As forum poster Chosen Few helpfully noted: After the initial posting, cooler heads prevailed, including Gaia Clary, who’s the Blender/JASS/Primstar maven at Machinimatrix. And then Domino Marama weighed in – the creator of the scripts that so many Second Life creators have relied on (both free and paid versions). Re: Blender dropping COLLADA Reply to Chosen Few – Chosen Few wrote: Nothing’s been decided yet, so nobody panic yet. If worse comes to worst, and the Blender devs do cease official support for COLLADA, I’m sure enterprising SL residents will just create their own COLLADA exporter for Blender, and release…
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For the second time this week a picture used to illustrate a Second Life news blog caused a false impression and seemed to link a respected event or charity with scandal. Yes, it’s another NWN post by Hamlet Au causing the confusion. No linky-love for him, Google amongst yourselves. The first time was bad enough. Fortunately, Au took the image down late last night or early this morning. Unfortunately his blog is widely read and the damage has already been done, not easily to be repaired by an update buried in the comments. This time, an event picture from the…
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And an amazing time was had by all. Taken with Firestorm, var. V3, with most graphics (distance, LOD, trees, terrain) set to max and the Fine Day preset. Red Dragon Dance, originally uploaded by Lelani Carver.
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Yes, that was “our” Qarl in that BoingBoing post earlier today. Gee, he’s not busy enough deforming mesh for fashion-forward avatars, he has to create a tiny model of his house as a snowglobe holiday gift for his wife. If you feel like sending him money to make you one, by all means… but some of you may be able to figure out his process based on his blog post. Posts about the mesh deformer were all over my feed, so when I saw the BoingBoing.net post about “A clever fellow named Qarl,” I knew it had to be him…
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Not only that, but it’s timely, factual, and actually reported by a fox, and not the sort of Faux News we usually get from NWN (tip o’ the clockwork hat to Mr. Crap Mariner). Another year is gone to the history books, and before saying goodbye, time for a look back. From Redzone to Mesh to a promising new CEO, Second Life has seen it’s share of problems, developments, to influential people, whom left impacts both big and small, temporary and lasting, some well talked about while others slipped under the radar of the majority. Link: Second Life Newser Lelani…
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I just installed the latest version of the Imprudence viewer so that I can use the wonderful resource files at LindaKellie.com, which require Imprudence to upload/import into Second Life. I really used to like Imprudence before all the Viewer 2/3 hoo-ha, and I still miss some features, like free temporary uploads, build tool presets, the onboard AO, and yes, boob physics. I happened to look at the wiki for some reason (fun fact! “wiki” is a Hawaiian word, meaning “quick”). I think I wanted to know how recently someone had put some time in on it, so I clicked “Recent…
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The renowned builder and scripter Ordinal Malaprop posted about the Problem with Mesh back in September: Here, for instance, is a tie. It is a nice tie, but clearly floats a little way above my chest, and this is fairly obvious in person. “Oh well,” was my immediate reaction, “I will just resize it a little”. Well, one can’t do that. “Oh. Well, in that case, I will move it down a little on my body.” One can’t do that either. “Oh. Well, I will take it off then.” It seems to be extremely difficult to right-click and edit such…
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I was going to delete Imprudence (and go with Firestorm as my sole alternative to the main Viewer), but decided to install whatever is the latest version instead. I’d forgotten the incredible trove of free Second Life textures, objects, and sculptmaps require Imprudence to upload and import. Drop by her website and donate via Paypal, she certainly deserves it! She gives these resources away for free, with full permissions. FREE ORIGINAL CREATIONS These are all my orginial creations. You can download these and use them in any opensim grid or in Second Life. All files are exported using the Imprudence…
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@ElrikMerlin Listening rather surreptitiously to Radio Riel at work. This tune is used in the Episcopal hymnal, rather different words… # @donttrythis Pork belly? To eat and not shoot, blow up, or leave to rot? Weird, but happy New Year! # @MoodyLoner Funny, was sure they wanted to take the country back to at least 1850. # @ElrikMerlin Ah well, it was hours ago now. Celtic tune, the title info said "Mr. P-something's" tune. Will try to ID later. # @ElrikMerlin It was Playford! I'll try to figure out which tune it was… I do know we sang it pretty…