User:Inanna Fairlady
- 'Rose' range of shoes.
Platform stilettos with a cute Mary-Jane strap across the foot. Not yet for sale - I'm still finishing up the script & the animations.
I'm not naughty, I'm just moral in my own way.
I enjoy life, exploring the world and meeting people. I may be quiet, but usually I'm simply listening and enjoying being around people.
I'm also creative, making items for my own use: and soon to have a small shop selling the best of my products.
Erotic or exotic dressing on the cheap
A common request in SL for help styling your avatar cheaply. I spend a lot of time on Zindra, so I get a lot of requests for advice dressing erotically cheaply.
Shape
Shape is the structure of your body. The length of your nose, whether you have a heart-shaped, oval, square or round face, whether you're thick or thin, lean or muscular or fat, curvy or skinny or athletic. It does not affect the colour of your skin, nor the shading.
The cheapest shape is the one you make.
- Go to any NCI location. find the freebies wall, and pick up an Avatar Proportion Kit. NCI locations are listed at the NCI website and check the second column for 'NCI Locations', or you can go to NCI HQ.
- Take a landmark while you're there, you'll be going back to the freebies wall later.
- Read the What The Fug shape tutorial, and follow it. WTF Shapes part 1 and WTF Shapes part 2
- Bookmark their tutorials page in general, it's WTF Tutorials. Very useful stuff there.
- Bookmark What The Fug? just to see what not to do. Read it later.
Skin
Skin is the colour of your body. Freckled or not, pale or tan or dark or Na'vi blue. Thanks to the magic of visual illusion, it also creates some apparent shape - highlights and shadows create the illusion of collarbones and knees and deltoid muscles and the swirly structures in our ears.
Skins are very difficult to make for yourself, so collect a high quality cheap or free skin.
- Try the Eloh Eliot or Sezmra Svarog free skins.
- Eloh's can be found at The Gnubie Store and Schreckhorn, or by checking her profile picks. Eloh's blog is http://eloheliot.blogspot.com/.
- Sezmra's skins can be found at - well, actually, I don't know right now. She's moving. Check her profile picks in-world, or her blog at http://sezmra.com/.
- For male skins, try Olila Oh's yard sale, at Philereme.
- For other skins, check the Other Resources listed in the section below.
Eyes and Hair
There's a wide variety of freebie eyes available in Second Life. You can start by collecting one of the eye collections at NCI, or even using eyes from the library - go into your inventory, and check the folder right down the bottom. It's full of free stuff from many of Second Life's best creators, collected by Linden Lab and used with permission. There's full avatar outfits there, in the Clothing subfolder, each of which has a set of eyes. You can grab eyes from almost any freebie location, or from most skin-makers.
Hairspray is a mall specialising in hair. You can walk around the mall collecting freebie hair until you find some styles you like, and use those as your initial hairs. Browsing Hairspray will also tell you which places you like, so you can come back when you've earned more money.
An important note with hair: avatars have two types. One is built into the avatar shape itself, the other is the far more popular prim hair. Because of this, we always wear a 'bald' avatar hair, so the avatar hair doesn't stick out through the prim hair. The 'bald' avatar hair also controls the shape of your eyebrows, and (depending on your skin) might control the colour of your eyebrows.
Body Movement aka Animation
Animation in this context is how your avatar's body moves. How you stand, sit, walk, dance, hug, fly, swim - everything. Linden Lab provides a default set of animations, but very, very few people like them. Besides, how a person moves tells you a lot about them! So we use animation overriders.
Technically, the animation overrider is the script (and prim controls) that triggers the animations, and an animation set is the collection of animations that your avatar actually runs. Each animation in the set is one stand, or one walk, or one sit, or one flying animation.
Good animation sets are as tough to get cheaply as good skins. Once again, look for the places that have older editions at a lower price, or that have sets with fewer features for a lower price. You can pick up the expensive, full-featured set at full price later on.
Animation Warehouse is a great place to go and find landmarks to explore - it's an animation mall (just as Hairspray is a hair mall). For animations, you'll find freebies that are individual animations - it's rare to get a fully stocked AO as a freebie - but you can certainly find out which animators appeal to you.
Identifying Quality
Other Resources
Web
In-world