//// This body is not fitted mesh and is meant to be used with an unrigged or animesh head, it does not include a head!
// Resources for creating textures and rigging accessories are included
// I should also mention this does not come with a tail animator, you will need your own
/ Known issues: Rigged wings will deform the body and i'm not sure what causes this to happen
/ 22/03/23: added alternate taller leg body, updated devkit link
Pretty good, would love some work on it!
Managed to mod a Quivern from Palworld with this body, but i cant have my nametag be high enough for this av, and its always in my face, would love to see a fix for that.
Wonderful rare resource!
So glad to have a body like this finally! Wanted it when I saw the werefish avi but didn't want to be a fishy. Sorry someone tanked the reviews, this is genuinely very good for the price and especially considering something like this isn't really found anywhere. I wish I saw it sooner. Give it a chance if you want a body type like this!
A Greatly-Appreciated Creator's Resource
I'm gonna be real: it's wicked difficult to find ANY sort of body shape like this on SL—we're spoiled for choice when it comes to humanoid pinup models or hyper-realistic animals. Anything different is usually an ancient collection of prims smashed together or a poorly-supported mod for an existing body. Like stated in the title, this is a resource I greatly appreciate: the creator has provided a robust devkit for custom skins and rigged accessories, which is an infuriatingly rare trend among SL's more popular items. This body is also well-optimized, unlike those aforementioned popular items and their creators' tendency to repeatedly smash the Smooth modifier in their preferred 3D program.
Anyways, I hope this (obviously) spiteful review from the heart helps boost your metrics a bit—you make a lot of great stuff that is hard to find on SL and don't deserve to get tanked by some rando with an inflated sense of expectations for a 20+ year old social platform full of amateur creators.
I wanted to like it
The creator is clearly talented, there's a lot in their store that is very eye catching and more still I intend to buy as I move from project to project. The reason I bought it was because I wanted to use it to try to make either a Charizard or Goodra mod with it. The body type is ALMOST perfect for that. The only reason I am docking so many stars off of this is that it is extremely anti-customization UNLESS you know how to do texture work yourself.
It IS mod, yes, and the textures are even included which is AMAZING, but the glaring problem that I can't overcome is that the whole body has 2 selectable faces: the left half and the right half. And it doesn't use anything such as SLUV so BoM layering alphas is not possible. The hands and feet are the weak links on this avi beyond a shadow of a doubt. In terms of quality, the toes and fingers seem like an afterthought. I needed to replace the arms with very thin ones and short of alpha'ing them out entirely via the texture I have no options to do so.
In terms of quality, the body is not going to blow your mind like some super polished mainstream body. It has some low poly and jagged surfaces that become more or even less apparent depending on how it is positioned during animations. Some tail animators basically squish the whole base of the tail but this isn't really a problem unless you are using animations that make it sway an extreme distance in any one direction. It is, however, totally worth 350L -IF- you do not mind needing a gentle tail animation and you aren't bothered by the arms hands or feet. The feet do not change size with your shape, but the hands do. As they warn, it isn't fitted so adjusting Muscle in the torso also does not work.
I do not imagine there are any updates planned for this, it seems more like a project that the creator wanted to throw into the world rather than a full "thing," but if it ever does get an update I will update my review as relevant.