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Jyn

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This dress is a group gift from Salt & Pepper.  It’s a little too reminiscent of the “camisk” style dress for my taste, but I can’t help showing it to you because of the fantastic texturing job.

There are fits for Lara, Lara Petite, Reborn, Reborn Juicy, Reborn Waifu, Gen X Classic, Classic Squishy, Dainty, and Dainty Squishy.

The HUD lets you chose from one of twelve colors, but where it gets exciting is the material picks, where you can chose from no shine, normal, or holo.  The holo “shine” texture (the specular texture, to be technical), I’m guessing is the same texture as the pattern I’m wearing in the photos.  As you move, various color reflections are highlighted, giving the dress a wonderful look.

Salt and Pepper is quite expensive to join at L$300, but they occasionally have free join weekends (which is how you’re truly got into the group) so it’s worth keeping an eye open.  The store carries past group gifts, so if you do get into the group, this will be waiting for you!

Soko

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I haven’t posted for a while, a lot of the free content I’m seeing recently I’m going “blah” at.  But!  This outfit deserves a post, can you guess what caught my eye?

The sandals of course, with their quirky heels and high laceups!  I’m generally a fan of flat soles, I mean, walking in platforms is a pain, but at least in SL we don’t have to worry about losing our balance.

The sandals come with fits for Maitreya, Physique, and Hourglass and have an eleven color HUD that matches the dress colors.

The dress also fits Lara, Physique, and Hourglass.  The colors are muted rather than bold, which gives me a chance to wear red.

The outfit is a group gift for members of the Paparazzi group, which is FREE to join.

Save the Sea

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This dress is a L$3 hunt prize on the Save the Sea Hunt 4.  The hunt runs until the end of the month, so you have plenty of time!

The dress is sized to fit Lara, Lara Petite, Legacy, Freya, Altamura, Hourglass, and Erika.  It comes with a ten texture HUD, with of course some sea themed patterns, a few florals, and a plain red.

  • Dress: Veronica by Telsiope’s Coture
  • Body: Lara and Lara Petite add-on by Maitreya
  • Face: Jennifer by GA.EG
  • Hands: Slink
  • Hair: Ruda2 by Monso

Second Life is not for everyone

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Do I want to post this?  I sort of can’t resist because sometimes people make you laugh, and not because they’re funny.

Generally at night my time, when I’m getting dinner and relaxing before bed, I’ll log in to SL.  Most of my SL friends are scattered all around the world and it’s unusual for me to find someone I know online at night, so I’ll run to a social place and plonk on a sit and hope for some casual conversation with someone interesting.  But this is SL, and there are some really strange people…

Tonight, a girl IM’d me and complemented me on my looks, and as she was looking fine too, I returned the complement and made a casual joke about tattoo removal being easy in SL.  To each their own however, if you love your tattoos, knock yourself out.

It turns out that this girl had some serious issues, as she’s apparently Maori (although her avi was as white as mine) and took offense when I mentioned her tatts.  Apparently, she dislikes the English (to put it mildly), with one of her picks literally saying “f*ck off back to England”.

The funniest thing was she’d apparently looked in my picks too, and noticed Eden, and ended the conversation by calling it “the most cliquey girls club in SL” before bailing out of the region.  Trying to hand her an apostrophe, I discovered she’d blocked me, with a vulgarly worded block message.  Perhaps she should have read my pick about being the tech girl for Eden… as I log every visitor, and she’d never even been to the club.

As each of her picks ended with “SL = Shit Life”, I wonder what she gets out of Second Life at all…

Angelina

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Here’s a FREE group gift for members of Havoc.  The Havoc group is FREE to join.

The bodysuit and thong are separates and both are sized to fit Lara, Legacy, Reborn, Kupra, Freya, and Hourglass.

The lace detailing is very pretty, but you’re a bit exposed unless you choose to wear a long hair such as I’m doing here, or add something else (just remember, it will need to be something without alpha).

  • Bodysuit and thong: Angelina by Havoc
  • Body: Lara by Maitreya
  • Face: Jennifer by GA.EG
  • Hands and feet: Slink
  • Shoes: Wintey sandals by Karla Boutique (marketplace link, item unavailable)
  • Hair: Stone Cold Seduction by Exile
  • Necklace: Bellisssima Necklace – Diamond by Earthstones

Note, I’m unsure of how long this gift has been available as Havoc has the habit of changing out gifts on weekends, so grab it ASAP!

Two events

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I’ve been away for a while, recharging a bit after the hectic sprint to finish the big work project, so no posts for far too long.  Let’s make up for it with FREE outfits from two events, via Chic at Phil’s Place.

