Orwar
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On 8/4/2019 at 10:06 PM, Alyona Su said:
FTW! Do. Not. Let. It. DIE!
Fus ro dah?
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@Matty Luminos - Oh, you are one-armed. Or half-armed? I noticed this on another picture and figured it might just be the angle of the pose and camera position somehow spiriting it away, but I got really confused about where the arm went. One mystery solved, another discovered. 🤔
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Irrational people who, after a while of arguing, get the idea that you agree with them when you've thoroughly butchered every argument they've brought forth, and take that as you fully agreeing with their every opinion ever. I'm not sure if it's a masochistic rhetorical device or if they're just that stupid. Either way, it makes me pull back.
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Just now, VanillaLovelace said:
Oh no .... please don’t tell me, that all the greeting cards I ever made with Comic Sans were the source of all typographic evil! 😉
As a font, Comic Sans isn't really 'evil'. It's informal, and as long as it doesn't cause people problems reading the message - the problem is that people used it for flipping everything, including business mails and printed notices. It quickly got over-used in a very amateurish manner which quickly made it just inappropriate as it signaled ignorance.
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Did someone mention Comic Sans?
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12 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:
Europe is indeed an idea and a continent and remains so. The European Union isn't a "country" but a territorial body that attempts to align its votes at the UN and have unified policies. Are you for Brexit?
Europe and the European Union are not synonymous. Europe is a continent with several nations, the European Union is a union of most (but not all) of those nations. The EU does not control everything within those countries, they are still sovereign states; whether one thinks that the current amount of centralized power is good or bad is a matter of personal opinion. Britain had a democratic vote about whether to remain in the EU or not, and they voted to leave - whether I am 'for' or 'against' it has absolutely nothing to do with anything, I'm not even from Britain myself.
12 hours ago, Prokofy Neva said:It's always easy to talk about "plenty of charity, secular and religious" when you are not the fund-raiser or even the giver, but you just have a vague idea.
What do you base that assumption on, that I just have a vague idea? I have been professionally involved with charity work.
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4 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
You'll have to imagine the Jaws theme... hummed through a snorkel.
Ever tried speaking through a snorkel? Or screaming? I did the latter, when 9 year old me came face to face (like, inches) with a moray eel.
I also almost got poked by by a snail I found on the beach and brought to my dad - it was one of the only two creatures on the chart on the beach with 3 skulls next to it.
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10 hours ago, FairreLilette said:
It's interesting how metal, punk, goth, grunge, glam all kind of cross over each other.
There's reason to the madness. Punk began as an anti-consumerism movement that proposed you do your own thing, both in regards to apparel, style and music. The Gothic subculture is one of the many post-punk genres which kept many attributes (though these days there are so many sub-genres of Goth, many of them seemingly entirely removed from Punk). Metal is a development of Rock, and whilst not directly affiliated with the Punk movement, the two styles were developed roughly around the same time (60's-70's), as did Glam (70's). Fashion is fashion, so that people within the different styles borrowed and were inspired by each other is no surprise - and these days some of the many branches springing from the original styles have mingled; Hardcore (Metal-Punk), Industrial/Gothic Metal, Glam Punk (Mock-Rock) ...
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"Welcome to my kingdom madness,
you're just in time for the show.
Welcome to my world of darkness,
a place where unreal becomes real.Come drink my blood, wake the demon in me;
Come taste the wine of my sins!"-
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1 hour ago, halebore Aeon said:
But it honestly feels like there are these unwritten standards in SL blogging. Like your photos have to be High Quality, which totally makes sense.
... Yeah, nah. I think the vast majority of people who call themselves 'blogger' in SL don't have a clue about photography. I frequently see blog posts that are shot in low resolution and using the viewer's photo filters. Or just random PS filters slapped on without any manual retouching - neck seams galore in most blogging groups. The reason they tend to get attention is through spam-following everyone they see (most of them have horrendous following to follower ratios), and spam-liking each other's posts for their buddies to return the favor.
