Will check my allotment more carefully later, but so far it appears to be the same amount that I had before. Source: MORE LAND FOR LESS MONEY? YES, PLEASE! Lower Prices and Double Tier Allotment on Mainland – Featured News – SecondLife Community
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Progress is being made on both online fronts. For the deeply confused, such as myself, here’s the rundown. Second Life: Bowler Hat needs some love, but I think I figured out the final few steps to finish the meshing of it and I reviewed how to do an Ambient Occlusion bake (again) with another project. I keep having to look it up to catch all the “gotcha” settings. I wish there was a way to just “blammo” the settings for AO test and AO final bake (or is there one…). Haleakaloha: Definitely making progress. It’s really only “up and running”…
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This event looked interesting so I dressed up in an older kimono and dropped by. But no one was there at the appointed time and date, though dinner was all laid out. Western Geisha Dinner and Chat Our long-standing chat meeting to discuss anything – RL, SL, OOC or IC – whilst enjoying delicious Japanese food and drink around low tables. Kimonos often shown off but not required! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Qoheleth/167/158/22 This is an older Fall’n kimono called Elegant – it comes with a lot of extras, such as 2 versions of the skirts and a fur wrap that can be “removed”…
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Today’s links on this topic: TexTools 1.0.0: A new version of TexTools has been released. This release has a lot of Texture Baking and ID color improvements. You can discover all of the new changes and features on the website. TexTools is a free addon for Blender with a focus on UV Layout, texture baking and Color ID tools. – by renderhjs – Tags: blender, sideblog – https://www.blendernation.com/2018/03/03/textools-1-0-0/ Mesh Blender Tutorials: Community Announcements Submit Your Images for Pic of the Day 04/04/2017 You can submit your image for Pic of the Day consideration on our Official Second Life Flickr page.…
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Thanks to +FerdFrederix, my connection issues have been resolved (all my own fault). To celebrate, I picked up a few odds and ends. There were a LOT of quality items at the HG Safari region on the Francogrid. I’ve been following the saga of the HG Safari traveling club for a long time, it was fun to see their beautifully decorated HQ. This was where I found 3 – THREE – nice female AOs. No more duckwalk for me! Also found my way to Taarna Welles’ wonderful emporium where I found this fun steampunk outfit. I was trying to adjust…
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Amazingly, I have been working on something in Blender and actually have something to show for it. I’ve been obsessing about Blender lately, but not actually working in Blender. But I needed to get my head and hand back in the game, so here’s what I have so far. It will be a simple thing with a ribbon hatband, and possibly flexi-feathers on the side. I was thinking about doing one, and then saw a local production of the musical “Ragtime,” and was struck by the sight of many wondrous hats (gent’s bowlers,…
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Do people blog their gacha listings on the Marketplace? I have no idea! I set up my beekeeping enterprise out behind the shop in Steelhead Bay. I went to the Gacha Garden event with a specific goal – find a set of things that looked like they belonged in the dry goods store, not just for sale, but as part of the roleplay or ambiance, kind of like the funky “second-hand” shops my friend Kitty Vinje and others are doing over in SLURL: Bayou Chat Noir. I went out a novice gacha player, I came back a beekeeper, with pretty…
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Based on what I’ve been reading at the Creation/Mesh forum lately, I could really improve this. Using the excellent new mesh information tab on the Firestorm viewer, I can see that it has only 12 triangles (which is ridiculously low) but is not very well optimized, because it’s still 2LI. It only has the first two LOD levels (same file) and then I was lazy and left the last 2 LOD levels to the uploader to construct, so it degrades at distance. I think when I made this it was some sort of array arrangement. I did unwrap it, badly,…
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I should have a category just for “Is this thing still on?” posts. My First Life has been taking precedence lately; I’ve been “keeping time” mostly in Second Life and have several projects on hold or stalled, partly from my own self-created obstacles, but also partly due to time constraints. A former member of my extended family has been very ill for a long time, and it’s been a very hard time for her and her family indeed. Although we were never close, she’s facing the end of her life. The only thing I’ve been able to do for her…
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Firestorm may have a “local mesh” preview option, but developer Beq Janus notes it ain’t easy. “I have a TODO item on my personal project list for build tool improvements, to add local mesh support to Firestorm (and ultimately contributing back to the lab so everyone gets it). It is, however, a lot of work.” Via SL Community Forum: https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/416679-local-mesh-capability-in-some-viewer/