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@kinzart
Hi. Is your store still available? I'm looking to get your sergal avatar, but I'm not having any luck in finding anywhere to buy it, and the map location appears to be unavailable.
Yep, still in Okarthel, where its always been :) You can find the slurl in my profile (my handle is sharim nova now!)
Kinzart Kreetures FAQ n' Stuff
SUPER USEFUL LINKS:
Redelivery Terminals FAQ & Avatar List: https://tmblr.co/ZEsf3t2anh6W3
Discord group link: https://discord.gg/QJTCfC8
Kinzart Kreetures website: http://kinzart.com/
SLURL to the mainstore: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Okarthel/205/47/16
URI for the No Chat group (copy and paste): secondlife:///app/group/590c7d6f-b68e-f7a6-c0fc-fbffd6d40483/about
Public .PSD masterpost: http://kinzart.tumblr.com/post/166655487195/kinzart-public-personal-use-psps-masterposteula
UV map Drive link: http://bit.ly/kzk-uv-maps
_RULES_
KINZART KREETURES MAINSTORE RULES:
No spamming of any kind. This includes sound, chat, particles, voice, etc.
No walkers, long / loud gestures, music gestures, dancers, poofers, etc.
No scanners.
No harassment / griefing.
No begging (for L$, avs, or whatever).
No weapons.
No erect / dripping bits. Nudity is fine, just keep it clean. This isn’t an Adult sim.
No underage (cub/baby/child/teen) avatars. Adult content is sold here, this is a Mature sim, and we have LL’s rules and RL laws to follow. You will be asked to change your avatar or leave.
Keep memory use below 5MB. This limit will be enforced more strictly during times of high traffic, such as avatar releases or events / hunts.
KINZART KREETURES SANDBOX RULES:
All mainstore rules apply.
You must be in the main Kinzart Productions group to use the sandbox.
Height limit is 500m.
No sexbeds / yiffing / other adult activities.
No vehicles.
No locked items.
Unattended builds can be returned without warning. Please clean up after yourself!
KINZART KREETURES GROUP CHAT RULES:
All mainstore rules apply.
Keep it clean. No NSFW, adult, or sexual content. This applies to both chatter and links. If you’re unsure if a link is acceptable, ask an admin and we’ll check.
Don’t be rude or offensive. Remember the human.
No controversial topics. This includes, but is not limited to, religion, politics, etc. If you want to discuss these, do so in PM.
Don’t feed the trolls.
Respect the word of the admins and mods. No mini-modding.
No soliciting, advertising, or begging.
Provide context for any links you post, especially if they’re a shortlink. Preferably, keep links in context with the chat. “Shock” links will be met with immediate removal from the group.
This group is a privilege, not a right.
KINZART KREETURES DISCORD RULES:
All Group Chat rules apply.
Please don’t leave your mic open, too loud, or too staticy. You will be muted or kicked.
_FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS_
Last Revision: 17 May 2019
_DO YOU DO CUSTOM WORK? TEXTURES, FULL AVATARS, ETC?
Almost never. You’re welcome to ask, though.
_ARE UPDATES FREE?
Yes! We will sometimes put out “sponsorship” items when updates are coming out, but those are just extra goodies. Updates are always free.
Updates are usually automatic. If you are curious about the current version of an avatar, drop by the mainstore and click on the redelivery terminals for new copies, or ask a staff member.
Legacy versions of updated avatars are available in the mainstore at a discount, with limited support. These are not stored in the database. If you need a redelivery of these, contact Sylver Bu.
_I TRIED TO BUY AN AVATAR AS A GIFT, BUT IT SENT IT TO ME INSTEAD. WHAT HAPPENED?
PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY AND WAIT FOR THE VENDOR TO CONFIRM YOUR GIFT TARGET’S NAME.
MAKE SURE TO ADD “RESIDENT” TO THE END IF YOUR FRIEND DOESN’T HAVE A LEGACY SURNAME.
We can’t offer exchanges or returns for these cases, so please be careful when making your gift purchase!
_I PAID THE VENDOR, BUT IT GAVE ME AN INTERNAL SERVER ERROR. // I PAID THE VENDOR, AND HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A WHILE, BUT NOTHING HAPPENED.
There is a known bug in our database that we’re actively hunting. Please contact a staff member as soon as possible with any error messages you received, and contact Sylver Bu with your transaction history for a manual delivery.
_CAN I GET A REFUND / EXCHANGE?
We only do refunds and exchanges in very rare situations (e.g. vendor- or server-side errors). Please contact a staff member with inquiries.
