The Catznip Viewer is a new addition on the third party viewer (TPV) list. It offers Restrained Love in a viewer modeled closely on the Linden viewer. For new residents of Second Life and those of us who have become accustomed to the Linden Viewer over the more than 2 years of its existence, this is good news.
It offers an alternative to the Firestorm Viewer and Marine's venerable Restrained Love Viewer, along with others who have offered RLV for varying periods of time.
I've been using Catznip for about 4 months now, yes it was available before being placed on the TPV list and it works great. It became one of the recommended viewers for girls joining the Toy Slaves Brothel (RLV required) approximately 8 weeks ago and has functioned very well.
There is more to the viewer than just RLV, here's what the developers Kitty Barnett & Trinity Dejavu say about their viewer.
"Catznip aims to refine and reinvent your window into Second Life. Our focus is stability, usability, privacy and plenty of new original home grown features.
As a project, Catznip is not and will never be a bucket list of features cherry picked from the other projects, nor a laundry list of pre-release Linden code. It’s about taking a fresh look at things and attempting to do them better.We are very open to feature ideas or requests, but please present them in the form of a use case and not simply “Add X from Viewer Y” !"
If you have followed the development of RLVa, you'll recognize Kitty as a developer of the Restrained Love used in many of the Third Party Viewers.
To read more about Catznip or to download this excellent viewer visit their website
Here's a short video about installing it. It's easy, no files to transfer over, just download, install and jump into Second Life. It comes with RLVa turned off. All of the viewers excepting Marine's (where it's always on) arrive with Restrained Love turned off.
To activate it in the viewer go to Preferences (Ctrl+P), when the Preferences window opens choose the side tab labelled Catznip and place a checkmark in the box for RestrainedLove API suppoert (requires restart). The viewer will need to indeed be restarted for RLVa to take effect, so log out and then back in and you'll be in RLVa.
Watch the video in YouTube to take advantage of fullscreen and HD
Correcting a bad hair day in Second Life may just be easier than in Real Life. I've created a video to illustrate how to use the edit menu and resizing menu(available in many hairs) to properly fit hair to your avatar in Second Life. Anyone who has tried to explain how to do this to a new resident using text is sure to understand, I hope this video helps. I hope that people eventually do learn all these things without much help. I would hate to think we lose too many who find it just too hard. Anyway for what it's worth... Oh and for the RL Bad Hair Days, I just wear a hat. The video is best viewed full screen and in HD
Click here to read the script or use the script to translate
I've been a little lazy in posting to my blog in the last few months. Lots of different reasons that I simply won't bore you with. Getting back to my original purpose of promoting and informing and training (that might be three purposes) in Second Life, I have decided on starting back up with a new video. One perplexing issue that I see over and over again, is residents not wearing their shoes properly. Shoes have evolved from simple objects with feet squeezed into them, blocky SL toes revealed in our open toed sandals, to delicate constructions with beautiful feet and incredibly detailed shoes. Along with these changes came HUDs to do many, many things. Perhaps the most important of these was matching the foot colour in these new shoes to your skin. That was always the early knock on wearing the shoes, however, the creators have become incredibly adept at skin matching offering the ability to make very subtle changes even in some cases including notecards with RGB numbers for the most common skins. With all of this, the most common mistake I see new residents make is failing to wear the shoe shape...
it's the clothing layer piece that allows your foot to be shaped to fit inside. The video gives more details on how to wear shoes.
I hope to have it make it into a new and updated Quick start video to replace my now outdated walk down memory lane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjIY4w03HB8 I could get distracted and off track here, but, this was to be about shoes and wearing them. I'll save things like my love for the new Catznip viewer for another post. Hopefully it'll come a little sooner. Here's the video, as always the video is designed to be... Watch in full screen and HD from the You Tube
A Tour of Toy Slaves Brothel. It seemed like such a simple task, but, now on my 4th version I can feel the pain. In time, I may post some of the other versions. One even had sexy video running barely visible behind the tour, I really liked that one, but, it was impractical. I think you'll like this version and I hope you will offer your comments. So without further ado, here is the video. For those without sound, the script is available below it.
Click the video and view it in HD and full screen for the best experience
Welcome to Toy Slaves Brothel and
the world of sex in Second Life.Toy
Slaves Brothel is a premiere purveyor of all types of sex in second life, we
can handle your request, kinky or straight (sorry no age/child play) .Visit our club for an always enjoyable time,
we boast some of the prettiest girls in all of Second Life.Our girls are only too happy to serve.
Have a seat at the main stage,
the bar or on any of the comfortable sofas. The music you hear is from our very
own radio station, Brothel Radio, you'll hear things here you won't at other
places and we're available in the World Wide Web too.
Settle back and watch the girls
dance, there is no charge, but, the girls love tips and are sure to show a
little, hmmm appreciation. Don't be shy, talked to them, they are very
friendly.
Take a look at our escort boards,
after all, we're a brothel.All of the
girls have tested as submissives and we have a special area for Dominants, a
nod to our D/s DNA.We're quite proud of
our training and we've opened up some of it for new residents to Second Life
The triple X theatre here by the boards includes instructional videos and
panels along with some other essentials for your adult experience.
