GRADE D for me from the SL Department of Virtual Health, and also from the Department of Dummies Who Mess Up Caspervend.
Bruda Plateau Visit location
Category: Asides
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Testing Streams for Haleakaloha
Need to find a good stream for my Hypergrid megaregion, so will spend time. It needs to be a little quirky and not too commercial.
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Blender landscape tip weight painting – BlenderNation
This looks so cool and dare I say it, easy?
Blender landscape tip weight painting – BlenderNation
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[TUTORIAL] Texturing your meshes without having “black lines” or seams
I’ve noticed quite a few meshes in-world often have black lines on their textures, either on the edge of the mesh’s UV seams, during download, or…
— Read on community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/419611-tutorial-texturing-your-meshes-without-having-black-lines-or-seams/I struggle with unwrapping and texturing. So this is helpful.
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Older post, but may still be a valid reason not to upgrade to 0.9
Grids face mesh issue in next OpenSim release –
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Second Life founder Philip Rosedale to keynote PG Connects San Francisco 2018 | The Virtual Report.biz | TVRbiz
We’re delighted and honoured to confirm Second Life founder, Philip Rosedale, will keynote Day 1 of Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2018Â (May 14th to 15th).
— Read on www.thevirtualreport.biz/
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Open Sim: Medium Splendor Skin on Bento Head with berry lipstick
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 with a steampunk outfit.
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Beginner Blender Tutorial With A Written Recipe
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 for Beginners – Olde Tinkerer Studio
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Cycles For Haters
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/