Osprey Therian

Good additions.

Filming permission is required from sim owners yet I've NEVER seen any policy stated in the covenant. It'd be easier if there was a tickbox 'Permission granted to machinimatographers' or something, but there isn't. With that in mind perhaps we can come up with a sentence or two that can be pasted into sim covenants. Something like: Permission is granted for machinimatographers who wish to document this sim or use it as a location for their machinima creations as long as the sim name is listed in the credits. Please send me the url to finished machinima as I'd love to see! Anyone have any additions or improvements?

It'd be easier if there was a tickbox 'Permission granted to machinimatographers' or something. Permission is requied yet I've NEVER seen any policy stated in the covenant.

I think people often feel that having an issue makes them look stupid, but as we all know every one of us has had issues ranging from major to oops-I-made-a-boo-boo. It's a wonderful form of sharing and kindness to tell what happened and how it was resolved.

A friend is having the same issue. Please say what you did that fixed it.

It's in your best interest to state your machinima policy in Covenant. Note: this is a general statement of information I think most sim owners don't know. The information is this: To give machinimatographers up-front permission* to film without tracking you down you MUST state your machinima policy in the Covenant tab of About Land. I'm not talking about me, but anyone. * Or indeed to state if your policy is to allow no filming.

Consider specifying your machinima policy in the land covenant. You might be pleasantly surprised to see what p[eople make if you give permission up front. Films spread the word and are just generally fun. Conversely, stating 'No" up front saves everyone time and trouble. Machinimatographers need permission to film; still photography is allowed unless specifically forbidden.

It's been ages since the few times I've done it* but it was simple to set up and you don't need to buy anything. You DO need something like Manycam to stream onto Ustream. Sign up/log in to Ustream here: http://www.ustream.tv/ D/l Manycam here: http://download.manycam.com/ Start ManyCam up, start SL up, set to 'Desktop,' adjust window size and hit OK. Start Ustream, go to Broadcast, it finds ManyCam and you have to allow it access. There might be an audio setting you need to adjust. *http://www.ustream.tv/channel/osprey%27s-stream

Projected light shines in one direction. Not everyone has that setting turned on. Facelights are rarely required (sometimes in machinima they can be useful).

A lot of people derive a great deal of fun from breedable products, which is good. Once pathmaking tools hit Agni perhaps a little bit of the lag will be mitigated. They aren't my thing however it's nice we have them. Their scripting needs to be an ongoing process as older breeding products are bound to be laggier if not kept up to the standards of the day.

An Adventure The cheerful ding of an incoming IM broke my concentration. 'hi hun' 'Hi :-D' 'i just wanted to say im soooooo sad 4 you' Confused, I accidentally set off my poofer and a thousand* particle ?s billowed out of me. 'Erm... Why are you sad? Exactly?' 'u know that picture - im sad coz yr boyfriend doesnt love you any more' My eyes widened as I considered the pithy remark M. would have forthcoming if he heard himself referred to as my 'boyfriend.' 'No, you don't understand. It isn't that love has been lost. No love has been lost. All love is tucked up at home with a movie and some microwave popcorn.' 'then why is it called LOST LOVE???????' I paused a moment to set my emoter HUD to Frown. 'Because my love is a famous explorer and - take note - HE'S LOST.' 'how do you know?' I checked my expression - nope, Frown is still appropriate. 'I keep telling the Authorities that they should send out a search party.' 'maybe hes not rlly lost if you know what i mean' Wiping away a tear I closed the IM window. Truly I'm under too much stress to deal with strangers bearing misconceptions; I may not be as patient as I once was, as well. I must take matters into my own hands and organise a search party. Who is with me? I need experienced sleuths, trackers, aviators, clairvoyants, sailors, linguists, outdoorsmen, fund-raisers, chefs, grant-writers, and documentary filmmakers. And bloggers. And possibly distillers. Who is with me? *Not actually a thousand, Jopsy, I swear. Exaggeration!

BVHacker will fix skeletons.

A quick little piece that turned out well. Claudia222 Jewell's Spirit installation at the Art Screamer sim in Second Life is wonderful to behold. This avatar is a gift to all who go to see it. Peter Rudenko's lovely piano music paints a scene of aetherial beauty.

Seems as though you should be able to activate a 'hibernate' setting.

The latest-starting animation will override if it's the same or higher priority. Can you change your AO so the other anims are lower priority? People also use constantly-restarting anims by script but that seems a heavy script burden.

There's a whole DOF pane in Preferences/Garaphics. Putting your cursor on yourself will bring you into focus. DOF is FANTASTIC - turning it off is not the answer but playing around until you are used to it is.

What about Friday evening? That'd give us a chance to try to get some combatants. What time is good? 8?

I monitor the activity in Jessie closely as it's not far to the north of my home. Although it's safe to say that war in Jessie looms perpetually, I haven't seen any more activity in the past week than is the norm. Therefore I propose we all meet over there and have a fire fight one day soon. What day would be convenient?

It seems like an interesting idea :-)

Could it be that your anims are not .bvh or are unreadable in some other way (like no T pose)?

Try this: http://zi.furhome.net/downloads/qavimator-setup-20100106.exe

What about Machinima or Upcoming Events?

I *hated* that old spread fingers bug that blighted our SL for so long. I don't make animations every day however I noticed yesterday that setting the left hand to anything (fist, point, etc.) resulted in the right hand doing that awful spread fingers thing. How long has this been going on?

This is the wrong forum.

This is animation as in making bvh files, not animation as in making movies.