Sleeping Kitten... AWWWWWwwww

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Only 100 L$ ! Includes a wearable version (with holding animation) and a display version. *While stocks last.

Low-prim Sleeping Kitten. 100% ORIGINAL sculpted and painted mesh. NOT ripped from games, so you can be sure it won't be removed from your inventory by LL. Easy click to resize. Uses SL materials for extra detail and realism. Only 1 prim Land Impact.

Available on SL Marketplace


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NEW! Spooky Tree!

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Mesh Spook Tree. 100% ORIGINAL sculpted and painted mesh. NOT ripped from games, so you can be sure it won't be removed from your inventory by LL. Easy click to resize. Uses SL materials for extra detail and realism. Only 8 prims Land Impact.

Available on SL Marketplace


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NEW RELEASE! Mesh Half-Brain Zombie NPC Collection by TESLA











High quality NPC (Non-Player Character) low-prim Half-Brain Zombie. 100% ORIGINAL sculpted and painted mesh by Tesla. NOT ripped from games, so you can be SURE it won't be removed from your inventory by LL. Easy click to resize. Uses SL materials (normal and specular maps) for extra detail and realism. Under 9 prims Land Impact each.

Available at SL Marketplace.

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NPC low-prim Witch & Broomstick. 100% ORIGINAL sculpted and painted mesh. NOT ripped from games, so you can be sure it won't be removed from your inventory by LL. Easy click to resize. Uses SL materials for extra detail and realism. Only 5 prims Land Impact.

Get it HERE

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- TESLA - Sky High Mesh Pumps & Mesh Legs /w Color Change HUD

Super sexy fitted mesh legs and pumps by Tesla!
100% Original Fitted Mesh Legs and High Heeled Pumps. Compatible with other mesh body systems!

The legs are much smoother than the default SL avatar legs and they bend more realistically. They're fitted mesh, so the legs can be skinny or wide - you decide how you want your legs to look!

Colour Change HUD - 10 Shoe Colours/ 9 Tights Colours.

Includes 4 different mesh leg lengths to suit whatever outfit your choose to wear.

You may need to adjust your avatar Hover height slider after wearing the mesh if your feet float or sink into the ground. This can be found in your appearance properties, under the Body tab.

Available at Tesla's SL Marketplace - Please try the Demo!

10 Shoe Colours!
9 Tights/Pantyhose Colours!

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Why I think SL 2.0 could be EXTREMELY successful

Not SL 2.0, but Unreal Engine 4, this is a possibility in SL 2.0

These are just my opinions why I think SL 2.0, the new platform that Linden Labs are developing to supercede Second Life could be extremely successful, based on how and why the existing platform continues to be popular. I've tried to keep the language as layman as possible so anyone can understand - please let me by private message know if some terms are too technical, and I'll try to simplify it.

The screenshot I have posted above is not from the upcoming platform, but a game engine called Unreal Engine 4 - As you can see it looks very realistic, with very accurately produced shadows, lighting and reflections - none of which are baked textures and are controlled in real-time, which means that the lighting can be adjusted and changed on the fly to one's preference. Doesn't it look awesome? You just need to take one look at a Second Life Flickr group to see that REALISM SELLS; the most popular items by SL creators look as real as you can with the current technology - It is what SL consumers want, and it is what keeps the SL economy alive and the talented mesh creators in business. The majority of users are buying things that exist or could exist in real life, you have to admit that realism is sexy and mesmerizing - the love affair for the illusion of reality is what people love about Second Life, and with more companies investing in virtual reality headset development, this is a love affair that will continue outside and beyond Second Life.

Large companies are catching onto VR. The path is set.

