Dance of the Cranes

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This image was inspired by a chance meeting with the sim designer of the snow covered Japanese village, "Yuki No Yume" .. A Dream of Snow. He said his favorite part of the sim was the dancing cranes, and he wished for an image of people dancing with the cranes.  So this is for you, Jac Mornington. Thanks for the cool sim to visit!

Pictured above and below are these awesome rigged mesh feet for guys with bracers by Glam Affair. Feet match Tableau Vivant skins perfectly. Head over to Shoetopia and look around! Shoetopia 1 Shoetopia 2  For more information, go to Shoetopia, ends Nov 30th.

On Her:

Outfit, Hair: BareRose Youko Dayu - lola (edit for hair) [mesh] (200L)
Chest: Lola Mirage [mesh] (1750L)

On Him:
Shirt, armor, gloves, belt: BareRose Kirisitan Paladin [mesh] (180L)
Pants: BareRose NS Kuro Suikan Pants [mesh] (190L)
Ears: Illusions Fairy Ears [mesh] (300L)
Feet: Glam Affair Homme - Vanity Feet - Braces white [mesh] (Shoetopia 1)(530L)
Hair: Sadistic Hacker Kiyohime B white (230L)
Hands: Slink Male Hands Relax(450L)
Skin: Tableau Vivant Nathan - tone 1 - blond (990L)
Pose: Del May Fissure (150L)

Location:
"Yuki No Yume" .. A Dream of Snow

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Setting:
Art: kisetsu Wall Scroll - Hasu [mesh] (past genre)
Throne: Okami Shogun's Throne - Pani Series (799L)
Thanks for your help Fulli!

One Hell of a Butler

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There is something suspicious about that butler... I wonder what it is?

Ayashi released the new non-rigged mesh hair for men, Sebastian, I knew I had to try and see what I could come up with for a demon butler. The hair comes with X,Y, Z resize script for the perfect fit, and a color set hud. Ayashi has a new store at RMK Gothic! You can find it in the Dark Town section of the sim. Adding an elegant, yet studious, feel is the Angela Glasses by AIR.  You can touch it and change the frame color and the gem stones. The off the shoulder rigged coat is by DIRAM. An alpha hides your arms, and has two fake hands attached to the upper thigh. It comes with a color hud to change the skintone, but I went with a white glove look. The coat in many different colors, I choose a nice English tweed. The vest, shirt, collar and tie are included. The pocketwatch is mesh by House of Rain and has detail of tiny skulls and garnet. The pants are from the Smith suit set by Fatewear. The gloves in the close up are also by Fatewear and include materials that photographed here beautifully. Skin Noctis by Tableau Vivant you can find at the Boystown location. These awesome red eyes are by Aii. I swapped the shirt under the vest with SF Designs' because it had the tuxedo style I was looking for, and also, it's the best free tux in SL, imho. My favorite shiny shiny dress shoes are by PixelFashion. The candelabra I got the October Collabor88, but you can find it at the main store now. Touch the candle to change the color cream, teal, mead, black magic, royal, or brandy. Flames are particles. And my lastly, my current gothic abode is the Ivy Tower by Poetica.

On Him:
Hair: Ayashi Sebastian-Black set [mesh] (250L)
Glasses: AIR ANGELA_M_Charm L_CM (1000L)
Coat, Collar, Tie, Vest, Gloves: DIRAM JASON Coat - Prince de Galles [mesh] (650L)
Pants: FATEwear Smith - Tundra [mesh] (750L)
Pocketwatch: House of Rain HoR Bonedance watch - garnet - silver [mesh] (300L)
Gloves: Fatewear Dextor with leather materials [mesh] (300L)
Shirt: sf design Shawl Collared Tux (free)
Shoes: PixelFashion Bradford Shoes Black V [mesh] (390L)
Eyes: Aii Ugly & Beautiful Designs Kitsune Red Eyes (50L)
Skin: Tableau Vivant Noctis skin - bald -Tone 01 (Boystown) (990L)
Candlelabra: Floorplan black magic candelabra [mesh] (175L)
Tower: Poetica Ivy Tower - dark [mesh] (2000L or 1800L)

You can find the AIR store to the right of RMK Castle in the Town section.

NEWS: Making Mesh Garments Fit Better

Big announcement today on what Linden Labs will do for better fitted clothing. Project Deformer is now officially dead, collision bones method is the winner (this is the "liquid mesh" method). The experimental project viewer includes extra collision bones.

Copy/Paste news from here:
http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Making-Mesh-Garments-Fit-Better/ba-p/2336599

Making Mesh Garments Fit Better

by  Linden Lab ‎11-20-2013 09:36 AM - edited ‎11-20-2013 10:31 AM

Today, we are launching an experimental Project Fitted Mesh Viewer with additional collision bones needed to support dynamically fitted mesh garments on all of the avatars. When these changes have been finalized, they will enable garment designers to use the superior capabilities of mesh content creation tools to make garments that adapt to a wide range of Second Life avatars.

