Price drops on all babies

From today you will find all the babies with a different price. Now you can get the 3.0 mesh version starting from 2999 and the 2.5 sculpt version at 1999.

Also the Lite version also gets a price drop and can be bought for just 599.

You can find this new price at the marketplace and as well at the in world clinics.

This affect also the bundle packs and the price for upgrading from Lite versions to reflect this change making their price 2499 and 1400.

Also remember that the upgrade program is still running so you can upgrade 2.5 or Lite babies to the new 3.0 mesh version by paying the difference between babies and expect soon a new update for these babies that will enable in them advance lighting model for greater realism.

Mother´s Day promotion

As a mother´s day promotion, the upgrade program will be back for one last time. From the 1st of May till mother´s day (12 of May), if you are the prow owner of a Baby Tatu, you can upgrade it to the latest 3.0 version and save 75%  from the full price of the new baby.

Pay just 1000L and upgrade your 2.x baby to the new 3.0 mesh version. That´s just the difference on price between both versions.

This is a limited time promotion for the new baby and will only be possible until the 12 of May 2014. So if you are the owner of a Baby, don´t let this promotion pass.

This promotion is available at all recovery stations, just follow the steps, pay the recovery station the 1000L and recover your baby to a 3.0 version from today.

Don´t let it pass

Playing with advance lighting

I have been experimenting with the new ways to render objects on SL. Advance lighting makes it possible to render objects the same way as AAA game does on PS3 / Xbox but on our loved SL. Now there will be no need to "bake" how shadows and light affects the objects in SL, but it will be calculated on real time by the engine.

Advance lighting does a good job by its own on calculating the shadows on the object, but its with the use of normal maps, difuse maps and specular maps that the models really shine as the light bounces realistically from the object and textures start looking more realistic and less flat.

Little things as the hair and skin really becomes alive and the use of specular maps really gives the skin that porcelain and delicate look you expect from real babies.


It´s also possible to use this process on the design studio, but because generating and understanding normal maps and specular maps isn´t easy, I don´t expect many builders could really take good use of this feature.

Anyway expect soon an big update on the 3.0 babies to incorporate this new feature that will make the babies much more life like, at least for the users who can handle advance lighting.

And don´t forget we are in the final days of the promotion to upgrade to 3.0 with 75% discount

Last week offer, save 75% on the upgrade

For all our loyal mothers and fathers who follow us all this time, an upgrade program is now active.

Pay just 1000L and upgrade your 2.x baby to the new 3.0 mesh version. That´s just the difference on price between both versions and a discount of 75% from the full price of the new baby.

This is a limited time promotion for the new baby and will only be possible until the 31 of January 2014. So if you are the owner of a Baby, don´t let this promotion pass.

This promotion is available at all recovery stations, just follow the steps, pay the recovery station the 1000L and recover your baby to a 3.0 version from today.

Don´t let it pass

Which one is the best baby for you?

-->The Tatu Family has a baby for everyone with different prices and features depending on your playing style and budget.

The new 3.0 mesh model

The new 3.0 version at 3000L brings all the new features of SL with Mesh and Pathfinding methods for the most realistic baby to date.

Compatible with all clothes and skins, its also uses some new exclusive skins were is possible to combine different skin tones and hair colors and designs as all information is stored on different layers.

Still it can be a little bit expensive and the land impact of 58, while sleeping or on poseballs, can result in not the ideal solution for everyone.

Classic 2.5 sculpt version

The clasic 2.5 version, now at the lower price of 2000L offers the same gameplay with 10 growth stages that takes your baby from newborn to toddler, but with a different shape using just sculpts and only 31 prims. This is an ideal solution of people with few prims available or who use older viewers.

Lite version, newborn baby on a budget

Lite babies are an excellent entry level baby for new parents. With a low price of 599L it brings the same newborn experience at a fraction of the price. These babies won´t be able to grow, but all progress is stored until you decide to upgrade.

Lite babies are a cheap way to enter the Tatu World or quality prim babies in general. Even if you choose to choose to upgrade later, the price of the update is the difference between the LITE and the FULL version. This means you will be paring the same as buying a 2.0 version but only if you decide to.

