http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLK-_hWIfWc&feature=player_embedded
Just like this woman here, except that most of my stuff is not rezzed, it’s just sitting in my inventory making me wonder “what the hell is that?” And then a lot more of it is boxed up in an “organizer” which isn’t really that useful, and consists of freebies from various seasonal hunts that are individually nice, but collectively are a nightmare.
What to do? The memories! I can’t dump them!
I’ve spent too many hours tinkering with GIMP, trying to find images in Picasa, fooling with the Second Life editor trying to find stuff in my inventory, and struggling to remember all the nifty ideas I had for products… on the other hand, I DID get one new product listed today, and I’ll have another couple ready to go in the next few days.
Wow, it was a tough hurdle, but I eventually cleared it. Meanwhile, still working on a better method for organizing inventory.
Anyway, here is “The Man In The Kyomoon Lamp.” It’s technically a lamp, but it’s really more of an artistic experiment.
It’s a lamp, but one I’ve been tinkering with off and on for a while. The base texture is based on a light show that happens at JaNa Kyomoon’s weekly “Goodbye Weekend” concerts. The Resident who does the shows flies in the middle and does the particle effects, which are fun to photograph. When I looked more closely, I saw that I’d captured his image, and the moon, in the texture.
It’s a bit gaudy, but it’s Victoriana, what the hey.
I also bought a bunch of Dover clip art again… here we go! Will be making some nice hats soon, have 3 almost ready to put out – and have some new Mardi Gras beads to finish that will go with one of the new hats.
I just took an excellent class at Builder’s Brewery in Second Life given by Eleanora Newell, need to copy some of the class notes and the link for the information I need. Also, have to reinstall the latest version of the “public” or free-will version of JASS-2.
Blender: Begin with Basics
Before you attend the Blender: Begin with Basics class, please get the latest free version of JASS-2 inworld in Second Life at:
You will need to pay 1L$ to be given your download page.
Install the version needed for your OS and platform (both Mac and PC versions are available).
This embedded version (Blender-Python-Primstar) is easy to install.
It is recommended that if you have any versions of Blender, Python or Primstar on your computer, that you delete these. A clean install is good for any installation.
UPDATE: For XP users, if you are having trouble, please uninstall with the Jass Uninstaller and reinstall and make sure that when you come to the option where it says “Use Application data directory” or “Use the installation directory”, choose “Use the installation directory”.
Once you have installed JASS-2, open the program and take a look around.
There are a few things to check:
1. Under the File Menu, look under Import and make sure you have an option for Second Life Sculpties. Have it? Good.
2. With your cursor in the View Window, touch your Spacebar.
3. On the menu that pops up, choose Add.
4. Then Mesh.
5. Look for an option for Sculpt Mesh. Have it? Good.
6. Important note: New changes have been taking place in the most recent JASS-2 releases. The latest release in 2.3.8 (released 02-13-2011). Public version shows Setup & Bake Sculpt Meshes under the Render menu and now has the SR:6 screen layout back in the list. The Pro and Magic versions contain an additional menu item in Render for Quick Bake Sculpt Meshes
via Blender Classes – TAMA Products
Further important resources are under her Calendar Dates page.
There’s also online tutorials and an online book. I still haven’t downloaded Messiah Studio yet to play with but I’m feeling a little more comfortable with even the ability to make standard sculpts quickly and with good quality in Blender.
Taking a break now at Virtually Speaking, which has a science-and-politics topic tonight:
Alan Bolyle | Robin Snelson | Tim Pickens: Virtually Speaking Science (the podcast will be up later, I think).
Cosmic Log’s Alan Boyle and Space Studies Institute’s Robin Snelson, aka Rocket Sellers, explore the often-volatile landscape of science, politics and policy. With Tim Pickens, team leader of the Rocket City Space Pioneers, inventor, innovator and educator – with a successful track record as a space entrepreneur – they discusss the state of government and commercial space programs, as well as Picken’s team’s bid to win the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize.
While in class earlier, the instructor noted that the number of scripts and ARC load everyone had (avatar rendering cost) was high, causing lag. There’s a way to turn on these numbers that appear over the heads of everyone that indicates how many prims they are wearing, how many scripts running, etc. It’s in the Advanced menu, under Rendering Displays/Info/Avatar Rendering Cost.
Anyway, a number under 500 is green, which is good. Anything up to about 1200 is yellow, up to 1500 is orange, and anything in the 2000-up range is in RED, which is NOT GOOD when you get a bunch of people logged in at the same location (often, logged in from all over the world).
There were some rather foolish people in the 3000 range at the class…
And now here at VS there’s a bunch over 5000.
And oh hey, Pooky Amsterdam sighting (I only know of her from other SL blogs I read, she’s into machinima and SL Media, I believe).
Meanwhile, there were some rather unfortunate displays – skirts set to rotate up so high when sitting on a seat that the crotchal area was exposed, and prim piercings so extreme (on a male) that the ARC count was over 5000.
Feeling a little embarassed about my count, which is under 900, anyway.
After the “second set” at BlogTalk, with Sam Seder and Daily Kos’s McJoan, I’ll go listen to some music and tinker with Blender. I have some really pretty Art Nouveau textures I’d like to see on some of these relatively simple default shapes for vases.
It’s an incredible deal for 3D modeling software. What the heck, it’s normally almost $1200 for the pro version. If enough people “dare to share,” they get the software. If not, the money is refunded (and I paid via PayPal, which can’t hurt).
It’s overkill, but may be fun to play with for Second Life purposes.
The software company pmG Worldwide is conducting a viral test marketing campaign by selling their award-winning animation/rendering engine Messiah Studio 5 for an incredibly low price.
There are two options for purchase, the first being a limited-feature basic edition for $10 (regularly priced at $499), and the full pro version for $40 ($1195 regular price).
The offer works as follows. The offer is set for a limited time. They have set a goal for the number of sales. You purchase the software as a pre-order. If the goal is met in within the time limit, you get the software. If the goal is not met on time, you get refunded your money.
The viral part is simple. In order to meet the goal as quickly as possible, you are encouraged to share this with as many people as possible.
Insightful new thought-leader emerges in Second Life, so look for @StopClengBenk to start his libelous smears on the Twitter soon.
Also, it’s Bewbie Wednesday!
Please, won’t someone remember the chickens?
The first step for those who try to undermine our way of life is always to have us start fighting amongst ourselves. That way we are too busy to notice their machinations. They have succeeded in starting a grid-wide civil war between the bunnies and the ponies. Have you noticed that nobody is even talking about the poor chickens? Wake up people! They’re trying to tear us apart!
Via http://honour-mcmillan.blogspot.com/2011/01/inconvenient-second-life-truth.html
We have just repackaged Jass-2.3.5 so that your entry to meshes next week is well prepared. The brief list of fixes/features is:
- NEW: Mesh support: A fix to the Collada-1.4 exporter.
- NEW: Mesh support: We now also distribute the avatar.blend
- FIX: removed old “pyc†files python compiled sources.
- NEW: the factoryreset program has been rewritten.
- FIX only jass-pro: multi part bakes now independent of choice of parent part.
- FIX only jass-pro: Precision regression caused by missalignements in UV map
customers: You will find the new jass-2.3.5 pub and free in your personal download folder and we hope you have bookmarked it so that you can get hold on the new release with 2 clicks
first time users: get a free copy of jass-2.3.5-pub from our shop in SL:Â http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jass/145/193/25 or purchase the jass-2.3.5-pro version from the same location.