I just picked up this beautiful silver rose bracelet from Marianela’s Art in Fashion at the Zuri Fall Hunt for L$10. What a wonderfully detailed piece.
Author: blue
LotD – What I wore for our anniversary party
We celebrated our first wedding anniversary last weekend, and our wonderful sisters at Eden put on a lovely party for us today! A special thanks to our great friend Dana for DJing the event!
I thought I would let you know what I was wearing for a lovely few hours dancing with Aeon and all our guests. The beautiful champagne colored dress is from Azul, who makes just the most amazing clothes. My jewelry is from Beloved, one of my favorite designers in SL. And hair is A&A, also a fav.
In the second picture, Aeon and I are wearing matching bracelets from JCNY and our ring, which was designed and made by my beautiful Aeon!
- Dress: Champagne cocktail dress by Azul, free group gift January 2015
- Hair: Alli & Ali Tilly Fire
- Shoes: My Rezz Day heels by Hilly Haalan
- Jewelry: Beloved hunt items and JCNY matching bracelets
- Skin: Lumae Adore Peach Bare
- Hands and feet: Slink Casual hands and Slink High feet
- Nails: Slink basic (Aeon) and Deep Sea #8 by MumuHime Clothing (Blue)
- Makeup: Carrie’s Lingerie Kitten full Butter
Blue’s Fantasy Sound in Flight
When I first started exploring SL, I quickly noticed how fixed in place a lot of ambient sounds were. This sounded very unnatural to me, especially with bird sound. It’s bad enough that most sim owners use the same set of eight or so full perm audio clips, let alone that the birds don’t move anywhere!
I started thinking about a script to move bird sounds around the sim dynamically, and after a while, a script I call Blue’s Fantasy Sound in Flight was born. Little did I know it was to be my nemesis for over a month while I struggled with understanding how to rez and keep track of multiple objects in LSL.
The system automatically maps the parcel that it is running on, even if the parcel is spread out over the sim in non-adjoining sections, and then moves a specific number of sound sources around. You can even support multiple heights with the one script, so if you have a skybox at 2000 metres, you can use the object containing the script you rezzed at ground level to play ambient sounds there too!
The script uses temp rez objects, so only the bird box itself impacts your prim count for only 1 LI.
The script will work right out of the box, or you can modify the example notecards to customize where the sounds are played.
I modeled the bird box that contains the script to fit a Grizzly Creek Cut-Throat Finch, a great little freebie!
Every parcel owner needs one of these 🙂
LoTD – Before Summer Ends
We all know it’s endless summer in SL if we want it to be. Aeon and I like to follow the seasons, and so, before summer ends, here is a quick LotD snapshot in my favorite bikini.
- Bikini: Osito Skimpy Bikini Aloha
- Hair: Alli & Ali Beachy #7
- Skin: Lumae Adore Peach Bare
- Hands; Slink Casual
- Jewelry: Jamine’s Bi-Sexual necklace in gold, available in-world at Sacred Yoni (warning, adult content)
Tutorial – Making simple stockings
This is a quick lesson on how to make high stockings with one simple texture upload.
First, let’s create a texture. I needed black stockings for my outfit so we will create a 256×256 pixel transparent image in The Gimp and bucket fill it with black at 40% opacity:
Save this as a PNG file and then pay L$10 to upload it into Second Life.
In an appropriately named folder in your Second Life Inventory, create a new set of pants by right clicking in the folder, and selecting “New Clothes” and then “New Pants”. A system layer pants object will appear which you can rename “Stockings”, and then wear.
Once you are wearing the pants, you need edit them by right clicking them in your inventory and selecting “Edit”, then click on the “Fabric” window, and add the texture we created above, save, and you are done…
Unless you are wearing Slink High feet like me, in which case you can use the same texture in Slink’s Personal Applier HUD to texture your feet correctly.
Blue’s Fantasy Telescope
One of the first mesh models I made in Blender was a telescope. I’d previously made a telescope of similar design out of 100% prims, which made for a very expensive object in terms of land impact. I think it was 33 or 34 prims! The mesh one is lots better at 8 LI for the telescope and 1 for the ladder.
The original idea for the telescope was to have an avatar sit on the ladder and their camera POV would be forced to focus on the eyepiece of the telescope, which would then show images of the stars that the owner could load into the telescope. That’s where we are right now, and that the new model is available for purchase on the market place.
As I’ve learned some more capabilities of the system, and done some research on what is available via the internet, an exciting new possibility has presented itself: allow the avatar to jog the telescope across the “sky” via a HUD. The HUD will interact with a completely rewritten eyepiece, which will also allow recentering the image by touching the eyepiece, and adjusting the magnification the image is presented at.
Currently we have this:
With a little luck, shortly we’ll have this:
UPDATE: The new model is now available! See the demo video on the right side of the page!
LotD – Little Black Dress
You better have a little black dress in your wardrobe! But what to do when the weather is chilly? Add a coat and stockings of course!
This outfit was inspired by a real life friend who wore it on her birthday night which of course was in the middle of winter.
- Coat: {Tutu} Overcoat – Charcoal Herringbone
- Hair: Alli & Ali Designs – Jeanelle Hair 7
- Shoes: Maze by Like Design
- Feet: Slink High
- Skin: Lumae Adore Peach Bare
And I struggled to find high stockings so I had to make them! I’ll write up a lesson on how to do this shortly 🙂