Handy Paws (Female) Readme

Quick Start

1. Hide your mesh body’s human hands.
Either detach the hands if possible, or hide them with the body’s HUD.

2. Attach the Handy Paws for your body, with the palm pad desired – A, B or No Pad.

3. If you are using Bakes on Mesh, you are good to go!
If you intend to use Omega for your skins/furry mods or use nails appliers, see Appliers below for info.

Bakes on Mesh

BoM is enabled on the Handy Paws by default.

If your Handy Paws show invisible or with a ‘missing wrist’ then your mesh body may be set up for Omega appliers instead; check the Appliers section opposite to proceed!

Bakes on Mesh allows you to use system wearable for your skin, tattoos, layering clothing such as stockings, and so on. It does not work in tandem with Omega appliers – it replaces their functionality. If you use an Omega applier to change your skin/mod, it will disable BoM.

In the ‘Help & Etc’ section of the HUD are some controls for BoM.

  • Bakes on Mesh
    Sets the ‘skin’ part of the hands to the BoM lower body texture.
    Alpha mode is set to ‘masking’ 128.
  • Bakes on Mesh – Asymmetric
    As above, but also sets the left hand to the LEFT_ARM auxiliary BoM texture.
  • Bakes on Mesh – No Alpha
    As with ‘Bakes on Mesh’ button, but Alpha mode is set to ‘none’. BoM alphas will not affect the hands with this mode.
  • Reset All Skin Textures
    Sets the ‘skin’ part of the hands to a blank white texture, and the alpha mode to ‘none’. A visual reset before adding your own textures, or applying an Omega applier.

Some tattoo and universal wearables are included which have a BoM version of the marking layer options. You can use these beneath clothing system layers. They can be edited through your inventory to change the tint.

Appliers

The only appliers that can be used are Omega appliers (on all sizes), eBody Reborn and Inithium Kupra materials appliers (on relevant sizes only).

Nothing extra is needed for eBody Reborn materials support!

For Kupra materials support, an activator is required which can be purchased from Inithium’s inworld store.

Out of the box, these paws do not support Omega appliers – you need to buy the system kit to install this capability.

Omega Systems Apricot Paws Kit

The paws support Omega for applying skins/mods, materials and nails (onto the claws).

Sizing

(eB.Reborn)

eBody Reborn.
Hide human hands with the body’s HUD.
Supports eBody Reborn appliers for skins and materials, + materials control in body HUD.
Supports Omega appliers (see Appliers).

(Legacy.F)

NOT FOR THE DEFAULT SECOND LIFE BODY!!
For all variants of the female Meshbody Legacy.
Detach ‘[HANDS] Legacy (f)’ to remove human hands.
Legacy appliers not supported.
Supports Omega appliers (see Appliers).

(Maitreya, Slink)

Primarily for Maitreya Lara 5.3.
Hide human hands with the body’s HUD.
Also works for Slink Physique and Hourglass, and any other bodies that use the universal Slink womens wrist fit.
Supports Omega appliers (see Appliers).

(LaraX)

Maitreya LaraX, PetiteX and FlatX.
Hide human hands with the body’s HUD.
Supports Omega appliers (see Appliers).

(Belleza)

For Belleza Freya and Isis.
For Venus, use Slink mode in the Belleza HUD with the (Maitreya, Slink) size.
Hide human hands with the body’s HUD.
Belleza appliers not supported.
Supports Omega appliers (see Appliers).

(Belleza Gen.X)

For Belleza Gen.X Classic and Curvy.
Hide human hands with the body’s HUD.
Belleza appliers not supported.
Supports Omega appliers (see Appliers).

(Kupra)

Inithium Kupra.

Kupra ‘WITHOUT HANDS/FEET’ can be used with the Handy Paws as-is.

Kupra ‘ALPHA CUT’ bodies will either have an overlapping left wrist, or a gap on the left wrist.
Instructions to fix:
– Wear the ‘Hide Kupra’s Hands’ alpha from the Handy Paws folder.
The paws will be hidden, this is expected! Follow the next steps.
– In the Handy Paws HUD, go to the last page, ‘Help & Etc’
– Click the ‘Bakes on Mesh – No Alpha’ button.
The paws will re-appear! You are finished.

