A while back, this caught my eye: High Fidelity is Philip Rosedale’s new virtual world project. This is currently in the very early stages of Alpha but you can signup to that Alpha from the main webpage. However you won’t be able to login to High Fidelity or see any of its features.However it does…XPost: High Fidelity Alpha Tester Here was originally published on Chameleonic Possessions
Second Life’s GMAIL Problems Just when I was thinking of changing my emails over from Yahoo to Gmail, this happens. Yahoo keeps marking my parcel rent renewal notices as spam, which is NOT GOOD. But one alt uses Gmail, and her emails get tagged as either Important, Starred, or Spam, apparently at random. It may have to do with whether I read before deleting, or move false-positive spam back into the inbox.
Linden’s Patterns Gets Materials Maybe I should fire Patterns up and play later!
Insane Bump 2.0, overhauled Crazy bump alternative If this really is a new version of InsaneBump, I may play around with installing it. I currently use the GIMP plugin, but the improvement sounds intriguing.
Oh, THIS is a nice tutorial for Materials – using xNormal, though I’ll probably stick with the normalmap plugin in GIMP for now. Because I have to agree, the xNormal interface is as if a million user interface designers cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. Or, it’s as if young Anakin Skywalker was handed a LeapPad to design his pod racer on, and then pulled it out to tweak a design on the Death Star decades later.
Here I am, on my standalone grid Haleakaloha, which isn’t very interesting and isn’t open for visitors, and up until yesterday, it wasn’t working very well because of a texture-reloading bug. Also, I’ve been struggling with Blender again, trying to learn it and not get discouraged. Yesterday, SUCCESS, after getting some help, I installed an update that fixed my Open Sim grid. Today, SUCCESS, I made a blob. You may not think this is a big deal, and it’s a badly textured blob, but I made it, and I figured out what I wasn’t doing right that made it turn…