I grabbed this top and panty outfit mostly for the fantastic tied bracelets.  The top, panties, arm bands, and bracelets are all separate pieces, and each piece is rigged for Lara, Legacy, and Reborn.  It should be available up until the 5th of August as a FREE group gift at the Cosmopolitan Event!

And the next outfit is FREE at the Sense Event.  This event closed on the 28th of July, but if you’re really quick, the vendor for this outfit is still there and functioning (I picked this up no more than an hour prior to publishing this post).

Unlike the other outfit, this outfit is all one piece, so no mix and match 🙂  It’s sized to fit Lara, Freya, Isis, Hourglass, and Legacy.

Avery top

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Hello sweets, my apologies for the gap in posts, I’ve been working hard in RL on the final part of my huge work project that’s consumed a lot of my time and energy over the last three years!  But it’s nearly finished!

I ran out this morning to look for something to show you, and I came across this past group gift top from Vagrant.  Their group is FREE to join!

The top is sized to fit Lara, Lara Petite, Legacy, and Freya.  While my photos don’t show it up well, it’s materials enabled, specifically it has a normal map on it.  This may or may not be to your taste, and how much it shows up depends on what lighting you see it in.  But you have nothing to lose… we love free gifts!

Joanna

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I have a line in my profile that offers help with clothes and appearance to girls new to Second Life.  One of the reasons I can do this is this blog; I know where all the freebies are!  And the second is Scandalize.

You can pick up the Ruth2 body for FREE, which is similar enough to Lara so that most clothes made for Lara will fit, then head directly to the 200+ group gifts available at Scandalize for an instant quality wardrobe.  It used to be L$20 to join the appropriate Scandalize group you needed to pick up these gifts, but apparently that’s now changed and one of their FREE groups will get you all the gifties!

Here’s one of the gifts available.

This dress is so cute with its tattered neck and hemlines.  The dress is separate from the belt and both pieces come with their own HUDs to choose from a myriad of plains and patterns.  Fits include Lara, Legacy, Isis, Freya, and Hourglass.

Olga

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This may be a first for me: criticism of an outfit from a favorite creator…

Glitzz is running an in-store “Welcome Summer” hunt.  Prizes are easy to find, as they each cost L$25.  There are twenty five of them to chose from.  The hunt runs until June 12th.

I selected an outfit from the hunt poster, a ruffled bikini in dark green and tropical highlights, knowing it would suit my hair color.  I was very happy when I tried it on…

…until I started running through poses looking for one to show you the back of the outfit…

…and experienced significant clipping in nothing more than moderate poses, so much so that I doubted the bikini bottoms had been rigged at all.  The photo below is a very ordinary stand.  In more extreme poses, the entire ruffle is buried.

Usually I’ll call out clipping if I notice it in extreme poses but then I’ll walk around in the outfit to see if day-to-day wear is going to cause the outfit to clip.  I also have a pretty wild dance that I use to test clipping.  If it doesn’t clip on this dance, I can be pretty confident that nothing else will make it clip.  But this bikini bottom failed that test too.

I don’t know if I was unlucky enough to select the only outfit that has an issue, but I’m really glad I didn’t outlay L$625 to buy all the outfits on the hunt.

Updated Wind Sculpt

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I’ve been fiddling around with Linden Scripting Language for over nine years now.  It’s an interesting, quirky language, with a huge number of functions in its library (nearly 500).  While I think I know it pretty well, language and library features can always surprise even the most experienced coder.

A week or so ago, I found myself in the position of wanting to be able to rez and derez 64 linked objects.  Previously, I’ve done this by putting a script in the objects to be deleted that listened to the master script and then deleted themselves when told. But…

64 scripts, even though they were very small (about 5 lines of code and less than 6K of memory each), nearly doubled the land impact of my 65 piece object!  There had to be a better way.  And there is.

There are two functions called llSetRemoteScriptAccessPin() and llRemoteLoadScriptPin() that will allow you to load a script to an object on demand and set it to running.  I won’t give you an example here, you can see some at the links to the functions.  All this is leading up to the fact that I have an existing product on MP that also does rez and derez of multiple linked objects, and uses the old method.  Can we use these functions to drop its land impact?  No prize for a correct guess!

This is the BF Wind Sculpt, a kinetic wind sculpture based on Anthony Howe’s Di-Octo.  It rezzes and derezzes its vanes on demand.  With the old system with a script in each vane listening to the support to say “delete yourself”, the object weighs in at 13 LI.  Using the new method, it comes in at 10.  Yay!  If you own a copy, you should now have version V1.3.