Good to be Back!

I just spent almost 2 weeks in the hospital. It was horrible. I hope I never have to do that again. I have spent the last week or so seeing different docs and adjusting meds. It has been NO fun. The whole time I just wanted to feel good enough to blog. SO....now I do...and I have been thinking and ...

Midnight Rant 07: Copyright

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/G64m3-PFkwI[/youtube] (Note this was recorded about a month ago and I didn't get around to publish it at the time. Also, I was scared.) Links: TGIB on Kiva TGIB on Kickstarter TGGrid Neb's Racer Kit Neb's Death Race  

5 things to pay before the money runs out

I've been quiet the past two months, which is mainly attributed to a much-needed holiday vacation and subsequent stressful getting-back-into-work period. All this is complicated by the fact that El's currently staying in the hospital, but hopefully will be out again sometime this week. Anyway, as you can imagine, there wasn't much time to do anything productive, so I don't ...

Kandy and Victory Modan

For those of you that have followed my blog for very long at all, you will know that I model hair for Ali & Alli.  This CUTE little updo is one of their newest releases aptly named Kandy.  When Alice gave us the hair she simply asked for "something sweet" . . .and I can see why.  I LOVE the ...

3 of a Kind – Jeans

A few weeks ago, as I was looking through the feeds and flickr photostreams I came across a pic of an avi . . .just a simple pick.  The picture showed an avi in casual clothes, various poses but all together and I had a thought . . .perhaps I should start a category in my blog where I shot ...

Siss Boom, Eclectica and R2 Fashion

I was going to do a Q&D for this post . . .I PROLLY should have done a Q&D (Quick and Dirty) for this post, but I once again became so enamored with it once it was done, that I just HAD to talk about it a little.  There are SO many things about it that are SO pretty. It has ...

Midnight Rant 06: The Hypergrid

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arblVyxn0qQ[/youtube]   Links: Interview with Justin Clark-Casey Hypergrid Business - The Hypergrid is a social web Chuck Prophet on Archive.org Douglas Coupland and William Gibson on the KWLS William Gibson in Second Life (Part 1 | Part 2) Jeremy Bailenson on Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life and New Worlds Aloha

Ever an’ Angel

Don't you hate it when people aren't nice? Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes it seems like some people just want to be hateful and don't give two squats about what others want or need, or what is right or wrong. They live on the “me” level. And I find that SO disconcerting. It is NOT that I have never “visited” that ...

The Missing Image 04 – Meeting Justin Clark-Casey

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJNWidQrgf8[/youtube] Links: Open Simulator Overte Foundation Justin Clark-Casey's Master's Dissertation on Internet-Scale Virtual Environment Architectures Hypergrid Unity 3D Second Life Experimental teleport between Second Life and OpenSim Diva Distro Kitely OpenSim Creations Topics: 1:30 How do you become an OpenSim core developer? 8:00 Can OpenSim become the "3D web"? 14:00 Does OpenSim need asset security? 24:00 Does OpenSim need feature parity with Second Life? 31:30 How do you decide which features are in OpenSim core? 37:30 The state ...

Donna Flora A to Z C is for Cerry

   Several years ago, when I was just a little bitty avi, I stumbled upon a shop named Donna Flora.  I still do not remember how I found it.  It was probably through one of the numerous groups that I am a part of...always looking for a bargain.  But I remember looking around and thinking that I had found THE ...

Midnight Rant 05: OpenSim and Unity 3D

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/embed/JnUPx0dF5h8[/youtube] Links: Archive 3D Blenderswap Pathfinder's Virtual World Presentation Lag in Second Life and OpenSim and how to deal with it

e!…Ingenue, Essences, Dark Mouse

    A while back my wonderful partner, Vanish suggested that I stop making my blogs SOOOO detailed and just blog about the one or two items of each outfit that really caught my attention.  That is SOOOO hard to do when there are SOOOO many pretty things just staring back at you!  The funny thing about it, is that this outfit ...

Tutorials Articles

category Tutorials

TGIB speedbuild tutorial 3: Making sunglasses

by V | 5 » | Mar7 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4yEBMcopw
category Terrain, Tutorials

TGIB Terraforming Class

by V | 0 » | Feb28 11
Well met, Taotics. This is the full recording of the TGIB terraforming class held yesterday: terraforming class For further reading have a look at the region and megaregion tutorials. The screens used are as shown below:
category Tutorials

TGIB speedbuild tutorial 2: Making a collar

by V | 2 » | Feb22 11
This time split into two parts, so it's not really a true "speed" build.
category Tutorials

TGIB speedbuild tutorial one: Making a sculpted mask

by V | 2 » | Feb19 11
This is the first one of a new series of speedbuild tutorials. These tutorials are showing in real time the making of one of my creations, which I try to keep within a "youtube" timeframe. In this first tutorial, I didn't quite finish the mask within the 10 minutes I set for it (and only later discovered that youtube actually raised ...
category Tutorials

Making hair – a starters guide

by V | 2 » | Jan27 11
While the appearance editor has a sub-section for creating a hair mesh on your avatar, the - by far - dominant kind of hair today is prim hair, i.e. hair made out of an assemblage of prims. The reasons for that are that prims allow for a much wider variety of hairstyles, and the original hair mesh didn't look very ...
category Tutorials

How to use IRC for OpenSim

by V | 0 » | Jan18 11
IRC is short for Internet Relay Chat. Basically, it is a chat service that runs on the internet, which brings us to something completely different... THE INTERNET (Dramatic Orchestra Theme, like this ((Come Back To You by Silece Is Sexy, licensed under Creative Commons)) ) The Internet is vast and infinite, and we are mere grains of dust in its endless wastes... ... Sorry, I ...
category Tutorials

How to use the OpenSim tree module to grow trees

by V | 3 » | Jan2 11
One of the lesser known capabilities of the OpenSim software is the ability to let it manage plant growth. And while the way to do it is rather complicated, the results are quite worth the effort. To start, take a look at your opensim.ini. In it, you can find a short section called [Trees], which only contains two settings: active_trees and tree_density. ...
category Deutsch, Tutorials

Einen Tisch machen – eine Einführung ins Bauen

by V | 0 » | Dec28 10
(english version) Dieses Tutorial möchte eine sehr grundlegende Einführung ins Bauen geben, und wir beginnen, indem wir einen Tisch machen. Der Tisch, jedoch, ist nicht das Ziel dieses Artikels; er dient vielmehr als Beispiel, um die verschiedenen Aspekte des Bauens zu besprechen. Alles in OpenSim ist aus Prims gemacht, die einzigen Ausnahmen sind das Terrain, der Avatar (wenngleich Prims an diesen angehängt ...
category Tutorials

Making a table – a beginner’s guide to building

by V | 0 » | Dec22 10
making a table (please also see the instructions about TGIB tutorials) (Deutsche Version) This tutorial wants to give a very basic introduction to building, and we will start by making a table. The table, however, is not the point of this article; rather it serves as an example to discuss various aspects of building. Everything in OpenSim is made of prims, with ...
category Tutorials

About TGIB tutorials

by V | 1 » | Dec21 10
The tutorials on this site are provided as text and an audio mp3 file of the text read by the author. The reasoning behind this is that I find video tutorials rather impractical, even though they seem useful at first glance. However, they're not searchable, and it's neccessary to sit through them until the end. You can't parse them at ...