Purple Pony Creations

It should come as no surprise that I am constantly on the lookout for how to improve my avatar. I am also indecisive as fuck when it comes to how she looks. So I'm going to (re) share some of the past looks she's had, starting with my first mod.

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there are pictures of me in my garden on the land in Mena Serena in the dark version.

I'm going to be participating in two hunts this October! One will be the Moonie Hunt, and the other is Quest Fur Cover.

For both hunts, I'm trying to cover men and women for gifts.

For the Moonie Hunt, I have some Sailor Scout themed bracelets, and a top hat! :3


(Inner Scouts)


(Top Hat)

And for the QFC Hunt, I have a variation of the Labrador mod! This is a Moasic/Chimera pattern.



If you miss either of these hunts, these items will be available for sale afterward. The lab's future sales, like the other labs, will go to benefit Marie Fairport in her quest to get her Diabetic Alert Dog.

I have had a side project in SL for a while now: my "favorite child" from my novel, Adian. I announced that I was starting this back on August 13, 2013, then I apparently never updated the blog with further notices about it.

I never even uploaded the screenshots to Flickr, or my FA gallery. I wasn't very happy with them, but since I didn't realize you could use Local textures to test out uploads, I wasn't too keen on the idea of reworking them.

That's a thing, btw, in the Texture window, there are radio buttons, one says local. Click that, then the "Add" button and you can temporarily upload a texture to see how it looks on your prim. And if you re-save it, it will update automatically. Mina from the Moon Kingdom (where my show is) told me this and I think I want to marry her for saving me so many L$ over the past couple weeks.

Anyway, here are the original mods...


(Original AVentity mod.)


(Eyes I used in place of the AVentity ones.)


(Original Raawr wolf mod. I wasn't at all happy with the textures in the end, and I wound up just mostly using the AVentity mod.)

But now, I have this:

I took a lot more time on the skin. I used the fluffs that I created for the Lab mods, and completely redrew the belly/butt shading. The original belly/butt shading was from my Snowhawk mods, but I just (poorly) smudged the edges, which were very soft. This time, I started with a hard edge, and went around each edge individually.

The tail texture is completely redone, and the "fill" colors are not just flat textures.


If you can't see the detail on the face, click through to Flickr. I used the trick I discovered for texturing the Lab prim parts to make the prim parts not look so flat, but I'm purposefully avoiding looking super realistic. The same technique is used on the face, jaw, ears, and legs.

I left the edges "smoother" on places that would have shorter fur.

But yeah, I'm pretty proud of it now. I want to redo the AVentity leg textures, when I feel like I can be arsed to look at those files again. But for now, pretty happy with this bunch of textures.

I use personal projects to test things, though the Labs got the test for some of these textures. But as far as the skin goes.

You can click through any of the pictures to get to my Flickr gallery, and you'll find more pictures there.

I have a whole mess of broken pictures on the blog because I have been moving/deleting things. Sorry. ._.; I think I accidentally got my original mod pictures for the Raawr horse when I was cleaning up that gallery. NBD though, I don't actually use that coloration anymore. (In fact, I sold off 5 of my character's alternate colors.)

I said in March of 2014 that I would go over my "latest" coloration, and I apparently never did. Whoops. My life was getting kinda crazy around then, so it's understandable, I hope.

At the end of February, the 18th, judging by upload times on the files in my inventory, I decided to move my character to a "canon" coloration for her. She is from my novel, and this coloration is the one she has at the end of the story.


For a quick backstory, her species, the Delphin, go through what are called "phase shifts." These are physical changes to the individual, usually in the form of fur/hair color, sometimes eye color, and they occasionally gain wings and/or (a) horn/s. These events are brought on by both age (most all Delphin have a shift between 12 and 14 years), and environmental factors. Her cousin, Murial (formerly Nytehawk), had a second shift when she was extremely stressed by a situation she was in, for example.

So, typically, if a Delphin gets a second shift, it's by the time they're in their mid 20s, at the latest. They will typically not experience any later ones.

Unless something severe happens, like a broken horn, or a vampire's bite. (I call them vampires, they are technically not, but it's the easiest term to use.)

The latter definitely happened to Snowhawk the Character (not Sno the mun, I know it's confusing... :p). I'm actually debating on if the first will happen to her, since her horn type changes from her birth type of a straight amethyst core with a silver spiral to Phase 3's smooth, curved type. It would be a good reasoning. ANYWAY.

