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…
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A new support forum
With my misadventures in being plagued with forum spam, I have now seen my traffic go down drastically. The number of requests are down, but so is the excessive amount of…
Emotional HUD Trial
I decided to create a free trial version of the Emotional HUD and distribute it thorugh my Subscribe-o-matic. With 352 subscribers, I am hoping that a few may actually find a…
No resellers please
I've setup the inventory script so that it does not pass on items that the owner did not create. Although people can get around this by putting the items within a prim that they…
JQuery UI and Silk Icons
I've figured out how to get a JQuery UI dialog to show when clicking on a cell in the flexigrid. In addition, I've started to use Silk Icons rather than starting from scratch.…
PHP Classes
After learning much about implementing classes in PHP, I went back and encapsulated many related methods into their own classes. I now have a database class that simplifies a lot…
Favorite Icons
I was looking at the various ways of logging information in my website today. Along the way, I discovered that the system logs had many exceptions regarding a missing favicon.ico…
unmagic quotes
I ran into a problem today with encoding strings for SQL. Upon looking into the problem, I realized an oddity from a past problem was very much related. It turns out that PHP, by…
jQuery with Flexigrid
This morning I found a plug-in called Flexigrid that works well with jQuery. It supports AJAX calls to get a paged set of data. It supports dynamic page sizes, searching specific…
Web Interface via jQuery
Once I got a working front end web interface, I started to look into jQuery to standardize a bit and support cross-platform browsers easier. I have run into a few problems in that…
PDO thinks integers are strings
I seem to be finding bugs left and right. I am using PDO to prevent against SQL injection attacks. It takes all parameters that I pass in, and makes certain that the correct SQL…
Inventory Loss
One of my tests that I use on my drop boxes is to copy the large list if notecards in my inventory into the contents of my dropbox. I've had a message pop up each time I attempt…
Online!
After trimming the fat off of my code for my drop-box, it is back online again. The server-side scripts had to be rewritten to handle the newer/condensed form of communications.…
Memory with LSL vs Mono
I've been working on my inventory server again in regards to optimizations. I've really cut it down to size while retaining much of the functionality that I had originally put…
Reset Script vs State Entry
I've been able to cut my scripts initial memory down so that I have about 41k available. Originally I had about 25k available. The primary tips are to reduce the need for…
Progress Bar Script
This little script shows a progress bar as floating text. Sending Inventory [||||||||||....................] 33% showProgress(float value, float maximum, string status) { float…
Avoid Methods
During my day job, I often separate code into functions for purposes of better manageability. Each function is a black box in a sense. It describes what it does, and goes ahead…
Top Scripts and Multi Gadget
I started digging a big deeper into my scripting problems with memory and speed. I ran over to the Woodbridge sim to get a snapshot into how much time the server was acquiring. It…
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…
AvatarFasion.net
Indigo Paperclip contacted me regarding a new website for avatar fashion promoting Acedia Albion's clothing line. Indigo is one of the people who I met through the Mr O show that…
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…
Building a ships bridge
I'm gathering up some ideas for one of my older domains. Long before I heard of second life, i always wanted to make my own web-based MMORPG. I had many ideas, and interesting…
A hard days/nights work
Sometimes work gets so involved, that by time I get home, I can't shake the feeling of "work mode". It's those times when your brain keeps racing to solve problems, or…
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…
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…
Building my own galaxy
My wife asked me to create a few galaxies for her after introducing me to the Shinda sim. At that location, I saw amazing sights of ateroids, comets, planets, and a giant galaxy.…
Working Concept of UFO game
I finally did it. I have a working game to search for alien life! I use my flashlight and buy energy to power it up. I then look around using the flash light (using up energy). By…
Equation of a Parabola
After working out how one of the game devices works in my game, I found that I needed a way to make a leveling formula that translates XP into levels. I needed each sequential…
Lighting up my life
I wasn't too happy with how the effects of full bright clashed with shiny objects. I wanted the top part of my lamp to be very shiny except where the glass was located. For that…
Seeing the Light
I finished making the scupties that I needed for my street lamp using Rokuro. An overly complex object for prims takes only 3 sculpties to build. The next step is to work on the…
Returning to Reporting Tools
It's been a while since I've worked these all out. I'm bringing my reporting tools back to life. The tools all work in-world and show graphs and such about visitor metrics and…
