vString Revolution Fitted Mesh Breasts

Many moons ago, Linden Labs released Mesh and Rigged Mesh on to the grid, and it was good.
But it didnt take designers long to sit down and say well, this is a bit naff isnt it?

Of course, I refer to Rigged Mesh and its massive amounts of limitations and short falls that left people with conforming clothes that didnt fit unless you actually created 3 or more versions of each product for different sizes.
Customer then had to mess about altering their shape to fit the said products.
And dont even get me started on the limits of completely replacement avatars...

Since then, the designer community has begged and pushed for Linden Lab to create a stable way of actually getting Rigged Mesh items to work with not only the hard skeleton deformers, but also the corresponding soft deformers (such as muscles, boobs, bums etc).
Ironically it took pre-exisiting technology and some very innovative designers on SL to "tweek" that tech and use it for things it shouldn't do.
But the aptly called "Liquid Mesh" didnt offer everything, so when Linden Lab announced they were going to officially adopt the technique and improve it to create the less aptly named "Fitted Mesh", it was a revelation.

Which brings me full circle to the point of the post.

You will now find in the vString Store, the all new vString Revolutions.

The Revolutions are the first Implants on the grid to utilise Fitted Mesh, and to say they are very different from what people are used to with implants is an understatement.
Using forwarding thinking design, the Revolutions compared to traditional implants are rather less that regular vStrings. Many of our usual suspects like Milk, Chains, Resize, and leashing are gone, and other features like the piercings have been cut down to just 2 options.

So far these sound less than perfect, however dont be fooled by the lower spec. This is more than made up for with the way Fitted Mesh works.
Fitment wise, you dont have to do anything - you wear these and no matter what shape you have on, they will instantly conform to your avatar and fit perfectly.
Changing the size is easy. Just as you would edit your avatars shape, the Revolutions use the same system, so to go bigger, you just increase the breast size on the avatar, and you can also change the cleavage and breast buoyancy too.
Finally, and this bit is perhaps the best part. Fitted Mesh utilises Avatar Physics - the same system that makes the standard avatars butt and boobs jiggle and bounce. Yes, for the first time, you can have realistic bouncings and jiggling implants.

Its really difficult to describe these, so check out the demos in store to see what all the hubbub is about.

Dont get overexcited though.
Sadly as I have mentioned before, the most popular viewer on the grid, Firestorm, are not playing ball at the moment. Fitted Mesh as an official standard was released by the Labs on the 10th Feb, however Firestorm have said for reasons unknown, they wont get their Fitted Mesh update out until around the 9th March.
That means if you are on Firestorm or anyone who views you using Firestorm, all thats seen is Spaghetti as the viewer doesnt know what to do with Fitted Mesh.
Oddly though all the major current viewers that are being updated have moved to Fitted Mesh, with the exception of Firestorm. The Official Linden Lab Viewer, Singularity, Kokua and Black Dragon all use Fitted Mesh, so if you want to be up on the latest standard, you will need to use one of those or wait for Firestorm to get the job done.

VSXM – 9 New M Series Products in Store now

As a designer, its easy to get burnt out, and even harder to knuckle down and keep at something until its done, especially when the world of full of new ideas and distractions.

However after working on VSXM now for what seems to be an eternity, going through each and every idea, looking at the designs, sketching, working, and coming up with new innovations, I am pleased to say the last part of the third phase is now completed.

To say that I have left the best until last may not be totally accurate, but to say these are probably some of the most innovative and complex M series products would certainly be true.

First on my List is a product missing from the M Series – the Anus.

This is a very basic, if highly refined item, designed purely for Aesthetical purposes. It has 4 basic states, and one does push my boundaries a little with a Prolapse rosebud.

Functionality wise though, outside of that it doesn’t do much and please don’t ask for me to do more as I wont.

Second on the list is one that I keep getting nagged for a lot – the Double Futa.

I think the picture says it all

Third on the list is another “wishlist” product and slight unusual for VSX – a Sissy cock.

Now... we get in to the more creative sides here with 3 double product batches.

One thing over the years thats cropped up again and again is the overwhelming requests for a Cyber line in VSX. As I have said, this is no easy task. Creating something artificial in nature that doesn’t look like robodick is a trick few can pull off. In fact, although I am not fully up to date on whats out there, I have never seen a decent one.

The Biomech Cock and Pussy, are a highly innovative cross over style with my Violet Cybernetics store, with beautiful and unique twin texture packs giving high quality cyber textures, the products really look the part and are extremely organic, while being artificial in nature.

The Doll Scene in SL is obviously large, however one thing I have noticed again and again, is the fact that when it comes to Doll adult products, there isn’t really that much innovation out there.

Strap on and prim jobs seem to be the order of the day although I had addressed this somewhat with the LTX Texture packs in VSX.

When I sat down to look at this in more detail, I found myself with a huge list of innovations and ideas popping up.

