Skin, Yes, we make skin.

Through this is a old fashion business, but we think there is have a lot value to make skin. We will adopt different approach at skin business. Hope it can meet customer's need the changing environment. And we will make it more affordable for everyone in Second Life. We are sorry for a long pause. Currently it is not much in our shop, we are starting to gain more experience from more trying.We now split a line Silk Skin at marketplaces for making a focus and united image.  And much more skin products will coming soon.

"Turner" - New Man AO Releasing

Natural Express has been silence for a while, as we are doing something great for customer. There was a complain unsettled long time. We treat man so unfairly, because we did not make AO for man after continuing released 4 AO for girl.

We are now pride to announce that "Turner" AO for man is under releasing. And it will be available before this week end. It is a cool style man AO. It has 40 animations which is extremely smooth, lively, and stylistic. It has some new action firstly appearing in SL.

We will inform all other customer shortly once it is ready.

How to add animation to AO

One of the most enjoyment to wear AO HUD (such as ZHAO) is you are free to add animation to create different combination. This create your unique style in second life. We can buy a package for the rest of your SL. However, we will, soon or later, want to add more animations, no matter you have a large pack or a small starter pack.

This is the steps to edit your ZHAO AO. Sample is the latest ZHAO AO IIMB. It is free and available many places in SL.

1. Detach you AO if you already wearing it
2. Drag your AO onto ground (Beware! please check whether it is a copyable type. Non-copyable type can possible be lost if Second Life unstable. And for this reason, now most AO change permission to copyable and nontransferable).
3. Select the AO HUD on the ground and to edit it with your right mouse click.
4. Recommend to change the name of the AO for you can identify it after take back to your inventory later.
   
5. See the last tab named "content" of the edit interface to find notecard.
6. First Notecard found should be "default" and others may have different names. But all Notecard has the same format. see sample here
   
7. You are free to use any Notecard there, but the better rule is untouched the default. We either edit the old one or copy it for make a new one. New Notecard will has a new name. Please don't give it a long name as it cannot fully display in the selection menu later.
   
8. You can see there are leading square blanket (e.g. [walking]) with a definitive category animation in the Notecard.
9. You can now add your new animation name under the appropriate category with a "|" to separate it. It must not leave any space before or after the animation name.
10. It permit to add up to 12 animation for walking and sitting. There is no limitation for standing. But too much animation will eat up all the memory available for your AO and it will go crash. You then need reduce animation, reset AO and reload Notecard. Please also read the note inside the Notecard.
11. Save the Notecard and close it after editing. Please wait a few second as it need time to refresh.
12. Drag your new animation into the content one by one. You cannot rush to do this. Be patient to wait for refreshing. Sometimes, it need to take back the AO and rezz it again to see the update status when SL is a laggy.
13. Take back your edited AO into your inventory and wear it
14. Press the select Notecard button for selection your new setting. You need to load up your sitting with Notecard, even you only edited the existing Notecard.
15. Select your Notecard name from the menu and wait few seconds to use new setting.

"Default" notecard in Zhao

There is a default notecard name "Default" in the Zhao AO hud. Can we use it? The answer is Yes, but we better to leave it blank as it is. Because the notecard is for system to load by default. Whenever we over add animation to crash our AO, this empty card is for us to use after reset AO. If our Default is the problem setting notecard, we will loop our problem until we fix the notecard "Default". You can use it anyway if you like.

Reload your notecard whenever you edit it

Whenever you edit or modify your AO's notecard, dont' forget to select it again from the configuration menu for reload it. Even the notecard has the same name, it will not apply the new setting. It will remain keep the old setting before you reload it.

Animation not found!

There is a common queston on animation not found after the notecard. The main cause is mistyping, such as misspelling animation name or insert pipe "|" in the wrong position (e.g. rex-std0001|rex-std000|2rex-std0003). The second cause is not obvious. Zhao AO engine will read space as a character space. If we left a space at the end of a configuration line in the notecard, Zhao AO will find a file name with a space at the end. In this situation, the animation cannot be found again. Double check your notecard, and make should no space leave at the end.

How to make preferrable animation appearing more in an AO?

There can be many stand animatons in an AO, but some animaton appear more natural than other you love to use more frequently. How to increase the frequency of their apearing? The answer is to repeat the favourable animation name in the configuration notecard. Repeated animaton name will not increase the use of memory much, but can increase the chance of using it.

example: Before [standing]rex-std001|rex-std002|rex-std003|rex-std004 After [standing]rex-std001|rex-std002|rex-std003|rex-std004|rex-std002|rex-std002|rex-std002