• Blender - Building - Gimp - Haleakaloha - Open Sim

    Pictures and Progress

    March 13, 2018 - By 

    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”…

  • Blender - Haleakaloha - Open Sim - Second Life

    Bowler Madness and OpenSim Sadness

    March 5, 2018 - By 

    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,…

  • Blender - Chameleonic Possessions - Second Life

    Rework

    February 10, 2018 - By 

    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,…

  • Blender - Chameleonic Possessions - Second Life

    First Life Challenges and #SecondLife Obstacles

    February 10, 2018 - By 

    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…

  • Blender - Building - Photography - Second Life - SecondLife - St John

    Long After Last Call

    December 31, 2017 - By 

    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…

  • Blender - SecondLife

    Some Meshy Progress in Blender

    January 19, 2016 - By 

    I’ve spent the weekend working on stuff, making headway and then hitting the wall (and occasionally screaming in frustration). Over the weekend, I worked for a long time on a “shell” shirt based on the Avastar addon, using an imported shape from my Open Sim standalone. Don’t be too impressed. This is the “triangulated” version, I still have a version kept back that’s got regular quads and a mirror modifier. This is the “retopo” I did over the top of the rigged shell T-shirt, which is just a skintight version of the Avastar character model. It was a lot of…

  • Blender - Gimp - Haleakaloha

    What A Maroon: A Narrative of Blender Blundering

    January 1, 2016 - By 

    Here begins my tale – I’ve somehow become marooned on a desert island (actually, an archipelago) and my only hope of survival is to make or build or salvage or scrounge whatever I can. It was a dark and stormy night, etc. etc., and here I am on the beach of a lovely but desolate island, with a random assortment of crates. I fell off a container ship, along with several containers, boxes, and barrels. We were in shallow waters and struck ground, and I went over the side. Unfortunately, the crew didn’t see me or hear my screams for…

  • Blender - Marketplace - Second Life

    NEW Chameleonic Holiday Fedora – 1LI

    December 15, 2015 - By 

    Celebrate the holidays in style with this fun and festive green fedora. The hat band looks like a candy cane – and after the holidays, you can retexture with any tileable or horizontal textures you have. Change the band and wear it for St Patrick’s Day, too. Source: Second Life Marketplace – @LC@ Chameleonic Holiday Fedora 2015 It’s just a simple hat – but at 1LI, it won’t bring the sim to its knees at the big holiday bash. This is my first mesh product and I did my best to optimize it – expect a long post later about…

  • Blender - Marketplace - Second Life

    NEW Chameleonic Holiday Fedora – 1LI

    December 15, 2015 - By 

    Celebrate the holidays in style with this fun and festive green fedora. The hat band looks like a candy cane – and after the holidays, you can retexture with any tileable or horizontal textures you have. Change the band and wear it for St Patrick’s Day, too. Source: Second Life Marketplace – @LC@ Chameleonic Holiday…NEW Chameleonic Holiday Fedora – 1LI was originally published on Chameleonic Possessions