/!\ 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
Very good, right out of the gate with proper features
As an early buyer of the M4 Bento previously released, I was disappointed with the shape and had several gripes with it, so naturally I was semi-hesitant about this one. Looking at it, though, it looked more like the M3 Venus than how the M4 looked nothing like the M3, that is what made the decision so fast, that paired with the backwards compatibility of the M3 Venus skins. I have to say, it works like a dream, the backwards compat works great, the shape is great out of the box, and it's nice to have a smooth bento Venus head. This whole thing feels like the M3 Venus, just updated, which is fine with me, I'd dare say you could take the M3 Venus off the market and replace it with this, if it wasn't for one problem. The backwards compat is good, but it's not perfect. These heads use the neck adapter (Which I am more than grateful for, since it helps with seams,) but the legacy Venus skins don't have a way to adapt to the neck, which means that certain skins that are meant for a Venus/Normie body are impossible to use. Not much of a deal breaker, but it would be nice if at some point Utilizator adds an adapter of some kind to work with the old Venus appliers, that way you can utilize it to the fullest. Overall, worth the purchase if you primarily use Kemono anyways without a third party neck adapter.
Some Minor issues
So. After a long time i find out through a group that Uti finally release the M4 Venus. I was excited beyond measures and i bought it. Reasons for my excitement stems from having using the M3 Venus on a neko look i had way way back before Bento became a thing. And i totally adored and loved that look. Seeing the M4 Venus made me wanna revive said look. So i bought it and went to work on putting it together. My old eyes and head skin both went on without a hitch. Which is highly great. Then after some fiddling with the new HUD. (also here i wanna say props to bettering the HUD the heads come with. I like what i am seeing and how it works). After this comes the part that really makes or breaks my opinions of this head. The head is gorgeous and its Bento. It looks like a Venus still. And i love how it looks. But when i went to put on my Bento cat ears... My excitement was quickly stifled and halted. Suddenly my gorgeous head is all deformed and really not great.. Below i am just gonna attach a link to show what i am dealing with. Now after some more investigating. it does seem like its only on some types of Bento ears. As far i can see its just Aii's Save the ears fox ears and Aii's Neko'Neko ears from my collection. And thats just from my collection of them.
https://gyazo.com/6670e98476a52457d4fdfe6a7c96a9ce
perfect
lovely update to an already beautiful head
Love it!
This head is perfect if you want a mature anime style look to your character and its bento, its also backwards compatible. it uses the old venus mods and the make up. i seriously love this head so much.
thanks Uti for making this mesh head.
Improving an old, good product
The M3 venus was already good as is and not much could be done to make it better.
But with the addition of it becoming rigged using the bento face bones, the head has severely improved from the m3 venus. It's basically the same head but with more options; skins are even backward compatible.
A long due but welcome upgrade. It looks good, animates well and is even low poly (2626 triangles)! The facial menu has also gotten a welcome upgrade with many more options to choose from.
The wait is over!
I have tried out all of the m4 heads. Personally the only one that satisfied me was the Mars for my male avatars, so I've been sitting patiently in hopes that a Venus head was coming.
At first I was a little hesitant. The appliers from M3 Venus worked great, but working with a rigged head was making the transition with old shapes difficult for me. Once I took a step back and relaxed though, everything came together. I don't quite have the same fit as before, but the new fit is great, and there are so many more emote and blush/tears options. It's hard to say goodbye to my old go-to head, but this is a welcomed update. Finally, a female bento head I feel great in.
