I have just come across an interesting alternative to using facelights that I’d like to pass along. First of all, if you’ve not had a chance to look at the Second Life website to check out the Xstreet Marketplace featured items in the upper right corner, then you absolutely should! There are many great items featured at wonderful prices. I just picked up an outfit by DeeTaleZ that was only 50L, complete with sculptie shoes. It also comes with a notecard called How to Optimise the Look of Your Avatar. It contains the info for using environment settings to replace the need for a facelight. I’ve tried it out and here are the results:
DeeTaleZ environment settings without facelights
Default environment settings without facelights
Default environment settings with facelight
I played around alot with the settings trying the default and the DeeTaleZ settings alternately at different times of the day. Sometimes the default looked better, and sometimes the DeeTaleZ setting looked better. I say you should give it a try and see for yourself. Personally, I’m impressed and may be heading towards the end of my facelight use…Gasp!
But back to the DeeTaleZ outfit I bought at Xtreets which I’m wearing in the pics above. I LOVE it! Enough that I felt a visit to the mainstore was in order. But I want to save this visit for it’s own VERY special post 
I want to leave this post dedicated to the use or non-use of facelights. Let me know if you try these settings and tell me what you choose! Thank you to Steffi Villota, creator of DeeTaleZ, for kindly tucking the notecard into my purchase package, and for the great outfit for 50L…I really do love it!
September 22, 2009 at 10:39 am
But does anyone see it this way except you since you’re changing your own computer settings, correct?
September 22, 2009 at 5:06 pm
ahaa! Yes belize, that is the problem. So I’ve been mulling that over too. But, as others have stated in my other facelight post, they can turn off the light source for other’s facelights so that they won’t see them at all…so isn’t that the same? However, a friend pointed out to me that more people use default settings than not. So, if you want to be seen by most people with fewer of the unsightly shadows, then facelights are the way to go. If it is just for your personal viewing, the custom settings work very well. In the end, as my friend says, it just comes down to everybody’s preference…there aren’t any right answers. So do what you prefer, but do respect the environment you’re in. What am I gonna do? I’ll continue to use the low watt facelights until a better solution comes along.