Virtually Ponged
I had this idea of making Pong work in a 3D space in second life, and sticking with the classic representation of a cube paddle hitting a cube ball. I have a basic arcade game…
A classic upgrade
The classic top hat is perhaps the first object I ever made for myself in Second Life. I made this to wear on my avatar along with a monocle, cane, and a suite. Come to think of…
FilterCam HUD
CodeBastard Redgrave gave me a heads up and sent a FilterCam HUD my way to try out. It is a pretty interesting tool for someone who takes a lot of snapshots. It is an object that…
Plopp Secondlife
I decided to take another look at Plopp Second Life. I saw this program when it was first available to make sculptured prims. It still suffers from the same problems as before.…
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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,…
Tic-Tac-Toe Two-Point-Oh
I now have the second generation of my tic-tac-toe game setup. It now has more visuals to help people understand that it is a game of tic-tac-toe. The mapping for the 5-faced prim…
Club building
Not much is going on tonight. I started working my dance floor into a club of sorts. I brought in some ideas I had from roughly 10 years ago. I used to play around with 3DSr4 back…
People-Friendly Tic-Tac-Toe
Now that I've figured out how to setup a working game of tic-tac-toe, I am now working on making it more user-friendly. I'm changing from a 3-faced board to a 5-faced prism. 5…
Unbeatable Tic-Tac-Toe
If the grid ever gains control of our countries nuclear missiles, we can use my game of tic-tac-toe to save the world. I have added AI to the game so that a single player can walk…
1 Prim Tic-Tac-Toe
I was playing around with ideas this past weekend contiplating what the bare minimum was to make a game of tic-tac-toe. I came up with an image to represent all 27 different…
Patching up new ideas
My friends have been telling me that both the gift server and prim search engine are broken. I was able to take a look at both tonight. The gift server was broken due to an event…
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…
Pointing in the right direction
After speaking with a few people, I decided to add arrows to my search results. It appears that some people may not see particles, or that they are hard to see. In this case, the…
Mapping out touchable areas
I am finding it is easier to make large objects first when mapping touchable areas. Once the areas are defined, the prim can be resized to a very small item. Since the x/y…
Touch Me with Mono
So I logged into the main grid tonight using the Beta viewer to try out compiling some LSL code in Mono, as well as trying out some of the new touch position methods. The LSL…
Kerhop Seattle's Traffic Stats
After just one day of using Kerhops's Traffic Stats, I am happy to see a visual indicator of where the most traffic iss in my store. Each corner of my store has an individual…
Getting things sorted out
I finally got everything sorted out with my data center. I leave the boxes of my products out because they are a bit easier to find in a 3d space rather than in inventory. They'll…
Give a gift
One of the suggestions that Fleche Xeno made to me during his last mareting workshop was to make a gift server. The way that it works is that anyone may use it to send a gift to…
Skateboard WIggler
Ulee Tarantal contacted me about some scripts to make her carts pullable by a driver while another person sits down. I made a skate board a while back for a Sadie Hawkins Western…
Stop Typing Animations
Tiapa Zamani dropped on in looking for a product that would let him stop his typing animations. I sell a few products that let you play drums or show an icon over your head when…
New Workshop Entrance
When arriving at my workshop in the sky, people were not always aware of where they ended up. A few mistook it for another part of my shop. As a result, I have clearly labled the…
Demonstrating the search engine
I invited Phinn Boffin to come over and see my product search engine in action. After demonstrating how it worked, she walked up and tried it out herself. The first search turned…
A petition for loyal sim owners
A few of us (Ina Centaur and London Dailey) were talking about a few things tonight and somehow we came to the topic regarding the costs of running a full sim versus open sims on…
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…
Prim Search Engine
A while back, I made a scanner to find all objects on a parcel. It was made for a friend to solve a simple problem to hunt for prims. Royer Pessoa had suggested that I should make…
Product Update - Flashlight
The flashlight is another one of my older products. I took a look at how it worked and started shaking my head. A few features have been introduced that I really needed. I added a…
Nothing
Just up late doing stuff. Trying to figure out if I should blog about something, but nothing comes to mind. So here I am blogging about nothing. Enjoy. From Dedric Mauriac via…
Product Update: Water Spray
I got a request for support from zichchen Whitfield asking how to turn the water spray off and on. I replied that it did not have that feature. She asked if I could add it to the…
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…
A game of concentration
Buy the concentration game on SL Exchange, Apez.biz, On-Rez, or in-world. Well, I now have a new game of concentration. It's a card game played with a regular deck of 52 playing…
Pick a card!