	Lite	2.5	3.0
Recoverable		*	*
Transferable		*	*
Sculpts shape	*	*
Clothes	*	*	*
Skins	*	*	*
Toys	*	*	*
Poseballs	some	*	*
Mesh Hair	*	*	*
Potty Trainer		*	*
Grows to toddler		*	*
Crawls / Walks		*	*
Pathfinder Walk			*
3.0 skins			*
3.0 hairs			*
Mesh shape			*
Advance Lighting Model			*
Prims	31	31	33
Land Impact	31	31	58 / 15
Price	599L	1999L	2999L

Limited time upgrade program

For all our loyal mothers and fathers who follow us all this time, an upgrade program is now active.

Pay just 1000L and upgrade your 2.x baby to the new 3.0 mesh version. That´s just the difference on price between both versions and a discount of 75% from the full price of the new baby.

This is a limited time promotion for the new baby and will only be possible until the 31 of January 2014. So if you are the owner of a Baby, don´t let this promotion pass.

This promotion is available at all recovery stations, just follow the steps, pay the recovery station the 1000L and recover your baby to a 3.0 version from today.

Don´t let it pass

A new baby it's with us, and its a mesh one!

The new Baby Tatu uses a combination of Mesh and sculpts to maintain a low prim number, keep backwards compatibility of clothes and skins and at the same time deliver an amazing level of detail over the same level of gameplay that Baby Tatu is known for.

With a prim count of 33, because of meshs it has a land impact of 58 but because it uses new pathfinder features, while crawling the land impact if of just 15 prims. Still have in mind that while the baby is on poseballs or not able to crawl, the land impact can be big.

Still if you are running low on prims, the 2.5 version might be a better fit for you with 31 prims and a lower price.

Pathfinder features give them a new and lifelike ability to navigate their surroundings and express their personality. Now the baby doesn´t just follow, but now explores, play and hide himself.

Play hide and seek with your baby around the house or watch him recognize his favorite toys.

The new features

• Mesh baby version with amazing level of detail
• Backward compatibility with clothes and old skins
• New skins and hair to enable more combinations of styles and greater level of detail
• Hair, eyelashes, eyebrows are keep as separate textures to enable more combinations of styles
• Pathfinder feature for a more intelligent recognition of the terrain

Get it today from the marketplace and all resellers

Soon...

Babies Price Drop

From today you can find the 2.5 version of the baby at a discount of 900L making the final price of 3000L. Thats an amazing  23% discount!

You can find this new price at the marketplace and as well at the in world clinics.

This affect also the bundle pack and the price for upgrading from Lite versions to reflect this change making their price 3500 and 2100.

LITE Babies

LITE Babies bring the Tatu experience at a budget price. For all the mothers and fathers what want to expand the family or just never knew quality prim babies because thought they were too expensive, the LITE version of the baby Tatu is for you.

It’s a cheap way to enter the Tatu World and upgrade when needed. Even if you choose to choose to upgrade later, the price of the update is the difference between the LITE and the FULL version.

LITE babies will be available at the marketplace and retail clinics, all over the grid for 900L.

What’s the difference with the full version?

The LITE version brings the same full experience of Baby Tatu for a fraction of the price but with some limitations.

Those limitations and differences are:

• LITE versions can’t grow from stage 0, even with the purple medic kit. So he will stay always as a newborn but never grown to a toddler, learn to crawl or walk. 
• LITE versions aren’t transferable to other avatars. 
• LITE versions will always have “Lite” as a last name to differentiate them. 
• LITE versions can’t be recovered. 
• LITE versions can’t use objects limited by the stage of the baby, as the potty trainer, which are for other levels 
• LITE versions still saves their personality in the cloud, so if you choose to upgrade to a full version you can continue from where you left with the same personality on your baby. 

Once you reach the necessary amount of points to reach level 1, a message will be displayed to let you know you can upgrade your baby to continue from the next level.

LITE Babies are still compatible with all clothes, skins and prim hairs.

Upgrading

Even if you lost your LITE baby, you can choose to upgrade to a full version of Baby Tatu at any point. If you have reached the necessary points for another level, your progress won’t be lost and you will be able to download the baby at that next stage.

