Red passion dress

The latest in my clothing designs. This is based on something that I saw on TV. The basic dress is red in colour, and it is supplemented by a prim skirt (3 layers of prims) and a prim upper portion of the dress (2 layers). Ideal for those nights out.

My own vendor kit part 3

Okay, I am making my own vendor kit (read more about it here) available for sale. As it allows the use of consolidated textures, and people can actually save quite a bit of L$ from upload costs, I am making the vendor kit available for a price. You can find it at my stores. Do let me know if you need any help with it.

Basic camisoles

Recently, I tried my hands at making camisoles. These are very basic, simple ones, based on a single template. The camisoles have a simple lace pattern lining the upper edge, and is available in white, cyan, pink and beige.

There is also a similar design, which has a see-through lace instead of the block solid one. This design is available in white, cyan, pink, yellow and beige. What I did was to set the alpha channel of the lace to gray instead of white, so instead of being opaque, it is now semi-transparent, ie. see-through.

And of course, there is also the black colour camisole that I made, which comes with white see-through lace at the top edge.

All these camisoles are made using the undershirt layer, and you can wear shirts, blouses, dresses or jackets over them. Or just wear them by themselves if that is your desire.

My own vendor kit part 2

I have been working on my vendor kit. Firstly, I found a critical error in the script, which prevents it from selling the items placed inside the vendor. I have since fixed that error, and for those who have gotten my free vendor kit, I have sent an updated copy to them.

Since then, I have heavily modified my vendor kit, working on it to add in features that I want. At present, my vendor kit, version 2, can do the following:
- read settings from a notecard
- read inventory items from another notecard
- hand out (when clicked) either an unique notecard about the item being displayed, or a generic notecard
- IM and email owner upon sale of item
- option to display hover text above the vendor, and choose the colour
- split sales with another person
- use consolidated textures (this is the feature that other vendors cannot do)
- can be set to sell items only to those belonging to the same group as the vendor

After some testing, I am quite certain that it is ready for use, and I will be making it available soon at my stores.

Bare shoulder dress

This is the latest in my clothing creations. It is a dress which bares the shoulders. The dress comes with shoulder attachments that make up pluffy sleeves. The prim skirt is also semi-transparent. This dress is ideal for formal events when you need a simple, elegant and not too expensive evening gown. Available in black, red, green and gold at my "Evening Collections 2" vendor, which you can find in my stores at C&B Chaos and Beauty and Syc0phancy.

Simple Daisho set

I made a simple daisho (katana and wakizashi) set today, based on the original Momiji Daisho, in the black colour tone of my "Simple" series (which currently includes the Simple Tachi, and this Simple Daisho set). Unlike the Momiji Daisho set, this set comes with a wakizashi (which is longer than the tanto, but shorter than the katana) instead of a tanto. It is more suited for the male samurai, both in terms of colour tone and the combination of katana-wakizashi. The Momiji Daisho set would favour the female warrior. Do check out my weapons vendor which I have placed in my stores.

My own vendor kit

After looking around, and even buying a few vendors from SLExchange, I still cannot find a vendor kit that can use consolidated vendors. So, I chose the next available option. I made one. Of course, I didn't start from scratch. Amethyst's free vendor provided the basic script for my vendor kit. All I did was modify her script to add in the ability to scale and offset textures. The vendor itself is very basic, just 3 prims. The centre is the display board containing the vendor script, the items to sell, the textures to use and a notecard to configure the vendor. The other two prims are the next and previous arrows. A set of instructions is also included in the vendor. Click on the red and blue buttons to scroll through the items for sale. To buy, right-click on the vendor and choose "Pay".

Anyway, my vendor is available for free at my stores at POD SHOP Keswick Mall and C&B - Chaos and Beauty.

To set up the vendor, open the "Items" notecard found in the vendor. Each line in the notecard represents an item for sale. The format of each line is as follows:
name of item,description of item,price,horizontal scale,vertical scale,horizontal offset,vertical offset,texture to use

For example:
MJ Cyan short dress,A short summer dress with prim skirt,20,0.5,0.5,0.75,0.25,box_skins_02

What this means is that the item for sale is "MJ Cyan short dress", and the description is "A short summer dress with prim skirt" on sale for L$20. The texture to use is "box_skins_02", with a horizontal scale of 0.5, a vertical scale of 0.5, a horizontal offset of 0.75 and a vertical offset of 0.25. The item for sale, as well as the texture to use, must both be placed inside the vendor. Once the vendor is configure, reset the script.

To figure out the horizontal and vertical offsets to use, see the two examples below. Usually, I put 4 or 16 pictures into each consolidated texture. For a 2x2 consolidated texture, the horizontal and vertical scale to use is 0.5, and it is 0.25 if it is 4x4.

