New AO Script From DEM

Chloe, of Dark Elf Magic, shared a bit of news with us this week, and while as she said it’s neither “shiny, exciting or fashionable”, it’s still pretty neat.

She created a replacement script for the standard ZHAO II animation override, using some “very new” LSL features, she told us.

Technical details went right over my blonde locks, but in theory the script should be way less laggy than the original.

The script will be released in open source, so if you’re interested, see this post for the details:

http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/scripting/81856-built-lsl-animation-override-functions-3.html#post1766972

and this pastebin for the code:

http://pastebin.com/7BVsUjBF

Have a great weekend!

Deirdre and lelo

Think Kink And Dark Elf Magic - Colorable Panel Gag

Deirdre:

We swung by Think Kink, and by chance, both lelo and I noticed the bright pink gag poster on the wall.

It turned out to be new - although I won’t claim a magic database mind that whirred and instantly spotted the new item or anything. “New” vendor tags have been suggested ;)

The Colorable Panel Gag is a cooperation between Think Kink and Dark Elf Magic, and a bunch of good RLV features interact with TK toys (if you’re forbidden from talking on one, say).

The design is clean, and the thick straps, rivets, O rings and buckles make it look pretty solid.

It’s simple, there’s not a bit of mesh on it, and it still looks quite good.

One day everything will be mesh with materials and specular what-have-you’s, but in the meantime, this is a fine little toy. Pick one up for the bondage doll in your life :)

lelo:
Toy time tonight, a lovely new gag from Think Kink, the look and scripting is loosely based on the good old Dari’s Haus gag.

But this gag has been improved on a couple of points, starting with the look, the gag sports 178 prims, making it look very realistic.

But as usual with the work of Nihal and Chloe the real work went into the scripting, which has been streamlined to lighten the server load.

You will find all the RLV gag goodies you would want, from the intensity of the garble, the replacement of the wearers name in chat to the owner settings.

One of the more unusual, but in my opinion fun, options is the “Wait for IM” setting, which only blocks your IM untill you are spoken too. Now that’s how it should be in a D/s relationship.

And we’ll close off with the fashionable bit, yes fashion will always be part of our work, the gag is colorable, there are 25 colors you can select and all parts of the gag can be colors at once or one by one.

So a great new twist on an old favorite, go get it and be quiet... *winks*

Name : Think Kink
Owner : Lyssa Daehlie, Ilana Debevec
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pirandello%20Bay/128/100/21

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	8	8
Service	9	8
Store	9	8

Moving Friday

It’s moving Friday in the SL fetish community, if you feel like generalizing from two points - hey, the media do it all the time, but I’m upfront with my data, at least ;)

Think Kink moves to Pirandello Bay, as we hinted two weeks back - but that’s not all.

Serjourn Daxter, our friend and the prime mover behind Freedom Continent, joins the Think Kink and takes over management, marketing, and all non technical aspects, freeing the girls to focus on creating the high tech naughty toys we love.

Dark Elf Manufacturing officially merges with Think Kink, too. They’ve been sharing space forever, this makes things official. Congratulations on all the cool improvements, TK!

The other big move is Latex Station, who changed servers to resolve some issues. The store keeps the same lovely new look (bye bye space station!) and will be finished tomorrow but I got Cindy’s permission to tell you now ;)

The new SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Latex%20Station/208/128/24

Have a great weekend!

Deirdre and lelo

DEM Renamer

Chloe Constantine is the scripting half at Dark Elf Manufacture. She called me with a cool enough toy, but it’s a little borderline, fetish-wise, so I told her I’d mention it in the Friday post.

The DEM Renamer, then, is a titler, but mostly a renamer. Titler is the more visible aspect, if not the most exciting.

Still, you can have multi-line titles, set colors, and the evil mode lets people around the victim, er, wearer, set the title.

The renamer is the more active part, and requires RLV. Here’s a quick quote from the instruction card:

"At its simplest, it traps your speech and then emits it, but with your assigned name. Give control of the renamer to someone else and they can rename you at will. But, there's more; the renamer can be set to substitute your use of personal references "I, me, my, myself, mine" into your assigned name. It's also possible to add custom word substitutions. The wearer can be blocked from saying words of your choice."

