Hi guys! I’ve been busy, so I haven’t updated for a few days, but I’ve been dying to show you these new shoes from Compulsion! Compulsion is a new brand, by Compulsion Overdrive. I’m familiar with Compulsion’s work cos I love the guns from BREACH! I’m pleasantly surprised by this move from creating weapons to fashion, and look forward to more goodies to come.
Here are three of the new mesh shoes that have just been released:
Compulsion – Sin
Compulsion – Desire
Compulsion – Envy
These shoes look amazing, and each style includes a HUD to customize skin tone, select nail colors, and change shoe color. I found the HUD super easy to use, and was able to get a great skin match within minutes.
I could be wrong, but these did not seem like they were rigged mesh. I was able to select them, and also, I noticed some movement/shifting near joint when I changed poses.
It’s BoyCake, back with another review! Hello, lay-deez. ;D
Are you ready for the new male mesh body from SLink? Well, it’s here! As some of you may know, I’ve been searching high and low for a good mesh body for my boy av, and now it looks like I finally have it. Or have I?
Before I start off, I want to give a shoutout to both my close friends who tried this on with me, as well as the Convergence City roleplay group for discussing this with me in their out-of-character chat area. Their thoughts definitely influenced what I’m writing now! I always like to get other people’s opinions and have discussions about things before I give a final verdict.
What did I compare this to in considering the SLink Male Physique for purchase? Mainly, the TMP male body and the Aesthetic by Niramyth. For reference, I snagged the TMP body to try on after my awful experience with the Jomo male body, which turned out to be a suspected rip. I have two male friends who own the Aesthetic, one who came with me to SLink’s store to examine the demo.
Now, one to the review!
Essentials
The SLink Physique Male comes with a mesh body (no hands or feet) for 1250L. If you don’t have feet and hands already, take about 2400L to the store with you so you can pick up everything at once. The mesh body will include underwear, one pair of jeans, and one tank top. If you don’t like the basic skins you start off with for your mesh body, there are neck blenders provided to help with skin-matching.
Technical/Observations
The Physique Male includes a penis. Yes, really! There’s even a foreskin option and pubic hair. The penis doesn’t seem to be able to get erect; I believe it’s there for completion purposes, sort of like most vaginas on skins and mesh bodies are. At first I was weirded out by an SL peen that doesn’t do anything, but after a while, I got used to it.
Your body will seem a little lean when you try it on, but it can bulk up nicely if you edit your shape. Will it get as muscular as the Aesthetic? I’ll talk about that in a moment.
For script maniacs like me, you’ll be happy to know that with the male body, hands, my AO, and the alpha/clothing hud attached, I was only running 32 scripts. That’s awesome. Everyone in SL should always try to wear low-script items so they end up under a total count of 50 for their avatar. It not only improves your SL experience, but helps to decrease sim lag.
Room For Improvement?
This picture has been brightened because my windlight was super dark when I took the pic. I’m dumb. SRY
I, for one, am not crazy about the clothing/alpha HUD design. I know it’s a lot to include to the clothing hud, and Siddean must have realized this because she created two size versions of the HUD (small and large) for those who have trouble seeing everything. But it took me a moment of wtf’ing to understand just what button did what. Afterwards, I figured things out. I just wish the UI were a bit more friendly.
I don’t know about you, but I like my men with some thigh. When I increased BoyCake’s thighs, I noticed some poses caused the underwear to clip (see pic above). I tried to find the correct button to HIDE his thighs in that area, but that took another ten minutes and then I gave up. My point–if you create underwear or clothing for the mesh body, I would include an auto-hide script for it. Kemono has that and so does Maitreya.
Is This The One?
Is Physique Male for you? That’s what you want to know, right? It’s been a long search for that one mesh body you can finally wear, won’t clip your damn clothing, won’t do this or that or make you unhappy or sorry you ever bought it. When I asked my friends about the Physique versus the Aesthetic, we both admitted we liked Aesthetic’s muscly body more, but only on certain avatars. Not everyone looks good with that much bulk, and not everyone looks good with TMP’s skinnier mesh body either.
Physique Male is that sort of happy medium between TMP and Aesthetic. You don’t spend too much for what you get, and you end up getting a lot. For me, that means it’s a body I’m sticking with! For good, hopefully.
Notice: if you create products geared towards men and want me to review it, please send an NC/pack/etc to Aemeth Resident. I can’t make a promise that I’ll review everything, but I understand the struggle of finding men’s products out there so it’s worth helping out!
Exile has just released 3 sassy new hairstyles, and I am loving it in my favorite Harlow Blonde!! I'm wearing the new Traci, Cherry, and Sally and with newly released items from Elymode.
Did you know that in addition to being a fantastic fashion photographer and blogger, Elysium Eilde also has a hidden clothes-making talent? I didn't!! And she's launching her own Elymode brand today with a range of items that cute & colorful, like her images.
For some reason, the Traci hair reminds me a bad girl, so I'm wearing it here with Elymode's Heart Cami & heart Shorties in Pink, and a ciggie!!
Here are the rest of Elymode's releases!! These items all mix-and-match really well, as you can see below:
I know. I’ve been absent. I’ve been working! And boating, and relaxing, and trying not to do anything, yadda yadda… anyway. I’m back to show you an exhibit I’ve put up for SL13B, Second Life’s 13th’s birthday celebration.
I have to admit, I never took part of this or was even interested before. I think I went once a few years ago and remember feeling a bit disappointed. But this year, there’s a lot of cool exhibits to check out, especially the theme park ride at MadPea (which I rode twice) and the exhibit by Contraption (which is an awesome gargantuan statue).
