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Echo Canyon
I was to go and help my mother in-law to configure her voice in a virtual environment today. The snow came in last night and hasn't let up yet, so my plans were abandoned. Since…
Echo Canyon
I was to go and help my mother in-law to configure her voice in a virtual environment today. The snow came in last night and hasn't let up yet, so my plans were abandoned. Since…
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Same web texture for multiple prims
Earlier, I had though that the viewer was creating a separate texture for each prim that displayed a web page. After looking a bit closer - specifically at a page that keeps…
A Little Speed Boat
I was having difficulty understanding how to sail a flying Tako. I had made a note to myself to just build a speed boat so that driving would be a bit more simpler since I…
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Crossposting the blogosphere
I started to look into ways to crosspost my wordpress blog entries to other social media sites - specifically Plurk. I found a way to do it through my old twitterfeed account,…
Bridging the Gap
Crap Mariner and I were able to brainstorm a few ideas to connect Edloe to Woodbridge. We wanted boats to get through the water between the islands, but it would end up having us…
Bridge Construction
Crap Mariner and I are working on bridging our two islands together. We've been working on a few ideas so far. Since the community at large does a lot of sailing, the birdge needs…
Sim Teleporters
After moving the ships bridge out of the way into the sky, I came to the realization that I needed a teleporter. I broke out my old sim teleporter and started working on it to…
Playing with the air
It turns out that anything at 400.000 meters and above are not rendered at all on region maps. When building sky boxes, keep this in mind and do not build too low.I have a few…
Woes of Sit 'n Spin
I found a simple way to make 1 prim seats without using sculpties. I was even able to make them spin correctly while the big wheel was spinning. When it came to sitting, I ran…
Ivory Tower and a 40 meter ferris wheel
I started making a small cylindrical building only to have it turn out looking like the ivory tower. It had too many prims and I started looking into using mega prims. Somehow I…
Stepping it up
I have often designed buildings on simulators so that an image appears on the map of the region. I am a bit curious as to the maximum height of prims that are renered. I've…
Mapping a sphere
Spheres are perhaps one of the most hardest things to map textures properly. I go through a few steps using a Spherize filter that helps make a two dimentional texture bulge…
Twitter Box
Behold the awesomeness of the Twitter Box. Enlarged for demonstration, this product sits in the corner of screen as a HUD. It allows you to post messages to your twitter account…
Hit me with anything!
Whimsy Goode found my store after viewing one of my products on SL Exchange. She had the same trouble as many of my customers. She couldn't find the product that she wanted. While…
Lil Offcourse
Today is Lil Offcourse's Rezday. Her friends threw a rez-day party for her with a pole party and fishing. Apparently guests had a chance of stippers or fishers, although the…
RFL of SL 2008 Group HugRing
Ah, the ring of hugs. Fun, fun fun. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
Flying Hovergear
Crap Mariner sent me a message stating that he was starting to get into scripting vehicles. I had told him that I had done so myself with my toy blimp that I sell. I found that he…
Business planning, profit model
I attended the first class in Fleche Xeno's workshop series. I was a bit impressed. More was going on then I had expected. Serious stuff! The first thing that we did was open up…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Dive at your own risk!
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Crunch!
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 SS Minnow
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Relay Rockers Small Screen Heroes
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Alternation
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Croc with Captn's Hook
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 ACT Sailing Venice/Elven
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Ishtar
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Mini Snail Racetrack
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Quest for a Cure
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
RFL of SL 2008 Hogwarts
The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on this weekend. Here is a picture from one of the places along the track. You can make a web donation to my team - Take…
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RFL of SL 2008 Roadhouse Relay Warriors
A nice serine environment. Environmental sounds can be heard with the wildlife that nature has to offer. The docks make for a nice place to sit down and dangle your feet in the…
RFL of SL 2008 Combat Bumper Boats
I discovered that the SS Galaxy Campsite also has combat bumper boats. Blast your friends out of the water for only 20 L$! The Relay for Life of Second Life main event is going on…
Open Mic Night at LosArboles for RFL of SL
Rich Desoto kicks off the Open Mic Night with his guitar. This event is co- hosted by Yxes Delacroix and Rich Desoto. Many other artists are lined up for the next two hours…
Ariel view of concierge party
The concierge party is laid out on five different regions connected to each other with the coloseum in the center. The temple is to the south,Mt Olympus to the east, Insula…
What is this crap? - game revival!
