"Free for Avatars Under 30 Days Old" Offers (Beginners)

Many merchants offer free items for residents who are less than thirty days old. One of the problems with these offers is that by the time you find out about them, you are usually too old. 

If you are a new resident, I recommend the website FabFree in Second Life's list of free items for avatars under 30 days old. It has a lot of good information and was updated in January 2022. Below shows one of three free starter outfits from LBD. She includes a BOM Bento Mesh Ruth 2.0 avatar.

One of three free outfits from LBD.

Visiting some of the locations you might run into a situation where the merchant asks you to send a notecard to a certain person. How do you do that? 

Under your Inventory list you will find some symbols. 

Press the 'plus sign' to get options. Select 'New Note".

Fill out the notecard. Be sure to name it in your inventory. Also, be sure to change the permissions so that you can share it. 

 In Firestorm you will find a tab marked "Content". Clicking it gives you the "Search" box. Choose "People" and then put in the name of the person you are looking for. When you have the person you want, click their "Profile" box. There is a box there to drag the notecard to. You will get a message "Are you sure?" and then a message that notecard has been sent.







 Notecards are used to send messages to other avatars when IM's might not work. You can attach pictures (in the form of textures) to notecards, but you should check for permissions before sending them to someone else.

Q: What are permissions?

A: Click on an item in your inventory. 

You will see a 'Properties' tab. 

Click on that, and you will see

This one shows you have full permissions. Before you send the notecard, check all the boxes like the one shown.

Permissions are tricky, because sometimes items are listed as 'no transfer' when they can be transferred. You can also get in trouble when you put transferrable items into a box, and then forget to set the box permissions so that the item can be transferred.  

If you look at Marketplace listings you will see "Permissions:

Copy. Modify. Transfer.

The seller will mark out the permission that are not included. For example, you might be able to make copies for your own use, but not transfer any of them.

"Full-perm" items are items that you can copy, modify, and transfer, although sometimes the listing will make clear that you can use the item as part of a build that you are selling, but you can't sell the item on its own.

Rehabilitating Bitsy - Changing an Off-the-Rack Avatar (Beginners)

When 

It's easy to get lost in Second Life 

When you first get to Second Life, you're wearing a starter avatar. I started by wearing 'Bitsy'

You see Bitsy all over, with her tablet computer and her bag with her chihuahua.

If you don't want to look like everyone else you can change your avatar by mixing and matching the standard avatars that are already available.

Find a more or less private place and try wearing each of the starter avatars in turn. There is a tab that looks like a shirt. Click on that while wearing an avatar and it will save everything as an outfit.  You can use some (but not all) of the clothes from one avatar on another.

This is also good practice to start learning about shapes, and alphas, and how to put outfits together. It's fun changing skins, shapes, and clothing, and finding out what works and what doesn't. Try clicking on your avatar and choosing "Change Shape". Play with the sliders. Go back to wearing Bitsy and choose "Edit Outfit" and you will get a list of components and their attachment points. 

Clothing - 

Bitsy - Shoe Base

System Eyelash Remover

Bitsy - Jacket Alpha

Bitsy - Dress Alpha

Attachments -

Firestorm LSL Bridge (depends on what system you are using)(Center 2)

Animation Overrider - Female (Center 2)

Bitsy - Brown Leather Jacket (Right Shoulder)

Bitsy - Chihuahua in a Bag (Right hand)

Bitsy - Hair & Hat (Skull)

Bitsy - Heels (Left Foot)*

Bitsy - Lashes (Nose)

Bitsy - Red Pencil Dress (Pelvis)

Bitsy - Table† (Left Hand)

Body Parts

Bitsy - Brows

Bitsy - Eyes

Bitsy - Shape

Bitsy - Skin

What next? - Using the "Edit Outfit" window, you can click on and remove the tablet and the chihuahua in a bag.  Note; however, that the 'Hair and Hat' are listed as one item, and if you remove the hat Bitsy looks like a new Navy recruit.

Take off the jacket, and there is bare space. That is because Bitsy was wearing a jacket alpha. Take off the jacket alpha and you have skin again.

Important note: Always put on clothing by choosing 'Add' rather than 'Wear' because 'Wear' replaces items, and because different clothing may have different attachment points you may end up partially naked.

Try on some of the clothing from the other starter avatars by choosing them from the list, and putting them on. If you like the result, you can click "save as" to keep their outfits, including shapes and skins. You will still have the original avatars and their attachments in the outfits file.

There are also a lot of 'initial outfits' in your inventory Library. I also got a skin and an AO from New Resident Island.

This was a new avatar I put together. It it doesn't look exactly like any of the other starter avatars. If I like it, I can click the 'appearance' tab (looks like a shirt) and then 'wearing', and then "save as"and choose a new name for the patchwork avatar. 

The patchwork avatar.

'New' avatar:  Monique shape and top(with alpha)

Carla Jeans(with alpha)

Delilah Boots(with alpha)

Gretchen Hair and brows.

Petrol Sue eyes

AX-001 Basically Girl AO

Firestorm Bridge

Desire skin (free from New Resident Island)

More ways to change a new avatar.

Check Out "Free Items for Avatars Less Than 30 Days Old"

Free Dove - Quality free items.

New Resident Island

Here is a fairly recent video showing how one resident put together a more advanced avatar. The resident chose her favorite creators while many other residents would probably recommend their favorite creators instead.  

Important note: The video stresses that it is important to try demos before buying any body parts or clothing. Second Life avatars do not have interchangeable parts..