Achieving the Best of Both Worlds: A Maitreya Out of Body Mesh Experience

After modeling here in SL for the past three years, I have 
become accustom to following the Fashion Trends and always 
trying to improve my modeling skills and appearances. 

Now that the mesh body has arrived, I pondered long and hard as to whether or not I was ready to take this new direction and plunge right into a new "out of body" experience to learn the idiosyncrasies, assets, and deficiencies that the new mesh body had to offer.

A significant consideration for me was whether or not my existing wardrobe would work with the new Mesh body. Another 
question was whether or not the mesh body would lend itself 
to my existing client’s design requirements and standards.

All of the stores that I visited had limited clothing available 
with the mesh bodies that they were promoting.

Well, the only real way that you can find out is to actually
jump in with both feet and pick the mesh body that appeals
to you the most and then learn what it has to offer both in its attributes and deficiencies.

With that in mind, I first picked up the Maitreya Lara Mesh Body Demo
and immediately tested my existing shapes and skins against the Mesh Body.  I found that they worked flawlessly without the need to re-proportion the default shapes made available from Maitreya.

Voila! To my surprise and glee, I also discovered that I can
still wear my regular mesh clothing with the
Maitreya Lara Mesh Body that I selected. 

The Maitreya Lara Mesh Body also comes with an ingenious and pragmatically well-designed HUD.

It provides you with both frontal and back diagrammatic silhouette views that are stratified in several horizontal bands which ingeniously allows you to fine tune virtually every area of your body to mask as you need for your mesh clothing to work. Therefore, there is no need to use the alpha layer that came with your mesh clothing.

I also purchased a Zaara Aksaka Lingerie Applier which works

surprisingly well with the Maitreya Mesh Body. 

You can control the addition or the removal of your bra,panties, 

and stockings. You simply open the applier HUD and just hit the bar button. Just make sure that you have the layer you want selected turned on. 

The latest update to Maitreya now asks you 

what layer you want the item applied to. 

That said, you will need to turn on that particular alpha mask to keep it from disappearing. There is a tab bar button underneath that allows you to turn on the tat/underclothes/clothes layers.

Another important consideration for me was that I wanted to keep my personal look and to maintain the size and proportion of my avi. 

This was critically important to me to confirm that this would work, 

given my ongoing modeling commitments and what is expected in proportions from my many vendor clients.

Ensemble: 

VoguE Fashion Shayna Dress

Maitreya Lara Mesh Body

Amacci Skin - Tyne (Nutmeg) - 05 Beauty

Zaara Aksaka Lingerie *Nude* Appliers

(r)M (RLV) Posture Collar ~ No.07 

Maitreya Gold Liaison V2 Pearl Heels

TuTy's Soiree Blonde Pony Tail Hair

IKON Hope Eyes - Denim

"Becky Da' Boop with Da' Scoop!"