My card is a GTX 4070 Super, but I made these changes and will check frame rate later. I attended a DJ/dance at Cafe Wellstone with NO issues and good framerates. Via: NVIDIA Users – settings that will make SL smoother
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This is one reason I fell out of Second Life. Technological advances that got beyond my ability to adapt. Lost interest after making some progress in classes, as the new techniques got more complex. Also, I was waiting for Firestorm to update, as I dislike the main viewer. I could no longer get excited and make things. But hey! There’s other reasons to log in, like socializing, shopping, etc. side note: I deleted the mirror site at WordPress.com as there was no reason to keep it, and it was having a tech issue. Via: PBR Materials
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It’s been a year since I last logged in to Second Life, or updated here. Why? I got frustrated with trying to learn Blender yet again, with PBR just coming in I got frustrated with feeling like stuff I had created was hopelessly outdated I felt pressured by another resident to be! Friends! In! Voice! And felt skeeved. I realized that I no longer wanted to take the time to “craft” and “sell” stuff. I recognized that my desktop computer might need to be replaced with PBR coming. First Life got busy over the holidays My couch was much more…
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Sounds interesting, were any #SecondLife #machinima works submitted? There’s a separate immersive exhibition, patronised by artist Jean-Michel Jarre. For its inaugural edition, a committee of industry experts and Festival de Cannes representatives, under the supervision of the General Delegate of the Festival de Cannes, will select eight immersive works in competition. Additionally, a curated selection of non-competitive works, illustrating the synergy between immersive experiences and cinema, will complement the program. https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/press-releases/for-its-77th-edition-the-festival-de-cannes-launches-its-immersive-competition/
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My chosen community in Second Life is going through some exciting changes – Sheriff Fuzzball Ortega is reorganizing things, and a crew of folks are working on various remodeling and rebuilding projects around Steelhead City. There will be parcels available for rental very soon, and my shop is probably going to move across the street to make way for a civic improvement project. While thinking about these changes, I rezzed out some of the buildings I have in inventory to see if I’d want to change things completely. Most of my DFS items are packed and ready to sell in…
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community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/357732-uploading-mesh-as-linkset-question/
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While doing homework for the coming #glTF workflow in #SecondLife I struggled with #channelpacking textures for manipulating how light reflects off of materials in a game engine. It’s easy in Photoshop, harder in GIMP. There used to be a plug-in for extracting different kinds of “maps” from images, but it was easy to screw up. The manual method is tedious; you can’t just plop a texture into an RGB channel, you have to make each greyscale. This open source tool might be helpful, and the aiaicapta.in is cited in the SL wiki as authoritative. The same site also has a…
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Now some more fundamentals for review. If you find this series of posts tedious - please filter on #BlenderGoon as I'm trying to watch all his instructional videos in order.
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This is Goonther Blackcinder’s walkthrough for how to sign up for a free Second Life account. Personally, I recommend that you set up your account to go through the “community gateway” that most aligns with your area of interest – Firestorm Viewer’s is good, and my favorite is Caledon Oxbridge University (a Steampunk/Victorian mini-nation within Second Life. There are other community gateways listed here. Goon gives instructions for how to contact him, how to find the Blender School classrooms, how to access the Aditi “beta grid” to upload mesh models, and even a bit about how to earn Lindens (the…
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The next video in Goon’s series covers Object Mode tools. I’m going to try to speed up for these and spend less time looking for funny Blender memes to replace the “featured image.” BUT THEY ARE SO FUNNY… Ten or thirty minutes later I finally watched the video! And then started playing around with the Annotate tool and got horsed up trying to get a Wacom tablet working. More watching, less going down rabbit holes. Goon (Goonther Blackcinder) is a #SecondLife resident who teaches at #BlenderSchool inworld at (SLURL) GoodVibes There’s an active Discord group – there’s an invite link in…