community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/357732-uploading-mesh-as-linkset-question/
Asides
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PBR in #SecondLife – Chic Aeon
Chic Aeon raised an interesting point on the transition to PBR:
On the plus side folks that are still building using inworld tools (prim builds) will have new options for a better look and that might encourage some new users to become simple creators. There was definitely something –well just GOOD — about building out on the sand box starting with a cube.
Yes, I think so. I uploaded my coffee mug today to the test grid, Firestorm PBR viewer, but using the current materials workflow. It was gorgeously glossy. Uploaded for realsies, normal Firestorm, and it was harder to get the nice ceramic satin-gloss. But possible! Old stuff looked good, and the glTF test was drag-and-drop easy.
The test grid is one big sandbox. Social building can be a thing again. glTF materials will make texturing easier for new builders. Now to provide those textures…
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Making a few small adjustments…
I have both a self-hosted blog that uses WordPress, and a “backup” blog hosted at wordpress.com, and because WordPress’ “Jetpack” requires connecting for social media purposes, it’s sometimes too easy to double post to social media sites. Just now I made some adjustments because a single post to my self-hosted site created 2 Mastodon posts. I turned off the new built-in Mastodon connection, which apparently influenced both blogs, and will use the old Mastodon plug-in. Maybe later I’ll connect this blog to the Fediverse directly, but for now will see if Things Blow Up this way.
The social crossposting part of Jetpack is free now for about 15 more posts, and after looking at the pricing structure, will do it via free plugins. $15.00USD a month is much too expensive.
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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon for #SecondLife – V2.4 Make a signpost in Edit mode
Here’s a simple old fashioned signpost that might be useful for someone in #SecondLife, created in #Blender. The tutorial covers inset, extrude, scaling on specific X Y or Z orientation, and other fundamentals. At the end Goon uploads his model to the test grid of Second Life (that is, the cost to upload is actually free, you use play money on the test grid). He’s still assigning simple colors to the object and not using images – that’s coming up.
I’ve turned on more crossposting links so I’m really hoping this isn’t posting multiples to Mastodon, as I have a second WordPress.com hosted site that’s my backup blog.
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 the school landing area. You can support his work on Patreon at this link.
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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon – Enabling and Installing Add-Ons
The video is titled V2.1 Blender 3.0 enabling and installing add-ons, but these steps apply to ANY current version of Blender, don’t be put off by the low version number. Putting this post in my SideEye column.
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 the school landing area. You can support his work on Patreon at this link.
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How To Navigate Discord (and find #BlenderSchool )
Goon Blackcinder’s discussion for how to navigate Discord and share screens, if you’re working in Blender and need his help. Actually it’s pretty helpful for any Discord server you’re on.
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Texture Baking In Blender Cycles
This is one of the best overviews of texture baking for Blender that I’ve ever seen.
The baking system in Blender takes a lot of critiques for being unintuitive, hard to understand and error prone. In this article, I aim to untangle the confusion about baking in Blender with Cycles.
GUESS IT WOULD HELP IF I ADD THE FRICKING LINK.
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New #SecondLife #FirestormViewer Download
I’ve downloaded the latest Firestorm Viewer for Second Life and I’m headed in to take it for a spin.
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Simulate Realistic TRASH bags in blender – BlenderNation
This could be a fun tutorial to try – especially the polka-dotted gift bag part.
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9 links for 08 March 2018
Today’s links on this topic:
TexTools 1.0.0: A new version of TexTools has been released. This release has a lot of Texture Baking and ID color improvements. You can discover all of the new changes and features on the website. TexTools is a free addon for Blender with a focus on UV Layout, texture baking and Color ID tools. – by renderhjs – Tags: blender, sideblog – https://www.blendernation.com/2018/03/03/textools-1-0-0/
Mesh Blender Tutorials: Community Announcements Submit Your Images for Pic of the Day 04/04/2017 You can submit your image for Pic of the Day consideration on our Official Second Life Flickr page. – by iCade – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog – https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/159258-mesh-blender-tutorials/
Learn sculpting by making game objects: Learn to create basic game objects with a sculpting workflow in this 6 part free course on youtube. – by gabbitt – Tags: blender, sideblog – https://www.blendernation.com/2018/02/17/learn-sculpting-making-game-objects/
Mesh Clothing, Rigging and standard sizes workflow: Community Announcements Submit Your Images for Pic of the Day 04/04/2017 You can submit your image for Pic of the Day consideration on our Official Second Life Flickr page. – by RiverLennoxx – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog – https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/337660-mesh-clothing-rigging-and-standard-sizes-workflow/
Mesh and LOD: Level of Detail (LOD) is the mechanism by which Second Life lowers an object’s visual detail by increments as the camera gets further away. When uploading a mesh model, we have complete control over the amount of detail at each level. – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog – http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mesh_and_LOD
How to Upload Mesh with Low Land Impact: Community Announcements Submit Your Images for Pic of the Day 04/04/2017 You can submit your image for Pic of the Day consideration on our Official Second Life Flickr page. – by AdamZadig – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog – https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/373768-how-to-upload-mesh-with-low-land-impact/
How do you bake ambient occlusion for a model?: You should do this manually if you plan to need to create a real texture and you want a clean unwrapping. If you only need an AO map, Blender can do it for you automatically. – Tags: blender, sideblog – http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/13956/how-do-you-bake-ambient-occlusion-for-a-model
Mesh tricks for low LI?: Community Announcements Submit Your Images for Pic of the Day 04/04/2017 You can submit your image for Pic of the Day consideration on our Official Second Life Flickr page. – by Rhiannon Arkin – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog – https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/392780-mesh-tricks-for-low-li/
Using Blender for Second Life and Opensim – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog, workflow – http://www.outworldz.com/Secondlife/Posts/Blender-Tips/
Check back again for more collected links!