_SOMEONE IS CAUSING TROUBLE IN OKARTHEL / THE GROUP CHAT!
Contact an online staff member and we’ll come take care of things. If we aren’t online in SL, check Discord and ping us there.
If no staff members are available, please take screenshots / copy logs and send them to a staff member for later review.
_THE MAIN KINZART GROUP IS CLOSED ENROLLMENT. HOW DO I JOIN?
Copy and paste this into chat: secondlife:///app/agent/c93be067-16bc-438f-93dc-74135f7c6041/im
Send her the word “invite” (no quotes) and she’ll send you a group invite. Alternatively, head to Okarthel and click the group invite boards.
If Anactical is offline, you can contact a staff member for an invite.
(Anactical is our group management bot. Sometimes she talks in group chat after she logs in. Don’t mind her, she’s just waking back up and has to recognize it’s not an IM.)
If you prefer a group with no chat, check any staff member’s profile for the Kinzart No Chatting group. It’s open enrollment so you don’t need to request an invite.
_DO YOU PLAN TO MAKE THINGS FOR HIFI / SANSAR? HOW ABOUT EXPANDING TO ANOTHER GRID?
We don’t have plans for any of that right now.
If you find some of our content on other grids or services, it is likely not legit. Please let a staff member know.
_WHY AREN’T KINZART AVATARS ON THE MARKETPLACE?
We use an external database to store product purchases, and need a way to integrate that with Marketplace sales. We’re exploring ways to do this, but for the foreseeable future, we won’t have avatars on the Marketplace.
In the meantime, if you see a Kinzart avatar on the Marketplace, it is likely not legit. Please let a staff member know.
_WHY DON’T YOU MAKE APPLIERS?
We have far too many avatars and colors to make appliers for.
We do sell skin textures so you can make your own appliers for, however:
Skin sets (Head, Torso, Legs): 200L per gender per color
Torso skins (for breast appliers): 100L each
Attachment textures: Free
You can download and modify these textures for personal modkits, but cannot resell them.
The skin textures are compatible with anything that uses the LL UVs (incl. Omega).
Contact Sylver Bu for more information. (Only Sylver Bu! Other admins do not have access to the textures!)
_WHY DON’T YOU BUILD TO FIT RIGGED BODIES?
We build to fit the LL base body to help ensure compatibility and customizability with a wide range of clothing and accessories. It’s a good baseline to work with.
There are a few other reasons we don’t build to fit rigged bodies - we don’t wish to conform to third-party products, it’d take compatibility away from other products, and it’d add time onto the development process.
Similarly: We only build full-mesh avatars when the design calls for it (e.g. the Direwolf, the Northern Plushy, etc). Otherwise, we use partial mesh.
_CAN I BUY JUST A PART OF AN AVATAR? A HEAD, A TAIL, A SCRIPT?
We don’t sell avatar parts or components individually.
_WHAT IS THE AIO/AUC?
That is a neat little tool that allows us to issue script updates if necessary without needing to issue a complete avatar redelivery.
It also allows you to automatically remove extra scripts from your avatar when you’re done customizing it to save on script usage (make yourself less laggy). We recommend making a backup before running the AIO Stripdown function.
_PARTS OF MY AVATAR ARE DISAPPEARING / DISTORTING WHEN I ZOOM OUT. WHAT’S HAPPENING?
That’s caused by the Level of Detail (LoD) changing. Objects further from the camera don’t need to be rendered as fully as objects closer, so to save resources, a lower-quality version is substituted. This is intended behavior.
Try increasing your Object Detail / Object LOD in Graphics Preferences or changing the “RenderVolumeLODFactor” debug setting to 4.
Updated FAQ and Links courtesy of Blau!
Direwolf will not meet Halloween Deadline + Details
I’ve already posted this on Discord, but I’m posting it here so its more readily shared on other platforms-
The Direwolf will NOT be meeting its ‘Before halloween’ deadline. My plan for this avatar was to be a big Halloween hit, and to the dozens of you excited to use it for their upcoming gatherings and halloween parties--Please accept my sincerest apologies.
I went into the project thinking it was ‘just another avatar’, grossly underestimating how much there was to do, so as the 24th deadline loomed ever closer, I pushed myself harder and harder to work, alienating my fiance and friends in the process to focus on work.
That’s when the bugs started piling up, and I’m now forced to reupload all of the animations I’ve produced so far, due to a mistake I could’ve caught early on had I taken my time and tested things properly.