The Dildomorph cock is a living rubber dildo with full range of VSXM motion, and is a multi state design, meaning you get a staggering 48 states to play with. On the flip side, the Doll Pussy is a quite simple and yet innovative product that is also multi state, so has 14 different arousal states.

Adding to that is a whole new Soft Rubber texture pack with 9 different colours on offer.

Rounding out was a product pair that I have struggled with some what. In fact its been a slow process of evolution over nearly year to get these products looking and feeling right.

Its very easy to work within the realms of reality, however when you don’t know something, its harder, and you cant get much further away from reality than the realms of Aliens.

The Xeno Cock and pussy are both family and very strange. I was constrained by the fact that these have to have a practical application but all the feedback I have had so far has been encouraging.

And that, as they say, is that.

VSXM has been a very long journey, and its been a pleasure to let my creative juices loose in such torrents, but my project list is now completed.

With a staggering 39 M Series products now in store, its not a stretch of the imagination to say that VSX is Second Life’s largest Adult anatomy manufacturer.

However, being the biggest isn’t everything. Its about how complete the products are, and I have to say I am seriously proud of this product line – with fantastic functionality, excellent detailed design, massively comprehensive texture packs, huge configuration capability, and a script foot print that’s positively tiny, VSXM has really set out to be everything that it can be.

I will say, I do have some more ideas in the wings but its fair to say, we are probably going to one or two products a month now at max.

All the new stuffs in store, and all I can say is, enjoy.

VSXM - Demon Cocktail in store

This is pretty much what it says on the box - the VSMX Cocktail is now available.

It comes with all sorts of neat little features, although it does loose a bit due to the design - it doesnt have a cum layer, condom, clipped layer and a few other bits, but what you do get is a very unusual ... well, tail.

Here is the marketing!

There is however a back story to this product as it isnt actually a new one.
Back in 2010, the first version of the Demon Cocktail was actually built up on my workbench in sculpted format.
It was nearly ready for release when LL's started tightening up their scripting limits on SL.
Right there lay the problem. In the sculpted format it was almost 140 prims, and when you translated that to scripts it was far too heavy.
So... it sat in inventory, gathering dust.
Thanks to mesh and the M Series design techniques though, the dust was blown off, and it was reworked in efficient mesh designs. The Tail bones are 1 piece constructions so only adding three objects (as opposed to 50 or more).
Humm... guess the story wasnt that long really...

VSXM - Slitter Special Edition Series Cocks

Phase 3 development of VSX has been ongoing for a while now and a product line I have been wanting to build for some time now has finally found its way in store. The slightly disturbing "Slitter Series".

The pictures will tell the story here as I have had customers asking me for these, but needless to say I have kind of broken the rule book with these, as between the various states they have 49 or more States.

Pushing the VSX Series to this limit did requires some rethinking compared to the more main stream VSX Essentials lines, so sadly a number of features ended up culled from the Slitter including the Head Piercing, the Clipped State and the Cum Layer.

However, take a look... they are in store now for those who like their darkness.

On a final kind of p.s. the slitters although a sub project are part of Phase III VSXM which is focusing on the less conventional elements so expect some more darkness to appear over the coming few weeks.

Enjoy

vString XL XXL 3.5 Update - Evos have arrived.

Customer have begged us to do this, and now we have released them.
These are now available as part of the XL and XXL breast packs but please read this before running to the store...

vString have always been at the forefront of innovation in implants, be it design or scripting. During the vString 3 project, we had been pushing the boundaries with our new Evo line of breasts, however we knew there were some limits that would go a little too far which is why on the release we actually didn’t push through our XL or XXL Evo models for two reasons.

The First was the Quality of the outputted texture maps was really pushing what the actual textures themselves could do, and I personally was not happy with how things were looking.
The Second was the general philosophy of each model. The X_X will always be a fashion breast not related to the role playing side, where as the XL and XXL needed that flexibility to allow role play.

I did know what would come next, and it wasn’t that much of a suprise when it did.
“Can you do the XL or XXL in the Evo format?”

Well, you, as the customers asked and so, the 3.5 models of the XL and XXL are out and the changes are, they have Evo models but there are things you need to be aware of.

This bits quite important though so please read.
If you are thinking of buying the XL or XXL purely on the basis that they have Evo models, DON’T.

Why?
I will try to keep this part a simple as I can as the whole issue gets very technical.
If you fancy the more technical explanation, go to my Hemi's soapbox blog (its on the right).
The SL upper body texture is perfect for the application it was developed for – namely the SL avatar. Designers on SL have been taking advantage of the upper body though and forcing it to do interesting things such as what we did with the Evo X_X. However, even with the X_X we were pushing what we could do with the texture.

