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Somewhere in hacker's den...

[Night Train To The Darkside]

Somewhere in hacker's den...

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More pictures on my website...!

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14 hours ago, Rhonda Huntress said:

This is just freakin' cool!  I love every bit of it.
And I'm jealous as hell because I could never do this.

Thanks!

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Go for the kill

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Somewhere far away....

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Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KR_Nhm1BnA

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If the road never ends, keep going

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Oil shower on the head... 3... 2... 1...

All oily.

[Where to learn about new shops and things?]

For me Flickr is one of the best place to discover new things quickly and follow stores

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Someone's trash is other's treasure. Look at those cars! Just a little bit duct tape on the side and it's good to go!

[Seamless textures SL body UV Map]

You can fix any mismatching seams easily in most 3D softwares by texture painting tools. (You paint around the 3D object's seams and it get's projected to the flat 2D textures).

The SL classic avatar's 3D files can be downloaded freely. http://lecs-opensource.secondlife.com/fittedmesh/SecondLifeAvatarSkeleton.zip

[Meshes for Multiple Bodies - How?]

Best approach would be to use the same mesh, for the bodies,  but fitted and aligned to each body by pushing the verticles around, this way you keep the same UVs, same maps. Whenever possible, I do this.

[Blender 2.8 anyone?]

I'm already using for some of my projects, and honestly can say,  2.8 is the best Blender so far. Even it's still beta, seems pretty stable too!

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5 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

You smoke too much.

(Just thinking about your health is all. Also, too much cotton candy can be bad for your teeth.)

(Oh, and great pic, btw!)

No one can criticize my candy consumption habits! 
....yea, I smoke more than I should, you're right on that.

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After cooking the next batch of... well, cotton candy. Yes, just cotton candy in all the boxes.

 

 

 

[Store Managers Is Live!]

Very-very useful feature, looking forward to try it!

[Custom MESH content creator available for hire]

Crias Rowlands – Content Creating since 2007
Owner of Dusty Hut
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/15532

Expert in mesh apparel, outfit, clothing and accessories creating.

 

Services:

-          Whole outfit design and creating

-          Individual pieces design and creating (shoes, coats, armor, etc, anything you wear, except hair)

-          Environmental props creating indoor and outdoor (any kind of sim accessories except vegetation)

 

What I offer:

-          Strong mesh modelling skills, using moderate polygon count to keep performance on acceptable level

-          Strong texturing skills, combining editing, hand-painting and baking

-          Consistency: all items made by me will be in harmony with each other

-          Delivery: Shipping all custom orders in reasonable time

 

Prices and payment:

All custom orders are different and priced based on the technical complexity. To have a price quote all custom orders needs to be described, communicated properly along with attached drawings, illustrations or photos.

All payments can be done in Lindens or USD through PayPal
Prices are calculated on the complexity of the project and the average rate of 15USD/Hour

 

Contact:

Please drop a notecard about your project including the description of your ideas and at least a few pictures. I’ll contact you for further details and availability of my services.

Name your notecard with the following form of „[CUSTOMORDER]-YOURNAME-YOURPROJECT”

 

 

 

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Older every day, don't even bother washing the clothes

[Those 'meshers for hire']

9 hours ago, Erwin Solo said:

There is a reasonably large supply of mesh models available on the internet for purchase

Buying various mesh from different sources won't make the work coherent. Different modelling styles, textures, shading. One of the most important thing of content creation is to stay consistent, which stock models will just blow. Plus as said above, they are mostly not optimized for SL.

[Looking for a Mesh Designer for Business Partner]

To increase the chance finding a partner for you, give more info. Imagine yourself as a CEO of a corporation. If you would like to attract the attention of potential partners, you need to describe your brand, your vision, the direction you want to go along. Since you are looking for someone with similiar ideas and taste, first you need to describe yours.

[Those 'meshers for hire']

Situation is the same on the other side. Difficult for a proper mesher with experience to find reliable clients with enough funds. Above a level, a good mesher only works for real wage and it is out of the budget for the casual user. Most commonly only store owners can afford to hire an extra mesher for themselves.

[Gimp]

Pick up Blender for 3D instead of Gimp. Blender is the most supported free 3D application, and many use it for SL content creation.

[Pixellated normal maps and textures]

Thanks! It worked, never seen that option before.

[Pixellated normal maps and textures]

Hi, I am having troubles uploading quality textures (official viewer). Back in the past I had no troubles at all with smooth textures, but for some reason I get pixellated textures at any resolution now, even on 1024. It is especially looks terrible on normal maps. Below the picture shows the result of an 1024 normal map, which looks perfect and smooth in Blender. I guess there is a compression issue while uploading. Anyone have an idea how to solve this?