Please help me to choose FEET

[KikiBrusty]

I'm quite new to second life, some people told me about the best feet shops. They are all around 600 L and that's a big investment for me...please help me to choose 1,2 or 3. I have doubts!!!!

 

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[SID Riler]

Choose Slink Feet, as most skins now have appliers to match them

[Marianne Little]

What's already said... Slink. Not just because of the skin appliers, but toe nail polish, and shoes add-ons. When there is sales and events, you will often find Slink add-on shoes for 88L and up. Full priced shoes for Slink feet is selling from 300-500 L. The benefit is no more skin matching. As soon as you are done with the skin matching, you "add" your new shoes and shoebase... and that's it.

Slink comes in flat ones, great for walking barefoot and to use with all sort of flat sandals. Medium is a moderate tiptoe, you can use these for walking barefoot if you like the look of it. It's made lots and lots of shoes add-ons for these medium feet, from mules and more casual sandals to high platforms and pumps.

[Ren Toxx]

Tough choice. 1 seems to be suffering the least from either LOD or polygon detail, but they seem almost textureless; 2 has great modelling and the most realistic texturing (are those Vika Store's?), but I'm not quite sure about some of those toefinger bright spots looking like sweat, and the nails seems just a tad too... unfeminine; 3 has great-looking nails, but the modelling looks a bit weird to me. All in all, I'd go with 2.

However, and as has been said, it's quite important that the feet have the most flexibility in terms of tinting, blending options for the actual avatar skin, and perhaps nail tinting and even extras (such as tattoos); none of those features can be guessed from your pictures, but I recommend considering them as well.

[Summer Tison]

I own GOS Bare Feet, I'm a huge GOS fan, and while they are not cheap they are a wonderful investment if you want great feet for those shoeless SL moments, plus the skin match system ensures you'll have the exact match for your skin (with the proviso that your skin is in their system).

I prefer the tiptoe style of feet and none of the ones in your picture seem a great choice, sorry.

[KikiBrusty]

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Summer Tison wrote:

I own GOS Bare Feet, I'm a huge GOS fan, and while they are not cheap they are a wonderful investment if you want great feet for those shoeless SL moments

, plus the skin match system ensures you'll have the exact match for your skin (with the proviso that your skin is in their system).

I prefer the tiptoe style of feet and

none of the ones in your picture seem a great choice, sorry.

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The number 1 in the picture are the GOS feet (i wasn't sure if i'm allowed to name stores)....

Thanks for your suggestions, all these feet have system to match skins and my skin is included!!  I think I'll pick between 1 or 2. thanks

[Summer Tison]

wow you do surprise me, saying that I have never bought the normal feet, I hope you enjoy your new feet

[jwenting]

Gaeline and nCore are good. Tried Slink, didn't like the shape of the feet, the toes are just unnatural imo. Same with Gos (plus they are if I remember correctly a lot more expensive).

Best you can do is get demos from all, and just try for yourself which you like best.

As to skin appliers, nice in theory but most of the skin vendors I have on any of my avatars have no skin appliers for any of the brands, so it hardly matters. Yes, I don't use skins from the big name vendors mostly

[Kelli May]

The avatar forum, where you can get help choosing your feet.

 

We'll draw the line when it comes to picking your nose!

[Sephina Frostbite]

Every one raves about slink and if you can get a skin to work with it, awesome but I love my ncore and gos feet. To be honest I had nothing but trouble from slink.. but thats just my personal experience. They all look nice either way you go.

[Malanya]

I have both GOS feet and Slink. I prefer Slink for a few reasons, my skin has an applier that matched seamlessly. I prefer the look of Slink (moreso the shape of the nail and toes, they are delicate and I prefer the square nail that does not hang over the skin)  the shading on the bottom of the foot and as Marianne pointed out the huge selection of nail polish (I love the shine of KOSH polish appliers) and shoes that are avaialble for both the flat and medium (tip toe) feet that are made with such detail. It seems more are available every few weeks. I love GOS shoes, not the ones that have feet built in, but I have a nice variety of regular shoes from them and have been happy. N-Core shoes as well, I feel they are one of the best shoes made that have built in feet, just not thrilled about neither of their stand alone feet.

It really comes down to personal choice, as most anything for your av. As another poster pointed out get demos and then you can see how they look, if the appear natural to you and how accurate and easy the skin matching goes. I am not sure about the skin matching in demos because I have never got a demo of feet or hands so I can't say whether you can see the ease of use to try and match the skin. I am sure someone else will be able to answer that for you.

Before Mesh Feet I used Maitreya.