Rhonda Huntress

If I could find a high-res version it would be my new desktop

kinda Fallen wrote: Tribute concerts are all the rage right now, its a great platform for bringing a favorite band to life in SL. We work in an entertainment platform called "Rising Star Entertainment" and we have done some great metal bands. We also can do any band anyone requests, this includes a professionally cut and produced sounding show, avatars built to match the actual band members, instruments as true to the RL ones as possible, and stage design. Professionally done lighting, sound, and quality, as many of our members have been involved in band production, NY, Vagas, etc, and i think our shows prove it..if your interested IM me in world, and we can advise you of any open dates Yeah, that's nice and all but I can bittorrent all the songs too. Why should I pay someone else to pirate off of other artists?

If Roig is four, then I'll take the Fifth. :smileywink:

Darrius Gothly wrote: You guys are such fun killers sometimes .. geeeeezzz.... LOL Why, thank you very much! It is fun being a killer, especially killing alliance; that is always fun. So much better than being a fun-killer. [ETA] And you are a fun guy for noticing

Lyra Blackthorne wrote: yep even when using the specific RBG to get the skin tone...then windlight has to be considered. If you use rbg and set lighting correctly then feet look perfect to you...but, anyone with different light settings will see them as "off" color Ok, this is bugging me. Since windlight the environmental color matching between clothes, skins and prims should not be a problem any more. I took some test pics to be sure. 1 What viewer are you using that it is giving you this problem? If you just don't want to wear prim feet, I understand. But if you are tossing a small fortune in bought and paid for footwear because of a glitch it might be an idea to see if we can fix the glitch. And if I am getting pushy, just let me know.

Marianne Little wrote: Only thing I can remember as a favourite, is my Bax boots and some Zaara jewelry. But a picture with that wouldn't be PG. Those BAX patent leather ankle boots are a basic necessity. They should come stock with every new account

If you are using V2, it is under World > Sun > Environment Editor which will pop up a small window. (I am going by my failing memory so I may be off a bit on the menu path)On that, click the Advanced button to open what it colloquially called the windlight settings window. You can change fog, sky colors and more, but what I am specifically after is on the Lighting tab. You can set the color and intensity of the sun (or moon) and also the color and intensity of the ambient light. There are two sliders on the bottom of this tab that are for the sun/moon position and the east/west angle. At the top of that window is a drop down list that you can chose from various pre-made settings. Things as simple as 6am and some fun stuff too. You can get some of the more popular ones in a small xml file here:http://analutetia.com/2008/04/20/windlight-presets/ She even has a very detailed, click by click instructions on where to put the preset files. These include some wild and wonderful setting made by Torley and others. Phoenix and Imprudence have the presets already loaded and you can get to them from a button right on the bottom bar. Kersitn's viewer has a button on the top, just left of the address bar that opens the Advanced environment editor right away. Most people will probably only use the various presets and the list Phoenix has is perfect for them. Kerstin's has more toys and tools for photographers and they will want a little more control so the included shortcut there opens the full editor. I keep hoping for a keyboard shortcut to the editor that any version can use.

Void Singer wrote: Darrius Gothly wrote: Nice mustache you got there Neil. *grin* .... except for the fact that that's the promo screenshot It took me a moment to figure out what Darrius was saying. Oh hell no that ain't me. Freakin' alliance human? No way. My tank (and PvP build) is a male tauren paladin. ((It used to be a female spacegoat but we reformed our original horde guild just before Cata release)) Heals and DPS build is a female undead priest. 4 teh whorde!

I can't seem to find the Friday Formals thread, but since Ian mentioned it here ... I still need to do some fitting but I like the new tux

See what happens when I dress in a hurry? I still had the cuffs on from a differnt pair of jeans. This is wht it is syupposed to look like. Ian Undercroft wrote: Hey Rhonda. You posted some tux pictures in another thread a while back. I came across a female tux/trouser suit called "Le Smoking" at SF Designs today. If it's a look you like, perhaps check it out. Cool. I'll go check them out now. I have a couple of business sytle suits from them already. I hope the tux looks as nice.

valerie Inshan wrote: Undoing my updo, for a change! And you still look beautiful.

Venus Petrov wrote: What are you wearing today? The lovely Lusiadas sim has been transformed from winter to spring. This is absolutly beautiful and yu fit in the scene perfectly with a clasic look. Really, just stunning.

Blizzard alwys does the best April Fools anouncements on their web. The top one is about a "dungeon helper" that is a typical joke based on that annoying paperclip Microsoft uses. But after your read the blurb about him, he is with you on every page you go to from then on. Makeing wisecracks about the page, asking silly questions, just too funny.

Shockwave Yareach wrote: *examines the date* It's wrinkly and kinda dark. Sort of a deep purple with splotchs of brown here and there. It's a bit pliable still, so there's still a little juice in it. Why, yes, I have a date ma'am. My Palm gives me a date anytime I want one. Why do you ask? /me spews coffee and bursts into laughter. HAHAHAHA!! Srsly ROFLCOPTER!

Have you heard the rumor that Rod is going to open up his personal sim as a red-light district? Only 20 people at a time are allowed and it will cost 2000L$ to enter but the virtual hotel will be staffed by avatars ran by real Las Vegas hookers during the US times and Dutch prostitutes during Amsterdam daylight hours. ((and today's date is ....))