I can’t, in good conciseness, push this avatar to meet the deadline, because it will NOT be a positive experience for all parties. I’d rather delay it and take the heat for the delay, than put out a sub par product that’ll leave a sour taste in everyone’s mouth for months to come.
That said, if you desire a refund, please contact me inworld or in Discord(Through the Kinzart Discord) for a refund and I will be happy to oblige.
Since this seems to have confused some people, let me make myself clear:
We have not, and will never charge users to make mods for our content, SO LONG AS THEY ARE USING THEIR OWN ORIGINAL ASSETS TO DO SO.
This has ALWAYS been our policy. ALWAYS.
Mods that are sold that use our assets without permission (in the case of the husky, raptors and now direwolves, a license) to do so, will be removed. This is because we do not allow the use of our assets, either in part or in whole, to be shared for free or for profit to a broader audience.
We have always happily shared our textures for modding. As you know we charge a small fee for skins, but everything else has always been free of charge. These textures are shared for personal use, or for helping friends only.
The Direwolf Dev kit marks the first time we’ve ever made not just a fully stacked set of PSDs available, but also the actual blend files they’re used on, publically available.
But that isn’t to say that if someone makes textures/mods from scratch, that they cannot do that. That is entirely false.
If you make your own textures from scratch for modding a Kinzart avatar (that you wish to sell), you are fine. In fact, we encourage you.
We will never tax, fine or ask users for a cut of their sales if they’ve made their own custom mods that they’re selling for Kinzart. We have never done this, and will never do this.
Direwolf Creator Beta live
Those interested in helping us beta test our first ever true dev kit are urged to message Sylver Bu. The fee for the Beta is 9000L, but includes commercial rights for use with the dev kit, fully shaded/detailed PSDs for the Direwolf, a weight and uv copy dummy, and some inworld tools. Buying into the beta gets you the Fatpack preorder as well. Post launch, the dev kit license wil be 5000L and the fatpack will be 6000L. (You do not need the dev kit to wear/use the avatar) IM me if you’re interested.
FAQ:
Will it work with other brands of bodies? What about other AOs?
Probably not. and.. kinda? Testing internally yielded…. entertaining results. Use non-specific Aos at your own risk.
How much is the Avatar? Do I have to buy the license to use/wear the avatar?
The avatar will be 2500L per size (with 3 sizes in total), or 6000L for the fatpack.
As stated above, the dev kit is marketed toward people who wish to make third party content for the direwolf. It is recommended for those who want to create completely transformative accessories. IE if you’re just a normal consumer looking to buy a cool avatar, you can completely ignore all this nonsense and preorder/purchase the avatar like normal when its available.
Why is the dev kit so expensive?
The license for the dev kit, post launch, will be 5000L. By buying in early, you’ll save some money and get a head start on creating third party content for our Direwolf avatar. I settled on this price because of the sheer volume of control this dev kit gives the licensee. Between the .blend files, the Psds and commercial license rights, 5000L is actually quite fair.
I want the Direwolf early, can I join this Beta to get it early?
This ‘Beta’ isn’t for the avatar. Its for the devkit. Its designed to help us test the files we’re sending to licensees to ensure their usability. Those expecting to get early access to the avatar before its ready will find themselves short 9k and disappointed. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
I’m new to Blender/Avastar, and want to try this dev kit.
First off, you’re mad. Second of all, if you’re serious, we won’t stop you but know that this file was designed with intermediate to advanced users in mind. There will be freeby files designed for more entry-level use at a later date. However if you truly are a glutton for punishment, we welcome your torment. All kidding aside, I’ll be happy to answer any questions you have and help as best I can.
I just do texture mods, Do I really need the dev kit?
If you wish to make textures to sell, you will still need the Commercial license for the PSDs. Nice thing is that’s available at only 2000L, and without a contract attached. Don’t think we won’t be right miffed if you go breakin’ our hearts now though. We’re serious. While the Dev kit would be useful for texturing, its not required.
However if you’re looking for personal use only, there’ll be a freebie set of PSDs available to you post launch, minus the fur detail layers. Those are only part of the commercial license.
I just want to make clothing, do I really need the dev kit?
Nope! There’ll be a rigged, non uv’d dummy model for download post launch.
As a creator.. I am not sure what to think about this. The price.. is… Who really charges third party people for ‘licenses’.. It makes me incredibly nervous.
I know people will likely jump down my throat about this, but, I skin things. That is what I do and reading this makes me think ‘if I use the psd files for the uvs alone.. can I even sell what I make without having someone axe murder me?’