Adz Childs and his friend, Sokmunky Rutabaga, were two young children avatars wandering around my shop. Adz had sent me an instant message asking how I was doing. I arrived and…
A visit with WiseOwl Blessed
WiseOwl Blessed had a problem with a rogue bouncing ball on a path up the mountain leading to her cottage. I returned the ball to its respectful owners. I went up to the cottage…
Money Maker
Well, I think everyone is getting a little fed up with how all of the available money trees work in-world. In fact, I got a request from a friend of mine to make something…
Prokofy playing games
Well, that was interesting. I got an IM from Prokofy Neva asking where he could purchase the memory game. I just jolted in my seat. Prokofy? Here? Sure enough, there was a little…
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New Product: Memory Game
I created this product about 8 months ago to get more eyeballs looking at my products. It's been a fun game. You can buy it through Apez.biz, SL Exchange, OnRez or in-world. Here…
New Product: Who Was Here?
My wife had asked me to make her a script a while back that would tell her who was visiting her property and when. It had to be simple to use and simple to understand. What I came…
New Product: Wyrd Wall Clock
I made this clock a long, long time ago. It's initial purpose was to help me identify when my region-map was last captured on the main grid, and to determine how long each map…
Subscribe-o-matic
Well, I've known about this little service for a long time now. I've been avoiding it because I wanted to setup my own service. However, times have changed and my focus is on…
New Product: Mini Countdown Timer
Summary Counts down minutes and seconds remaining. Description This handy little countdown timer allows everyone to see how much time is remaining, down to the last second. It is…
New Product: Lucky Shopper
Phinn Boffin sent me a message while I was offline asking if I had a product that could hand out coupons to every 10th visitor. I did have similar products, but the scope of the…
A new video card, sort of
Being that my video card continues to crash constantly, I purchased an Nvidia card for my wife. I was choosing between the 9600 GT and 8800 GT. I just couldn't understand why a…
Fishing on Woodbridge
Korii Tiger told me about a fishing game that she was playing and wanted to setup. I had thought she was referring to Nea-Realms Fishing Game. It turns out that there is another…
A new tree of life/money
zouzoume Andel took me over to a place selling a different type of money tree. These Wolfhaven money trees apparently have less lag, and don't need to talk to a web server. The…
Trouble with Money Trees
Argh... money tree toubles again? SarahMarie Paule and zouzoume Andel are telling me that other places have problems too. From Dedric Mauriac via bloghud.com
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Looking up a Regions UUID
Through a capability exposed by the web-map API on SLurl.com, I am able to query the name of a region by specifying it's global position. For example, Woodbridge is located at…
The speed of Mono
I was starting to perform some tests on the beta grid with Mono. My current interests are with encryption. Encryption can slow down the execution speed of a script if it is very…
Setting the count
I got a message from Gistya Eusebio asking how to set my visitor counter to start at a number of their choosing. They had an old visitor counter that they had to reset, and wanted…
Spring cleaning
I tore down the old pagoda castle and started playing with my mega prims to make a new design. The new layout is more open as there are no physical walls or ceiling. The display…
Going the distance
With the new building limits extended to 4000 meters, my sim teleporters were breaking down with stack heap collisions. The speed of the teleporters compared with most is done…
Wider, Longer, Turning Roads
As I was just learning how to make mega prims, the servers were being patched to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the mega prim window of opportunity. After I had made a…
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Cubed Guard Doggy
Well, I now have a little security system myself. It only allows a limited number of select people to come close to it. People are first warned with a dialog message and then sent…
Skyward and on
One of my newest praises for second life is the ability to build higher then 768 meters above ground. The limit has been extended to 4000 meters. I find this very useful in terms…
Detecting Collisions
I've been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto IV lately. One of the mini games within the game is playing darts. To be honest, darts in GTA is way too easy to play. It had me…
What if?
