More News : VIP Treats!

I did finally get the VIP vendor up and running in the store.
I always think it's best if you can choose the gifts you get, rather than get any thing which might not even be suitable for you.

So in the VIP vendor you will find quite a few things I've made - some are just experiments I've done (I've done a lot of experiments) which you might find amusing. Others I've also placed on Marketplace with some retail price. Being a VIP means that you have exclusive group only access to this vendor and that you can purchase the things in it at a special group price or get it absolutely free!

I hope you enjoy this and thank you for your support!

Here are just some of the items up for grabs :

Mesh Sonic Screw Driver + FULL PERMS nano police box sculptie kit

Mesh Gumball Machine (1LI) Full perms - comes in two textured variations (Classic, Plain)

2-4LI Complete Shower Cube - Two showering animations.

New Mesh Studio / Store

After receiving some really positive feedback from my earlier mesh store release,  I decided to revisit and refine those ideas with the imput.
I've created a modular system of wall panels, floor pieces and roofs and assembled the following very low 6LI studio / store.

Open Plan Light Studio is modularly constructed
and made easy to retexture and tint.

Light airy design with central well , baked textures and lots of glass and wall panels

I've also made the internal structures inside the building completely removable, further reducing the LI of this build to a very slim 5LI. The build is entirely copy and mod so you can create a shopping mecca or mall in a matter of minutes - each personalised by its own number or plaque with a stylish signage board that is part of this build.

Mesh model and textures are all original creations  incorporating my own photography stock.

I hope you find this build useful to your own SL adventures. Thank you for visiting!

xoxo

N'o'J

Makeup Fx : Total Drug Abuse

Tattoo layers and mesh contact lenses to change the look of your avatar.

Great for adding character details to your avatar,
if you have a cold,  a late night , or some addiction.

Mesh eyes come in two sets with and without dilated pupil detail.

Tattoo layer makeups in three subtle variations and densities to fit varied skins, tones and shapes.

Marketplace :
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/PSFlaws-Total-Drug-Abuse-Tattoo-Mesh-EyesContact-Lens/5996734

New Things! Easy Sculpted Angelfish School [Type 1] and an introduction to Smart Water

I guess the gun gacha of earlier kind of got my creativity buzzing - so whilst I haven't been flickring quite as much lately, I have been making things that quite intrigue me.

Freely swimming fish for your tank or pond

Finally released Angelfish after a development period of almost 2 years??!? - er yeah... something like that. Fio scripted the engine a while ago but it's taken some time on my part to think on how best to showcase the system. So lots of firsts here just as a taster of how intelligent the fish behaviour is in smart water.

I've also re-jigged the fish as single sculpts of a group to reduce LI since Angelfish are a schooling fish.

The groups you see here is only 1LI each - so really prim frugal stuff.

Making fish is almost as easy as 1, 2, 3 

Smart water is what tells your fish where and what area in which to swim. As an introduction to the system, this kit contains the very basic version of smart water which is a cube. The later expansion packs will also contain other forms that enable your fish to perform in other ways such as shying away from other objects and walls, roaming in open linden water and things like that!

Marine Angelfish come in a rather wide variety specimens and types which makes it ideal as a form of kit fish which you can retexture in many different ways to make your aquarium full of colourful fish.

As it uses the same basic sculpt shape - this reduces lag as it only needs to load once for all your different types of Angelfish. Yay bonus!

Angelfish are out now in marketplace on 

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/OFDF-Schooling-Angelfish-Kit-10-Type-1/5993919

as well as in store where you can also collect a free mesh fish tank with your shopping!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Jersey%20Island/168/199/22

Building Tips :
1) After rezzing your fish - you can change their sizes to create variety in your tank. They'll still swim in their different size and shapes.

2) To keep your animations smooth, rez the animating aid included in your kit within rendering distance (20m or so) of your fish. This will help preload the fish to cache.

New Stuff : 8LI Mesh Store Prefabs

I enjoy creating textures and whilst making my new store itself, I decided to make a few variations and offer them up for purchase. It's hard to find a good quality low LI building. But now you have atleast 6 new ones!

How to take pictures in Linden water

I've been giving my Clown fish kit a texture overhaul - remapping the model from scratch, and giving it some fresh colours

After much feed back, I've decided to change the types of kits on offer. The professional range include sculpt maps and scripts for builders. A home edition range is also in the pipeworks. These will simply contain prefabs without needing to be built.

I also wanted to show you how to take images like the product shot I did for the clownfish kit which is taken as is in linden water without retouching. I think un-retouched photos are important in product shots for honesty. So here's how I did mine.

I created a gradated background of the ocean floor in perspective. This is an alpha that I then textured a prim with. You can see that the general tone of the photo from this distance is hued. This is because this shot is set in Linden water.

In closeup , this background is particularly effective for introducing distance

The end product is this - without being retouched at all, you have a nice underwater pic of your fishys!

It's a balancing act!

My little bit 'O territory

So I've finally set up my store in world and home-ified a little corner of it with some of my favourite things from TMD and various Gachas. TMD is still going by the way and moved to bigger better premises .   I've finally moved in too! and baring the odds and ends I have yet to feed into the CasperVend Database, my shop inventory is not too shambolic!

 In this image :

1. {vespertine - clipped print/fauna fishes}(From TMD)
2. {anc} Bdream. sidetable.black 1Li (Current round of Arcade Gacha, butterfly dream)
3. {anc} "lapin. gappytable.A 1Li/RARE (From the Lapin Gacha by anc)
4. Sway's Lamp [meow] plugged - wood
5. !O: Teacup Piglet Gatcha [Piggy Who?] (From OhMai! Past round of Arcade)
6. 22769 ~ [bauwerk] Laptop + Post-it notes (From TMD)
7. Construct - Mesh Polaroid Rope (With my own pics)
8. R(S)W Guru Manniswami and Deskies Plastic Waste Bin
9. *Second Spaces* craft room - ribbons
10. junk. repurposed saddle seat. iron. (One of my favourite things out of the TMD Feb. round is Junk's repurposed bicycle parts furniture. Super Brilliant!)

To commemorate the soft opening of my new store location , I've created a photo kit

Free stuff to clog up your inventory!

This can be collected from the store absolutely Free!

New Store : Under Construction

So yes! It's all coming together (slowly)

Construction of my new store on my own little parcel is finally underway!

I'll be vacating Clanomere, the old parcel and home of Dita's Diabolique after this week and my new store will be on Jersey Island on a teeny plot. My product range here will no longer carry any items that might be considered 'A', owing to the parcel rating of this land.
I'm also phasing out my old builds and sculpts.