Supports Inithium appliers for materials, + materials control in body HUD. Must purchase activator from Inithium mainstore.
Supports Omega appliers (see Appliers).

(SP Peach)

For Spider Productions Peach.
Detach ‘PEACH BODY HANDS L’ and ‘R’ to remove human hands.
Supports Omega appliers (see Appliers).

NOTE: There are normals mismatches on the ankles of many fits, due to the dev kits for those bodies not having the true mesh to source the correct shading from. This shows mostly on light skins/furry mods, and with shiny specular applied. Nothing to be done about this. Apologies!
Fits with accurate mesh normals: eBody Reborn, Belleza Gen.X, Kupra, SP Peach.

​​The paws have three palm pad styles.

– Palm Pad A with 3 separated palm segments.
– Palm Pad B with a heart shape.
– No Palm Pad

Resources

All textures used on the paws via application from the HUD are available with full permissions inside the Texture Resources box/folder with your paws. This also includes UV maps and BoM markings.

Mesh dev kits for clothing/accessory creators are available here.

Update Notes

2.5.2

July 2024
– Bug fix for claw tinting in the HUD.

2.5.1

July 2024
– Added alpha and instructions for usage with Kupra Alpha Cut body version.

2.5

July 2024
– Added LaraX sizes.
– New HUD! New pawpad and claw textures, plus pawpad and claw materials sliders.
– Fixed a bone position issue on paw pads that prevented an arm length deformer from working. (Excepting Lara & LaraX, as the bodies themselves have the same issue)

2.4.1

Dec 2022
– Added Belleza Gen.X and SP Peach sizes.
– eBody Reborn and Kupra materials support.
– Combined Maitreya & Slink sizes.
– Fixed ‘Palm Pad A’ and ‘No Palm Pad’ hands having the wrong ‘Cover Palm’ markings layer texture.

2.4

Dec 2021
– Added Kupra and eBody Reborn sizes.
– ‘Blank’ size renamed to ‘Slink’.

2.3f

Fixed HUD controls for glow & fullbright on the claws.

2.3e

– Fixed ‘Palm Pad A’ hands having the wrong ‘Cover Hand’ and ‘Shading’ markings layer textures.
– Corrected ‘Marking Hand Shading (Pad A)’ texture in Texture Resources box/folder.

2.3d-L

– Added Legacy (F) size.
– Fixed ‘No Palm Pad’ hands having the wrong ‘Cover Hand’ texture.
– All hands are now BoM-enabled in their newly unboxed state.

2.3c

Script improvements for the ‘Maitreya V5’ paws.

2.3b

Added a ‘Maitreya V5’ version, specifically for the new versions of Maitreya with joined-on hands & feet. Fixes a joint position conflict.

2.3a

Fixed normals of Belleza size wrists.

2.3

– Bakes on Mesh functionality.
– Hands are now joined into a single object per size and type, rather than being split into left & right hands, to reduce script usage. It is still possible to remove a hand’s parts by unlinking them.
– Finger pads and claws can now be tinted individually in the HUD.
– Joint override animation & script removed from Belleza hands, as it’s no longer required. Make sure to use the non-bento Belleza bodies!

2.2

– Added two more palm pad styles – one with a single pad, and one with no pad at all.
– Added two more claw lengths – shorter and longer/straighter.
– Markings layer UV was reworked.
– Markings cover textures reworked.
– Added ‘Cover Palm’ markings texture.
– Retro bridge mode removed.

2.1

– New UV map for paw pads.
– New textures for paw pads – soft, mottled & leather – pads now have specular effects.
– New size to fit Belleza arms (non-Slink fit) which will work correctly with the V5 Bento update of these bodies.
– HUD Options page has visuals on buttons.
– v1.1 handpaws removed.

2

– Hand is now SL UV and Omega compatible for skins and nails (with system kit installation).
– Now for any mesh body with classic SL female wrist fit, allowing use of various womens rigged mesh hands – so Maitreya, Belleza (in Slink mode), Slink, etc.
– Added extra layer for shading or to cover up the hand/finger/fingertips.
– Added a HUD with various options and a tinting page! Edit mode knowledge now less mandatory.

1.1

Added Belleza Freya size.

1.0a

Added some textures with no shading on the end fluff, so it’s easier to match colours.

1.0

Original release for Maitreya.