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Random ramblings/rants with Ramon.
4 years ago
Yeaaa...I'm not good with titles. Anyways this is more of a "get off my chest" thing than anything but it kinda ties into something I eventually want to get once I can afford it. There's a relatively new-ish body out for men on Second Life called the Heracles by Invictus (shown here courtesy of King Ink Tattoos whom's also apart of the Invictus Team https://www.flickr.com/photos/14552.....in/dateposted/) And while I love the body to bits? it has two massive drawbacks.
Drawback 1: Since it's still fairly new there's practically fuck all for it in terms of clothing (aside for the TMD offerings Chuck Size puts out) so if you want some threads for it? you're stuck with whatever the Invictus store has for it (spoiler alert: practically nothing).
Drawback 2 and so far? the one that made me do this journal up: Thanks to its custom UV mapping and spite it being BOM out of the box? only skins/tats/markings designed exclusively for the Heracles UV map will work for it.
Now...I'm not going to sugarcoat it but having a body that isn't mod AND has a custom UV map to it? makes it kiiiinda impossible for furries/anthros to make use of it for their avies, borderline nightmarish actually since both the DevMuscle series and the Niramyth Aesthetic suffered from the same issue till their respected creators released developer kits to help with that.
Why I bring this up? well to get to the meat and potatoes of it I would like to use this body for my jackal on Second Life since I want to make it as unique and as detailed as possible while not clogging up the complexity levels so I can still use the damn thing to explore sims with. After fuddling about with a "base look" of how I picture it'll turn out that still leaves me with the issue of getting it modded.....kinda why I'm asking here. To the best of my knowledge furry/anthro modders use Furaffinity, Patreon and Twitter to advertise their wares/prices to hopefully? land a customer or two. Now obviously I'm not one of those suspiciously wealthy furries/anthros that can whip out a stack of hundos, slap it on some person's desk and say "here's some pocket change, go pay your bills" like it's nothing since I too still have some bills/rent to pay aswell as groceries (the joys of being an adult eh?) but if someone is interested in helping tackle this beast? hit me up in notes and either toss me your Discord or we could stick to the notes (Discord's easier in my opinion but meh) and we could talk shop and hopefully come to a conclusion that'll favor us both.
The body itself is beautifully detailed, especially so since the creator was going for that "pseudo-realism" feel like when you're first working out at a gym and your body slowly changes and while the price is pretty up there? (4,020 Lindens from last I remember...I could be mistaken so don't quote me on that) you get a whole lot with it....if you're only making a human avie. Granted there are still updates to come so eventually with enough patience (and enough people bitching up a full mile) a developers kit Will be sent out for this body so that content creators and furry/anthro modders can start making shit for it but I imagine that'll take a good while yet.
Too Long/Didn't Read version: Impossible to mod body (as of this moment) interests me and I want it for my jackal.
Thanks for hearing me out atleast....hopefully this body will get plenty of love soon since it truly is a gorgeous piece of work.
Ramon out.
Drawback 1: Since it's still fairly new there's practically fuck all for it in terms of clothing (aside for the TMD offerings Chuck Size puts out) so if you want some threads for it? you're stuck with whatever the Invictus store has for it (spoiler alert: practically nothing).
Drawback 2 and so far? the one that made me do this journal up: Thanks to its custom UV mapping and spite it being BOM out of the box? only skins/tats/markings designed exclusively for the Heracles UV map will work for it.
Now...I'm not going to sugarcoat it but having a body that isn't mod AND has a custom UV map to it? makes it kiiiinda impossible for furries/anthros to make use of it for their avies, borderline nightmarish actually since both the DevMuscle series and the Niramyth Aesthetic suffered from the same issue till their respected creators released developer kits to help with that.
Why I bring this up? well to get to the meat and potatoes of it I would like to use this body for my jackal on Second Life since I want to make it as unique and as detailed as possible while not clogging up the complexity levels so I can still use the damn thing to explore sims with. After fuddling about with a "base look" of how I picture it'll turn out that still leaves me with the issue of getting it modded.....kinda why I'm asking here. To the best of my knowledge furry/anthro modders use Furaffinity, Patreon and Twitter to advertise their wares/prices to hopefully? land a customer or two. Now obviously I'm not one of those suspiciously wealthy furries/anthros that can whip out a stack of hundos, slap it on some person's desk and say "here's some pocket change, go pay your bills" like it's nothing since I too still have some bills/rent to pay aswell as groceries (the joys of being an adult eh?) but if someone is interested in helping tackle this beast? hit me up in notes and either toss me your Discord or we could stick to the notes (Discord's easier in my opinion but meh) and we could talk shop and hopefully come to a conclusion that'll favor us both.
The body itself is beautifully detailed, especially so since the creator was going for that "pseudo-realism" feel like when you're first working out at a gym and your body slowly changes and while the price is pretty up there? (4,020 Lindens from last I remember...I could be mistaken so don't quote me on that) you get a whole lot with it....if you're only making a human avie. Granted there are still updates to come so eventually with enough patience (and enough people bitching up a full mile) a developers kit Will be sent out for this body so that content creators and furry/anthro modders can start making shit for it but I imagine that'll take a good while yet.
Too Long/Didn't Read version: Impossible to mod body (as of this moment) interests me and I want it for my jackal.
Thanks for hearing me out atleast....hopefully this body will get plenty of love soon since it truly is a gorgeous piece of work.
Ramon out.