The coloration I have been using in SL since then is that Phase 3 coloration. I have lots of feels behind this coloration, and it has a lot of meaning behind it. Granted, it's a lot of emo bullshit, but the representation is still there. This is the last canon coloration she has. This is how she looked when the story ends.

So in SL, I've toyed with the idea of roleplaying her. I never really do, I can't take RP as seriously as I used to, and I don't feel that's fair to RP partners, but still... This was how I saw her in my mind.

All other colorations I've used since this one are non-canon. She has three (four if you could the very earliest flash black) colorations in the novel. And the rest are me being bored. And I get bored of them very easily. I've sold all the colorations I've used in SL except this one.


SL has given me a chance to develop characters beyond what I had done before. Even my malt Adian got a new hairstyle! It will be his canon hairstyle after his encounter with a particular character.

I don't know why I'm being vague, no one who reads this will probably ever read my novel. ("Nice and subtle, Sno." Thanks, I try.)

But yeah, I just wanted to post that officially. It's 5:30 in the morning and I should be asleep, but I am fighting it.

I finally did a mod to sell! :3 I'm going to do several color, I think, but there's was a lack of donkey mods on the Marketplace. So I have decided to try and fix it.



There's a few more pictures on Flickr, but this is the v1, I'm calling it, of this mod. I'm going to add in a bunch of other textures for other equine mods. Soon. I'm tired rn. Been up all night working on this.

You can find it on the Marketplace here!
You can find it in world here!

Finally, there's a new anthro equine on the grid.

Don't get me wrong, I love the AVentity equine, but it's been almost 3 years since it was released.

Raawr just released an equine avatar tonight (the first release party isn't even over as I type this), and I had a little extra from getting a commission, so I picked it up.

I'm not going to do a review, I'll let SLARF handle that, I'm just going to say I am VERY pleased with it and the build quality and now I'll spam you with quick pictures.

I already modded mine to look like my character... :3 Easiest mod I've done.










Edit: And, of course, I've made a halter for it.

So, I finally splurged and bought a ~*Water Horse*~ avatar.

And, because I have this character, Ruby, who is a sorrel unicorn mare, I added a horn and made it her. Which meant buying the Arabian add-on pack... But that wasn't enough, she was a little too light, so I went to The Texture Barn and got the deep sorrel texture pack.

But, of course, I can't stop there... I went to The Pony Store and got three things: The Arabian neck sculpt, the sculpted teeth, and the sculpted tongue.

I added my horn, made it green, added the texture to my tail, made a "mane" until I can make some kind of sculpted thing for it and...


Whee, unicorn. :p

But, of course, I had to make the halter's fit.




I had to borrow a friend to make the draft one, since I couldn't buy the draft version, and I also used her as a model. (Thank you, Fancy!)

But, there you go, my adventures last night. :p

So, while I LOVE Evers' faun legs, I htink they're still a little skinny for my pony av. So I'd been poking around at things... then I remembered I actually had the DSD ram on Snowhawk.

Hooray!

I pulled the version 2 of the solid hooves, since version 3 was a mite tall and deformed weird when I shrunk it, and plopped two on the ground.

Then I pulled out the legs and hooves from the DSD ram, pulled the ram hoofies off it, and then smushed around the "fetlock" area prim to fit the solid hoof. Re-textured really quickly, and poof! Stocky legs! :D





Much better for a pony. :3

Also, I updated my Marketplace store. Since the Teen Grid has been merged into the Main Grid, anything with adult content (or tags for adult content), has to be marked as such. Since my halters had the OpenCollar scripts, they fell into that. There are versions up now with NO scripts in their boxes. As well, all my in-world stock has gone "clean." The versions with scripts are still available on the Marketplace.

So, Eversky Aeon over at The Pony Store released some sculpted shoes for her sculpted hooves! :3

I just had to trot (...lol) right over and grab them! :)


(Pardon my giant assed invisiprim there. My hooves are very small, and Emerald hasn't been updated to use alpha layers that everyone can see yet.)



They're very cute, and perfect for my av. I was missing the silver flash when I walked with my old hooves.

Edit: Just as a comparison, here are my previous hooves, and my current ones, side by side.



(horsebutt)


My mesh foot is sticking out in the middle of the old hoof, so that's the strange purple there.