Her name is Little Ramna and she is the caretaker for Earth. Taking on the appearance of an unassuming little flower, she wanders the lands giving and taking life from plants. It is her duty to maintain the natural order of nature, and it's a big job for such a tiny flower!
Here is my very first go at a full miniature mesh avatar made entirely from scratch. She has taken just over a year to perfect and finalize and I'm hoping you'll love her as much as I do! My plan was to make her as low-poly as I could and with small textures (nothing above 512x512) for a low impact. Her avatar complexity remains around 26k.
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---Avatar features-------
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- :::The Body::: Fully rigged mesh body (not fitted). Certain shape sliders will however change her height, body width, hip width, shoulder width, hand size, etc. Feel free to make a copy of her shape and play around with all the sliders to see how customizable she is! The instruction manual will also include a list of all sliders that will actually change parts of her shape. Her hands come in only one position and aren't bento-rigged. But as I research bento, I've planned to put out bento hands at a cheap price for her! She only has four fingers (including thumbs) to give her a cartoon appearance. She comes with 4 base skin tones to pick from (all have a leafy bikini, no nood option available).
- :::The Head::: Non-rigged head for easy customization. Her petals and head ribbon can be toggled on or off, in case you would like to shrink anime hairs to fit with her. I will also be making various different heads and hairs for her in the future. Her face features various mouth positions to convey emotion, alongside two positions for the brows (angry and shy). Her eyes can be toggled open or closed, and she blinks. There are many colors to pick from for her petals.
- :::Alpha System::: A non-mirrored alpha system so that you may hide the right arm but not the left. For modders, her UV map is mirrored but the faces are not, so you may have different textures for all limbs (however the main torso is mirrored).
- :::Included Clothing::: Pumpkin overalls with many different textures and colors to pick from. Future additional clothing pieces are in the works, and I will consider most reasonable suggestions as to what outfits you would like next, so don't be shy.
- :::Animation Overrider::: She comes with her very own AO made specifically for her with my animations. I don't profess to be the most experienced when it comes to making animations, but most of the animations in the AO are accounted for (only swimming animations aren't included) and provide a very good base to work from. They are all non-static and loop smoothly. It comes with three stands and two walks that are cycled through at random. You may add animations that you like, or use your own AO. However! Keep in mind any AO not made for a tiny avatar will come with sinking or floating issues when it comes to sitting/crouching/landing/etc. I suggest Oracul AOs made for Toddledoos or any similar sized avatar. Also included is a jump limiter made to work specifically with the length of the jump animation. If you use the AO without the jump limiter, the jump animation may appear to be a bit short.
- ::: Mesh Defomer::: She is made small by a rigged mesh deformer that is shared with Chibi-Robo (MiniMeep) that uses no scripts, and therefore works smoothly in script-disabled sims.
- ::: Instruction Manual::: All features are further described and explained here to give you guidance on how to do certain things with her. Also included are instructions for changing camera settings to work with being this short.
- ::: For Modders::: Though there is not yet an easy system in place to apply custom textures to her, I am hoping we figure out how to do it for the future! For now, it will take some knowledge on modding, but I may also put out a video explaining how to do it. I will provide the UV maps for free for anyone wishing to make their own textures for her.
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July 29, 2019
- Re-did pretty much all textures for Little Ramna so that she is no longer cartoon shaded and there are more details and depth. HUD appearance updated as well.
October 1, 2019
- Made a few tweaks to the alpha system so it would work more seamlessly with the clothes I'm making. Smoothed out the shape of Ramna's chest a little and did some general fixes to the weights for more symmetry.
February 10, 2020
- Updated the AO to change some of the priorities on animations and smooth out some of the animations.
- Two HUDs for clothing and body/head
- Animation Overrider
- Alpha-hiding System
- Emotions
- Cuteness! and more!
sooo cute <3 <3 <3
One of the best cute little avatars in all of Second Life, so cuddle cute <3 <3 <3 <3
Beautifully amazing!
Thank you for making such a wonderful little creation that melts your heart! <3
Fantastically cute
An adorably put together little mini for the price. Only downside is if you want to have a more human-style anime head as others have mentioned the M3 heads work but only for the Mini. They break if scaled down to the Teeny. But other than the lack of any human-style anime heads this avatar is perfect for running around being a small and cute little flower fairy.
awesome!
with the human parts, this is better than any other petite out there. You can scale down the M3 heads and some other heads to work with it as well.
I love it but
Why didn't I get the full range of facial expressions I see everywhere in all pics like the x mouth and such. I only have three options. I don't see another addon that adds facial expressions. what am I missing
so cute!
i love this avatar! a really good option for those who want to be mini and more on the chibi or anime side. i love the fairy-nub-feet as well.
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here are the pros:
- a little customizable with the sliders (to a certain extent, mostly affects height/limb length)
- fairly simple set-up! just equip a few things and you should be good to go!
- has a cute AO and camera fix that comes with it! it's really easy to use, and works so well.
- the HUDs are nice and clean too!
- super cute face! i personally love the mostly flat textures for the facial features. it's very charming.
- but, if you're a fan of the androgynous body-type but want a different kind of face/head, this works with other unrigged mesh heads, as long as you're able to squish them down to size.
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the only cons i will say are (which many are not necessarily the fault of the creator):
- this seems to be a fairly niche avatar, so the only items made to fit it are limited to just what this creator has made at the moment.
- when lengthening your limbs/increasing your height, your limbs seem thinner, so the legs and arms can look pretty stick-y, and you can't thicken your limbs at all. keep that in mind.
- this avatar will NOT fit any other rigged micro avatar clothing (at least from what i've tried so far). it is offset just a bit behind where the common micro avatar would be, so it's not really maneuver-able. unrigged items, however, should work just fine!
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overall, my favorite micro avatar thus far!
i don't know how new this avatar is, but i really hope it gains a little more popularity, and in best case, some more people creating items for it :)