I’m kinda surprised people think this is okay? Perhaps I am greatly misunderstanding this, but I am really not fond of this sort of business model. It’s a shame really because I quite liked the preview I seen on Artstation, the work looked beautiful and the ideas behind how it will function was pretty awesome too.
Can I afford this? Yes, but for me, it’s the principle and I don’t really want to encourage creators charging third party creators a ‘tax’ when the people who make those meshes/items and addons generate enormous revenues for avatar creators already.
So confused :<
I understand your fear, but I think you might be looking at it from the wrong perspective. I've put a lot of effort and time into my work, and I've opted to share it with the community--Essentially handing them the keys to my kingdom, so to speak. You can’t seriously just expect me to open that door and hope that everyone will play nicely. Some other creators make due with this tactic, but I don’t find that notion comfortable.
This license is not intended to scare or ‘punish’ those who make and sell mods. In fact its meant to encourage both of those things. The fee is a one time thing--You buy it, get the files, and a license that allows you to resell anything you make using my works. Its a fairly straight forward gig. There’ll be no axe-murdering involved.
As with my previous 2 releases, There’s commercial versions of the PSDs alone, that do cost a single flat fee. This fee is two-fold. It allows the end user to create some really cool supplemental content without having to start at square one, while helping me keep the lights on.
You called this a ‘tax’, but that isn’t what’s happening, and I’d appreciate it if you didn’t call it that. License fees are prominent in the digital world, and I don’t just mean Second Life. I’m not charging a recurring ‘subscription’ fee. These files are licensed under a one-time fee, with a contract that tells creators what they can and can’t do. The terms of said contract are not unreasonable, written entirely with the purpose of disallowing end users to just re-upload my work without any kind of meaningful changes.
I’m going to speak more personally for this next bit, and hopefully better explain my reasons and motivations for my decision to charge for the license.
SL is my career. It pays my bills, puts food on my table, and gas in my car. I invest an extraordinary amount of time and effort into producing content that can often take weeks or months to fully realize within the constraints of SL’s engine.
Given how much effort I put into my work, I want to get paid for that effort. After all, I don’t run a charity. I run a business and as Google used to once declare in their corporate statement, ‘A company can make money without being evil’.
The Direwolf marks the first time I’ve made something like a Dev kit available, and in doing so, I’ve put a lot of that power into people’s hands and I have to trust that they’re going to do the right things with it. Contracts go a long way toward keeping people honest, and for those who are, essentially, profiting off my work, to sort of pass some of that back up.
These files are incredibly potent. If someone really wanted to, and I mean really wanted to, they could completely nullify my product by releasing their own using my files. That’s scary to think about.
Lastly, I’ve always prided myself in being a teacher. Whenever someone approaches me asking how I do what I do, I do my best to answer their questions--Because I believe creativity is a super power. But I also believe that as people, we can never truly learn something until we’re right there in the thick of it. No one’s going to learn anything if they have all the answers given to them from the back of the book--They spend more time finding shortcuts rather than trying to learn a meaningful skill. This isn’t true for everyone, but it is for the great majority of the modding content I’ve seen on the market--So little of it does anything ‘meaningful’ or ‘transformative’ to the initial product(and Maybe its not meant to And that’s fine), But I often ask myself ‘what could they have achieved if they’d pushed themselves a bit further?’
That mentality kept me from providing any kind of dev files for many years--Because I felt like i was doing people a disservice by giving them all the answers, rather than helping them learn which questions to ask. But people don’t want to learn anymore. So many modders and buyers come to me with the mentality that they want all the guess work and hard labor done for them so they can swoop in and make a quick buck.
Mods do wonders for the lifespan of a creation. Just look at Minecraft or Ark for example. Games that have long since outlived their due date thanks to a robust aftermarket community--Which mind I remind you, wouldn’t even exist without the contributions of first party content creators.
Its a two way street, and if we’re all expected to share the road, there’s some ground roles to follow, at least for me.
The Direwolf is a huge project, and I still feel very justified in every penny I’ve charged for this Dev kit. Being told its ‘not worth it’ or ‘a rip off’ or having people tell me that ‘I’m threatening modders’.. It just makes me ask why i even bothered trying.
Lets take a moment to look at Avastar. If you’re a blender user, chances are you either use, or at the very least, have heard of Avastar. Its become the de-facto plugin for Second Life rigged Content creation. Years ago they sold their plugin with a one-time fee, but eventually had to switch to a yearly renewal model.
This made a lot of people upset, some going as far as saying that Avastar/JASS were ‘gatekeeping’ the 3D market, completely ignoring the fact that Rigged content was entirely possible without Avastar, They don’t HAVE to buy it, but it makes things significantly EASIER.
