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Doing FITMESH for MAITREYA and Gianni
Yes, there are many Mesh Body tops
in the Second Life Marketplace. We decided to standardize on two -
Maitreya for Female type bodies, and Gianni for Male type bodies. Now we
quickly want to say that we are not trying to restrict genders to two,
but it would seem all genders begin with a female or male body type and
modify from there. Hopefully you will agree.
At this point, even
we understand that in the many body choices available, that some of them
are quite good. We did decide to standardize on two types, however,
since the design work we find in order to do what we wish for a mesh
body article of clothing can be quite time consuming. As for why our
choices on these two, it was a combination. Even though mesh bodies will
always be a matter of opinion, for our tastes we found the Maitreya mesh
body and the Gianni mesh body flattering. A second item that was
important to us was if the body did what it should and lacked oddities
or surprises, and we gave both of these mesh bodies high scores on that,
and also ease of working with.
With this direction, our store in
Tissela on the first floor will be mostly dedicated to Maitreya on the
right side of the store as you face inwards, and Gianni on the far left
side of the store in its beginnings.
OUR GOALS
The goals
for Maitreya have not changed, but are much the same now as in our page
that we have had for awhile at: Maitreya
Goals. Our Goals for Gianni Fitmesh differ a bit, since we found a
problem and a solution at the same times for male bodies that we
ourselves preferred. It seemed that the mesh clothes was just getting
too large to ensure no alpha was needed beneath the clothing. At the
same time, Gianni has what we consider a great Alpha Auto Hide software
capability that can make some areas alpha invisible while the clothes
are worn, and then return the body to normal as long as the "detach"
command ic used by right clicking the item in inventory, or by right
clicking the item directly as worn clothing. We did notice a high end
clothes maker for Gianni mesh bodies also using the Gianni Auto Hide
technique, likely because they ran into the same issue that we did. It
simply seems the best way of keeping clothes for Gianni reasonable
sized, and does seem to work well with the Gianni Alpha Auto Hide. A
second item is that we did not feel the same urgency to allow space for
underwear underneath the clothes as we did with Maitreya. And yes, I
suspect some people may see this differently. But we felt it was not
such a big need for male type avatars. And so our Gianni goals are:
* Make clothing that we ourselves like and enjoy wearing
* Keep Size Reasonable of the items, perhaps
using the Gianni Auto Hide.
* As in Maitreya, keep complexity low such that
customers find it easier on crowded sims where complexity kills
* Provide Huds for color, and at times texture,
effects and other changes to make every item sold something of a "Fat
Pack"
* Keep Pricing how to encourage sales
* Include Instructions that cover all of the
issues and help that we found we needed to know in our usage
And so, some goals are similar for both Maitreya
Fitmesh and Gianni Fitmesh from us. And those are really all of the
above, except for item 2, we try to make our Maitreya clothes work
without alpha needs.... at least for many or most body shapes. Also for
Maitreya, we try to provide physics help and also we do some physics
testing of most of the items.
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