card for that.

nah, i didn't expect it to be as i myself long for the sculpted flexi day just as much as you do :P But detail is a yay so i hope all goes well with it for your sake ^^

oh yeah the anisotropic setting, i did miss that one. I tweaked the anti-alias and forget anisotropic XD but yeah, dont worry, i have an 8800 and i love it lots ^^

*thinking* moving ears would be good actually.... are you going to do a sculpted and a prim tail again?

Since a lion's tail can be done very well with tricked out flexi prims, I guess I'll only do a flexi tail this time.

ah okay ^_~ I like the flexie tails you make... they look neat