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Second Life Helpful Tools Meme

Berry does a meme every Monday and it's been a while since I did one so gave it a shot cause this one I find very interesting to share. If you wanna find out more about the Monday Memes you can find them all on her blog http://strawberrysingh.com/ .

Meme Instruction: Share a screenshot of your viewer setup and/or a list of tools/HUDS you guys use to make your Second Life experiences better. If you share a screenshot, feel free to share them in the Blog Memes flickr group.

I'm a very basic girl so no big fuzz or crazy stuff on my screen. That's why I did not take a full screen shot cause I'm just using Firestorm with the viewer 3 lay out. I did not change anything. I'm only been using Firestorm for a few months now. Before I always used the default viewer. Now I just got used to this viewer I might be looking into improving it to my personal likings so I'm very curious about others doing this meme and maybe inspire me to improve mine. I will be showing you the HUD's and tools I use most in my SL and why I use them.

The one HUD I never take off unless when I go to laggy events and wear a full body alpha so no one recognizes me walking around like a chicken haha AKEYO is my favorite animation overrider creator. There animations are smooth and I think they have something for every style. The Power AO is easy to use and personalize. You can invite people to dance with you as well.
Last week OKKBYE released stand animations with and without breathing to be used for when you are styling your avatar or for when you are working and want your avatar to stand still. She also included a note-card on how to install and use these with the Firestorm Viewer. It was so easy to set up and I've been using them ever since. You can create a whole ao with your favorite animations and have it just build in in your interface. Isn't that amazing?! I think I will be using this for a lot more in the future.
The PoseAnywhere Hud I don't use very often since I mostly take pictures in my studio. But this HUD is definitely a must have when you like to wander around sl and use your poses in places where you can not rez out poses or if you wanna pose others. Just don't put to much poses in one HUD cause it might take you long to scroll true it to find the right pose. Don't put ALL your poses in one HUD if you have hundreds of them *coughs* You can take copies and make different HUD's for different type of poses.
One of the HUD's I ALWAYS use when I take pictures is the AnyPose Expression HUD. Before I knew about this HUD I used to wait long moments before my avatar finally looked into the right direction. With this HUD you can position the eyes the way you want them or eyes from others around you. I'm a big fan of these squint eyes. They are so adorkable! You can also use facial expressions but most of the time they don't work with prim/mesh teeth or eyelashes or just look creepy so I don't use them very often. The hand animations I never use since they don't work with mesh hands and I never ever take off my mesh hands. Don't ever again wanna see those default sl hands!
Another tool I always have open when taking pictures is the Environment settings. I never made or tried making a wind-light myself. I downloaded some amazing wind-lights here and they also explain very well how to install and use them. For this picture I used StrawberrySighn close up wind-light with graphics on medium. Annan Adored and AnaLu wind-lights are my favorites.
To position my camera I use the default camera tool with camera constraints disabled in advanced menu.
Mr Poophead makes me smile when I have to do pictures and I'm in a bad mood. VERY IMPORTANT TOOL!