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Sculpted Gear Shop
I found the shop where Cogsworth Linden purchased the gears. He mentioned that they were 500 L$, but it turns out they are actually 4,000 L$! I had to think hard about it. It's…
Old neighbors dropping in
This has been a busy night. First Robbie Riptide pops into Second Life⢠after a year of silence. He dropped on by and said hello and we caught up on a lot of stuff. Just now, two…
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Texture baking with Neptune
I sometimes wish that I had the talent that some of the residents of second life have. One talent that stands out is texture baking. Someone makes a sceen in a 3D environment such…
Region Messages
Um ... wow? I was just in a Havok 4 Simulator and teleported back home. The first thing that I saw was a Region Message. This one was not the standard ones in a blue dialog box in…
Bombing away with bad jokes
Jane2 McMahon and Rocky Torok suffer our bad jokes. Posted by Second Life Resident Dedric Mauriac . Visit BlaksleeWorld .
Avatar Accessible Design
During my buildings redesign, I changed from using teleports to a spiral ramp. One of the first buildings I maded in SL had spirals to cut down on prim counts. Compared to…
Camera & Movement Controls
I had been talking to a Razzap Snookums about helping new residents to second life. I've been having some difficulty helping a few new people find there way around with movment…
What are you up to?
So I was setting there, watching a game of take it or leave it. Out of the blue, ELLiebob Bean asks if I would like to help out with some interesting photography. I teleport over…
Paradise Blanket
Alic White introduces me to the Paradise Blanket. This thing is amazing. About six people can sit on it and zoom up into the sky where it rezes different sceenery. My favorite is…
Stage with RSS Icon Layout
I started working on making a place to give speaches and such to medium sized groups. I decided to make the layout look like an RSS Icon. I have a few products that have RSS/Atom…
Shadows - Dedric Mauriac
My original attempt to view shadows in Second Life failed about a year ago. I figured that I needed to use a special viewer such as Kirstens viewer to do so. I've been noticing…
Editor's Choice
One of my images was chosen for editor's choice - best of snapzilla. I feel bad about getting recognition on someone elses pain. The person behind the avatar is a Holocaust…
Timeless Prototypes Party
I saw Bevan Whitfield plurked about being at Timless Prototype's party. I decided to head on over and the first words I see is Timless shouting "DEDRIC!!!!!!". Timeless…
Making Faces
I found out about CyberExtruder.com yesterday. They offer some software that lets you use an existing photo of yours, and then create an avatar skin from it. I pulled my hair back…
How to not see shadows
I thought I found a way to enable shadows. Unfortunately, I didn't read everything. In debug settings, set both RenderUseFBO and RenderDeferred to true. Then set graphic…
Silly Singing Songs
Today I read about a singing program on Torley's blog that allows you to generate musical melodies to songs, just by singing. I was amused and decided to download the Microsoft…
Tic-Tac-Toe on the market
I completed my version of Tic-Tac-Toe and packaged it up for sale early this morning. I put a demonstration up in the shop. Their are four levels of difficulty: easy, normal,…
Searching for myself
One of the things that I have learned is that keywords make a pretty big difference when attracting customers. I created a program that lets me query all of the unique keywords…
RFL Headbanger Event
I have been out of second life for a good while now. Apparently, SL called me and told me I had to log in. Immediately I was whisked away to a headbanger event put on by my Relay…
Cisco Systems Data Sort Game
My super-duper top secret game is finally ready to go public. Banana Stein (who reported on it earlier), asked me to come up with a game concept. I came up with three ideas (Apple…
Back on the grid
I have been having problems with my computer in general outside of second life. This past weekend, I spent a lot of time freeing up space and then backing up images of the hard…
Amazing Gears
I was flying around checking out my neighbors and found Cogsworth Linden playing around with a few gears. I was a bit surprised to see the quality of these sculpty gears. Only one…
Joaquin Gustav plays on his Spanish Guitar
Joaquin Gustav played at Los Arboles Amphitheater for Open Mic Night to help benefit the Relay for Life of Second Life. Rich Desoto says that Joaquin Gustav inspired him to add a…
Countdown in action
A friend approached me about building a count-down timer a while back. I had an idea where it was going to be used, but I didn't know what it was going to be used for. Here is the…
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On the spot RFL meeting
I got a group notice about a team captains meeting. I hadn't even realized one was scheduled today. Apparently the meeting was bumped up to be held earlier. I was in the middle of…
Looking for the goods
Crap Mariner had a little request for me to scan a parcel and list out all the item names, how many prims they contained, and their positions. It sounded simple enough. After a…
Fending off ladies begging for my attention
So I was working on placing product listings away from Second Life and came back to see that someone had sent me a Teleport Request. I did not remember who Lorelei Larsson was and…
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Philanthropy interests declining
I have been supporting new players for a long time now. My money tree says that I've paid out 49k in lindens (9k donated), and my last money trees stats were similar. I am all for…
NaNoWriMo 2007
The National Novel Writing Month for 2007 is only a couple days away. I tried out for the NaNoWriMo a couple years ago. I didn't get too far before my attention went elseware.…
End of the SL Relay for Life 2008
The parties over. Everyone is packing up to head on home. The bells in these flowers sing melodies in the air, but it still feels quiet. No one is left. The end of all events is…
Splash Aquatics - Looks just like an aquarium
I found a neighbor on a sim next to mine had a nice setup of a mallard with ducklings following it. I looked at the creator and found a place called "Splash Aquatics" on…
They found me again
Many years ago, I've posted over 200 open source scripts for ASP, Visual Basic, Javascript, SQL, C++ and PHP. My most popular piece of code let people upload files with Classic…
X-Ray Vision Glasses
A while back I created a set of glasses and then scripted them to give a humorouse effect. When you touch them, you are prompted as to whome you would like to use the X-Ray vision…
A new SIM!
So I looked at my email and discovered that I actually did get my sim delivered just 2 hours ago. I was expecting a wait time of 2 weeks. Just one business day. Amazing. Since the…
The Undiscovered Ocean
As I look out across the ocean, I wonder about what new things will spring up in the future. I purchased a new region today called "Woodbridge". With any luck, I'll have…
I love the silverscreen sim
Silverscreen is a very interesting sim that has "professional" written all over it. Everything seems crisp. textures, land, even little ecosystems are just amazing to…
Preminition of affiliate tools
I've been burning the mid-night oil on this new project. I've gotten a request to modify one of my existing products. There are some drastic measures to take, but in the meantime…
Complex Monorail System
Robbie Riptide invited me along to tour a few sims on a very complex monorail system. We hopped on different lines and passed through many stations. It's amazing how it is all…
Tulips Everywhere
I had a small project to create a particle generator with flowers. Most of the work was editing the image that I was going to use. The clients preference was to have tulips. I've…
Guns save Second Lives
A newbie dropped by begging me for lindens. He was past his 30 days, so money trees couldn't help. I only offered him my 5L$ survey and money tree. Well, it didn't go well, but he…
Creating SL Artwork with ArtRage
I checked out Torley Lindens blog ( torley.com/ ) today and saw that they listed a few programs that they use often. One was an interesting one that caught my eye. ArtRage. I…
If only I had a heart
I was showing off how to make your avatar invisible to a few friends of mine. I was just making a giant invisi-prim that covered me entirely. Well, I headed on back to the…