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Teegle Horse Avatar Version 1.0

Teegle Horse Avatar
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*Woah, stop! This is a horse avatar! Buy this horse only if you want to BE a horse! If you want to HAVE a horse, look for the Teeglepet Animesh horse (currently available only in-world at the Teegle Main Store)*

This is a bento avatar! It requires a bento viewer to work!

Demo video (recorded 4 weeks before completion of the avatar) available here:
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCOlWA8eAuQ&t=21s
Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jP2przn9o&t=12s
Customer review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WCGJ9nv8Y

This avatar will turn you into a horse, instead of a human. This is NOT a rideable attachment like you might expect from a breedable horse and should not be purchased unless you intend to BE a horse.

This avatar includes:
- Full rigged mesh English tack set with:
--- Fitted saddlepad
--- English saddle
--- English bridle with noseband
--- Stirrups up or down options

- 4 starter textures (Bay, Black, Grey, Chestnut) with:
--- Face and leg marking options
--- 2 paint bodies
--- 1 appaloosa body

- Full AO with:
--- 5 stand animations
--- Walk, Trot, Canter, Gallop
--- Head turning left and right when you turn, with no interruption to legs
--- Grazing crouch and crouchwalk
--- Fly, "Swim", Jump
--- Independent facial and tail standing animation configuration

- A fully rigged and articulating face with:
--- 13 expressive facial animations
--- Talking animation that looks like real talking!
--- 5 looping facial animations
--- Options for playing with bit while riding

- A flexible neck
--- Neck can bend and flex like a real horse
--- Lots of neck poses to choose from for photos and RP
--- Neck and head individually poseable for more options!

- A rigged and animated mesh mane and tail
--- Mane and tail move realistically in everything the horse does!
--- Tail can be posed in one of 4 poses from "down" to "flagged

- Custom-poseable face, ears, tongue, head, neck, and tail
--- Slider-controlled animations to put your ears more forward or back, neck more left or right, etc!
--- 35 neck poses
--- 25 head poses
--- 13 poses for each ear
--- 13 tongue poses
--- 6 eyelid states
--- 4 tail states
--- 5 jaw states

- Tons of shape options!
--- Includes Arabian, Andalusian, Draft, Pony, and more
--- Head can be made dished, roman, or flat through shape sliders
--- Ears can get bigger or smaller through ear sliders
--- Whole body can get taller or shorter within reason (~small horse - draft size)

- Complex riding system
--- Up to 3 human avatars can ride your horse avatar at a time
--- Walk, Trot, Canter, and Gallop with smooth left and right head turning
--- Left and Right lead change options
--- Rider can lead beside horse at a walk or trot
--- Spook, Buck, and Rear with rider
--- Rider can reward you with a pat
--- Swim with rider in LL water
--- Jump at lower height - more realistic than sl "superjump"
--- Fly with rider

- Simple texturing and tinting of body, mane, tail, shine, and tattoo
--- Texture your whole body with a click of a button
--- Tint your whole body, whole tattoo layer, eyes, etc all through the hud
--- Third party texture developer kits freely available

- Choice of normal mapped musculature
--- No normal map, Light muscles, or Heavy muscles all included in hud

- Customize more, less, or no coat shine from HUD

- Alpha show and hide features from HUD
--- Show/hide individual body parts or whole body for skin and tattoo layers

- Alpha masking/alpha blending swap from HUD
--- Change the alpha masking/alpha blending settings on your mane, tail, and tattoo with a single click to avoid clipping

- Unrigged halter

- Rider communication RP tool
--- Give a copy to your rider, and they can communicate to you which direction they would like to go while you steer

- Easy addition of new animations and sounds
--- Animation and sound applier pack freely available to creators, will add new animations and sounds straight into your hud!

- Free creator tools available, including UV maps, texture bases, rigging and animation dummies, and video tutorials

- Integration with existing BC horse skin textures
--- Hundreds of horse textures that you can still enjoy in a new generation of horse avatars!

To see this avatar, you must use a Second Life Bento Project viewer. Bento viewers are available from Linden Lab and Firestorm and can be downloaded from their respective download pages. (Look for version 5.0+ on both viewers)

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Simply Incredible.
full star full star full star full star full star Posted March 08, 2017 by PrinceDemande

Everything I could ever want in a horse avatar and much more. The picture does not do the product justice. The animations are light, beautiful, and natural which is difficult to capture in SL but Teager pulled it off. The face is expressive and very warmblood-esque. However it is also rigged to respond to some of SL's sliders, so you can achieve a roman nose, dished face, or other look entirely. The creator even had the foresight to include additional shapes as if to anticipate the desire to "be different" in SL's horse community.

Become what you want to be. The avatar has so much to offer and is backed by a strong 3rd party market of accessories such as animations, tack, body parts, and textures. This is money well spent. So much was included in the box that I didn't feel the need to immediately seek out other textures or tack to use. The stuff included is so nice, I am genuinely surprised. It is easy to "slack" on extras, but Teager clearly did not do so. The same attention to detail went into everything included as it did into the avatar itself.

Looking forward to more from Teager. Whether it is through Breeder's Choice or Teegle. The quality of product is consistently high.

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This horse is wonderful!
full star full star full star full star full star Posted March 04, 2017 by Niffarious

Overall the hud is easy to use and figure out on 'what does what'. The rider system is nice - I love the pat on the neck part. There is thankfully lots of things being made for the teegle horse too.. Accessories are always fun! Changing how your horse looks is as easy as snagging a mod off marketplace and just clicking a hud to become that horse of a different color. And the 'Can I ride you?'.. That is just an ego boost to me. I love giving rides to my friends.
This horse actually looks real too; The nose, facial structure, muscles, even the mane and tail moving with a light breeze now and then - details are wonderful.

Here is one thing I hope will have an update:
There should be an easier way to click the added/bought animations since those seem to be in a list of what they are called instead of any particular spot to well.. actually click. Maybe if there was a bit of space between the animations added text? I love being able to add animations, but I always seem to miss-click those anims.

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Superb
full star full star full star full star full star Posted March 03, 2017 by Eragon Joubert

Makes human mesh seem like a lost cause. I would rather be a horse.

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perfect work ♥♥♥
full star full star full star full star full star Posted February 27, 2017 by Wassaabii

perfect work ♥♥♥thank you

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Simply Jaw Dropping!
full star full star full star full star full star Posted February 17, 2017 by PiperPandora Rowley

I am still lost for words and have not even finished going through my HUDs yet! I am that excited and utterly amazed at the quality of this horse, shapes, textures, animations, expressions that are so unbelievably realistic, it is going to be hard to go back to being human again, giggles. Gosh, my jaw is still on the floor and I will just state that this has to be the very best thing I have ever bought here in Second Life. WOW!!

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Overall Ok
full star full star full star full star empty star Posted February 12, 2017 by Dagger Evanier

The avatar itself is great, some of the animation seem a bit on the slow end but completely understandable due to the amount of effort put into it.... I just have 2 complaints which are rather minor. First is the price. As I am sure that there will be more great avatars coming from the maker the price of the Teegle is tough. Especially when you want to customize the avatar. The second complaint that I have is that even though there are different sizes included with the avatar, these sizes do not necessarily work with the extra content provided. For as much as the horse is, having at least some variant on a mane or tail would be a great additive and a bonus to the customer so that these great sizes that are presented in the box are usable.

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