I still have an idea that one day I'll be able to put an entire futuristic space station kind of theme together. The thing about SL is that you can put your wildest imagination…
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Washing my hair
One of the latest features of the Second Life Release Candidate allows you to see how much rendering cost each avatar around you will slow down your system. The colors range from…
Multiple Voting Stations
Daequix Scarborough came to me asking if I had a voting system. She was using my comment boxes to allow people to drop note cards into each one as a way to cast their votes. We…
3D Space Navigator
I brought the old navigator back out for a spin with Second Life's latest release candidate. I went to the Input & Camera tab and clicked on Joystick Setup. Once I clicked the…
Mime Nekko's
I arrived home to receive a complaint about a black cat lurking around one of the properties in my sim. The "cat" does not respond to anyone and stands there doing…
Countdown Timer available
It's been a while since I have published any new products. A lot of them have been collecting dust in my inventory. I'm going to start working on making them ready to be put on…
Scaling the mountain with Cypress Rosewood
Korii Tiger leads Cypress along the path up her mountain. Cypress stopped for a bit to enjoy the view of the water and the horizon. It's a beautiful day here in Woodbridge. From…
RFL of SL Team Meeting
Another team meeting where I touch base on where we are in funds raised (+50K). Some of the newer members didn't have kiosks setup, so I distributed them. A few of us are getting…
Joseph Weizenbaum lives on
Knoh Oh informed me that Joseph Weizenbaum had passed way earlier this month. Dr. Weizenbaum is very well known in the artificial intelligence community for inventing the first…
Take THAT, Cancer!
We are just finishing up on our second team meeting. I setup a task for everyone to get at least one kiosk setup. Everyone needs to get permission first and report back who gave…
They look like big good strong hands, don't they?
I'm always playing around in one way or another. Hitting the CTRL+8 and CTRL+0 keys lets you change the depth of the camera to get some really wild shots. Perhaps later, the…
Escher Cubed
While looking for inspiration for Ina Centuars Primtings meuseum, I happend to find a blog with an interesting post about unwarping spheracle maps into cubed environment maps. The…
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SamVimes Weatherwax
I was minding the shop when SamVimes Weatherwax dropped on in. I was impressed to see another friend of the discworld. Just like many of other discworld fans, he too has a desire…
URL on a prim ... kinda.
I was excited a few years ago when the lindens were talking about uBrowser. It was there experiment to viewing interactive web pages on animated 3D surfaces (such as a rippling…
Scripting Korii's Mech Wings
Korii Tiger had created a fine set of wings a couple years ago. She passed them over to me to see if I could script them to open and close in different positions. With over 129…
Growing flowers in a new way
A while back, I was starting to upgrade all of my products one at a time. Along with the upgrades came public demonstrations that people could interact with. Somehow I got side…
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…
ELLiebob Bean drops by
Elliebob drops by to take a look around. Posted by Second Life Resident Dedric Mauriac . Visit Woodbridge .
Avatar Interestingness
Sometimes you see an avatar that just really cracks you up. TP Spad came by in a Startrek uniform, boots, spandex shorts, and a rocketman helmet including the rocket pack. The…
A castle far off in the clouds
I downloaded a ton of skies made by Torley Linden a while back. I found this one for one photo, but I hadn't looked at the glaring suns direction until I made it back home. I was…
Vouchers galore
I couldn't resist the temptation to start setting up vouchers and testing them out. I usually have these in my lucky chairs. Since I'm starting to use a new server and…
Who was here?
Every landowner eventually wants to know ... who was here when I was away? I had a request come in from Korii Tiger. She wanted a visitor counter that was discreet and told her…
SignpostMarv Martin provides inspiration
I have had problems in the past that I could not find people who could constantly swap knowledge with me. SignpostMarv Martin is the person who I could never find until Second…
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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…
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…
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Showing off the Grist Mill
DrFran Babcock brought her friend over to woodbridge to show off my Grist mill. I hadn't taken the mill out of inventory for a while and found that the rotation of the wheel and…
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The path to encryption
Now that I'm looking into methods of encryption data for real (and ignoring XOR encryption), the first thing that that I needed to do was to get the ASCII values for each…
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Encryption Anxiety
I have setup my reports to communicate with XOR encryption. The algorithm is weaker than anything I've worked with before. I want to find an open- source license free encryption…
Encryption Anxiety
I have setup my reports to communicate with XOR encryption. The algorithm is weaker than anything I've worked with before. I want to find an open-source license free encryption…
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Simple Encryption in Second Life
I've been working with methods to encrypt data being passed around my objects for the visitor reports with a symmetric cipher. The closest method available that Linden Lab…
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A real chess clock
In the past, I had made a mockup of a chess clock to keep track of my time online and offline. So far I've been online for 17 weeks, 16 hours, 4 minutes, and 40 seconds ... in…
Charting from within SL
My charts are comming along great. Today I found out about Googles Chart API. With just a customized URL, I can link directly to google charts. Even though I show a chart…
Flying high spying my land
