Moments

Back in 2016, I faked a mirror in SL with photographic post processing trickery.  It didn’t look that great, but at the time, there were no real mirrors in any virtual world (or any video game) as far as I knew.  Now SL has real time, dynamic mirrors!

Currently, mirrors are only supported in the official SL viewer, however, as I compile Firestorm for myself, and the “Materials Featurette” release was just merged into Firestorm’s source code repository, here’s a first look from the upcoming Firestorm!

As you can see, while impressive (it’s even more impressive when you see it update in real time!), it’s still not perfect.  There are obvious “bevel” effects around the edges.  Before I blame FS/SL for this too much, I must note that this is the first mirror I’ve created and I understand that there might be some level of fiddling with the reflection probe to get it to look just right.

But never mind the imperfections, it’s here, and it’s amazing 🙂

Update: Resizing the reflection probe eliminated the bevel effect.

So yes, play around with these to get the hang of them.  Also do realize that mirrors are expensive in terms of performance.  I run frame limited at 75 FPS (which I hit all the time in the upcoming FS) and switching Mirror Resolution to 2048 in graphics preferences dropped my framerate to 17 FPS.

It’s my 10th rezday today, and as I’ve done for the last couple of years. here are the stats 🙂

I had planned to do all 24 days of the Advent calendars I told you about… Unfortunately my PC didn’t get the message and decided to have a major software conniption on Friday.  I’ve just spent the entire weekend reinstalling the operating system and restoring from backup.  This was not only frustrating because I couldn’t get to SL to get the calendar gifties, but the weekend happened to be one of the nicest we’ve seen for a while weather-wise, and I was stuck inside 🙁

I’ve always been a redhead.  I am in real life (although not as outrageously red as I’ve been in SL) and I’ve always been one in SL except for when I was only a few days old.  Oh, and of course I’ve dyed my hair for fashion shoots 🙂

In the first life tab of my profile, I have a photo captioned “Blondes get noticed but redheads are remembered” and the outfit is this logo t-shirt.

Having noticed this, Donia, a friend of mine, decided that I needed the logo on a top in-world, so she made one for me.  Big hugs thanks to her!  As far as I know, Donia doesn’t sell her outfits, so no outfit details today, just a little tribute to friendship and generosity <3

That’s right, since September 25th 2015 when we put up Aeon’s article Getting started in Second Life that began its history as a notecard to hand to new girls at Eden, right up to this post number 1500!  We may have been slow some days getting a post up, and other days we’ve doubled up on posts as one of us got the scheduling wrong, but we’re pretty proud of the fact that here we are nearly four years after the start of the blog, and we haven’t missed a day!

So, happy 1500th post to us!  I picked out some of my favorite photos looking back at all the ones we’ve done.  I hope this takes you on a little journey back through time, just like it did me when I put it together.

All the best to you and yours for this wonderful time of year.  No matter how you celebrate, no matter where you are, we hope you have a wonderful time, and the new year brings all the joy, happiness, peace and love you could wish for!

Aeon, Blue, and Jaz