1 Um... Steven?  Buddy?  Whoooo... you're going to make some therapist a very, very rich person.

2

Oh

dear

3

The short skirt and the bra were original equipment. There was a transparent shirt on top of the bra, which I lost somehow while playing with the clothing settings. It might be stored in a library, and maybe I'll figure out how to get it back. But what you're seeing there is not much different from how she looked when I first started running the program.

4 The shoes are original equipment, too.

5 I thought it was hooves...

6

Hooves? She's a fox! (Or some kind of canine, anyway.) I should capture a picture that shows her tail; it's very impressive, and definitely unlike the tail of anything that has hooves.

Sheesh...

7 Besides, since when do hooves have straps? (Jeeze, "hooves", he says...)

8 Eh, it's kind of hard to tell, sometimes. The basic graphics package in Second Life is pretty primitive, and it's probably not so much a matter of "they look like hooves" as it is "they don't look like any footwear I've ever seen, but they do look a little bit like hooves, so..."

There's also the 3d/2d issue. A lot of people assume that you can just put a 3d model in any pose you want, take a picture of it, and viewers will immediately be able to see what it is, because the 3d modelling system will generate all the visual cues (shading, etc.) automatically for you. In practice, nothing could be farther from the truth... not even for taking pictures of beautiful women in the real world. Professional photographers never take fewer than a dozen pictures of a given model in any pose, because they know that 90% of the pictures they take will have some odd feature that totally ruins the picture, like a shadow that makes their subject look pot-bellied, or a dress wrinkle that makes her look like a tranny with an obvious erection. They keep only the best 10% of the pictures at any shoot, and their reputation hinges on how thoroughly they can destroy the rest. If photographers in carefully controlled environments have to do this, imagine the odds of getting a good screenshot at random in a fairly aged video game.

It's sad, but the convenience of the internet comes at a price: we have long since come to expect beauty and perfection from every picture we lay eyes on, just because it's so easy to avoid browsing to ugly pictures (rickrolling and goatse.cxing notwithstanding). Now people's expectations are such that we can't tell an anthropomorphic vixen from a hooved cat, without a huge laundry list of visual cues that are difficult to supply without careful posing or mucho image culling.

9

If you want a higher-resolution anime avater, you coculd try City of Heros/Villains.  There's enough costume options to keep an otaku busy for hours, and after you've got the look you want, the world has plenty of pther players to interact with, as well as NPC to beat up.  I play it a couple hours each week on the Virtue server.

There's have a 14 free trial, by the way.