I like to disable the fog when I'm trying to render things a bit quicker. Usually, I can't see the land below my feet when I'm at high altitudes. I just noticed today that I can…
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THiNC books are great for Power Point Presentations
At my first live event, I quickly found out that people wanted the slides from my presentation. This caught me off guard. The quickest thing I could come up with was to drop all…
Blue Hair Episode 15 Available
Blue Hair Episode 15 has just been released. You can visit the podcast or download the MP3. Power Point slides have been published on Google Docs. I talk about different visitor…
The Anti-Camping Chair
I was talking about camping chairs with Crap Mariner the other day. He jokingly suggested to have a reverse camping chair where people would pay me to stay. It is definately…
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Blue Hair Episode 15 - Tracking Visitors
I just finished giving my presentation on tracking visitors in second life with vistor counters. I gave a comparison at the end between counters offered by Linden Lab, Maya…
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Modeling clothing textures with sculpties
While I was looking around at Savvy? the other day, I noticed a lot of mannequins on display. These were made of sculpties and had the textures for regular clothing mapped…
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Finding the day of the week
Date and Time functions are always tricky once you need to discover other information besides the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second. There are no methods to work with…
Graphic Reporting within Second Life
I've been working on creating bar charts in the virtual world of second life. These have got to be the most simple kind of charts to tackle first. I eventually want to go with pie…
XML-RPC and HTTP Requests
I could have sworn that I've tried this before. I just couldn't find my tests from before in my inventory. The goal was to see if you could make an RPC call with an HTTP request…
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Asking the questions myself
In preparation for this weekends live podcast event on visitor counters, I've started building up this desire for custom reports and more control. I started playing around with…
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Too many SL podcasts
I sent out a notice to a group I belong to full of podcasters asking for images and urls so I can display them in my blue hair stadium. Crap Mariner sent me a box full of SL…
Feeling out customers price perception with BidBox
I often have problems where I don't know how much I should charge for my products. What is reasonable? What will customers pay? Thanks goes to Carissa Heartsdale for sending me…
Overbearing Rememberance
I had an idea today about getting more eyeballs to look at my stuff, as well as let new users get some money. Camping chairs these days pay out about 2 L$ for 10 minutes. The…
Glowing prims and transparency
It appears that the new glow feature in the windlight clients exposes some interesting effects as well. If you set your prim to be transparent as well as having a glow, you get…
Mockup into the next life
Second Life has this profound ability to allow you to mockup just about any idea instantly. I am a person who gets tired of looking at my storefront and needs change every few…
Free Snow Angels for the Holidays
I was reading the FabFree blog and found an entry about a free snow angel pose set from Persona. She gives all of the details on how to get the set though second life. You get two…
Another live podcast next Saturday
After giving it much consideration, I have decided that my next live podcast in-world will be about visitor tracking metrics and analysis. There are a ton of services out there…
Christmas shopping leads to new music
Ama DeCuir was looking around at the gadgets that I sell. I am working on my customer service and social skills and went over to have a chat to assist and stir up a conversation.…
The Original Visitor Counter
When I first joined Second Life, I would often find places with a spike in the ground and square blocks on top of it. I soon found out that these were visiter counters. I found an…
Fuhrer is in german a bad word
I had been working on a big project last year that is almost complete. There is a Linden bug standing in the way rite now that is fixed on the havok beta grid. In the mean time,…
Plopp Second Life
My wife mentioned PloppSL to me the other day. She said it was a childrens program and a bit too simple. However, it may be another tool to add to the whole sculpty toolbelt…
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…
Simple Tricks for building homes
Lorelei Larsson was a little confused how I could build a house with only 12 prims and yet be so detailed. I rezzed the house and colored each prim a different color so that she…
Blue Hair Podcast #14 Published - Marketing in Second Life
I just released a new episode of the Blue Hair Podcast that I held live within the virtual world of second life. Follow along with the Power Point Presentation Slides . I talk…
Lucky Resident Server
I just finished a pretty complex task. In short, this product senses visitors and awards prizes. It gets pretty complex in that it is completely configurable. You can set how…
Marketing in Seconde Life
I just finished up with a live podcast in second life for my Blue Hair podcast on Podshow.com. It turned out to be a great success with the people listening in on the audio stream…
Web Client Publisher
I created a product a long time ago that allows people to display pictures of web pages in-world. I got a message from Pollywog Gardenvale about a scenario that they couldn't…
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No need for an anti-afk device
I often wear an anti-afk device in SL. It turns out that I probably don't need it. I got a freebie item from Eata Frankfurter through onrez. Within the box was a notecard giving…
Working Solution for streaming audio
I was trying to find a way to stream voice chat from within world to a shoutcast server. I needed to record what I said as well as what other people would say. To do this, I…
Social Conference Calling
It looks like I've learned about another technology out there called Social Conference Calling(SCC). I may be a little behind on this as people have been doing this in Second Life…
You've been been tagged!