For upgrading a baby just go to any Recovery Station on any retail Tatu Clinic and choose to recover your baby.

Sale Week!

As an all week special offer, you can get a new baby with a 20% discount, or take the best for your money and get the Bundle Pack for less than the full price baby. So if you was planning on getting a prim baby, or giving a little brother to the one you have, take a look at this incredible offer.

Just on the SL Marketplace

Finally - Baby Prim Hair available

Finally, with the new update that makes it possible, the new mesh prim hairs are available.

Because it´s something you need to add it to the baby it come in two flavors, copy or transfer.


Transfer hair will be gone if you need to recover the baby so in some cases must be re bought to be applied again.

On the other hand if you have a copy/no trans hair, you wont have this problem but you wont be able to transfer the baby to your partner with the hair.

Its not a perfect solution but by giving both options anyone can choose the solution that better fits to their case.

All hair designs are available on the marketplace and in your favourite reseller.

Pigtail (copy or trans)
Ponytail (copy or trans)

Updates on the hair design

I can finally say that the scripting it´s almost done. So expect the new hair designs to be available before Christmas. Also I also made a second hair design you can choose.

The hair will come with 8 hair textures plus will be compatible with the design studio and I will make available the photoshop files. That way anyone can customise the baby´s hair in anyway he wants and make it available for all.

As the hair is a prim you have to add to the baby, it will come in two flavour: copy/no trans or trans/no copy. I can´t give you the price right now of each one but because of recovery the hair will be gone so it must be applied again. This means that in some cases you must buy the hair again.

On the other hand if you have a copy/no trans hair, you wont have this problem but you wont be able to transfer the baby to your partner with the hair.

Its not a perfect solution but by giving both options anyone can choose the solution that better fits to their case.

Brace yourself, hair is comming

Sorry I have been away these days but I was actually working on the SL Beta Grid and offline.

And what have i been doing? Well something everyone has ask me for a while, HAIR!

Yup. its mesh hair and once its done it shouldn´t increase the prim count of the babies luckly by more than 1 prim

Sorry, this is the only hair design right now as its really hard to model hair, but it will be available in a large variety of hair tones.

Purple MedKit available

A new med kit its available. This med kit doesn´t heal your baby but it instantly skips a growth stage. This is thought for parents that doesn’t have the patience or couldn’t reach the amount of points needed that week and still wants their baby to reach their next stage.

It comes on a purple color and in two flavors and it will be only available on the marketplace for now.

1 shot

And 3 shots

How to use it

To use this medkit apply it as any medkit. Rez it near the baby and go to ALIFE / HEAL. A shot will be applied changing your baby’s personality. After that take your baby to the inventory and rez it again so the new stage is loaded by all the scripts.

New Toy - Balls!

Some new toys are available for the new updated baby. This time we have balls so the babies can play.

The beach ball is big and almost weightless

The rubber ball is small and solid, it falls hard but it bounces back

And the football ball, well its what you would expect for a football ball

They are all available at the marketplace and you favorite clinic


Use


Just rez the ball near the baby for the baby to use it.

The baby needs to crawl to play with the ball but the parent can also play with the ball so smaller babies can also have a laugh with it.


The ball works within a 20m radius, if it goes outside that radius it will return to the place it was rez. This should prevent losing babies and balls.


For the baby to actually use the ball it needs to be named as "D-Minuscula - Baby ***" So if you have renamed the object by using the menu you should be safe, but if you have manually edited the objects name you will need to change it. 

New 2.5 Update release

Finally after 4 months of work the new update is available.

As you should know this is a mayor update where most of the scripts are rewritten so a normal update progress isn´t possible. That’s the reason that you will have to update by recovering the baby.

Please have in mind that this has been a lot of work that I’m giving for free as a mayor update and not as a new baby so if you like it, please show me some love with your lindens.

Whats new?

Well a lot of things,

New shape for toddlers

2 more stages for a total of 10

A Tutorial mode for new parents

Baby will learn to talk under certain conditions and stages

The Guide has been rewritten so it doesn’t spam guides all over the place

Breathing animation can be disabled

It can play now with balls (coming soon)

If you don’t reach the next stage by getting the needed points you can buy the new stage (coming soon)

The potty trainer needs also to be updated for the new stages, that update disc will be delivered in a few days before any baby reaches new stages.

