While the SL client does not have built-in emotions for our avatars to express themselves, there are free Emoters available in-world with over a dozen facial expressions. I rarely ever use it, but I find myself wanting to, every time I see screen captures from The Sims!!
The reason I think that most people don’t use Emoters is because it makes our avatars look more creepy than cute! And if you’re a prim-lash-wearing-addict like myself, the prim lashes stay in place and appears to be floating away from your avatar’s face rather than move along with the eyelids. Currently there’s no way to force prim lashes to move, but for photography you can edit them to fit each emotion and fake a perfect fit. 😛
I’m not a Photoshop genius, so I try to set up the shot as close to what I want as possible in-world.
1. Press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+D, to bring up the Advanced client menu
2. Go to Advanced -> Character -> Slow Motion Animations and click to enable it
(Slow Motion Animations is a feature that slows down animations on your client only, so others will not see this but it is useful when trying to capture dances, emotes, poses, etc.)
*note: Don’t forget to uncheck Slow Motion Animations once you’re done using it, otherwise animations will look too slow on your client.)
3. Play with the random expressions on the Emoter and snap away!!
For the photograph above, I used a combination of "Mouth Open" and "Big Smile" to create a totally new facial expression! I haven’t experimented with all the expressions to see what "new" emotions I can create, but Slow Motion Animations is a great feature and lots of fun when combined with an Emoter HUD.
Happy…
Unhappy….
Where to get an Emoter HUD? I use the one that came with my MystiTool, but they’re free everywhere!! Ask someone you know, they might be able to pass you a copy. 😛
For this blog entry, I’ve tried to use lighting that has more shadows because the images are captured with scenery, rather than my usual prim background. Do you prefer photographs that are typical blog-style (see my Lighting Tutorial) or with more depth? I’ve been criticized for taking ‘flat’ photos because I eliminate all shadows when I blog items… so I’m really trying to experiment with other lighting!
A typical Gogo-style blog photo:
With Shadows:
I agree the 2nd photo makes SL look way better, because SL is beautiful!!!! <3 Windlight. But when I’m blogging skins I prefer well-lit images with no shadows.
What I’m Wearing:
AOHARU – SweetDressCoat (Pink)
AOHARU – MultiColoredMoutonBoots (White)
AOHARU – ArgyleSocks009
ETD – Brittany hair
GBL / *BOOM* – Muffuns
Gala – Classic – Blossom Skin
Hi,
i’m a big fan of ur cute blog, almost every hour i refresh and check
the new things u add 😀 ..
mmm i’m wondering from where ur friend got her avatar looks like AVATAR?
skin, cloth, hair, ears, everything Oo
thanx for each tiny info u posted here 😉
I have to say that I am REALLY disappointed at how they copied Red Bull’s design. I consider that to be an infrigment to copyrights. Seriously when you have money to create bunnies, you should make your own things and not feel free to copy big companies’ stuff. I am reporting them to Red Bull. I am sure they paid graphists millions for that design and wouldn’t want a bunny stuck on their brand.
And yeah their sim is cute blah blah but they are greedy with their insane prices. Who wants to pay that much for a virtual bunny o0??
I am sure people will confuse a virtual drink meant for bunnies, with an energy drink in real life. 🙂
Hi Disappointed, the sim is cute but I don’t own any bunnies either. I’m more into Zooby babies.
@Disappointed:
1. Clearly the concept of “parody” is lost on you.
2. “Insane prices”? Really? Are you one of those people who believes everything in SL should be dirt cheap or free? Considering how much time and work has gone into the development of the brand, product line, sims, etc., the prices are more than reasonable. Unless you were hoping to get a poopton of bunnies straight off and flip a profit on breeding with no up-front investment on your part, I can’t see how the Ozimals team has been “greedy.”
@ Disappointed:
Just to defend creating a large scale product like the bunnies: Maybe you think scripting an object that is complicated as the bunnies are super easy. Clearly you’ve never done something on such a large scale all keeping sim resources in mind. The work that went into the bunnies cost real money- programmers are not cheap, nor should their services be cheap. The problem with a micro economy like SL people think Real World services should also live on the micro economy scale but that’s not the case. A good coder can cost upwards to 100 bucks an hour not to mention imagine creating these bunnies under the strict scripting lines within Second Life.
So be disappointed all you want, say what you want, but for the people who understand the hard work involved on the front end and on the back end of any large scale project done in SL they know that the prices for the Ozimals are pretty darn reasonable considering it will take months to get the money put out back and break even.
As for the Red Bull. Feel free to send something to the copyright owner. I’m a full believer in informing copyright owners when their trademark/copyright has been infringed on within SL or RL. I have done it myself for both SL creators and to RL companies. The only difference is you’ve never heard me piss and moan on a blog comment about how someone is “WAH INFRINGING COPYRIGHT” just send them a notice and let the true owner that is being infringed deal with it.
<3
I spend a lot of money in SL… I do not mind spending money at all in there. In fact I buy lindens to dress myself and I barely ever wear anything twice. But seriously paying 1k for food per week per bunny??? really you find that reasonable?
Oh and parody huh? ok well I guess as a creator myself, I would be seriously pissed off to see my design used this way.
@ Disappointed Clearly you love to talk out of your mouth without the facts. The cost of feeding 1 bunny for a month is 99L a month. Perhaps before spouting off you should do a little research. *shakes head*