Gaia and co do incredibly enormous amounts of work to produce Avastar, and Honestly I’m just happy they’re willing to license it out to people. I’m happy to pay for it because it means they get to keep their lights on and put food on their table. Charging for it is absolutely within their right, as it is mine to charge for what essentially amounts to the keys to my castle.
If you still don’t see at least some logic here, then I can’t help you.
Direwolf Creator Beta live
Those interested in helping us beta test our first ever true dev kit are urged to message Sylver Bu. The fee for the Beta is 9000L, but includes commercial rights for use with the dev kit, fully shaded/detailed PSDs for the Direwolf, a weight and uv copy dummy, and some inworld tools. Buying into the beta gets you the Fatpack preorder as well. Post launch, the dev kit license wil be 5000L and the fatpack will be 6000L. (You do not need the dev kit to wear/use the avatar) IM me if you're interested.
FAQ:
Will it work with other brands of bodies? What about other AOs?
Probably not. and.. kinda? Testing internally yielded.... entertaining results. Use non-specific Aos at your own risk.
How much is the Avatar? Do I have to buy the license to use/wear the avatar?
The avatar will be 2500L per size (with 3 sizes in total), or 6000L for the fatpack.
As stated above, the dev kit is marketed toward people who wish to make third party content for the direwolf. It is recommended for those who want to create completely transformative accessories. IE if you’re just a normal consumer looking to buy a cool avatar, you can completely ignore all this nonsense and preorder/purchase the avatar like normal when its available.
Why is the dev kit so expensive?
The license for the dev kit, post launch, will be 5000L. By buying in early, you’ll save some money and get a head start on creating third party content for our Direwolf avatar. I settled on this price because of the sheer volume of control this dev kit gives the licensee. Between the .blend files, the Psds and commercial license rights, 5000L is actually quite fair.
I want the Direwolf early, can I join this Beta to get it early?
This ‘Beta’ isn’t for the avatar. Its for the devkit. Its designed to help us test the files we’re sending to licensees to ensure their usability. Those expecting to get early access to the avatar before its ready will find themselves short 9k and disappointed. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
I’m new to Blender/Avastar, and want to try this dev kit.
First off, you’re mad. Second of all, if you’re serious, we won’t stop you but know that this file was designed with intermediate to advanced users in mind. There will be freeby files designed for more entry-level use at a later date. However if you truly are a glutton for punishment, we welcome your torment. All kidding aside, I’ll be happy to answer any questions you have and help as best I can.
I just do texture mods, Do I really need the dev kit?
If you wish to make textures to sell, you will still need the Commercial license for the PSDs. Nice thing is that’s available at only 2000L, and without a contract attached. Don’t think we won’t be right miffed if you go breakin’ our hearts now though. We’re serious. While the Dev kit would be useful for texturing, its not required.
However if you’re looking for personal use only, there’ll be a freebie set of PSDs available to you post launch, minus the fur detail layers. Those are only part of the commercial license.
I just want to make clothing, do I really need the dev kit?
Nope! There’ll be a rigged, non uv’d dummy model for download post launch.
where can i buy the kzk renamon v2 (the only one im finding is the legacy version)
its in our ‘stone pillar’ vendors (the sides are made form stone pillars).
“Following my last post, these were some of the earlier concepts I did for @KinZart (https://t.co/8NH0AidCcI)'s raptor. The project as a whole was fun, I love concept work.”
Some earlier concepts I made for the @kinzart raptor!
I am passionate about this new avatar of the raptor, I saw a post that would bring the bento to your avatars or some, it would be very cool in the hands and tail, I think the main ones, but even without bento your avatars get better every day, kzk will always be my love: 3
the Raptor’s out, actually! The tail, hands and neck are rigged, but include static alternatives. :)
buff lion dude. Sketching to get myself familiar with Lions!
Where we are, and where we’re going + Community Appreciation Month!
I want to take a moment to seriously sit down and thank you all for your incredibly humbling and overwhelming support as of late. Thank to you all, the raptors have been a massive success, and I couldn’t be prouder of the work I’ve done. Seeing the community rally behind them has filled me with so much joy. I say this today because as of May 23rd, 2018, I have officially finished paying off my student loans! At the end of 2016, I was in a bad place financially and emotionally. My income in Second Life was at an all time low and I was literally living paycheck to paycheck, having to prioritize food and meds for my cats over paying bills. I was desperate for an out, and after hearing about it from a mutual at Starbucks, I enrolled at the Digital Media Institute in Shreveport, Louisiana. I knew before signing on the dotted line what I was getting into. 12,000 USD in debt without any official paperwork to show for it. I won’t bore you with the teary eyed details.