WIP - New 2.5 Update

The new update has proven to be a lot harder than what I expected. As I told before on the group this is going to be a very big update where most of the scripts are rewritten but not with a lot of new features on the client side. Most of the updates will be cosmetic, by this I mean that the shape of the baby will change while it grows on the different stages, but believe only this is enough work.

Right now the shape of the baby is correct for a newborn but the proportions of the body parts should change when it’s reaching a toddler size. Personally I never liked the shape of other know baby builder because the proportions where of an adult human being and not of a baby, but when I made these babies grow I committed the same mistake by keeping the proportions.

I will still be using the same sculpts so all skins and clothes will still be compatible, only the proportion of the baby will change, but this means all the animations have to be rewritten from scratch.

The good news is that with the update I will make available a total of 10 stages to reach so babies can continue developing and I promise some surprises.

This is just a work in progress and for now there isn´t a release date, I´m leaving you a photo with the new shape that will be used on the high level stages. As you can notice the baby itself has a thinner and smaller head. But still the head, hands and feet are bigger than an adult shape, making it closer to what you can expect from a one year old toddler.

Update

As you can see I have been making changes on the webpage to reflect the new baby´s manual that will work with the tutorial mode I´m including on the baby. On the good news the update its coming as planed and probably tomorrow I will make available some beta testers versions for some users to debug. This also means that if everything goes ok it will be available near the 12 of July.

Its going to be a free update but if you appreciate all the work I have put on them you can show me some love and donate some lindens. Also as most of the scripts have been rewritten, and to avoid problems during the update process, the only way to update will be to recover the baby.

Design Studio - Transfer Boxes PRO

A new Transfer Box is available and this time we go PRO.

Some designers have complain that the need of dealing with each unit at a time of a given product was a big cumber stone while handling a lot of clothes and that it made it impossible to sell them on the marketplace.

The solution was to make a transferbox with copy and transfer permissions but that would mean that the price should be so high that it will turn away most designers and that it would take a lot of time for the designers with high sales to have the inversion returned.

As I always preferred a micro payments system, so designers can pay exactly for what they want to use, I will be using a similar approach for enabling this copy/transfer boxes.

This way the script itself it’s going to be free but once you pack it and make it available for sale, you need to pay L$500 for getting a copy/transfer version of that dress.

It might seem a lot of lindens as it cost as 10 transfer boxes right now. But I think designers will agree it’s a good deal. It means for example that if your dress is sold by L$250 you will get all your investment back on two sales.

It also means you can mix both systems and just invest on copy permissions for you on dresses you know you will have no problem selling and keeping the investments even lower by just using it where you know you will get the lindens back.

It will also be possible for you to sell your outfits at lower prices like just L$50 or giving them for free as a way to attract clients with freebies.

You will be able to sell them on the marketplace or use any vendor software you want and even have a sale stand not only on your shop but on other clinics by using catalogue vendors.



Remember: You need the Design Studio to use this

How To Use it 

The use itself is very similar the regular transfer boxes and you should read the Transfer Boxes walkthrought for the general instructions.

Unpack the box and place the script inside a box you created

The script will ask you for debit permissions to work which you need to accept.

If the box you created is copy / transfer the script will warn you so you don’t lose control of your product. This is just a suggestion but the script but it’s possible to create copy/transfer freebies if you wish to.

Once you click Finish it will ask you to pay a certain number to the box to finish the process and make it ready for sale. If you try to transfer it without this, the information on the script with your outfit will be lost.

If you wish to copy your outfit while rezed, remember that shift drag will reset the scripts of the copied version so your outfit will be lost. Take it to the inventory and rez as many copies as you need.

You can still use it with the no copy vendor scripts I made available if you need to, or just make the item itself sellable.

A small update 2.122 release

A small update but it only deals with the backend of the Tatu services and with some security issues. Nothing else to say, only the people who recover their babies will notice its 2.122, even the menu will show the old 2.11 version.

Anyway im working on a large update, so large it will probably be named 2.5 but it will take some time.