I am bummed, because Kitty picked up most of his wonderfully eclectic junk from his bar in the Bayou, before I had a chance to take more pictures. Meanwhile Janus Rhiadra’s general store across the way is gorgeous, stocked with gacha stuff. Makes my old Dry Goods store look so 2007. So today I tinkered with a long-stale project in Blender, got frustrated several times, will keep trying and will review the basics. Again. Because I forget them from long disuse, again. I also chucked out some old products from the Second Life Marketplace and my vendors. I visited a…
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Gabrielle Riel, owner of the St John Estate where I currently live and have a shop, has come to a hard decision: I believe this. I always told everyone that if they needed to cut back their time in the virtual world that I would fully support their decision, because as much as I love and respect the platform that I turned into two businesses, I believe in Real Life First. Always. With all my belief in “Real Life Firstâ€, there was one person to whom I never gave compassion or the ability to choose real life first. Me. And…
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Sansar has come a long way since we first caught wind of the project. In 2015, Linden Lab, the company behind the wildly successful Second Life virtual life simulator, saw the potential of virtual reality and set out to develop a successor to Second Life that would take advantage of modern graphics technology. Word is getting out to surprising places – Tom’s Hardware, sellers of high end graphics cards – stands to sell some upgrades to Sansar users. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sansar-user-created-clothing-market,36138.html I got the email from Linden Labs announcing the extended free trial of Marvelous Designer for Sansar users. The new virtual…
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Today’s links on this topic: A Macho Home on Guys’ Wrists: In the August issue of Vogue, Zayn Malik embraces Gigi Hadid, with a turquoise-and-silver ring on his right index finger. In an ad for Dior’s fragrance Sauvage, Johnny Depp rolls up his sleeve to reveal an armful of jewelry, including a turquoise-and-silver bracelet. – by Max Berlinger – Tags: blender, create, second life – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/fashion/mens-style/turquoise-jewelry-for-men.html Hem fatale: ten of the best party skirts – in pictures: A gold lamé dress isn’t everyone’s cup of tea for the Christmas party. – by Melanie Wilkinson – Tags: create, feedly, ifttt, second…
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Today’s links on this topic: Topology – the often neglected entity: 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. – by Codewarrior Congrejo – Tags: blender – https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/154639-topology-the-often-neglected-entity/ 2016 HELP: HG: Upload mesh the best way–invited article by Ozwell Wayfarer: This is aimed mostly at people finding things on the internet and trying to upload them. You must understand that a huge amount of objects you will find available for free are not suitable for virtual environments. – by…
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It’s been quiet here, but I’ve been making slow and not very steady process in learning Blender again. I’m signed up for a very comprehensive Udemy course, I’ve got several versions of Blender installed (and will need to update Avastar soon), and I’ve got plans for Christmas decorations at the St John shop. But much of my Blender self-education consists of watching tutorials, some of which are helpful, many of which are not, and ONE of which is hilariously bad, strangely comforting, and actually useful. I salute you, sir. You uploaded a cool chair without a physics model, without any…
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It’s always enjoyable listening to one of Radio Riel’s streams and special broadcasts, but today’s retrospective draws from a number of Gabrielle Riel’s best. Songs from the Nightingale
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It’s been a somewhat frustrating week. But I made progress on a couple of fronts. New hat – not really that new, I’ve been wearing it for a year, but only recently got serious about choosing the final set of textures (yes, it’s another texture change) and realizing something fundamentally dumb about how I’ve been doing things. The new hat is called “Flutterby” and it’s got the same (old) base top hat with a texture change band and body. I really like the steampunk textures, of course, and there are some other ideas for other hats, but with a different…
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It’s been a busy week. After a long break, the approach of fall meant I’d have more time on the weekends for inworld activities (the typist rides her bicycle and has other summer goings-on). I was thinking of a return to my St John shop, where I’d left several projects partly completed. Then circumstances forced some quick decisions. The sim was to undergo a complete makeover. Would I continue, or depart? Make a clean break, or a fresh start? After stopping in at the shop to take stock, it was clear to me that I wanted to carry on. All…
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My shop in St John Parish in Second Life is being renovated and will be back after some virtual hurricane debris is cleared away. Watch this space for exciting announcements!