Now you might be thinking that it would take a long time to populate a new virtual world with all the detailed realistic objects that you see in SL 1.0 - not true. As someone who works with mesh, and is part of the game modding community, I can tell you that creating realistic objects in Second Life is much harder than in modern games because you're working with a very outdated game rendering engine, so a lot of the texturing is compensating for effects lacking in Second Life - The most obvious one is reflections - SL doesn't have reflections, so most creators fake the reflections by baking or painting them into the diffuse texture of the object - While it works when you're standing still, as soon as you start moving, then the illusion is broken: in real life, the reflection changes dynamically as you move around an object. While reflections might not be on the list of priorities for everyone, the most outdated part of SL, is the fact that at any one time, the maximum of only six light sources can be visible - this is severely limiting, as many modern game engines can have unlimited light sources active with very little load on the graphics card. This is the reason why the nicest SL interior photos you see are taken using mainly daylight, SL interiors do not look good at night settings unless the lighting has been baked, but even then, night interiors look very far from real compared to the day-time shots. Baked lighting and reflections do not 'reflect' (for want of a better word) the changing surroundings, especially the changes from daytime to night-time. All this baking to compensate for the lack of features in SL's rendering means that it takes LONGER for creators to create items.

The daytime scene adjusts perfectly to night-time.
If you don't think that the game engine can make a big difference to the in-game objects, just take a game like Crysis, and run it at the lowest settings - The textures don't look that great do they? That's because the game engine is doing most of the work with the lighting. Not to say that it will be easier to create items, there will still be a technical need to create the materials (specular and normal maps), and for the creator to make a texture and mesh, but the work-flow could be faster. Many creators are rendering the textures in an external application - this takes time - to make them look more realistic in Second Life with the raytraced shadows and reflections... once again, these are fixed into the texture, if you move around the object, or the lighting changes, the illusion is broken.

Skin could look more realistic with real-time subsurface scattering.
Next lets talk about subsurface scattering. What is it? Let's take an example like skin. Skin is not opaque, if you hold your hand up to a bright light, you'll see that light will pass through parts of your hand: your skin is translucent. Subsurface scattering is a rendering term for when light goes through the skin and then it 'bounces' (scattering) around beneath the surface (subsurface). It is what gives skin a slight glow, especially the ears when the skin is thinner. In video games, it is what makes skin look more realistic. The reason why most people in SL prefer a slightly cartoon-ier skin and less than photo-realistic skin is because a photorealistic skin doesn't look good: a skin looks realistic in SL when it has the lighting baked into the texture, which means that it only looks correct when the avatar is standing in similar lighting which the creator intended for the skin - also there is something odd about the skin, it lacks subsurface scattering which adds a type of 'warmth' to the face, without the warmth, you have something that looks very cold, and maybe a bit creepy. Everyone cares about their skin, the default avatar skin shader does not have any shine (specular), that's probably the reason why LL hasn't given the avatar mesh materials yet (it would also likely break many SL skins as they were painted with shininess in the texture). One thing that most SL users care about is their skin! That is how they represent themselves to the rest of the virtual world, people could have skins that respond better to the environment that they're standing in, it literally would allow people to see their avatars in a new light...

Real-time screenshot from upcoming title Project Cars. Realism rules!

So going to back to my point that EYECANDY is what sells in SL 1.0, and the same thing is going to sell SL 2.0 - if you still disagree with me, just take a look at the top selling items on SL Marketplace, or any of the most popular SL blogs, hopefully we will see much improved physics. One of the major things that people complain about in SL is that vehicles don't really work realistically, they're hard to steer and often fly off corners or into the air. Now imagine with the screenshot above, that in SL 2.0, you could have your realistic apartment with your realistic lighting, then you could go down to the street and get into your photo-realistic sportscar and drive it to the shops, and it will be as responsive as any car you have driven in the latest game titles. Right now, in SL, people fly everywhere, just because it's the fastest way to get around - could it really be possible that there is a more enjoyable way to travel in a brand new virtual world? In SL 1.0, we live for static objects, scenes look great on Flickr, movies have to be carefully edited - SL 2.0 would be a dynamic world, where everything is moving, constantly shifting.