Fastforward to 2018 and I’m still jobless, but that’s not so bad at this point. I poured everything I had into the Raptors, and the results speak for themselves. You guys showed up in droves to show your support for my content, reaffirming what I’ve always known: You guys are the -best-. You’ve always been there to catch me when I fall, even when many of you struggled financially as well. You blindly offered your support, without ever expecting anything in return but I always made sure you got something. Anyone whose been a member of the Kinzart community long enough knows that I value your support immensely.
I’m getting off track here. What I’m trying to say is.. just.. seriously, thank you. I mean it. Your generosity has helped me pay off a huge chunk of debt that has been holding me back emotionally and financially. The last two months have been a blinding ray of sunshine in the bleakness that I’ve trudged through for the last six years, and I have you all to thank for it.
For the first time in six years, I can finally start planning for a proper future, rather than just dreaming about it. The next step is to put away 3-4k for moving expenses so that my fiance and I can relocate to Dallas, TX. We’ve got friends out that way looking for a place to stay, clan mates I’ve gamed with for the last 3 years.
But I want to also pay you guys back for your support. So, coming July, I’m going to do an entire MONTH of goodies for community appreciation. You can look forward to a hunt, freebies, and even a few sales! Even though August is the proper birthday for Kinzart (August 9th!), I want to do this sooner than later! Seriously you guys deserve so much more. I can’t thank you enough for enabling me to pursue a career as a freelance artist and I want to do what I can to repay you guys, in some way.
So, See you in July for Kinzart Community Appreciation Month!
(No promises on whether or not this’ll be a recurring thing, given scheduling and job timing, but I can damn well try!)
Kinzart Public Personal Use PSPs Masterpost/EULA
This post will be to keep track of all publicly available PERSONAL USE PSPs(Premade Shader PSDs).
THESE ARE NOT TO BE USED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. IF YOU WISH TO USE THEM FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES, PLEASE CONTACT SYLVER BU TO PURCHASE A LICENSE.
COMMERCIAL EDITION FILES ARE NOT TO BE REDISTRIBUTED, AND ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO BE USES BY THOSE WHO HAVE PURCHASED A LICENSE.
Husky: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_spBhZzt0gpbk1kTnY1bTJVQ1k The Husky License is 800 Linden Dollars.
Raptor: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1e7gofXbHV6HNQ49FvMmplfgpSYfqXS9u The Raptor License is 800 Linden Dollars.
Raptor PSPs available now. Remember to sell anything you make using these files, you must purchase a license. If you do not wish to purchase a license, yet still want to sell mods for this avatar, we ask that you please provide your own shaders. Thank you.
Additionally, Raptor Body materials will be made available in the main store in Okarthel.
The Rise and Fall of the K’thnal and the Great Network, ANIMA
Edit: Fixed some hugely glaring mistakes and added some missing information. Might want to re-read if you’ve already read it.
There’s been a rising amount of interest in Kinzart’s lore recently, so I thought I’d take some time to do another write up on a topic that I personally enjoy.
As mentioned in my previous lore post (http://katb320.tumblr.com/post/132678004162/the-world-of-kinzart-lore) and my post detailing the Lyrekhet (http://kinzart.tumblr.com/post/146455761460/im-looking-for-species-info-on-the-lyrekhet-the), Kinzart’s world boasts a robust, dynamic collection of races, species and cultures.
All of this was made possible by the K’thnal. Who are they? What are they? How are they? The answer to that last one is easy, dead.
As for who they are, and what they are, the answer to that isn’t quite so simple.
They began as any species did, evolving from lesser species through sheer wit and smarts. They learned as protohumans did, and began to understand how the world worked. In time that understanding became mastery.
One thing had remained constant throughout their evolution--their reliance on the enigmatic substance they called Aura, known today as Essence Crystals. As they developed, they learned to harness Aura as a virtually limitless source of power, not realizing that Aura was a finite resource. Their thirst for information and their desire to master the world around them would soon be their undoing for Aura wasn’t just a power source. It was also storage.
Aura grew slowly, taking centuries to mature before it produced enough power to power anything. Meanwhile the crystals would act like sponges, sampling and archiving little bits of information from its surroundings. Plant DNA, animal DNA, even a detailed history of a region’s mineralogical changes. Over time, the stored information would seep back into the ground, permeating the water and soil and changing the flow of evolution in the process.
This discovery changed the course of their history and would confirm one of their biggest theories.
