I have been struggling a bit with Blender for the past two days. It’s now the 3rd time I’ve had to re-unwrap the ridged part of the suit. Either I’m not saving it properly or I’m doing some accidental undos somehow…

On the upside, I got my tools back in order and I can draw creases again.

I know those vanity shots don’t really help to gauge progress, but it was such a nice place, I just had to.

I’ve been banging my head for several days now on a problem that became visible once I tested the ridged legs for the new catsuit skin in-world.

(Lighting greatly exaggerated for emphasis) It’s not the texture itself, it’s either something with the mesh, or something with SL.

The “right” version seem to mitigate the issue, but I still get very visible seams where the model ‘slices’ are.

I just can’t figure out what it is and nobody I know has a clue on what is going on. Worst case scenario: I’ll just go without ridges on the legs… or no ridges at all, but that would be such a waste. Alternatively I could “try” to hide those seams by adding some kind of accent on top of them I suppose…

But it’s going to eat me from the inside if I do that…

I have to give the Blender developers a thumb up, the new realtime rendering modes look ridiculously good.

While I was banging my head on porting my materials from Blender Render to Cycles/Eevee, I came up with a really nice solution to combine tangent normal maps.

I’m not sure about this, maybe as an “option”? I was also gonna try this look on the legs too, but I haven’t done it yet.

So far so good… But it still feels like there is simply not enough going on in there 🙁

At least it looks allright…

I started working on a new cat-suit upon request of a certain… cat-person 🙂

I’m currently dealing with some unplanned family-related problems.

I made a mistake when I released the Avara Hood version 3, so here is another update that will restore the locking point function. I know it’s a pain to adjust and I should have checked first >_<

Since I released the Avara Hood (earlier this year), I’ve been dying to create more styles for it that I felt where not “standard” enough to be part of the original selection.

I think this is a good example of a hm… fairly sexy/scary hood? I like it!

As usual, you grab it from the KDC Main Store, or from the SecondLife Marketplace!

Oh and don’t forget that this is an add-on! you need the Avara Hood to use it!