• Chameleonic Possessions - Photography - SecondLife

    Shopping or Shenanigans?

    February 23, 2023 - By 

    This entire region of “black kite” is a huge, literally immersive art installation. A well known #SecondLife content creator has a shop at the end of one of the jettys… the rest of the region has… adult interaction areas that are very artful, not at all private, and rather clever. And the music is nice. A large version of this image may end up at Flickr later. I used a Windlight setting called “Incongruent Truths” because it seemed to fit the setting. black kite invites introspection. What is the meaning of my Second Life? Honestly, I just came here to…

  • Chameleonic Possessions - SecondLife

    Sorting Out A Near Disaster in #SecondLife

    February 23, 2023 - By 

    It literally sorted itself out eventually. Most of the stuff showed up in the sorters that I put out, and some things sorted themselves back into the right folders. I was sweating there for a few hours, though. Oops. I accidentally dumped my entire inventory of no-copy DFS objects into a scripted sorting prim; more than 1500 objects went in. For most of them, I had picked up the “target sortboxes” so I put them back out. Tweddle Via: Lelani Carver’s Snapshots Feed

  • Blender - Second Life

    I took a #SecondLife #Blender Class but Beq’s techy blog had the answers.

    February 23, 2023 - By 

    I took a class in #SecondLife last night on how to “mesh” an object created with SL’s inworld build tools and take it into #Blender to optimize it and clean it up to re-upload. The instructor is very nice but… she had no experience with the third-party viewers that can export your own created objects to a Collada file format that Blender can read. She only works with expensive scripted tools in the bog-standard Second Life viewer. She pretty much balked at my comment late in the class asking “why don’t we export using Firestorm or another viewer? It’s free.”…