plea to designers

Respectfully, Kaimi, what *is* the target market?

If the difference between buy and sell is a slight modification to glitch pants, which does not fundamentally alter the appearance of the item when standing in normal positions, why is that a deal breaker?

We're not talking about lowering the cleavage to Jennifer Lopez' green dress levels. We're talking about modifying something so that if people want to wear sexy stockings and have them peek through while dancing, instead of lycra pants, they can.

The space here is so minimal, I think you can afford to relent a little bit here.

And just so you know, you should test uploads on the Aditi grid, won't cost you a L of your true linden balance.

I guess my target market is whoever wants to buy what I happen to have made and put up for sale. I do wish I had a lot more merchandise choices because I know for sure you are right that the more choices I have the more I sell. But I actually make more money from private contracts I get to make signs, builds, and custom stuff than I do from what I sell in my shop and I pretty much just make new clothes when I have time.

Cristalle - what is Aditi please? Open Life crashes constantly -
Oh, and unrelated.. was helping a friend look for houses last night- by chance cam e upon your work- very nice

I don't want it to seem like we're ganging up on poor Kaimi as she's merely one creator putting her view but to be clear, we're not even asking for a "slight modification". We're asking for the *right* to modify, there's no extra work by the creator to be done here.

I'm going to name the one designer that is the culprit that set me off on this... *Blaze.

There, I said it.

I'm also going to name one creator that for me offered a great service and that's Gima Designs. She does a number of full prim items and offers a fitting service where you send your shape numbers. In the end, I just sent my shape and a few minutes later received back skirts and top custom fit to my av.

How about we list some of the other success stories for a while. (frankly i'm astounded this thread has run as long as it has, I was just having a minor gripe!)

It's the preview (aka beta) grid.

Unless you're specifically interested in testing a preview release (different from first looks and release candidates) you can just use Ctrl-Shift-G from the regular viewer's logon screen and pick Aditi from the grid list and log on as normal (pick Agni to log on to the main grid again).

Thanks- has got to be better than Open Life - poor Ruth

Thanks Ama!

Aditi is the preview grid, or beta grid. It augments your actual linden balance and none of it affects your main grid L balance or inventory. It is a good place to upload stuff without costing you a dime. It's a very small set of sims, and not every sim is available. Just log in to Ahern or Dore and you can get to some sandboxes from there.

I think it is ctrl shift g to show the various grids you can log into at the startup screen. There was a blog post about it by Prospero several months back. Realistically, we can only log into Agni (main grid) or Aditi.

Thank you for looking at my stuff. This comes with glitch pants for the short skirt and the long skirt. I think the long pants look good without the prim skirt too. The prim skirts are modifiable so for many people they can be made to match up with the pants. This style skirt probably wouldn't look good with just the bikini or high cut briefs underneath. But If you wear just the top and one of the pairs of underpants you have a what I hope is a nice one or two piece swimsuit. I have sold quite a few of this style and had some positive feedback on it so from my point of view it is worth having it for sale.

I understand. I agree. I think that we should have some control over how we wear our clothes. Even though we buy it for a certain look, that basic look isn't going to change for 99% of people. It's the slight details - lengthening or shortening pants, maybe tinting a little. Someone who tints their item to an odd color shouldn't affect the person who sees the original model on the store ad.

Someone commented earlier about hair being no-mod. Yikes. I wouldn't dream of buying no-mod hair. I like to tint the usual 'dark brown' shades to an even darker shade of brown, but not the standard brown overlay, so that it looks more like my own hair, which is darkest brown. The paranoia about copying is understandable but must ultimately be gotten over. The people intent on copying use other means to get the info anyway, and it's not safe. Ever.

Thanks.

The whole way the avatar is designed could be so much better than it is for designers and customers.

Awww, thanks Czari

Sometimes, it's a real PITA doing that blog. I got discouraged one week not too long ago and ran into a girl at a hair sale, who told me she was a reader and really appreciated it. That gave me the strength to go on, and the "blahs" quickly disappeared!

I'm averaging about 50 visits a day. That's exciting to me...lol

I use AV Painter, it's available on Slex or you can get it inworld too, it's an awesome program for tweaking and saves a lot of trial and error uploads.

In my case, cross-dressing lead me to exposure to women's fashion issues.You only separate by length? I have length and type (dressy, flashy, sporty, etc., Italian, Japanese). I do not have them by color yet (started doing that with my shoes then realized the shoe description had the color in it), though I have the matched shoes with the matching outfit.
I've ruined more than one pair of shoes because it is too small. The top part, the part that attaches to lower leg or whatever the attachment point is called (as opposed to foot). It is almost always too small for me, and never too large. So, for me at least, larger is better for shoes. I do not wear belts unless I attach everything in a folder and it, oddly, fits. Otherwise it, normally, is too small. Bloody small shoes and belts! AAAAHHH. Hate messing with prims. Thanks! I did not think of that and was getting frustrated that I could only buy non-boots. Even finally bought some shorts so I could wear something that has more prims than foot.Went shopping this weekend. Took one look in one hair place I was told to go to and immediately turned and left after seeing that it included resize scripts. Same thing happened when I went to a clothing store and saw that on a box.

I do have special outfits separated out - Era outfits, Medieval, Other Cultures, Costumes. The length folders are just for what I view as daily dresses for casual, dancing, parties, etc and I have recently started thinking I needed to sub-categorize the length into color folders because there are so many in each length category, especially my thigh/knee length.


I absolutely hate that more and more designers seem to be moving towards mod-scripts rather true mod permission on hair and prim skirts. Eventually I might have to learn how to make my own because I will not buy those.

how about you just visit the store and decide if it is something you like, and if so and you can live with the permissions on said item, then just purchase it, or if you want other permissions contact the creator and see if they would be willing to switch perms, and we will skip the modeling fee

my comment was more directed at items that use multi colors, such as a dress that has one color to the dress, another color on the buttons or beads or whatnot

that gets tinted and it looks awful (in my opinion)

however as of late I have been putting out more copy/mod stuff than transfer

rofl I actually made one for a customer and gave it to him (no way would I charge for that LOL)

If you don't let the creator(s) know they'll think they can just get away with it though.

"I'm not buying your hair since it has that resize script in it" might be taken wrongly, but "do you sell the hair as normal mod as well? I won't buy no mod hair a the resize script in it, it's clumsy and just not a substitute for actual editing" would get the message across as a request even though you know the answer in advance.

They'll unfortunately smarten up when the next copybot wave hits and they learn the hard way that the only people inconvenienced by no mod are their customers and not the "thieves" who don't care about permissions on the original.

qft
could not have said it better myself

Hmm... It is a clever tool. I use it very occasionally at the beginning of the design process but I find that for perfecting seem matches and so on I need to go in world and see a texture on my real av in several different shapes and sizes.

Thanks Rha! I especially appreciate it because you are one of the most creative, talented, and accommodating designers around.

THAT is the easiest way to custom fit, not everyone is willing to share their shape though

I wish wish wish SL would let us modify items attached to another avatar when we have the right to mod their items, custom fitting would become my new business LOL

heh you average hits is higher than mine

sometimes I wonder if my blog is worth it, then I think about how it lets me release thoughts, previews or just plain chatter without it breaking anyone's rules
and decide, yep it is worth it

I refuse to put those things in the stuff I sell

admittedly I have put out some non mod prim stuff, and now, wish I had put them out as mod/copy

eventually I will be repacking any item (be it shoes, hair or clothing) that have prim parts to make the entire package mod/copy

that takes time though...

Aditi, Aditi, Aditi!!!