If creators figure that's the people they want to employ though, meh? I don't have any expectation of any creator throwing free stuff at me. If I see something that I like, and my wallet allows it, I'll buy it.
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1 minute ago, Selene Gregoire said:
Look up a few phrases of Latin or some other "dead" or not wide spread language and reply with those. Bonus points if it's your native language. 👼
Låter bra!
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3 minutes ago, Prokofy Neva said:
Once you see how dependent Europeans are on government and how hard it is to do charity in the private sector there
Eh? No. We have plenty of charity here, both secular and religious.
"Europe" isn't a country, I'm not sure which country you were referring to but things like this can vary vastly from one nation to the next.
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14 minutes ago, Nalates Urriah said:
The green makes it easier to clip me out of the background. The floor is messed up in this shot... that ceiling made a shadow across to floor.
If you make it fullbright, no shadows can be cast on the surface of it and makes the entire screen a consistent green.
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9 minutes ago, Adriana Ulich said:
I have the VAW version and it can be difficult to match well with certain skins.
Try the 'inner only' option.
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2 minutes ago, kiramanell said:
Best I ever managed was enabling an (experimental?) option in Firestorm, called Screen Space Reflection. It really looked awesome on one of my concrete floors (but it really only works on floors). Sadly, though (and slightly to my annoyance, I must admit) they removed that option again. Step in the wrong direction, IMHO.
It's not that 'we' don't know how to make reflections, it's an issue of how things are rendered in SL. Back in the early 2000's, many computer games had reflective mirrors in them. The issue is that SL is rendered from what is in front of your camera view. If you look into a mirror, you're looking into a space which is not rendered. In a game where assets and textures are pre-loaded and cached from area to area (i.e. games with 'cells' separated by loading screens), this works pretty well - in a world where you couldn't possibly cache all assets and textures, and instead render based on what the client is looking at, this becomes a lot more difficult.
1 minute ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:The really difficult part of this procedure, at least for me, is always getting the right angle and distance from the subject/"mirror." For one of my earlier mirror shots, I went so far as to create long thing prims that traced sight lines, so that I could accurately reverse angles and establish a camera distance that would effectively reproduce the slightly smaller image you'd see in the mirror (because of the distance between subject-mirror-camera).
Waaaaaaaay too much work.
When I've done it (I can't say 'usually' as I've done like 3 photos using the technique), I've just free-handed it. I don't know how many times I've posted this picture in this thread (I should make a new one!) but this was done using that setup, with a one-way transparent wall and eyeballing the mirrored shot.
Theoretically (I think) you could also make two prims to represent the cameras and position them using the grid to match them ... Again, though, I'm script blind: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetCameraParams
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Just now, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Really?????? Not only is that a ridiculous amount of work (and would presumably contribute to lag), but it also wouldn't mirror the avatars walking across the floor. Seems like a lot of effort for a pretty flawed effect.
If it's a mesh set, you can just build it to duplicate itself below the floor surface in Blender. If it's prims, just select all the prims, create a copy and rotate it and position it.
And yes, the effect is flawed - unless you, again, take two shots, one where you actually flip your avatar upside down below the floor, and layer the two shots.
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2 minutes ago, kiramanell said:
Okay, now I'm dying of curiosity.
How did all y'all get that mirror thingy working?! Mine never do that! 😛 Did I miss a memo or something?!
There are a few different methods to do 'mirrored' shots. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a 'working mirror' in Second Life - with the exception of SL water surfaces, that with some specific water WL settings turn into blank mirrors.
So the first method is to use actual water as the mirror, by turning your entire scene and subject onto its side, and either rolling the camera (only works in certain viewers, like Black Dragon) to shoot at that angle, or by shooting it on the 'wrong' axis and then turning the picture right way up.
The second method, which is my preferred one, is to pose in front of a mirror - but turn the mirror into a green screen (a full-bright, blank prim). You then shoot the picture from two opposing angles in relation to the camera position and mirror surface, and layer the two pictures and mask the green screen.