I got tagged and it's my turn to post eight random things about myself to my blog and then tag eight people whom I would like to know more about. 1 I don't have blue hair in RL 2…
Lonely Moneytree
My moneytree is lonely. I don't understand why. I often find lots of L$ and even saw an L$ that fell to the ground a couple times. It is just shocking to see this happen. It used…
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How much is that in your country?
I was talking with Gobi Greenwood over some possible scripting jobs and was demonstrating some of my abilities to request information from web pages. I brought out my old currency…
101 Gadgeteers and growing
I created a new group this past weekend called "Dedric Mauriac's Gadgets". It's about time that I take this whole group thing seriously. Going through my sales logs, I…
Your profile is now on the web!
I was looking through my items listed in the search results of my parcel and noticed some small text at the very bottom: Link to this page:…
You spin me right round baby
For a long time, there has been a bug that had me pulling my hair out. For any scripters out there who like to spin things, you'll know what I'm talking about. The llTargetOmega…
The blimp is back
It has almost been a year since I was working on this little toy. I'm going through my inventory and finding old projects here and there and packaging them up if I can. The blimp…
virtualcasting from virtual worlds to virtual worlds
Ok, I have gotten one step closer. It is sort of a tongue in cheek solution. I found that the web browser build into the second life client supports flash. This is nothing new. It…
ELLiebob Bean drops by
ELLiebob Bean came by to say hello. She had been reading up what I've been doing on my blog. The christmas stockings got her attention and she dropped by to get some.…
A very good pet shop
I've seen Zooby's on SLCN.TV a lot lately. The owner, Carrie Tatsu, had an interview on the shopping channel, and another channel had her on what appeared to be a night time talk…
Stockings to Stuff
Korii Tiger asked me to make some stockings so that you can customize the name that appears on them. I created both a gift box and a stocking. When you first rez the stocking, the…
Live Streaming within Second Life
I have been looking at ways to stream my second life experience live - rite into second life. I found a free driver VH Screen Capture that allows my desktop to be available as a…
Advertising through Snapzilla
I am always keeping my eyes open for advertising opportunities for my products. moo Money had directed me towards advertising on Snapzilla. I checked out the prices and they are…
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…
Sim Teleporter
I had a small request from a friend of mine asking if I had a teleporter that could travel past the 300 meter limit of regular teleporters. I had worked on something similar in…
Finally Ready for Search
My product line is pretty large. With the new search features comming into Second Life, I had to rez and prepare each individual item separately. In the past, object descriptions…
Bloom/Glow makes it to First Look
I've used glow a lot with making little machinima movies (where it's been known as bloom). Unfortunately, if it was turned on, it was applied to everything that was full bright as…
Testing ... 1, 2, 3
It's been a while since I've seen a snapshot cross-post from bloghud to my wordpress blog. Hopefully this one will make it over there. From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD.com
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…
Now accepting MetaCard
I was reading an article today regarding credit cards in virtual worlds. It went on to talk about MetaCard by First Meta in Second Life. I decided to try it out and registered as…
Mapping the world with sculpties
Morph Wollongong pulled out a sculptie he had made of the Theta sim. He was able to create it with SL Proxy from libsl. Morph really likes to play around with neat things under…
Voice Commands in Second Life
I originally wanted to buy some 3D software. I got it cheaper then I expected and bundled with a voice chat software. It's nice to hear people talking who don't have voice chat.…
Categories for the people
When I changed all of my existing JEVN vendors over to OnRez vendors, I went through a major recategorization of all of my servers items. The problem is that no one really seemed…