So a fun, restrictive toy for the bondage bunny in your life who needs to feel a little extra control.

Drop by DEM, there’s usually someone around if you want a demo.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blacksilk%20Forrest/220/145/25

Have a great weekend :)

Dark Elf Manufacture - Steel Heaven II Collar

Deirdre:

Nihal’s cool new collar line, the Steel Heaven II, are based on some Real Life (tm) collars made by SM Factory.

The very cool part of that not-uncommon SL occurrence is that Nihal actually got permission from the company first, and received the right from SM Factory to sell them in Second Life.

The collars are mesh, and will fit everyone from a petite to a giant. Actually, “you can make the collars so small that you will choke a petite” is how Nihal put it :)

The gold and black “NQ” was one Nihal made for herself and that customers saw and liked, so it became a released version.

The design is awesomely detailed; I particularly love the hinge joint at the back. This is the fun kind of stuff I look forward to seeing more of thanks to mesh.

The instruction notecard nicely acknowledges Dari’s public domain scripts as the starting point, then mentions the improvements. I love to see that very cool open source stuff.

Drop by Think Kink (lag is way down!) and make your way to DEM, it’s worth the trip.

lelo:
Woohoo look at me a real genuine mesh collar around my neck, someone must have been good. *winks*

This isn’t the bendy, follow the skeleton, kind of mesh but the normal kind that looks crisper than the sculpts and prims we are used to.

The script gives you 2 pages of options in the menu and for the other options there are 3 pages of chat commands, controlling everything you ever wanted from a collar.

The collar is filled with 5 partner animations and no less than 77 poses.

You also get matching wrist and ankle cuffs in the sturdy case and also brushes, leash holders, leash posts and a leash anchor.

So great looking collar with the usual level of excellent scripting, these people are into BDSM and it shows.

Name : Dark Elf Manufacture
Owner : Nihal Quan & Chloe1982 Constantine
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blacksilk%20Forrest/220/145/25

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	8	8
Service	9	8
Store	7	7

Dark Elf Manufacture - Iron Pipemare Yoke

Deirdre:

Nihal called us to let us know there was a fun new toy out from DEM, but we ended up speaking with Chloe about it. Time zones... someone will have to do something about them.

Chloe, then, was kind enough to tell us all about the scripting in the Iron Pipemare Yoke.

She’s understandably proud about it; with all the things it does, resizing and so on included, the script takes a mere 352KB of memory.

Physically, the slender black iron yoke looks very good.

You’ll notice the “staircase” diagonal effect because the bars are so slender, but there’s no way around that until the world goes higher resolution ;)

The collar has nice details like the rivet in front and the subtle iron texture - you’ll see them if you look closely because of the old black on black thing.

An elegant toy for a female slave, then; efficient yet not overwhelming. Drop by Dark Elf and have a look around.. it’s worth the trip.

lelo:
Seems Chloe was given a break from her scripting for Think Kink and she put that time to good use.

It was of course just a matter of time till she would put her collar and cuffs together, and hey presto a yoke. *smiles*

Biggest jobs according to Chloe was the resizer script and keeping the script load down to a minimum.

The resizer lets you change the size of the collar, cuffs and the yoke beams, simple, elegant and a lot of math.

Next to the resizer, you will find all the necessary options for a toy like this, owner, timer, RLV.. the usual in a very light, loadwise package.

So when you are in need of a easy to fit, server friendly bondage toy...

Name : Dark Elf Manufacture
Owner : Nihal Quan & Chloe1982 Constantine
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blacksilk%20Forrest/220/145/25

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	8	8
Service	9	8
Store	7	7

Dark ELF Manufacture - Think Kink Free Cuff Set

Deirdre
Nihal invited us to come have a peek at a new freebie cuff set at Dark Elf some time back, and as we’re doing some fun toys this week, I thought the time was right.

While these cuffs look a bit plain, they’re meant for you to discover the excellent scripting they contain, and to entice you to come buy some of the prettier DEM collars.

There are 2 scripts in each cuff, so 8 scripts total, not counting the collar. Each script is 16KB, for a total of 128KB.

For a comparison, it’s not unusual to see one pair of cuffs with scripts adding up to 5000KB.

Throw in some good poses (the leg cuff shuffle walk is really good!) and the TK III fit-everywhere system, and you have a fine set of RLV toys for the price.