Crap Mariner revives his old game - what is this crap?Rules are simple: People sit on various objects. Each round consists of a number of questions typed in open chat. If you give…
Meeting about relay
Some big events being discussed out the relay for life. Catt Gable, my team mentor gives me some helpful advice and checks to make sure I'm doing ok with managing my team. One of…
Competition
Note - this post is mainly a joke. Crap Mariner has a pretty large clock tower on Edloe. It's the most coolest unique innovative and tastey building I've ever seen in Second Life…
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Sidewinder Linden Talks (a lot)
The Lindens provide a blog for residents to read new information directly from Linden Lab about the status of the grid, updates, tips, general knowledge, and announcments. Often…
2000 Snapshots
Well, I looked over at my snapzilla account and saw that I had 2014 snapshots. I am in 13th place for having the most snapshots. Torley Linden has 8,833 snapshots in first place.…
Bombing away with bad jokes
Jane2 McMahon and Rocky Torok suffer our bad jokes. Posted by Second Life Resident Dedric Mauriac . Visit BlaksleeWorld .
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Woodbridge needs ... woods
I hadrezzed a few trees earlier hoping to rezz a particular plant. Everything rezzes randomly when dealing with trees or grass. You don't know the type that will rezz next. I was…
Woodbridge needs ... woods
I hadrezzed a few trees earlier hoping to rezz a particular plant. Everything rezzes randomly when dealing with trees or grass. You don't know the type that will rezz next. I was…
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A new look for modern nature
Most of the sim of woodbridge is natural. The technology of my gadget shop usually goes against the whole woodsy theme going on. I really want to find a way to fit in, but still…
Pool of Reflections
I couldn't help but to get down and look at myself reflected back at me through the water. Finally I could see clearly what everyone else saw with my own two eyes. No more…
Windlight Reflections
One of the coolest parts about windlight that I see is the reflections in the water. Land, prims, avatars and the sky are all reflected. To get reflections though, you need to set…
Getting up and running
Now that SLB has become Shop.OnRez and become web-enabled, I've repopulated all of my vendors to support the new website. After a few days, I feel like I've gotten a ton of work…
Scavenger Hunt Testing
So my scavenger hunt project is almost done. I've saved a lot of different locations throughout our campsite into a database. As each record is found, it disappears and moves to a…
First Bling
I don't know when this started, but on the front page of Second Life, I noticed an advertisement for First Bling. What is first bling you ask? For a nominal fee of 35 US$, you can…
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…
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Equin Farie by Korii Tiger (Horse Pixies)
Korii Tiger has done it again. In my eyes, she is a very talented sculpter of prims. Her fondness of horses really shows off in her latest products for the Equin Farie. She…
Amusement Park of Fun
Tons of free rides over at this amusement park. You have submarines that can attack each other as well as boats and bumper cars. You may race against people on the kart race…
Having fun with lilypads
I had an idea for how to make some interesting lilypads. Most of the work was done creating an image with some transparency of a cluster of lilypads. Once I was done, I put them…
The Journey Back Home
Most of my childhood was spent living in an old farmhouse. It had been kept up throughout the years, so it didn't seem that old. Still, it had no style as wood paneling was…
Water pines for rent
I was terraforming my island when I got the message that there was a rolling restart in progress. I jumped over to my old shop on the mainland and got another message there about…
A new RAW island
I learned a few things about the RAW image format that Second Life lets you use for island data. With this one image, you have access to 13 different layers. You can edit your…
Moving Day
I got most of my servers moved over to the new sim at woodbridge. I accidentally attached a server to where another was located on my avatar and ended up loading the Asset UUID.…
Reminiscing of firstland castles and skyboxes
I started to pull out a few of my first builds from my original First-Land parcel. The castle was only 39 prims! My skybox of 27 prims was pretty cool. It wasn't just a box - it…
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…
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…
A tour of Mondrian
Robie takes me on a tour of the islands where his new crib is loated. Very high detail and interesting architecture here. It's got an overall nice feel to it. We took a monorail…
Grassy Particles
You gotta love particles for making nature possible in SL. A while back, I created a grass generator for a friend of mine. A big circle of grass is created and each particle lasts…
SLSpeak & Big Birdie
I followed a classified to something called SLSpeak. Seems it will evenatully connect residents in SL through the TeamSpeak voice conferencing software. The website ( slspeak.com/…
Active Geyser
Over in Info Island, Hyduke Ebisu and Kim Anubis show me a geothermal geyser. After waiting a little bit, we saw the geysers steam go up in the air. Hayduke says that geysers are…
Ride the Carrot
DrFran pulled out a carrot car and we started cruising all over Del Sol. We originally started out looking for a snow monster by aEoLuS Waves. Del Agua, where i originally found…