flic.kr/p/25t59jR This is the result of playing around with the basic Splendor skin files (which has minimal layers but allows using soft light and overlay to vary skin tones). The “fair” option was too pale and had harsh makeup; this is an overly on a darker option. The darkest option, by the way, is gorgeous. The outfit is one of Hyacinth’s clothing shells. I like the coverage. I may offer this skin for Ruth 2.0 and make a more detailed one with more realistic “peaches and cream” shading later. I’ll use this look for one of my Expo NPC characters…
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My mouse skills in Blender are a challenge, because I usually use a Marble Man trackball mouse. I have a wireless trackball with a scroll wheel but there’s a bit of lag. I have conventional mice, but desk space and chair height don’t work ergonomically. I struggle to find the sweet spot between comfort, convenience, and convention, as I’ve switched Blender’s maddening right-select behavior. Even though this is Cycles, I might be able to follow this and finally train muscle memory beyond the brink of my current impasse. Tutorial: How to model a medieval house – 3D Low-Poly Game Modeling…
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I’m one of those “remaining users” that hates Cycles. When I see it mentioned on a help forum, I stop reading. When I watch a help video, I stop watching. Yet thanks to reading Blender site feeds, I’m tolerably familiar with the latest developments… and I KNOW the old Blender Internal engine is going away in a coming release. All I need is the ability to bake out AO, maybe normals, and possibly a basic materials map with painted on details. Ugh. “How to use cycles even if you hate cycles(as I did)” – BlenderNation — Read on www.blendernation.com/2018/03/24/how-to-use-cycles-even-if-you-hate-cyclesas-i-did/
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It’s a huge effort. Right now the Second Life grid is a proprietary set-up in a hosting facility that we have customised for the purposes of what we’re doing – which made sense a decade and half ago. But these days, with the services from Google and Amazon and Microsoft with cloud infrastructures, it makes… — Read on modemworld.me/2018/03/24/ebbe-and-oz-talk-second-life-in-the-cloud/
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Nice overview by Lindal Kidd. She should try Hypergrid Safari if she can work with their scheduled Wednesday start times. Across The Grid With Lindal Kidd!: Replacements and Alternatives to Second Life — Read on acrossthegridwithlindal.blogspot.com/2018/03/replacements-and-alternatives-to-second.html
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Textures R Us (Licensed for use on any grid if purchased via website). — Read on www.texturesrus.net/front_content.php
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Mishi Akin, owner of the massively successful virtual fashion brand Blueberry, recently ran a survey among her subscribers, asking them which mesh avatar body they use. 2879 customers responded (a very impressive data sample), and the results (above) are striking:… — Read on nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/03/blueberry-sl-body-survey-mesh-maitreya.html
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Second Life Newser: Announcement: Relay Registration Opening Today — Read on slnewser.blogspot.com/2018/03/announcement-relay-registration-opening.html
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Must visit this shop ASAP. This is while previewing the EXPO event space… uh, it’s a huge area.
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There’s a lot going on in this story, and I’m playing around with some of it. And ZOMG, I’m committed to something! #OpenSim #SecondLife OpenSim land area continued to increase gaining a total of 3,400 standard region equivalents this month — after gaining more than 9,000 regions last month. The number of active users also increased by 1,300. Source: OpenSim land rally continues – I’m running one of these little mini-grids: These stats do not include most of the mini-grids running on the DreamWorld distribution of OpenSim, or private company or school grids. DreamWorld has counted more than 8,483 mini-grids…