Building Robots
I have a nice idea for a small michinima. I worked on creating voices for a dialog last night using MorphVOX Pro to alter the sound of my voice. At the moment, I'm building a…
Bringing back my theme
It's been a while since I've had a store setup with my theme color/style. I started playing around a bit more and converted part of the main entrance. I'm starting to feel…
Business Cards for SLCC
A last minute thing, but I figured I would meet so many people that they may be interested in chatting after the conference. I created a bunch of business cards with a few images…
Preparing for a new look
It's been a long time since I've had a shop setup to represent my swave tech theme. Today I've been starting to play around a bit to piece together some ideas. Blue, Black, White…
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…
Identification outside Second Life
What services are you on besides Second Life as your Avatar? SignpostMarv Martin who developed SLOpenID.Net has provided a way for residents of Second Life to identify themselves…
Hoping the sim goes down
Waiting for a rollback further back in time ... sigh. From Dedric Mauriac via blogHUD
Offline Logs moves
I've been having some problems for a while with loging my sales to a free service provided by Spiritfire Musketeer. This service has been solid since I first started using it. I…
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Putting on a face
The process of skinning myself is proving harder every hour that I work with it. It is tediouse to say the least. Once you get a basic area of the face setup, you start to notice…
Putting on a face
The process of skinning myself is proving harder every hour that I work with it. It is tediouse to say the least. Once you get a basic area of the face setup, you start to notice…
Building Sculpties In-World
I got a nice little product today (Snurb O'Matic) that lets me build my own sculpty maps rite here within Second Life. It is prim heavy needing 1089 prims that I can move around.…
Detective Leo Linden
Leo Linden drops by to see if he can help me find the ellusive missing script. I reported a bug I've had for a few months where the server says my script is missing, but the…
First Place Trophy
I think I got the mockup ready for trophees in our upcomming Groovy Scavenger Hunt. It consists of 11 prims in all. I'll be working on texturing it properly as well as making some…
ELLiebob Bean\'s first extruded Sculpty
After ELLiebob downloaded tokoroten, she spent five minutes and was already uploading some designs. Here is her first one. It looks a bit like a flower. I think we are all going…
Groovy Scupies with Tokoroten
I'm making some classic adapters for 45 RPM records. I started with an image that I built some prims over top of and ended up with a build consisting of 30 prims. Not too shabby,…
Research Study
I took my nephew to a couple bookstores today. While I was there, I ended up in an area about business and found a specific part about marketing. I found a book there that caught…
It all begins with a prim
I am starting to work on a way to backup my data from second life. I was hoping to automate this by going through my inventory with libsl, but the API is fairly limited and not…
Katiegurl Rhode
I met someone tonight who was a very interesting person to talk to. We talked about many topics and such and in the end she handed me a gift to present to my wife. The woman was…
Region Directory
I pulled out the old region directory that I first made when I first started Second Life. Interesting to see that ratings are no longer kept in the system. My Pie charts are…
Age-O-Matic
I took a stroll over to Career Builder and found a link to an age-o-matic. The idea is simple. Upload a picture of yourself, answer a few questions about your job, and the page…
Steaming Sculpties with Parcel Media URL
Shortly after I had blogged about my efforts to animate the structure sculpties with my parcels media stream, Claryssa Schmidt responded with a flash file that she had made to…
Sculpty movies
So I tried to see if I could alter a sculpties shape by settingits texture to the same texture as the parcels media image. Unfortunately, It didn't work. The good news is that you…
Sculpty + movies = animated sculpty!