They weren’t the first.
In consuming Aura, they were effectively destroying data, wiping it from existence. Aura was already a precious resource, but this information made it even more-so.
They knew they were living on borrowed time and poured all of their time and resources into developing their first interstellar, warp capable starship, entering the golden age of space exploration. The vessel would embark on a journey to find a new world, as rolling blackouts, sickness and starvation began to plague their homeworld. K’thnal soon petered on the brink of extinction, all hope resting on the voyage of this single, super advanced starship.
They found their salvation in the form of a planetoid comprised of almost entirely Aura. Their expeditions to the planetoid led to the discovery of ANIMA, a vast network that existed on a galactic scale. Some of the brighter minds within the K’thnal suspected that it existed, but none had ever been able to prove its existence until they arrived on the planetoid, which they dubbed a ‘Core World’.
The first Core World discovered was appropriately named Adama, and was girdled with ring world stations and shielded with hard light barriers to defend it from whatever might be out there, lurking in the darkness.
To a normal mind, ANIMA was a strange place--yes, place. It was a realm of the mind, accessible through contact with a Core Node. In its ‘passive’ stat, ANIMA is a flat, featureless space whose horizon stretches on to infinity. , though it at least has the decency to abide by the laws of physics. A user’s physical body is projected into this essentially virtual space, wherein they may interact with ANIMA if they know how.
ANIMA’s nature as a galactic scale network means that it stores tens of millions of kibibytes(yes, kibibytes, look it up), of information. This is all accessible in an instant. ANIMA’s secondary ability is to act as a complete holographic matter emitter, since no actual matter is being introduced, merely shuffled around and reformatted. it is able to project anyone and anything, as long as the information is present within the database. When a user interacts with one of the tens of trillions of crystalline hexagons, it rises from the floor and they are presented with a terminal, translated for their language. ANIMA acts as a ‘read, not write’ data structure, allowing the user to call any data they desire and initialize a holographic projection. Only Aura seems to be capable of making any changes to the information stored within ANIMA.
ANIMA can seamlessly recreate any world stored within its databanks, regardless of which Code Node the user is logged in from. The user will see, feel, and hear as if they were actually there, able to explore anywhere that ANIMA has recorded. It can even go as far as projecting the wildlife present, dynamically recreating the organic thought processes through the use of advanced intelligence subroutines. Changes made to these projected worlds have absolutely no effect on the real one. ANIMA does all this by utilizing the energy generated by the incredibly robust network of Core Worlds and Node Worlds connected to the network--Simply put each one is a battery and a processor.
Through the use of ANIMA, the K’thnal were able to locate largely uninhabited worlds and strip mine them for Aura, meanwhile archiving the species found there to be transplanted later using ANIMA. They didn’t want to repeat their actions on their homeworld, and thus the Preservation Accords were drafted, declaring that for every resource consumed, twice as much must be returned in kind. The first tenant, “We are not the first”, led to the declaration “And we will not be the last”, helped guide progress from then on.
With an abundant source of Aura, starship docks sprouted up all over the K’thnal homeworld and the once suffering populace took to the stars, adrift on massive ARK-class starships, destined for new worlds. Their empire practically exploded overnight, colonizing world after world. There would be missteps along the way.
Without the proper guidance of the Admiralty, rogue colony ships broke ground on already populated worlds, sparking huge civil wars as colonists forcefully evicted the inhabitants--Their hardlight weaponry and shielding were far superior to the flintlock and gunpowder the natives had at their disposal. It was a bloodbath.
Perpetrators of these crimes were hunted with extreme prejudice and punished severely for their actions defied the tenants of the Preservation Accords.
Their hands stained in blood, the K’thnal turned their attention to a new endeavor. World building. If the worlds that already existed were powder kegs, then they’d just have to build their own new worlds.
Through the use of specialized explosives to birth new stars and ambient clusters of minerals, ice and even dead planetoids, the K’thnal built their first manufactured world. It would be the first of many failures, the planet far too unstable to feasibly support life.
Many more attempts would fail, and the Admiralty considered canning the project altogether, too fearful at the loss of more life.
On the brink of its death, the project found new life with their first success. A small garden world, rich with compatible life. Not too warm, not too cold, nestled perfectly into the golden belt of a young dwarf star. This world was also a Core World, seeded with Aura early in its growth so that the entire planet was permeated with it. New, never before seen forms of life developed, their genetic makeup gleaned from the trillions of lifeforms stored within ANIMA’s galactic databanks.
And with the addition of yet another Core world, ANIMA’s power grew as did its reach.
