#Best mesh body in second life update
#Best mesh body in second life skin

#Best mesh body in second life skin

The standard avatar skins are quite bland and lacking in detail, but luckily there are lots of options available from various skin creators for the combination of the Belleza Jake mesh body and Lelutka mesh heads. This avatar is coming along nicely already and we haven’t even looked at skins yet. You can also leave that alpha on and click on one of the eye textures in the HUD, which is what I have done here. You can remove ALPHA (BOM Head + Body – APPLIER Eyes) from your outfit and the eyes of the standard avatar will be baked on the mesh eyes that come with the body (sounds kinda painful!). If at this point your eyes are just empty red sockets, it means that they are set to BOM. I’ve used the exact naming as shown in the folder for the head. To get the look you see on the right in the above image, you need to add the following items to your outfit (always right-click and choose add). In the HUD for this head you’ll find buttons to switch between Evo and Evo X. Putting on the Lelutka Skyler mesh head.īecause the Evo X heads use this specific way of mapping the skin and also because the shape of your standard avatar most probably will not be very suitable for the mesh head, when you first put on the Lelutka Skyler mesh head, your avatar is going to look well messy. Their most recent development has been from Evo to Evo X, using a different method to map skin onto the head. In a later stage Lelutka started created a new line of mesh heads, naming it their Evo line.

I realise that for the totally uninitiated this will all sound somewhat bewildering, but bear with me here. Although these two can be used with BOM skins, they were originally created to be used with appliers. If you are new to Lelutka, it might be interesting to know that you’ll find two male mesh heads from their older range slightly tucked away in a corner, named Guy and Andrea. Today I’m choosing the Lelutka Skyler mesh head. Now that I have touched on skins and mesh heads, it’s time to start using them. Part of the Lelutka male mesh head range. If you look closely at a poster for a skin, it will probably tell you which head it’s shown on. I do know that often when you buy a skin for a mesh head, it will include a shape for a particular head. As I always make my own shape, I can’t spontaneously name any other shape creators. I believe Tivoli is a particularly popular shape creator, at least that’s the impression I got from anything I’ve watched on Boston Blaisdale’s Youtube channel. My own shapes are usually for a specific combination of mesh head and body, but I find that often a shape I made for the Legacy mesh body, also looks good with Belleza. Usually shapes are made for a specific mesh head and will include versions for different mesh bodies. In any case you can of course edit your shape till it’s just how you like it and if you find shape editing too much of a kerfuffle, you can always shop around for one. Sometimes at this stage you end up with something that will make you pause to savour the moment, a.k.a.

The body has been set to BOM mode by default, so what you are seeing here know is the skin of the standard avatar “Baked” On the Mesh body… Aaaaah, that’s what BOM means! As it happens, the shape of the classic avatar I’m using doesn’t make the body look too weird. Put on Belleza Jake V3 BOM/BENTO and Belleza Jake Body HUD V3, by right-clicking each item and choosing “add”. Here we go, we’ve put on the Belleza Jake body and HUD. Alternatively you can use an applier skin on the mesh body and in that case, you will need to wear an alpha layer to hide the so called system body. You can either use a BOM skin, in which case you do not need to wear an alpha layer. For the next step you are already faced with a choice. You’ll be left with a shape, skin, eyes and brow shape.

Then you start stripping til you can’t remove anything else. I suggest that first you get yourself down to one of the classic standard avatars. Classic standard avatar stripped down to the bare minimum

#Best mesh body in second life update

I got my update now, so I’m using this as an opportunity to go over the basics of putting together an avatar with this particular mesh body.

There was no automatic redelivery and as I don’t always keep my ear to the ground (it’s such an awkward position) I only found out about it a couple of weeks into September. Near the end of August Belleza finally got round to updating their mesh bodies to what is now the 3.0 version.