The Dark Elf Manufacture is at the rear of the Think Kink store. This is a very full store, bring a bit of patience along when you visit ;)

lelo
We are spoiling you rotten this week another freebie tonight.

The script in the collar is based on the now freeware Dari House script, but Chloe did quite a bit of scripting on it herself.

It has the same options as the DEM Collar we tested a while ago, so no cheap tuned down version of the script for the freebie.

The look is quite plain, suffering a bit from what Mistress calls the black on black problem.

But remember, if you want great looks with the script check out what DEM has in the Think Kink store.

Now the cuffs, have the same look as the collar, but again this is about the script not the look.

The cuffs offer the wearer 2 option re-size and owner, the owner can lock and bind the cuffs.

Be aware that the cuff poses are set to the lowest priority so better not wear your AO with them.

Name : Dark Elf Manufacture
Owner : Nihal Quan & Chloe1982 Constantine
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blacksilk%20Forrest/220/145/25

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	10	10
Service	9	8
Store	7	7

Dark Elf Manufacture - Collars Update

Deirdre
Remember a certain cool announcement I hinted at a couple of weeks back?

Dark Elf Manufacture has released their new line of collars, and the secret is out : a new and improved kneeling pose that doesn’t make your sub look like a levitating fakir.

Pictured here, lelo with her old Amethyst at left, and the new improved DEM pose at right.

To be fair, it only partly fixes the problem : feet will always prevent ground contact, but this looks a whole lot better than the old way.

The collars themselves are lovely, if you liked them just for decoration you wouldn’t feel cheated.

Once again, this is just a small sampling of the line of designs.. drop by the store and see the variety for yourself!

lelo
Three more designs by Dark Elf Manufacture, if Nihal doesn’t work too hard we might even catch up with her.

At least Chloe seems busy rewriting the scripts in the Think Kink toys so no updates in the near future script wise that is.. though you never know with these bondage scripting bunnies.

The prim work is very good, just like with the previous collars we showed you, have a look i’m sure there is one you’ll like.

As for the script improvement, that’s great, means i won’t have to carry my pose pillow around with me anymore. *winks*

Name : Dark Elf Manufacture
Owner : Nihal Quan & Chloe1982 Constantine
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blacksilk%20Forrest/220/145/25

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	8	8
Service	9	8
Store	7	7

PS : I couldn't resist adding a third collar pic! Deirdre

Dark Elf Manufacture - Collars

Deirdre:
In the far right corner of the Think Kink main building, you’ll find a small store called DEM, with a wide range of pretty collars.

We were lucky enough to run into Chloe and Nihal a while back, and they gave us a few samples to show the variety of designs they carry.

They even have a free collar, in a basic design, so you can inspect the menu and see if you like it.

There’s a good chance that you will, as the scripts are based on Dari’s Haus original ones, which she released in the public domain. In an uncharacteristically cool gesture, DEM gives Darien Caldwell 10% on every sale.

Chloe confided that she was working on something big. No, I can’t tell you what it is ;) But it will be awesomely cool, and will deal with a common problem a lot of collars have. We’ll keep you posted when it comes out. (Hey, Chloe, is that ancillary enough?)

lelo:
It was high time to do some collars again, we had run into Nihal and Chloe at Think Kink a while ago and had seem their great looking collars.

The overall look of the collars is a bit dark/Gothic but then i guess that's what you can expect from collars *smiles*

Nihal does the sculpting and Chloe takes care of the scripting, a script that is based on the Dari collar script.

The fun little box the collar comes in is quite full and transferable, as a good collar should be.

Next to the collar you get a leash anchor, leash post, leash holders in different versions, a pose stand and an instruction card, which starts with telling you the script is based on Dari’s original.

The script has been cleaned, modified and Adapted to the use the latest RLV features.

Now stop reading and hurry to Think Kink and try out that free one, i’m sure you’ll be hooked..ehh .. collared in minutes. *winks*.

Name : Dark Elf Manufacture
Owner : Nihal Quan & Chloe1982 Constantine
The SLURL :
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blacksilk%20Forrest/220/145/25

	Deirdre	lelo
Quality	8	8
Price	8	8
Service	8	8
Store	7	7