I like to play with photographs and making backdrops. My partner was watching me one day as she has done many times before, and she mentioned I should make a little scene by scene shot of the setups I do. And since we started talking about lighting in another thread I thought this would be a perfect time to do one. [ETA] If you want to see the pictures full size so you can read the settings, you can find the originals under my prifile -- or just click this: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/image/gallerypage/user-id/179282 We start off with an empty section of my apartment ... Then res a box and stretch it out to from the back drop. I then res another box, flatten and stretch it and add a pavement texture as a floor for the scene. This is normal SL midday lighting and it is a bit harsh. We can soften this up a lot with Windlight. I am using one of Ana Luticea's presets below. For this one, I keep the sun where it is because it is blazing bright when in front of the model. For other setting, like Barcelona for example, moving the sun towards the front gives a nice effect. But with the dimmer settings here I will need to drop in a couple of lights. Two simple prims. The primary light is up, to the right and forward of the model. This is a brighter light with just a touch of yellow. The secondary light is off beside the hip and just in line or slightly behind the model. It has a warming light and is set a little dimmer. I also put out my focus prim when taking pictures of myself. A rubber duck. I click to focus on the duckie so my eyes point at it. Then, when taking the snapshot, I use freeze frame to lock everything in place. From there I shift my view to the model and can cam around and zoom without the eyes moving. Once everything looks right, I texture the light sources to default transparent texture, run the pose I want to use (from inventory or a HUD if you have it) and move the duckie where I need him. Then take my shot. The snapshot is not bad. The low, secondary light helps give a little depth to the shadows on that side, but the face is too far away and the left side (our left) is a hair too dark. So I turn on my face light (since I am the model) which is already set to a small radius soft sepia light for the final shot. Now we can see the shadow on the left rolls across the cheek and gives a full, round look to the face. I like to keep my photos "as is" as much as possible. I would post this to a vanity thread without any post processing. but then I am not very good with photoshop. If I was, you could bet I would spend time touching up my pics :)

Oh, were we talking about psychopets? That's when Clover catches me checking out some other kitty ....

Kylie Jaxxon wrote: Don't just look at the recently released ones from these shops if you do not prefer the swollen lip look :smileytongue: Assuming Rick is male, he may not care so much about the lips but more interested in which has the "best nipples" :smileyvery-happy:

Kelinda, you seem to have a good eye. The balance is nice and this does feel like a study in balance with both warm and cool colors, a single complex object (the avatar) centered in field of simple shapes. It is set up very well. For playing with the windlight settings, I think the lighting is off a bit as has been mentioned. The way your lower torso looks is what you want to achieve for full torso and face. As it is, there is a bit of glare from too much light on the model's left breast and too much shadow on the face which makes it a little blocky. I am by no means an expert and what little I know about lighting I stole from other people But here is my typical set up if ambient lighting is not working for me. Fist off, face lights. I love them and use them even tho many people will say they are not needed with the new windlight engine. I keep mine turned off maybe 80% of the time. One small light set even with your chin (maybe even attached to the chin) about half a meter away. Set the radius to 1.5 meters. Intensity to 5. Color should be close to your skin tone. I use a brownish orange color. Once you have it in place, adjust the falloff up or down just until the shiny reflections go away on your forehead. If it works right, no one will know it is on; it is just to keep those hard shadows off the face and help hide the chest cavity. Next, lights for a portrait. For me that means two. One main that is set high and off to one side; the other offsets that one with a warmer color. The main light is usually a very pale yellow nearing the realm of being white. 255, 255, 200 or something close. I set it about 1 meter above the model, 1 meter to right of the model (my right) and 2 meters in front. I use a 5 meter radius, leave falloff at default and adjust intensity down until there is little to no glare. The offset secondary light is usually a bright orange, set about hip high or maybe mid thigh, 1 meter left and in line with the hips. 3 meter radius, falloff at .5 and intensity at 5 but could be less if it starts to mess with the colors of the model too much. If you really wanted, you could buy a set of studio lights but I just tend to res a ball and set the light values. Once the lighting is right, I set their textures to "*default transparency" out of the library. For no res areas (and if I just can not do without the extra lights) I will res small balls at home and attach them to my hip and pec then adjust them as necessary on location. Again, setting to transparent once the shot is set up. Most of my shots only use windlight settings. I have very few I use and I keep the main light source (sun or moon in this case) to the right like I would with a studio light by adjusting the east/west angle slider of the preset. Sorry, I got way off and rambled there. I love your use of color and balance. I like the deep shadows of the chair and would not try and use the sun for the main light source because that would ruin the depth you get there. (Actually I probably would have done it and missed an good effect)

What Cali said. There are a ton of choices and what I think is best may not be best for someone else. And if you do not have a compatible shape, the best skins will look all wrong too. Currently I am wearing a skin from LAQ called Tasha2. Curio has some fantastic ones. League is right up there with the top. Tuli. The list goes on. Get some demos and shapes as well and try them on for size.

Kascha, that sounds more like a plane old fitting problem. I have that all the time. If you can scale the boots up a little with either a resize scripts or going into edit mode, then they could probably use a little nudge. Also, you can get a free set of alpha textures from several places, including a set Imnotgoing Sideways made that are at the Forum Cartel hangout in the freebie room. Wearing an alpha layer that covers up your calf will keep your legs from poking through. Once you have a set of alphas that work with your boots, you can work on getting rid of the invisi-prims that are still part of so many boots and shoes. Even if all I have are resize scripts, if it lets me edit one prim, I select it and shrink it way down until it is completely hidden in the middle of the boot. If the "mouth" you mentioned is what I am thinking, then getting rid of the invisiprims will fix that.

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