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  • 11 links for 11 December 2017

    11 links for 11 December 2017

    Today’s links on this topic:

    Topology – the often neglected entity: 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 Codewarrior Congrejo – Tags: blender – https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/154639-topology-the-often-neglected-entity/

    2016 HELP: HG: Upload mesh the best way–invited article by Ozwell Wayfarer: This is aimed mostly at people finding things on the internet and trying to upload them. You must understand that a huge amount of objects you will find available for free are not suitable for virtual environments. – by Selby Evans – Tags: blender, opensim – https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2016/02/2016-help-hg-upload-mesh-best-way.html

    WHAT THE HECK ARE ALL THESE MAPS IN BLENDER AND 3D MODELING?: Many of you probably already have experience with at least some of the various types of maps in Blender or, Second Life but, for the beginner, all these maps can be very confusing. – by Nathan Wilkie-King – Tags: blender – https://hellhousestudios.blogspot.com/2016/10/what-heck-are-all-these-maps-in-blender.html

    How to set up Blender 2.78 for Second Life and OpenSimulator : Musiker, Naturliebhaber, Lebenskünstler: (Tested under Windows 7 – change paths as needed on your system) (three add-ons are exluded with // since they are missing in Blender 2. – by PaderDesign, Torsten Funk e.Kfm. – Tags: blender – http://www.torsten-funk.de/tutorials_008-blender-second-life-opensimulator.html

    Blender 2.79 Released – What’s Do for Second Life?: We have a new release of Blender as of 9/12. I always want to know what is the new release going to do for me in my work flow for Second Life. So, the TL:DR take is it messes up some things I do. But, not too bad. It looks like 2.8 will trip me worse. – by Nalates Urriah – Tags: blender – http://blog.nalates.net/2017/09/13/blender-2-79-released-whats-do-for-second-life/

    Blender 2.7 Texture Painting Tutorial: I’m not that great at texture painting in 3D. I am trying to get better. So, when this video caught my eye, I checked it out. Blender Character Texture Painting (Play List). Darrin Lile made the videos. I think he did a good job. There are six in the set, each about 15 minutes long. – by Nalates Urriah – Tags: blender, second life – http://blog.nalates.net/2017/05/28/blender-2-7-texture-painting-tutorial/

    Making A Hand Painted Barrel: This tutorial shows how to set up for painting objects in blender cycles. This particular tutorial looks at how to create a barrel but the techniques are very transferable to other objects. The 2nd half is a time lapse with commentary about the techniques i use. – by gabbitt – Tags: blender – https://www.blendernation.com/2017/11/09/making-hand-painted-barrel/

    2017 IMA: MESH: Blender beginner tutorials: a sampler with lots of links: Sunday, November 5, 2017 2017 IMA: MESH: Blender beginner tutorials: a sampler with lots of links Blender beginner tutorials: a sampler with lots of links Links to beginner tutorials for blender. I lead with one so simple and clear that even I can understand it. – by Selby Evans – Tags: blender – https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2017/11/2017-ima-mesh-blender-beginner.html

    CREATING MESH TEXT FOR SECOND LIFE USING BLENDER: All the Holidays are over now, at least where I live, and Old Man Winter seems to be slowly creeping in to keep us indoors. Hopefully, life with settle down and I can start applying myself (laughs outrageously) to some learning projects. Most of my learning projects involve NEED. – by Morgaine Christensen – Tags: blender, second life – https://hellhousestudios.blogspot.com/2015/01/creating-mesh-text-for-second-life.html

    Materials and Textures: This video introduces both options and you will get some insight into typical workflows and common problems. Blender provides 2 completely different methods to get color and texture to your objects. – Tags: blender, second life – https://blog.machinimatrix.org/materials-and-textures/

    How to Bake Perfect Normals in Blender – Tutorial: Blender tutorial showing you how to bake a normal map from a high poly model, to a low poly model. Download the starter file here. – by Bart – Tags: blender – https://www.blendernation.com/2017/09/21/bake-perfect-normals-blender-tutorial/

    Check back again for more collected links!

  • Time Warp Redux

    Time Warp Redux

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    Contains 2 hats, sized and rotated for large and small AVs!

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    Check it out at the Marketplace

    Visit my store in Steelhead St Helens

    Change the textures on this versatile antique hat for year-round style. Add your own if you like! Just be careful to edit linked prims, and add textures to the contents of the hat body or band only.

    Suitable for men or women. A second hat is rotated and positioned to fit Dinkies Kitty avatars and most Tinies – includes resizer (take a copy before resizing or modifying). This item has just been relisted at the Marketplace.

    Send me an IM if you have any questions, I receive all queries via email.

    (caution: make a copy before resizing or editing: the perms issue has been FIXED and so has the resize script)

  • A Longer Update Soon

    I am still here. Still here! And getting ready to leap back inworld. At least there are plenty of Second Life blogs to read in the meantime… and here is a secret code for the Technorati dwarven who insist on validating my ownership of this blog. 8WD6AGM3CEUY take that!