Since the introduction of Mesh to Second Life, creators have faced challenges fitting Mesh garments to the Second Life avatar. Because mesh objects are not resizable in as many ways as the avatar itself is, it has been difficult for mesh garment creators to provide garments that adapt to the shape of the avatar in the way that the image-based clothing layers do. While many creators have made heroic efforts to provide products in a range of sizes, and some have collaborated to define a set of standard sizes that work reasonably well for much of the user population, many have found that mesh garments just don't work well enough for their avatars. Mesh garments also don't move with the body parts affected by avatar physics.

Users have developed two approaches to address these problems:

• Rigging garments to the "collision bones" of the avatar skeleton (often marketed as "Liquid Mesh"). This works in current Viewers for some body parts, but there are some avatar shape parameters that do not have corresponding collision bones, so garments do not adapt to fit everywhere on the body.
• The "Mesh Deformer" project added code to the Viewer to dynamically compute how to modify each garment shape by looking at how the vertices of the avatar were changed from that of the female and male base shapes.

The Linden Lab development team has studied both approaches, and compared their effectiveness, maintainability, and performance. Neither approach completely eliminates the occasional need for an alpha clothing layer to prevent small parts of the avatar skin from appearing through garments, but both work quite well at resizing garments so that they fit the avatar and move naturally with it. While the collision bones method requires the creator to do some additional rigging, we have decided that because it leverages more of the existing avatar shape system it is likely to be the more maintainable solution and to perform better for a wider range of users.

We have posted documentation on the wiki describing the full set of collision bones, including the newly added ones. We invite creators to begin experimenting with creating garments rigged to this new skeleton.

At this time, the new skeleton should be considered provisional and subject to change; we do not yet recommend selling or buying garments rigged to it. Since we may find reasons to improve it during this testing process, and any change to the collision bones will likely break garments rigged before the change, we want to make sure that we have a set of bones that we can all live with into the indefinite future before it is widely used.

Creators and other users who participate in testing can provide feedback by filing Jira issues in the Fitted Mesh project.

Reactions:
http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Mesh/Breaking-News-Fitted-Mesh-Project-Viewer/m-p/2337927/highlight/true#M24546 

JIRA - Desigenrs: add your feedback to the new collision bones:
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/FITMESH

RMK Gothic Photo Contest

News mirrored from: RMK Gothic Blog Japan

Image by: +RokumeikaN+

■RMK Gothic Photo Contest■

November 11 was RMK Gothic’s second anniversary.
To celebrate, RMK Sim was renovated and then reopened on the 13th.
RMK is holding a photo contest in fashion and/or landscape photography!
The theme is RMK Gothic style: "lightness and darkness of 19th century Britain."

What is RMK Gothic style?
Gothic, Gothic Lolita, Antique, Victorian, Aestheticism, Decadent, Beautifully Villain.

Also, each area of the sim has it's own theme:
Town: Antique, Classical, Aesthetic, Formal
Dark Town: Mafia, Gothic, Darkness, Blackness, Punk (Note: Mr. Chang is the personification of darkness in RMK)
Forest of Alice: Lolita, Cute, Kawaii, Harajyuku style
Circus of Midnight: Dark Forest, Vampire Castle, and Dark Circus (Note: area still being renovated)

Application period: 11/18/2013 ～ 11/30/2013

How to apply:
• The registration flicker group "+ RMK Gothic SIM + EVENT".
• Write "Entry to the photo contest!" in the image description. Then, fill out the items used in the photograph.
• Please include your SL name in the image description if your name used in Flickr is different from your SL name.

Qualifications:
・ Must be a photograph taken at RMK Gothic SIM.
・ Items used in photo should be the work of a tenant at RMK Gothic SIM. (Regardless if it is product, gift, or from their mainstore location.)
・ Subject should be the photographer themselves. If there are more people in the picture, you must get their approval to participate in the photo contest.
・ Landscape photography is welcome!
・ Photo manipulation is not allowed. No retouching.
・ The number of pictures submitted to contest is limited to 5 total.
・ If you submit pictures to the contest, you also give permission for RMK to use your pictures for publicity and promotion of RMK Gothic, and RMK Events.

Contest judge:
RMK Gothic owner

We look forward to seeing your rich creativity on the concept of RMK Gothic!

Prize:
・ Winner: 1000L $
・ Runner: 700L $
・ RMK Award: 500L $

Note:
· The number of views and favorites on a Flickr image is irrelevant to the contest.
· Please Note: Your submission is not a contest entry unless requirements listed above are satisfied.
· The announcement date of contest results is yet to be determined.
· IMPORTANT: With regard contest submissions, by entering you give RMK Gothic SIM permission to use images for publicity and promotion of RMK Gothic, and RMK Events whether in Japan or abroad.
· If you have any questions, please send them in a notecard only. We do not accept questions via IM.