So, my contribution is an exhibit where I’ve gathered all RL and digital portraits I’ve done of SL players. Some of the work I’m showing off has been painted for real and sold. Some of it were digital commissions. There’s also narration that explains everything.
You can check out my exhibit here. Oh–and there’s free art hidden around the building, so go grab it all. The exhibit posters are free too–you should save that. And if you want your own portrait, I’m having a sale right now.
See you later!
What I’m Wearing
Logo Alex Mesh Head
[ a.e.meth ] – Vega Skin*
Pink Fuel – Fresh Lip Tints
Lamb – Wolf
RC Cluster – News Mic
HOC Industries – Tokyo77 Shirt
Orange Pekoe – Mix&Match Sweater
Glow Studio – Sweatpants Jeans
Jian – Ferret Neck Hugger
Couverture has just released the Knit Long One-Piece (mesh) Dress, and it is simply beautiful. The dress comes in 3 sizes (S, M, L) and includes alpha layer and underpants layer. I’m wearing the Largest size, and it fits me perfectly! I could have worn the Medium too, with a couple of tweaks to my chest area.
I’m definitely looking forward to more mesh goodies from couverture!
Truth – Brandi | Bronte
Also check out these two lovely new hairstyles from Truth. A Black, Pink, Red, and White hair flower is included.
JUICY is participating in the Bunny Hop Grid Wide hunt, which officially starts tomorrow. But I have decided to release my gift a day early, so if you want to beat the lag, tp to my main store for the gift.
I made a mix pose pack of all my latest poses, they are inside a sculpted heart scripted with a drop-down menu on touch, to cycle through the poses.
Second Life is hosting a Community Roundtable on May 20th, allowing residents to engage directly with top executives like Executive Chairman Oberwolf Linden and Senior VP Grumpity Linden. Submit your questions in advance via the anonymous form.
“I could be wrong, but these did not seem like they were rigged mesh. I was able to select them, and also, I noticed some movement/shifting near joint when I changed poses.”
Just wanted to comment on this in case people were wondering why or what difference it makes. I made the decision to not do rigged feet because of resizing, with rigged feet you have to use a specific leg shape for them to work perfectly, I felt the ability to re-size was more important to people although it takes take a little more fiddling to get the shoes to fit in the first place.
I have quite a few of Breach’s guns and the attention to detail is amazing so I fully expect these shoes to be the same.
On their newer Mesh guns, you can completely resize (scale) them, which is a boon for a petite girl like me as their older prim-based MP7 looks like an Assault Rifle on me.
On the subject of Mesh on these shoes, and you thinking they may not be rigged, that would be consistent with the way the Breach guns are as I’ve described. I would be willing to bet these shoes are resizable in some way?
I have such horrible times with these foot/hud shoes. I tend to wear darker shaded color skins like Illusory. Even using the color picker, the numbers never come out right *sighs*
But I will give these a try. My sl feet are sooo ugly
The Envy style looks amazing! I think I’ll have to head to their shop and check some things out!
I’m really impressed with how easily you match the skin color. i have such a hard time. And there’s always a seam if the shoes don’t have an ankle strap.
I got the Envy fatpack. One thing I’ve noticed, is that for the shoes to blend in the best, you should have Atmospheric Shaders on. You have to do the same for the SLink barefeet as well. It’s an SL glitch.
The three styles are just beautiful, and the feet looks amazing. I didn’t knew this brand. Thank you for share. Great post!
Both a Color Picker and a RGB Entry? BUYING ALL THE SHOES.
uh oh! I’m going to have to get these! Who can resist a color change hud???
WOW! I can see my Linden Account diminishing by the second. Thanks for the post!
I Love that third pair. Must have NOW!
Second pair are adorable 🙂
Hiyas,
“I could be wrong, but these did not seem like they were rigged mesh. I was able to select them, and also, I noticed some movement/shifting near joint when I changed poses.”
Just wanted to comment on this in case people were wondering why or what difference it makes. I made the decision to not do rigged feet because of resizing, with rigged feet you have to use a specific leg shape for them to work perfectly, I felt the ability to re-size was more important to people although it takes take a little more fiddling to get the shoes to fit in the first place.
thank you for a wonderful post, glad you liked 🙂
I have quite a few of Breach’s guns and the attention to detail is amazing so I fully expect these shoes to be the same.
On their newer Mesh guns, you can completely resize (scale) them, which is a boon for a petite girl like me as their older prim-based MP7 looks like an Assault Rifle on me.
On the subject of Mesh on these shoes, and you thinking they may not be rigged, that would be consistent with the way the Breach guns are as I’ve described. I would be willing to bet these shoes are resizable in some way?
I have such horrible times with these foot/hud shoes. I tend to wear darker shaded color skins like Illusory. Even using the color picker, the numbers never come out right *sighs*
But I will give these a try. My sl feet are sooo ugly
I had the same problem. But these shoes have been very easy for me in terms of matching my skin color. But I have a light skin.
Very nice! I’ll try demos for sure.
I am in the store now trying the demos and I can’t believe how easily the color is matched with my skin. I love these shoes.
*sigh* And here I was hoping to keep some Lindens in my wallet this week…
Same here lol. I bought them all. I couldn’t help it. *.*
The Envy style looks amazing! I think I’ll have to head to their shop and check some things out!
I’m really impressed with how easily you match the skin color. i have such a hard time. And there’s always a seam if the shoes don’t have an ankle strap.
I got the Envy fatpack. One thing I’ve noticed, is that for the shoes to blend in the best, you should have Atmospheric Shaders on. You have to do the same for the SLink barefeet as well. It’s an SL glitch.