While I can't promise that these things will happen, one can hope that Linden Labs will incorporate these new technologies into the new software so everyone can enjoy a more realistic experience. So instead of complaining about Linden Lab not putting as much time or resources into SL 1.0, let's cheer them on for SL 2.0, let's give them our support so that they can produce the best product they can. There are constant complaints about SL 1.0 issues, we can prevent similar issues from occurring in SL 2.0 if we are more active in the beginning development of the new virtual world. Let's make it known that we back Linden Labs new project, because we all want a good outcome!

Just my two cents,

Tes :)

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Check Us Out At SL11B!


The Illuminator VR Bar

This is a philosophical and metaphorical art work that delivers a cautionary tale about the potential for a nightmarish VR experience. Inspired by movies like eXistenZ, The Matrix, Inception, and The Naked Lunch. By Tesla Miles and Liz Venenbaum.

When the sim opens to the public, you can visit HERE!

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NEW! Mesh ZOMBIE Head in a Box! ...Wooot!?

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This is a MUST-HAVE if you're a zombie survival horror fan! You're not just getting original handmade mesh and textures - NOT ripped and NOT template mesh, but original and fun poses too!

This really is a work of art and a labor of love. If you love zombies like I do, then you would really love this zombie head box to decorate your SL home or sim!

Includes two versions, one is a smaller (3 LI) resizeable, and the other contains poses (4 LI), just sit on it to activate the poses.

Get a zombie head today! Check this item out at the left-hand side of my inworld Store! Also available on SL Marketplace.

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NEW RELEASE! - Priscilla Peplum Fitted Mesh Dress! - REDUXed

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Some of you were probably wondering what happened to that dress that I put out a while ago. Well I decided to take it off the shelves and work on the textures a bit more. I've added a belt too.

Created 100% original mesh and textures, not template or ripped.

Available at my inworld store, or on SL Marketplace.










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Garden&Home FREEBIE - Mesh Long Horn Cow Skull!




Decorative item for your home or sim by Tesla... Only 1 Land Impact and fast loading 512 texture size. This is a 100% original handmade mesh, all sculpted and painted without photo textures. Available from Tesla Store 2.0 Absolutely no conditions, just tell your friends about it!

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Sneak Preview of Priscilla ...REDUXED!

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Some of you were probably wondering what happened to that dress that I put out a while ago. Well I decided to take it off the shelves and work on the textures a bit more. I've added a belt too. This is just a sneak preview, there will be more colours to come. Stay tuned!


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FREE GIFT! - The Ridiculous Tree Hat!

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Another original and cute mesh by Tesla and it's FREE! (Well for a week anyway...)

Come and get it!


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NEW RELEASE! Carnal Summer Dress ... Original Fitted Mesh

It's that time of year again, the birds are singing and the bees are buzzing ... why not ignite those hot summer passions with Tesla's brand new 'Carnal Summer Dress'! Unleash your lascivious side... Tease and drive them wild today! Grab them at my store, available in 10 tempting colors, or a fatpack with a convenient and easy HUD texture changer. Come and check out the Demo! - Tes :)











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TESLA Ziggy2 Boots - Now available on SL Marketplace















Ziggy2 are Victorian inspired mesh boots designed by Tesla Miles, 100% original hand-crafted mesh, not template, and hand-made photorealistic textures using SL material's specular and normal maps for extra life-like quality.

Each boot has carefully chose colour combinations, each one designed to evoke a sense of time and place. With the fatpack, there comes a simple to use texture HUD - just wear and choose. Each texture rezzes quickly, there is barely any waiting time because all the polygon UVs have been compacted into a single texture space... this shoe will appear much faster than other shoes of a similar quality.

Each shoe comes in both rigged and non-rigged versions, so you have a choice of how you want to best fit your shoes. The non-rigged version has a resizer built into it - you just have to click the shoes to get to the menu system.

There are twelve different colour theme designs to choose from, but if you buy the fatpack with the texture change HUD, then as a thank you gift, you will get an EXCLUSIVE brocade Ziggy2 boot, that comes only with the fatpack and won't be available anywhere else.

Buy a slice of happiness today!

Available at my In-World Store or on SL Marketplace

This Brocade pair is exclusive to the fatpack!


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