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Let's have a thread for mesh heads and bodies for male avatars. What's good, what's not, especially if we want to use something that's not Signature Gianni and Catwa.
Here's a few others that I or my alts have tried or are using.
Signature Geralt - all the quality of Gianni, but with less steroids. A leaner body-shape. Not as much yet in terms of clothing support but it's growing fast, and most Gianni stuff will fit reasonably well anyway (except underwear). Oddly, the alpha cuts are not the same as Gianni, there are fewer of them in the abdomen and lower back for some weird reason.
Belleza Jake - Falls somewhere between Gianni and Geralt in body shape, still fairly muscular in the arms. Moderate clothing support but fits standard sizes better than Signature does, on the whole. The big caveat with this one is while the hands are bento, there is no AO included; you need to buy a separate hand AO otherwise you'll be constantly doing the splayed hands thing.
Lightstar bento head - There are a whole bunch of these and for the price of L$1000 I think they are really good. They are very responsive to the sliders without distortion as you can see here:
This is two looks, same head, same skin, just different sliders. (The heads don't all look this youthful, I selected this particular one for that reason). They work with Omega (relay purchased separately). The default skins are... not very good... the built-in beard and brow options only work with those skins, but it supports layers so you can use Omega ones from elsewhere. My alt here has a freckle tattoo added, he sometimes wears make-up in addition to that. There's no animations and I haven't tried any third party animations with it (yet). Big bonus - these heads are also modifyable. Another caveat - if you use this head without mesh body or hands, the blink animation somehow causes the Classic body hands to go into the splayed pose. Removing the blink script fixes this, and it doesn't seem to be a problem if you have animated bento hands.
Here's a few others that I or my alts have tried or are using.
Signature Geralt - all the quality of Gianni, but with less steroids. A leaner body-shape. Not as much yet in terms of clothing support but it's growing fast, and most Gianni stuff will fit reasonably well anyway (except underwear). Oddly, the alpha cuts are not the same as Gianni, there are fewer of them in the abdomen and lower back for some weird reason.
Belleza Jake - Falls somewhere between Gianni and Geralt in body shape, still fairly muscular in the arms. Moderate clothing support but fits standard sizes better than Signature does, on the whole. The big caveat with this one is while the hands are bento, there is no AO included; you need to buy a separate hand AO otherwise you'll be constantly doing the splayed hands thing.
Lightstar bento head - There are a whole bunch of these and for the price of L$1000 I think they are really good. They are very responsive to the sliders without distortion as you can see here:
This is two looks, same head, same skin, just different sliders. (The heads don't all look this youthful, I selected this particular one for that reason). They work with Omega (relay purchased separately). The default skins are... not very good... the built-in beard and brow options only work with those skins, but it supports layers so you can use Omega ones from elsewhere. My alt here has a freckle tattoo added, he sometimes wears make-up in addition to that. There's no animations and I haven't tried any third party animations with it (yet). Big bonus - these heads are also modifyable. Another caveat - if you use this head without mesh body or hands, the blink animation somehow causes the Classic body hands to go into the splayed pose. Removing the blink script fixes this, and it doesn't seem to be a problem if you have animated bento hands.