The XL Evos have pushed the texture even further and the result is, as you would expect, the textures have started to protest. There are surface issues with them distorting the texture. The XXL Evos have sadly taken that a whole step further and while the XL you can accept and dismiss the texture issues, the XXL are a little harder to dismiss.
This is to the degree that when it came to the XXL Super Evo’s, they simply didn’t work and as a result, I had to discontinue that design idea (hence why there are only 2 Evos for the XXL)

At vString, we are very proud of the quality we give our customers and I am never happy about releasing something that doesn’t live up to my own personal high expectations. I know customers though have begged us to do this, and after 3 months of testing and developing we have pushed what we can do to its limit.
Working with the SL upper body texture, the XL and XXL Evos are as good as I can make them, however they are not perfect and it is true that they could never be perfect.

If you buy the XL / XXL, buy them for the much higher quality original models, however if you do want to use the Optional Evo models, then they are there for you.

VSXM Phase 2 Release (with added surprises)

It nearly been three weeks now since VSXM arrived on the grid, and even I have to say outside of a few unexpected and strange minor bugs, M really has lived up to all expectactions.

The Phase 1 release, as I said before was designed to bring the VSX Studio fully up to date offering a massively upgraded experience for all the original products, plus a few new ones to keep people happy.

With 14 M Series products in store, we went beyond the brief of the original VSX, but as I did hint to at the time, this was just the beginning of VSXM... and more products were penciled in for launch.

Since I opened VSX back in 2009, the greatest frustration I have had was the fact I had great ideas but my hands were tied behind my back. The constraints of scripting, and of sculpted prims meant that I could never realise many of the creative visions I had. In order to do them, I would need more sculpts, and adding more sculpts would have increased the scripting costs to silly proportions, slowed the products down and generally made a mess of things.
VSXM has solved all of these issues though, and the numerous ideas, and even in world products I had already sitting there, could now become a reality.

Phase 2 of VSXM is now, partly, in store. And this time I have flexed my creative muscles somewhat with some gorgeous and quite different variations on a theme. However, I have decided to stagger the phase 2 build in order to get the products in store faster so this phase is not yet over.
In store you will find 11 of the planned 16 products.

So, lets get down to business...

This first one will come as a surprise really as its something I have resisted doing for a long time.
Yes, its a free cock. And what a freebie it is. All mesh construction, 3 basic textures styles, 2 states.
Better still, sim owners will love you for it. It has just 2 scripts and a total memory use of 29KB.
Its very basic, but is rather cool too. If you want to grab a copy, its on the upper level window area in the VSX Store.

Now thats out of the way.... lets take a look at the rest of this... I wont annote but let the images do the work for me...

These are all in the VSX Store now, and they will shortly be hitting the market place as well.

It is worth mentioning again this is only a part release of Phase 2 - there are another 5 products due to be released, and rather than doing them in bulk like I have so far, I will be releasing them as and when they are ready.
So... by the end of Phase 2, VSXM will have 30 products in store.....
*whistles quietly*... then I have to move on to the final part... Phase 3

VSXM Arrives in store (Little Title, Big News)

It may be a short title but this is a massive and very significant release a Violet Studios.

Back in 2009, I released my adult anatomy line on to Second Life - Violet Studio Xtreme - or VSX and since then its been the focus of constant development with VSX5 arriving yesterday..... but.

When I first developed VSX, Second Life was a very different place, and over the years new techniques and technologies have arrived on SL to not only improve the look and design of products, but also how they work.
During the development of VSX3 I really got frustrated with the limitations that the original system offered - simply put lots of ideas, but nothing I could do to build them - thanks to design limitations and Linden Labs script limiting, SL was growing more and more unfriendly. In fact there were 4 VSX product that got as far as finished products... but were canned due to the fact they were too script intensive.
However, during my mesh investigations, I started to realise the potential for mesh in adult products and at that point the VSX Mesh project arrived... and really, this was to turn in to one of epic Violet Studios projects that would beat them all, with a total development time lasting near enough 18 months.


VSXM was worth the wait as it is pretty incredible really - it packs in high details multi face mesh construction (low object cost), with a radically updated texture system for ultra realistic looks, mixed in with a fliuid smooth state arousal system (17 state total on the cock, and 7 on the pussys), with 99% of the features you got on the original VSX, plus a few more, and to top it off, even considering the massive features list, it still manages to trump VSX5 on script costs - just 12 script & 340KB memory at the most - less on the female products. That is, by the way, the HUD and cock... combined...

I think those facts speak for themselves and this is just summing up VSXM in the lightest of way - in store you can find a much more comprehensive break down of the dizzying features list.

I could rattle on about this for hours but I try to resist it - all I can say is pop over to the VSX Main store, take a look and see what you think.

Now... big question... how many products are in VSXM's Phase 1 release... yes, there is a Phase 2 and Phase 3 release coming and I have some surprises pending...

Well... here is the break down in picture format...

Expect a some more VSXM releases over the coming few weeks as Phase 2 gets underway

First... I think a little bit of break for me... VSXM is in store now

Enjoy!