Blue: subject. Green: Mirror. Red: Camera 1 & 2. Note that the wall is transparent on the 'outside'.
In this particular shot, though, I'm guessing that Angelina is using a mirror backdrop. Such backdrops are specifically designed to make it look as if you're viewing into a mirror from a first person view, this works for as long as there's only one view of the subject visible.
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For Neph, I bounce between The Skinnery, Cureless[+] and Valkyr (VYC). I also have a skin from Pink Fuel that I really do like - but it's not pale enough!
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4 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Men aren't solely to blame for that -- I think most women do think of their breasts as part of their sexual toolkit -- but overall it's masculine desire that has created this perception.
I think it's an interesting history around the acceptance of breasts. In the ancient Roman civilization, breasts were perceived as symbols of nurturing and motherhood (how could they?!) and even ritually shown as a sign of mourning or an appeal for mercy. However, breasts were also regarded as erotic attributes of femininity, and it appears that it was largely frowned upon for 'civilized people' to run around with them exposed willy-nilly (and I'm not sure whether it's a comfort that slaves' breasts were okay to expose, as they weren't as much people as property anyway).
Certainly with the early medieval period, as the 'heathen' rituals were abolished in Catholic Europe, and eroticism in all forms were considered outright sinful (and frequently unlawful), a more prudish culture for both men and women arose. In the renaissance period and up to the 19thC, women's breasts saw a period of acceptance though, perhaps more so than ever in Europe (with various cultural exceptions in the pre-Christian societies) - breasts were once more seen as symbols of nurturing and motherhood, drawn directly from the Hellenic culture that the renaissance period in so many ways wanted to emulate. It appears to fall upon the Victorian society (who would've guessed?!) to be blamed for the stern retreat of the female (and male) anatomy into the confines of strict dress code. In the early 20th century, men in both America and Europe began to challenge the Victorian style by appearing topless on beaches - and before it became accepted, many men were fined for their indecent exposure. Women at large in the same time period, as far as I can tell, don't appear to have been quite as keen on fighting for that same right at the time - exposed female breasts were acceptable in certain contexts, noticeably so in cabarets and live performances at club stages (though the entire context itself was not always broadly accepted by the general public).
In this day and age, it seems to vary a lot on where you are. Here in Sweden, for example, men and women alike are free to sunbathe topless (whether you're on a beach or in a park); the law states that you may not expose your breasts in an act of provocation or sexual harassment. That said, law and society don't always fully agree with one another, and many Swedish institutions are less aware of Swedish law than American customs; a school may well punish a girl if she were to expose her breasts for any reason, even if she technically has the law on her side if she wants to, say, sunbathe whilst on a break. I do however talk about school dress decorum with Catrie quite frequently, since she gets a lot of news articles about girls who are sent home from school or otherwise punished for exposing their shoulders or wearing too short skirts - when I was in high school, it was very much in popular fashion for girls to dress in a very provocative and often sexualized manner (when I was 16, a girl in my parallel class always wore latex and vinyl clothing); whether it's a matter of liberty or societal corruption where tweens are at all catered with such apparel by society is a whole other topic, though.
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18 minutes ago, BelindaN said:
ANGELS ASSEMBLE!!
Oh, oh, can Neph be the Angel of Death? =3
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Lady Death.
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Just now, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Yeah. I was under the apparently mistaken impression that it was frontal nudity that was prohibited. Certainly, I've seen bare bottoms here before.
It's no biggie; it's just a picture. And it's still on Flickr. I'd repost a cropped version to replace it, as I assume bare backs are permissible, but it's past the time when I can edit the post.
/me shrugs.
I mean, after the whole 'what is art' that's been going down on the forums lately, I'd say that your picture certainly were up to snuff with any and all reasonable standards. But meh, I guess someone with a grudge must have flagged it to feel like they've won something.
Maybe you should re-post it with some nice, big maple leafs? 🤔
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How did all y'all get that mirror thingy working?! Mine never do that! 
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