• 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 user checking mesh for errors
    Building - Second Life

    In Development: Possible Firestorm Local Mesh Feature

    January 9, 2018 - By 

    Firestorm may have a “local mesh” preview option, but developer Beq Janus notes it ain’t easy. “I have a TODO item on my personal project list for build tool improvements, to add local mesh support to Firestorm (and ultimately contributing back to the lab so everyone gets it). It is, however, a lot of work.” Via SL Community Forum: https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/416679-local-mesh-capability-in-some-viewer/

  • Chameleonic Possessions - Second Life

    St John Shop Closes 23JAN

    January 7, 2018 - By 

    As you may know, the St John estates are closing. My shop in St John Parish is open until 23JAN: When is St John going to close? Here is the St John estate closing schedule. Residents must clear their parcels when their tier expires or by 12:00pm SLT on the dates listed, whichever comes first. Friday January 5 – Bayou St John Sunday, January 14 – St John Woods Tuesday, January 16 – Lake St John Tuesday, January 23 – St John Parish Tuesday, January 23 – St John Maurepas I’ll be pulling furniture and things off my parcel, and…

  • Lelani's Products - Marketplace

    Releasing Into The Wild: Plain Silk Top Hat

    January 1, 2018 - By 

    New on the Second Life Marketplace – a mesh project that I finally finished, for once! A simple black top hat, which reveals a moire’ satin texture when using Advanced Lighting (see viewer preferences under graphics, must be enabled depending on your hardware). Any biggie, Tiny, Dinkie, or Furry avatar can wear this hat with pride! Note, the interior does NOT have invisible or deleted faces, so it could be placed upside-down on a table to display a pair of gloves, etc. Materials – requires Advanced Lighting to see effect Is a matte silk fabric hat on low settings Unrigged…

  • Chameleonic Possessions - Marketplace

    Second Life Marketplace – Chameleonic Possessions Sale Prices

    January 1, 2018 - By 

    With the coming closure of the St John Estate, my main shop will now be at the mainland location in Tweddle, sharing space with my business partner, Dhughan Froobert. SLURL: Chameleonic Possessions and Frooberts Further West I’m undecided about whether I’ll open another secondary shop again. I am quite tempted by 2 locations, both run/managed by old friends. Both are either in the Steampunk genre, which I’ve missed, or in the “early Americana” style, which has a comfortable vibe for me. Almost all of my older products will be priced at about 50% off. I’ve deleted a few really old…

  • 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…

  • Second Life - SecondLife - St John

    First Life First, Second Life After

    December 30, 2017 - By 

    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 First”, there was one person to whom I never gave compassion or the ability to choose real life first. Me. And…

  • Create - Second Life

    Sansar Marketplace – 60 Day Marvelous Designer Free Trial Announced

    December 23, 2017 - By 

    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…

  • Second Life

    6 creative links for 11 December 2017

    December 11, 2017 - By 

    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…