So I was excited to try a Project Bento mesh head, and when Strawberry Singh posted about the new Altamura Aggie Bento mesh head and I found out it was on sale for L$699, I decided to take the plunge. It seems like it would be a lovely upgrade, even if it is a fashionista indulgence. Bento adds new bones to a Second Life shape, which may sound creepy at first - but it means, among other things, that you can have wings with realistic motion integrated into your body, or hands with individually moving fingers, or a mesh head that you can adjust!Ī mesh head, especially a Bento one, can be more expressive than a Second Life system head, with better expressions and gestures, more control, and finer sculpting. You can test Bento with experimental versions of either of those viewers.
In case you don’t already know, Bento is a new feature Linden Labs developed that in the coming weeks or months will be available in the default Second Life viewer as well as in Firestorm. There are a lot of them, but the fact that they can’t be changed to match what I think of as my face has meant I really haven’t been interested.īut now there’s Bento, or there soon will be. The availability of mesh heads hasn’t changed that for me. Pointy chin, thin nose, and a resting expression that hints at a smile - that was what I’ve thought of as me since the day I arrived. It’s only a little shorter than it should be, and hair takes care of the problem, but the point is, I really wanted to have this face. There was one problem, though, and that was that getting the face shape I wanted required me to have kind of a short head. Instead, I just went with my gut, changing each setting until the face looked right. When I shaped my avatar more than ten years ago over about two hours of picky work with sliders, I didn’t try to mimic my First Life face (though I didn’t try not to, either). Please be kind to me about this, but I have a freakish head.
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