I don't know why I didn't see it at first, but it works! I set the texture of my parcel to the same texture that defined my sculpty. This is amazing. ELLiebob Bean and I have some…
How my empire has grown
I just finished getting most of my products listed on my wiki space. I almost have 100. I can feel myself getting things in order. This may lead to product improvements as well as…
Script is missing from database
I just don't get it. I've reported this problem a few times over the past few months. I have a object that I created with a script inside. I rez the object, open the inventory and…
Seventh Son - A free podcast novel
Back in December, I created an item that would play a 45 minute long podcast. The podcast was that of 7th Son by J. C. Hutchins. I've started a wiki lately and had been trying to…
Your wish is my command
Vanilla Jessop contacted me tonight and told me about a class that she is teaching. In the class, students build a magic lamp. The reason for telling me about this is that she was…
Signpost at the Crossroads
I'm starting to dig into my inventory finding anything I can package up and sell. I found this sign that I made for the Slollywood sim a while back. You can set the text of 4 rows…
An old game returns
I started working on my little in-box / out-box object. Perhaps I should call it a program or simply a scripted object. I got the basics setup for what an inbox should look like.…
Looking to the stars
I keep getting different ideas for my hydrogen atom room. The atom no longer looks like a sphere. The top has been blown out as well as the bottom area to make a view of the…
Groovy Prims
I have been able to successfully put together element #118, also known as ununoctium. Moving my camera around while editing it, I stumbled upon the hollow core of the element. The…
Rethinking Programming Methods
I've been kind of slowing down on a new product. It's really simple, but hard at the same time. I decided to break all the scripting down into smaller experiments. I know what…
A perfect sculpty circle
Sculpties are a bit organic in nature. Due to the lossy compression of JPEG files, the original x,y,z values are changed in suttle ways. To the naked eye, our original skulpty…
Unicycle Racer
I logged into Second Life tonight to find CalebBullen Balut racing around on my Go-Kart track on a Unicycle. Of all the funny things to be a witness to. he came over to my sim…
A new store for me
Korii Tiger and Catlynn Valencia have been hard at work on the sim. One of the first buildings they put up was my new store. It has three levels of all gadgety goodness. Catlynn…
Playing with sculpties
I started playing around with sculpties again. The easiest program that I found to use has been Rokuro (for Mac & Win). You start out with designing the perimeter of the right…
Atomic Oxygen Model Display
Inside of my H2O model, I set the Oxygen ball to hold a working model with the atomic markup of oxygen. I created it with eight neutrons, eight protons, and eight electrons. The…
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Another night in woodbridge
Korii has started to get things done with her friends in woodbridge. Zenos made a bunch of mushrooms that looks pretty impressive and they built a nice wooden bridge as well. I'd…
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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…
Landscaper of Flora, Korii TIger
Back in the days of Ultima Online, Korii Tiger has always had a great eye for flora and landscaping. She would spend hours upon hours building worlds on different shards and…
Preparing for Half-Way There Fair
ELLiebob Bean IM'd me and let me know that the team is getting together for a Half-Way There Fair. We came up with a few ideas and she brought up the idea of a balloon dart booth.…
Drawing in i3D NOW!
I got a message from Anthony Reisman inviting me to beta test a collaboration suite i3dNOW!. I wasn't sure what the product was exactly, but I went along and said sure. I logged…
Castle Royal Construction
I had a few life changing events happen at one time and I hardly got any time to set in front of my computer for the past two weeks. Things are slowly adjusting and I found some…
Glow!
Well this is pretty cool. I saw an interesting picture with glow effects over at snapzilla . I just had to know how it was done. Gore Suntzu said that they did it with debug…
Reflection
RenderReflection is pretty neat, but pretty low res. You can setup RenderReflectionRes to kick it up a bit, but the higher you go, the less you see. Take this sphere for instance.…
A new inventory icon
Now this is something that I found very interesting. I had a bunch of objects returned to me at once. A lot of us have been through this. All the objects come back as one and keep…
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…
Parsing Apez.biz product sales
Cenji Neutra sent me a beta version of his next iServ for Apez.biz. This web-based server/vendor network seems to have been flying under the radar for a long time compared with…
Folding some wings
I love the builds that my wife does. One of the things that I liked was her mech wings. They are a bit prim heavy, but impressive to look at. I've been tasked with the job of…
Looking at the wind blow
I had someone come by the other day wanting to look at my windsock. This product is pretty old and was made before the days of flexi. The person wanted to be able to resize it and…
Sim Building
I feel that building on my sim has become practically stagnate. I have become unimpressed with the storefront that I had been working on. I took a visit to Skimi today hoping they…
Breaking out the chatter bots
Talia and I start talking about AI and I pulled out a lot of AI chatbots from my inventory. The Eliza Doolittle chatbot is open source and the code to it is on the wiki. There is…
Guess what I got
Well, I guess it didn't take long before I purchased the set myself. I went with the figure 8 track that was on display at prim hearts. It was pretty big and I wasn't too sure if…
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…
Recycling in Second Life
Chill Moksung of the Second Life Notes podcast dropped on by and took a look around today. He was impressed that I was recycling old tires in Second Life. This potted Pear Cactus…
The old dining room set
Growing up, the dining room table and chairs that we ate around was unique. My dad had cut down a large walnut tree in back of my grandmothers house. He had taken it to a mill to…
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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…
Grist Mill
I started developing my gristmill a lot more tonight. I did some research on how waterwheels work and found different types. An overshot waterwheel has more of an advantage to…
Covered Bridge
One of the main things that my wife and I want on the island of Woodbridge is ... wooden bridges. Surprised? Specifically, we want covered wooden bridges. I found a couple of…
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…
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…