Tuesday 21 July 2015

ADV Version 2 & Male Skin ADV Appliers




For those not wanting to read my Waffling, here the short version.

ADV Version 2
Since 2014, Violet Studios skins and clothes have included our ADV Mesh Applier packs which allow you to send your skins or clothes to mesh bodies.
I am very pleased to release Version 2 of our ADV Support pack, which includes the new ADV to Omega Bridge. Or in short. Wearing this new Bridge HUD will allow you to send Violet Studios Skins and clothing to any Omega Compatible Product.
Oh, and the cost of this... nothing. Its free.

Male ADV Appliers Released
With the release of the ADV Omega Applier Bridge, I have also been spending many hours giving myself a headache with the full on conversion of all current Violet Studios Male Skins (Human, Demon and Vampire) to our ADV Spec.
All current in store skins include Body and even face HUDs which mean with a male mesh body that is compatible with Omega, you can now use your skin.
For those customers who previously bought one of our current skins, sadly there is no way to deploy updates. In this case, you can find our “Grace” applier kits in store.
Both Human and Vampire, you will find in the relevant Studio.
For Demon, you will find the Grace appliers where the female Grace appliers are, upstairs in the Demon Studio above the female hooves.

Okay, may have gone a little in depth there, but thats the basics.


ADV Omega Applier Bridge – in a bit more detail.

I have many customers who adore their Violet Studios Skins and clothes.
Verotic  Skins LTX,  Verotic Clothing, Demon Studio or Vampire Studio.

As many of you will know, since early 2014, our female skins and clothing have included the ADV Mesh applier system and its companion scripts to convert over to other mesh body formats.
Sadly keeping up with this has been a real pig with constant development ongoing with scripting and new products, getting around to actually building new scripts to work with new bodies hasn’t really been possible.

As Fusion customers will know, on the 1.5 update we introduced Omega support on Fusion.

I was slightly laughing at this for a while. Back during ADV development, I have a specific set of ideas over what ADV should do and how it should work.
What I had no clue about at the time was Love n Lust were developing almost the same thing almost in tandem to ADV with their Omega system.

These two systems are virtually the same thing, except the reasons they were developed were utterly different.
 ADV was designed as an in house helper tool for me and our customers.
 Omega was designed as a mass market system for creators.

Omega has proven to be very popular with creators and designers.
There are dozens of companies now who use omega out of the box so to speak and many other who do similar things to what we did with Fusion, with an activator.

Which brings us back full circle to the ADV Update and what if, you could use your ADV appliers, and they would work with Omega?

Thanks to some innovative work from Omega and ourselves, that is now possible with the Version 2 ADV Update.
Firstly its free. Can’t get fairer than that.
Secondly, inside the new update, you will find there is a new object.
The ADV Omega Applier Bridge. You wear this.

Now, listen very carefully to these instructions...

1 Wear the ADV Omega Applier Bridge.
2 Wear your ADV Mesh Applier included with your skin or clothing item from Violet Studios.
3 Press the relevant button on the Mesh Applier you want send.

It’s now on your Omega compatible item!
Yeah – it really is that simple.  And... lets just be honest here...

All you have to do is look through Omega’s Supported project list to realise that ADV just went from 10 supported items, to bucket loads.

You can find the ADV Version 2 Update dotted around all the sims – easiest place to grab it is in the Customer Support Hub.


ADV Male Mesh Appliers – in a bit more detail.

Back in 2014, we released our ADV system on to the grid. The idea was simple – one applier to support many products. However this was rather one sided.
Everything we released was female, and the reason why is simple. There was virtually no male mesh products on the market at the time.

Even today, I hate to say, the markets not exactly brimmed with male products. However I may as well let the cat out of the bag.
Since last year, after the arrival of Fusion, I have had a steady and growing stream of requests from customers for a Male Fusion body system.
I cant give you an exact date, but very soon, Male Fusion will be released.
But its a bit pointless if none of my own products support this so, first step is the ADV conversion.
Expect more news on Fusion male very soon.

All Current male skins have now been updated to include Body and even face HUDs which mean with a male mesh body that is compatible with Omega, you can now use your skin.
For those customers who previously bought one of our current skins, sadly there is no way to deploy updates. In this case, you can find our “Grace” applier kits in store.
You only get the body applier with the Grace kits however a head texture (usually the clean shaved one) is included on the applier.
Both Human and Vampire, you will find in the relevant Studio.
For Demon, you will find the Grace appliers where the female Grace appliers are, upstairs in the Demon Studio above the female hooves.

Enjoy the Updates.