As we continue on our walk around
the main club, we come upon storefronts thatshowcase our play areas. The first of these is the Pain Prison, you'll
need to hire one of the girls to get there. The teleport pad is private. The
play areas are located on one of our other 4 islands, we keep lag under control
that way. Looking around you'll see some familiar and not so familiar pieces of
equipment. This is definitely our strongest sadomasochistic area, Dolcett play
is available and we can fulfil almost any request with enough notice.
Next is our Femdom salon, a place
to fulfil your worship and punishment needs. Check out the wrestling ring and
the salon services for that special spa experience. Especially popular here is
the sofa. I think this is perhaps Madame Aprille's favourite place.
Ah Asian, one of my favourite
places, maybe it's because it is a copy of my SL home. Here in the shadow of
Mount Fujiwe find many of the devices
we expect at Toys, special though is the Shibari frame and the waterfall. I
always feel relaxed here and it seems to rub off.
Ask about our bukkake experience,
invite your friends or join one of our groups.
Arabian Nights is one of the
areas, along with the Malibu Beach, that we've opened to the public. It's free
to visit and includes everything you'll need for a truly memorable sexual
experience. Click on the map teleporter in front of the storefront in the club.
There are beautiful lounges, pools, furs and beds...explore with your special
someone and find your favourite place.
Anchored just off the coast is
our Mediterranean Pirate ship. Abandon yourself to sex under the stars or in
the sumptuous Captain's quarters. A wonderful place for role play, check out
the toys available on deck or in the hold. This poor fellow ran afoulof the Pirate Queen. Take one of our girls
and be her Captain.
The Italian Villa is home to our
Italian Top Models. It, along with the French Villa is one of our most popular
areas both with the girls and our clients. It has three levels, a
cellar...fitted out as a dungeon play area, a second floor bed and bath and a
main floor living area. The main floor area is complete with a kitchen, living
and dining area. Those dents in the fridge are from my heels. We use everything
here, try the counter, the sink, the sofas and of course the dining room table.
Adjacent to the villa is the TP
pad to one of our newest areas, the orgy room can accommodate you and up to 9
of your friends, you'll need to hire one or more of the girls to obtain access,
but, how many people use her and how is entirely up to you. The wall paintings
alone are enough to get the juices flowing and the animations and pose
combinations are superb. Why not give it a try someday soon, make it a party.
Out next stop is nestled in the
French countryside. It has everything you've come to expect plus some of its
own special equipment. While the Master nestles comfortably in the bedroom
upstairs his next playthings wait for him in the cellar. The tub here is
especially nice as is the foot fetish couch.
We are very lucky to have the
Second Life University at Toy Slaves located here. The university is valuable
in teaching our girls to behave and giving them both medical attention and
physical exercise. The girls love it here using everything from the student
commons, to the gymnasium(where the equipment serves dual roles) to the
football field. Oh, there's a girl now, oh my!
On to Doll Island and the Malibu
Beach. Doll Island is a Second Life institution, yes, this is the place. It
houses the Doll Mall with things for everyone and so much more, punishment,
pleasure and just relaxing. Should I say watch out for traps?
Have you been a good dolly or a
bad dolly?
Doll is a hangout and playground
for doll lovers, a place where you can feel free to explore your dreams and
fantasies with other people who understand.It is the home of the Pleasure Dolls group,over 1500 people that love sexual role-play,
femdom, latex and rubber, BDSM, bimbofication, hypnosis, mind control and human
to doll enslavement.Members love short
and long Role Play (RP) activity. Feel free to help out by tossing a tip into
one of the tip boxes.
Right next door is the Malibu
Beach Babes area. The equipment here is free to use and it's everywhere. Sit
around one of the fires or enjoy one of the beds, oh and don't miss out on the
WV bus.
Thinking you just want a private
dance, some time alone with a girl or a quick little something? Maybe our
skyboxes are just what you're looking for. Choose a girl and give her your
preference, she'll teleport you to one of the boxes. Our skyboxes, among other
things, include a private grotto, a Vegas room, cozy winter retreat and a place
at the beach.
If you decide to join us as a
slave this is a very quick peek at the Phase2 training area. It prepares you
for your service to Madame in the club and starts you on the path to embracing
your slavery. I won't tell you much more than that here, if you're interested
click the burgundy sign behind the bar to get started.
This area is where our family
comes to relax, we have games and activities everything from popular SL games
like Greedy to boats and flying carpets...even a firing range.
It is a private family area. Long
term Dominants and Toy Slaves live here. The Toy Slave tag denotes an alpha
girl, someone who has committed to Madame and given up her freedom forever. We
don't value our Dancers and Escorts any less, it's just that they haven't yet
made that commitment. In many cases because they haven't been with us long
enough.
This video was shot at Toy Slaves Brothel in Second
Life. We're very proud of the hard work our girls put into making this a very
special place that we're all proud of. We hope you'll come to visit us in world
or on the World Wide Web.
If you have questions, come in
and ask a girl, they'll be happy to help.
