/!\ Warning /!\
Please see this list of appearance editor sliders that work and dont work before you consider buying this head https://utilizator404.wordpress.com/2018/06/06/bento-for-dummies/
Also please note that since this head is rigged mesh, you cannot resize and position it to fit your hair like you could with M3, and because of that it can look really weird with some hairs and fine with others. You just need to find the right hair.
This head is only compatible with texture mods specifically made for M3 Venus and M4 Venus heads.
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You wanted it, you got it ! The M4 Bento Venus head is here! and now you can be one of the cool kids are riding the bento craze wave.
- What is Different from the other M4 heads ? -
Unfortunately, there are no alternative nose or eye socket shapes, but as a tradeoff the head is backwards compatible with M3 Venus appliers and retains the M3 tear effect!
you now have full compatibility with old M3 Venus appliers (skins, eyes, brows, lashes, blush, tears) as well as M4 Venus appliers, however because of this specific compatibility, other M4 and M3 head skins that were not made specifically for the venus head, will not work with the M4 Venus. One thing to note is that mouth uses M4 mouth textures instead of the mouth included on the M3 Venus skins.
As mentioned before, this particular head has the tears option, you can access it through the blush button by clicking it repeatedly till it switches from blush mode to tears mode. Due to a technical limitation regarding alphas, switching on tears, sets the eyelash texture to alpha masking in order to not clash with the tear alpha, this degrades the quality of some eyelash textures. One interesting thing we noticed very late into development is that for whatever reason that same alpha clash bug is not happening between the blush layer and tears, we will look into why this is happening (or more like, why its not happening) and hopefully we can implement tears in other M4 heads. A separate HUD button for tears will be implemented with future updates but for now if you wanna have both and you know what youre doing, first turn on tears and than unhide the blush using SL's build menu.
The default eye size setting is now size 2, if you make the eyes bigger in the appearance editor, use eye size setting 1 in the M4 HUD to match it.
The Rikugou necks will apply Rikugou skin tones to the rest of the head if you select a skin from the HUD, light skins will apply Rikugou A tone, dark skins Rikugou B
the LL/normie neck will apply its own tone to the head as well for the medium skin tone, matching the medium LL skin tone from the appliers included in the bonus item box.
- whats included in this package -
This Manual
HUD usage instructions.
M4 Head
M4 Head (Shape 2) if your face looks too big with your hair, try this head instead.
M4 Head HUD
M4 Neck for Kemono
M4 Neck for Avatar 2.0
M4 Neck for LL and normie bodies like Belleza and Slink
M4 Neck for Rikugou
M3 Venus classic shape
M4 Venus new shape
Emote pack
Bonus items
Update card
Landmark to the store
Emotes pack:
3 voice chat activation gestures
Emote instructions
Example emote gesture
Bonus items:
Face remote control relay
Developer resources
Omega skin appliers for normies bodies
Skins for LL body
LL head alpha
- Features -
• Full mod - Edit it, link stuff to it, rip or replace its textures, go crazy with it but make backups before you do!
• In depth customization with lots of options - Customize your head, choose its textures, colors, skin, ear types, add custom textures and specular maps..
• Full facial control - Eyebrows, eyelids, Eyes and mouth can be controlled separately, mixing and matching different positions to create your own expression.
• Smooth animations and built in AO - eyes blink, look around, the mouth moves when you type or talk on voice chat, emotes as well as 3 different face AO styles.
• And more!
- Full mod (SL permission system)
- In depth customization with lots of options
- Full facial control
- Smooth animations and built in AO
- bento
Venus And Fitted Torso
I like this head for the most part, but I wish there was a neck specifically for the Fitted Torso, I tried the regular kemono neck but it clips in a few places on the back.
Awesome sauce!
I read every single reviews, good, average and bad before buying. I had hesitations because of some of the criticism but went ahead and took a chance, after all it's not like 5KL$ like for some Catwa head or something. The head is GREAT! I don't see any of the problems other people had with it, maybe it's been updated? Anyhow, have no hesitation, it's just awesome, thanks to the creator!
Its okay... but
Eyes looks weird like plastic and you are not able to change it with custom eyes because there is no option to hide eyes.
Ehhh, well I have to agree with some of the complaints
There are some problems with this head I wish wouldn't be there. It's just updated to bento but some things are workings worse than they used to.. With the bento in mind we are able to make unique face shapes so that is definitely a big plus. Just that there are some things that leave me hoping for better... :)
As others have said: the mouth deforms, the head has some chunky questionable low poly areas that give a bad first impression.
Also.. the head isn't alpha hair friendly? See picture below.
Eyes turn scary pink with overlapping alpha hair!
https://i.imgur.com/rC9gKS9.png
The other problems don't bother me as they can be hidden/fixed with deforming the skeleton.. But I know no way of using my hair on this head.. :'(
My hud is broken
My head hud disappeared and I can't get it to appear again, I equip/unequip. nothing
There is literally not a single bad thing about it.
It is mod, it is very well made, the construction is miles above every single mesh head out there, including heads that cost 10 times as much.