With renewed vigor, the K’thnal set about creating even more new planets, starting small and gradually scaling up until their worlds were large enough to reasonably sustain a developing civilization. They seeded them with compatible organisms sampled from trillions of other plants by ANIMA, and seeded each planet with a Core Node, adding more and more processing power to ANIMA’s vast reach.
One intrepid team set their eyes on the largest, most ambitious world yet--A new Homeworld. It took centuries to grow, fuse and cool, and a few more centuries yet to be environmentally stable enough to support life. When all was said and done, the project had been a massive success.
The resulting world was named Okarthel and would soon become the seat of the K’thnal’s galactic control. Vast super cities sprang up, boasting hundreds of millions of citizens across its garden surface. The abundance of Aura that had grown rapidly over the centuries meant all basked in the light.
But they had been too slow to see their downfall.
It wasn’t swift, but it was nonetheless painful.
K’thnal, in their desire to know and master all, had effectively worked themselves out of a job, to put it simply.
New discoveries were happening less and less frequently, and they had little need to oversee the development of the hundreds of thousands of worlds they’d created, as each stabilized itself by simply existing.
The K’thnal, hungry still for knowledge, set about on one final endeavor. To create life itself. To master it.
ANIMA was capable of influencing the growth of a species over time, but never had the K’thnal ever created life themselves. Such practices had been forbidden, frowned upon. They were merely there to guide life and preserve it, not influence it or alter its course.
They began simple, small. In time their ambitions grew. Nothing that could not survive on its own was given life, to avoid undue suffering.
Their efforts culminated in the creation of the Lyrekhet, a subservient species, engineered with great intelligence and problem solving. The Kthnal hoped to future-proof their development, but also stop them from potentially becoming a blight on the galaxy. The Lyrekhet were born fully matured, yet never able to produce young of their own. They would serve as assistants and aids to the K’thnal, their prowess matching that of their masters. Many K’thnal saw their Lyrekhet companions as equals.
In time their creations found their way but the K’thnal were yet again facing their own erasure.
Its safe to say that the K’thnal’s accelerated growth as a species is due entirely in part to their own ancestors, but history has long since forgotten their names. The K’thnal recognized this, and accepted that they wouldn’t have gotten as far as they had without the help of those who came before. They knew they had to pave the way for those who came next.
In a decision that would confuse historians for centuries to come, the K’thnal collectively resolved to release their reigns on the galaxy and cease to exist as they were. But they couldn’t simply vanish. Countless solutions were fielded, tested and invariably shut down, leaving only two.
The first would be to choose six individuals, each harboring the values needed to maintain a society, and disseminate their consciousness into the Core Nodes of the six primary Core Worlds. These six would become their stewards, and act as the silent governing bodies, monitoring the fledgling species that had been implanted all across the galaxy--inheritors to the K’thnal’s empire.
The remainder would allow themselves to dissolve into the ANIMA.
And the Lyrekhet? They would be placed into stasis deep within massive vaults and allowed to emerge on set intervals across various K’thnal controlled worlds.
And so, the K’thnal’s reign came to an end--Not in a violent protest to an alien invader, or a cataclysm, but quietly to the wheels of entropy. In time the sun would rise on worlds wiped clean. A fresh start. A new beginning. In the blink of an eye, am empire tens of trillions strong simply ceased to exist.
Only fragments were left behind to ever imply that the K’thnal had ever been there at all, in the form of abandoned cities and citadels, dormant technology and silenced creation.
In that vacuum, new life took root. Countless species discovered fire, forged their first spear, and with it, fresh food. Spears became swords. Swords became guns. Beasts of burden traded up for machines of destruction and flying ships to liberate the masses from the ground. New life would forge its own path in creation and destruction, following in the footsteps of the K’thnal.
Nowhere was this more prevalent than the K’thnal’s greatest accomplishment, Okarthel, where life carries on to this day, in reverence to the race that gave them a fighting chance.
Hey do you guy take suggestion on new AV builds? becuse i wonder if you guys can do Frogs or toad avs like Derp did before they went belly up
I would love to do less common species like that, and perhaps I will once i’m more financially stable and can actually afford for an avatar to do ‘meh’ in sales.
I dont like to focus on the money side of things, but unfortunately I have to go where the money is, at least in regards to species.
But trust me, I would LOVE to do some really awesome things like frogs!
an Inworld preview of the raptor, as requested by group chat!
Raptor Preorders are live, GO GO GO!
Currently only 23 colors available, but due to demand I’m looking into offering the ‘Legendary’ colors as well.