I also found another vendor kit, this one allows you to "Click for notecard". However, I cannot edit the script, else I would have used it for my vendor kit. This vendor kit is configured by notecard too. It is made by Kayla Stonecutter for those who rent stores at Realmscape Mall, and can be found just above the fountain that is beside the teleport point into Realmscape. Right now I am using it to see the swords that I made.

And below is how my shop at POD Shop Keswick Mall looks like now, with the introduction of vendors. The cyan box is the vendor kit I made, available for free. Just remember to give due credit to Amethyst and myself should you decide to modify it.

Product pictures

I found this post on Second Life Insider today. I must admit that I am guilty of not providing pictures in-world on some of the products that I sell, especially the newly created ones. This is because I usually consolidate pictures into one texture. Meanwhile, those interested in seeing how my creations look like can get a better picture here at my blog.

But with the discovery of vendors, I think I will have to change the way I operate, since the vendor that I found doesn't allow use of consolidated textures. Which means one texture file for each creation. So over the next few days (or weeks), I will be doing up the pictures for my creations for uploading, do be patient with me in the meantime.

Purple short pleat skirt

I actually made this skirt quite some time back, but I never got down to writing about it, or even selling it, because I couldn't find something to wear it with for a photo. This pleat skirt is made not from round cylinders (which is what most pleat skirts are made from) but from boxes cut into triangles. Basically, it was done using LoopRez v0.6, but instead of the sample-short pleats (which are made from cylinders), I changed them to become boxes, non-hollow, cut so that it forms a triangle for more pronounced pleats.

Bareback high slit dress Part 2

I have added three more colours for my bareback high slit dress. Besides deep red and black, they are now available in gold, deep green and soft green. You can find them at my stores.

MJ Short dress

I got the idea for this dress from a fashion magazine. So I did some work and tried to make something similar, working with GIMP and in-world with LoopRez v0.6 for the prim skirt. The dress is available in three colours: beige, cyan and khaki. You can find this dress (in all three colours) at Syc0phancy, at my clothes store. They are also available at my other stores, though maybe not all the colours will be available.

Realmscape Mall

This is Realmscape Mall, an Asian themed mall which can be accessed at this SLURL. It has a very Oriental touch, as can be seen from the picture above. I haven't really wandered around the sim much yet, but it looks like a place where I can wear my dogi and hakama, or those taiji attire that I made.

The main mall is the one in the centre of the picture above. Inside are spaces for rent. There are also spaces in the basement for rent, going at L$25 per week. And in the fountain outside the mall, there is a free vendor which you can use to sell your stuff. The instructions look easy enough to follow.

White sleeveless blouse

I was looking through some fashion magazines when I came across this design. So I decided to give it a try at making a texture out of it. I had to come up with the design for the back, though, since the magazine showed only the front view. This blouse is actually worn on the jacket layer, as the lower part of the blouse is longer than what is offered on the shirt layer.

Bareback high slit dress

Yet another dress, suitable for formal events or just the night out, this bareback dress has high slits running up both sides of the dress, up till near the hips. The top is tied behind the neck (you can see the butterfly knot). Currently available at my stores in deep red and black. If there is any other colour that you want this dress to be in, do let me know either by posting in the comments here or IM me in-world.

"Click for more info" - My signboards

Due to some people complaining about my "give to nearby" scripts contained in my signboards, which hands out a notecard to people nearby, I have changed my signboards to give out notecards only when clicked upon. The notecards contain a list of items currently being put up for sale by me, as well as the stores and stalls currently rented by me to sell those items. If you cannot find an item at a particular store or stall, you can try to look for it at other locations listed in the notecard. So do feel free to click on my signboards for more information.

MANifesto (used to be Syc0phancy)

Update on 3 Feb 2008:
The name has changed to MANifesto (for some already, actually). I continue to have a shop here, and you can access it through this SLURL. The place has undergone quite major revamps, and actually looks very much nicer now. Do come visit the club, even if you don't want to buy anything at the shops.
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This is the courtyard outside Syc0phancy, which can be accessed via SLURL here. It is just outside the skyscraper, right beside the teleport point. While the rent inside the skyscraper is higher, the rent for shops in the courtyard is low, at L$25 for 20 prims. If you can't find anymore spaces for rent near the skyscraper, not to worry. A short distance away from the skyscraper, there are some more spaces for rent, at the same price.
The above is my store just outside the skyscraper, on the second level. Most of the stuff are placed in LARGE boxes to make it easier for you to see. Below is another store, at the area just a short distance from the skyscraper (aka Phase 2). The stores here are still available for rent, so if you are looking for low cost rental, do come visit!