• Blog - Helpless Flailing - Photography

    Materials Girl

    I’ve been playing around with the free-to-use InstaMAT program, which has a feature for converting a single flat image texture to an array of Blinn-Phong materials, and also PBR materials. Just getting signed up for the Pioneer license was a major headache (screaming was involved). Then I discovered that the quick “Materialize Image” workflow adds unwanted alpha channels, and bulk uploads don’t strip out the alphas the way single uploads does. I should send a note to the Firestorm team on that… Here’s the eventual result: 2 grey weathered crates, the one on the left looks slightly more detailed. Whoo!…

  • Blender - Chameleonic Possessions - Create - DFS Digital Farm Systems

    Update On (Second) Life, the Universe, and (Almost) Everything

    Not the GOAT you’re looking for. Most of my inventory of DFS no-copy virtual farm products is gone. That is, the stuff I didn’t want is gone. I’m keeping things that look great rezzed out as decor, or that are fun to look at and work with. Got rid of almost everything else. I’ve got a project in mind to re-create all of my old, dated prim and sculpty-based products on the Second Life Marketplace, started in Blender, I’ve bought another year of support for the latest version of Avastar, and due to this announcement from LL, items on the…