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    There’s No Such Thing as Bad Press: Steelhead Shops Participate in Steam IX Hunt

    March 10, 2014 - By 

    Hey! I got some press! Whaddya know! The third shop on Steelhead is the dry goods shop found at Settlement 601 – St Helens Dry Goods Frontier Supplies, Steelhead St Helens (68, 156, 38). St. Helens Dry Goods is Shop #117 in the Hunt. They offer a very good cup of expresso to visitors, which I enjoyed while I looked around. They have all the items you might expect in a dry goods store, including a little furniture, some lamps, a variety of hats, and even gentlemen’s walking sticks. Plan to spend a few minutes looking around this quaint shop.…

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    Second Life

    PERMS PERDITION, or the No Copy/No Mod Blues

    March 7, 2014 - By 

    Good lord. It couldn’t have been a more rookie mistake – perms weren’t set right on an item that I recently sold. Fortunately, the purchaser contacted me to let me know. I assumed (incorrectly) that doing a global perms reset would fix it. Nope. Then I started looking for the problem in the wrong place – wasted time looking for the original textures and sculpt map. Nope. It was the plain old “Next owner” checkboxes on the first edit tab. WHAT? TOO SIMPLE! My problems and errors must be more complex than that! While futzing around (the typist insisted on…

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    Building - Second Life - SecondLife Steampunk

    Virtual Treasure Hunters: Time to Gear Up for STEAM IX

    March 1, 2014 - By 

    There’s treasure out there in the Steamlands waiting for you to discover it – at midnight SL time March 1, STEAM IX begins. If you start at my shop in Steelhead St Helens, the sign to the left of the doorway has the link to the beginning of the hunt and helpful information. I’m participating, although Dhughan is sitting this one out. The theme this time is “Romancing the STEAM IX” so many treasure hunters will be looking for a big heart-shaped emerald of some kind, but with a steampunk twist to the narrative. It seems like most would need…

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    Chameleonic Possessions

    Marketing Stuffs – The New Chameleonic Possessions!

    February 3, 2014 - By 

    I’ve joined a couple of marketing groups and have realized that I need to update some of my branding, so I went looking for images to adapt that had no copyright issues. Look at this darling Steampunk Chameleon I found on Flickr! According to the terms of the license, it’s Attribution/Share-Alike, so thank you, Saundra, for this beautifully inspiring little piece, which exists in the real world. So this is what I have for the moment: It’s not the final version but it was enjoyable playing around with GIMP’s filters (mostly GIMPressionist/Line Art and Render/Difference Clouds. I don’t know what…

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    Dhughan - fashion - Froobert's Further West

    Stick Needs Moar Werk

    January 30, 2014 - By 

    Time for boycat Dinkies and male Tinies to have a decent walking stick with simple animations – so I started to adapt the Ivory Walking Stick, which is old enough to need some freshening up. I started by testing some nicer textures for the ivory, and setting it in a sort of cup-bezel with engraved silver fittings (I may play with materials a bit if they don’t add greatly to the land impact (LI). Then I resized it to the right length for a Dinkie or Tiny avatar, and got the pos/rot information with a script so as to update…