Submit your contest entry here↓
+RMK Gothic SIM+EVENT

RMK Gothic: Renewal Gifts 3

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Which is sweeter? Cadbury chocolate, or the Cadbury girl? Maybe the Cadbury mascot bunny! This adorable Cadbury Maid outfit by RokumeikaN is free for visitors to the newly remodeled RMK Gothic. Just wear your RMK Gothic SIM group tag, and touch the sign at the Cadbury store. It's free to join.

On Her:
Dress, bonnet, apron, collar: RokumeikaN +RMK*Cadbury's Cocoa*Mini Dress+ (RMK Renewal)(free)
Blush: [ni.Ju] Hime-yu (60L)
Bunny: HPMD SleepyRabbit with Cuddle AO (250L)
Boots: Beetlebones ::BB:: Fowler Laced- Up Boots (Collabor88)(88L)
Hair: Dura x ARAI 02 Curl - strawberry (160L)
Gloves: Adam n Eve AE for SLINK Appliers Hands - Opera Gloves White (150L)

Location:
RMK Gothic - Cadbury Shop

Below is a map of the Dark Town area.

RMK Gothic: Renewal Gifts 2

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All kinds of people are coming down to RMK Gothic, even my brother! I caught him snooping around the Undertakers. He let me play with his Nu'ville loot (the blood bag and Bunnicula), and I showed him where the RMK renewal gifts were like AIR's Rabbit Monocle, and the Frozen Night rigged mesh black collar. Hey, that's what brothers are for.  ^^

Now let me tell you more about items I am wearing. The Retro Military coast by Kauna is a must have and you can tint it whatever color you want. Like all of Remarkable Oblivion's creations, the Necromancer Crown is another fantastic item to own. It's like a little piece art sitting on your head. The Blood Bank Bag is actually rigged mesh you wear and carry with you. There is cool sippy straw from the bag to your mouth. Love it. For photo purposes, it's shown without the walk animation and straw. All vampires need to tour Nu'ville. You can get candy like blood pops, cute Beetlebones avis like bat, mummy, ghoul, angel, and fun shoulder pets like Bunnicula. He squeaks and wiggles his ears when you touch him. 

On Him, Code Name: Prince of Spades, left:

Collar: Frozen Night spare collar for dress suit black [mesh] (RMK Renewal open gift 2013)(free)

Monocle: AIR Air_Rabbit Monocle_Silver L_C (RMK Renewal open gift 2013)(free)

Hair: Ayashi Rioto - white pack [mesh] (250L)

Shoes: Super Kingdom Low Tops - Mesh Shoes Male [mesh] (99L)

Pants: My Own Way [M.o.w] Pants with suspenders [mesh] (past, group gift)

Coat, shirt: StormCrow Designs Jacket Shirt Black, Trench Coat Black [mesh] (past, Menstuff)
Glove: RokumeikaN +RMK*Prince of Spade* Gloves (past, Twisted Hunt)

Blood Bag: Ohmai Nuville // Nu'Ville Blood Bank [mesh] (Nuville Horrors) (100L to tour for a day)

On Him, Code Name: White Rabbit, right:

Monocle: AIR Air_Rabbit Monocle Silver L C (RMK Renewal open gift 2013)(free)

Shoulder Pet: Ohmai Nuville // Bunnicula Ghost [mesh] (Nuville Horrors) (100L to tour for a day)

Jacket: Kauna Retro Military Coat [mesh] (299L)

Crown: Remarkable Oblivion Necromancer Crown [mesh] (249L)

Stocks: Erratic patterned stockings skulls - black (past F*Friday)(150L)

Tongue: Bubblez Rebels Playground Outfit - Rebel Tongue (past, Rebel Playground)

Wings: Death Row Designs DRD Wings of eternal darkness - violet [mesh] (180L)

Shorts: Frozen Night FN*winter dress suit white 2 [mesh] (250L)

Boots: lassitude & ennui Suede mesh boots white [mesh] (280L)

Hands: Slink Male Hands Relax, Relaxed [mesh] (450L)

Fangs: Venexia Venetian Vampire Fangs (500L)

Hair: Ayashi Rioto - white pack [mesh] (250L)

Pose: Inertia Loiter (150L)

Location:

RMK Gothic, The Undertaker's

Bunnicula loves the rabbit monocle so much, he got one too!

RMK Gothic: Renewal Gifts

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Come celebrate the rebirth of RMK Gothic with these beautiful gifts by Frozen Night and WTG!

On Her:

Hat: Frozen Night Captured butterfly dress hat - mix [mesh](renewal gift RMK Gothic SIM)(free)

Necklace, Earrings: WTG **Welcome gift 06** (renewal gift RMK Gothic SIM)(free)

Eyes: Candy Mountain Zombie Valentine (group gift, 75L to join)(free)

Outfit: DelaRosa Glimmer Aine dark purple (99L)

Hair: Exile Dream of Paradise naturals (250L)

Location:
RMK Gothic Castle
Thanks for your help Fulli!