Important Skin Related Question!

Hello All. I was just at a clothing optional party and for the umpteenth time something attracted my notice. I found myself wondering again, why is this?

One thing there is no shortage of in Second Life is naked men. No matter where you go. There they are. The Beach, The Pool, Clubs, breaking into your house, You get the idea.

The Problem? They dont match.

Ive seen hundreds, some from a distance. Quite a few close up. Their skin is beautiful, long hard muscle, great skin tone. Until .. You get to their Nether Attachment. All of a sudden it looks like something sewn on by Doctor Frankenstein. Its not even close theres a sudden jarring mismatch of color and skin tone.

To put it another way .. Their penis can talk, it can turn invisible, it can stand upright on command. It can shoot out flashing lights. But it doesnt match.

WHY IS THIS? Are guys just Color Blind? Do they lack the patience to spend time with something they seem quite attached to? Are they no-mod? And if they are no-mod - WHY?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Why cant the skin of his prim match the rest of him?

*grabs her plate of brownies and sits to watch this one* This should be interesting...



btw, its because they are using free willies and dont want to pay for ones that match their skin...or there ISNT one that matches. Im, er, guessing.

I don't know what's more disturbing. That she thought of that, or that we will attempt to answer it........*hand me a brownie, would ya?*

*slides Brenda a brownie on a plate* I think we are going to need Ann's special ingrediant to get through this thread.

well, a touch darker wouldnt be too out of the ordinary

Yes another clever money making scheme....make willies that don't match so now the guys have to spend MORE money buying texture packages ..... It's true...either they are wearing the freebies that like like some kind of crude wood totem or they have not looked in to how to modify or re-texture their purchased package. Some can be, some can't....but I guess once ya have the working part...who cares if it matches (doesn't anyone recall the way Madeline Kahn hit the high notes when she met young Frankensteins monster? I bet his didn't match...mwahahahahahaaaa)

Have often wondered the same thing myself.

/me notices it is only females posting here... what IS your obession with this attachment? lol


fwiw.... I have an Xcite thingy (now of some vintage) - I believe they now have scuplties and realistic textures as add-ons for non-sculptie ones. Perhaps you girls should undertake some market testing?


Do you want sex now?

Inc

If you have to ask you must not be very good...

probably not

ah well................... such is second life

Most men at least SEEM colour blind. *waves at Raynor, who is also not able to see if his hair is too small or his glasses are wonky...*

The Xcite units are tintable - a nice little sign board pops up and the shade can be picked from a rather wide array!

Can we please call it "perceptionally challenged"?

hehe..."units"...hehe....

*goes off to giggle in a corner and vows to call them dangly bits "unit" next time*

Even with the best quality workmanship, it is tricky to get a skin and a prim attachment to match. Light interacts differently with skins and prims. This also happens with prim skirts, but mismatched skin tones are more obvious.

One of the things that a person might notice about SL rendering under varying light conditions is that SL handles avatar skin shading and lighting differently from prim attachment lighting. Thus, if you have a perfect match under one lighting condition, an hour later the match will be less good, and under a radically different lighting condition, the match will cease to exist at all, looking ridiculous.

There are two ways to beat this that I know. One is to put a hidden light about 2 meters away from one's attachment and make it bright enough that under almost all conditions, there is no change to the way one's avatar is lit, night or day. The other, which I've not seen with flesh colored avatars, is to make the avatar entirely of prims. The first way's method overpowers SL's lighting rendering. The second way rolls with the punches, but has obvious limitations: no one--yet--sells all prim natural skinned avatars.
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Why are men obsessed with boobs?




Most of the ones that I have seen that were in a "hands-on" setting were xcite. Including a couple sculpties. They didnt match either.




Do you match?

So one vote for color blind then.

Since obviously Xcite at least are Mod.

The Xcite-tint-your-junk board just gets you close. You still need to...um...play with it to get the color right, which is difficult, because your skin has shading that is different colors, so what do you match it to? Then, in different lighting sometimes it still looks off. Not that I would have a lot of experience with this sort of thing...or whatever.

/me tries to look as innocent as possible.

I like pie.

Well you know, races like mexican, filipino etc who have dark nipples also have darker peen coloring. so if their body is pale cus of no tan their peen is mispatched

lawlercopter4500

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This is interesting, so someone should add a light in with all the other features? Light on, Light Off.

er..... why shouldn't they be?




not seen so can't comment




one for you to ponder, Carli...hehehe.

Where's my pie?

Because they're awesome.



It's the weird lighting issue, and because most of us are just so relieved that we have one and figured out how to attach it in the right spot that we're afraid to edit it. What if we make a mistake and make it smaller!?

Nooooooo say it isn't true!!

same reason then.




Most are too dam big anyway. Nothing says mood killer like a penis that goes in your front and pops out the small of your back.