Oh my, why oh why do I see three year old and older avatars that still look like they created their account yesterday? I know it must be laziness or perhaps lack of computer skills, but getting a good looking avatar is pretty simple! Here, I’ll not only give you a step by step, I’ll […]
How To
How to do things
Getting started
Do you know we have an article to help newcomers get started in Second Life? Well, we do! It was this blog’s first published post. Even though that’s quite some time ago, we still try and keep the article updated when things change. To that end, I’ve just reviewed and made some minor revisions to […]
Physics lesson
Warning, topless shots below the fold. Let’s talk boobs. I see a lot of female avatars getting it sooo wrong in SL. In RL, we don’t have to worry, we have built-in shapes and physics, and our cleavage is controlled by the clothes we wear, not a texture, so we don’t usually have to think […]
Land settings
Woohoo! You’ve bought yourself some land, or rented a nice parcel with full control on a private sim! These are the minimal settings I’d recommend you tweak so you get the best experience on your new living or working quarters. In Firestorm, you can just click the little “Land” button in the top navigation bar […]
Jennifer
Or “How I got my shape right for my new Bento head” 🙂 I’ve been watching the revolution in Bento with keen interest. Slink and Maitreya Bento enabled hands are fantastic (I have both), and some of the wings available? Oh my! Ever since Bento was released and offered us the opportunity to shape a […]
Open Collar
I put up a post a couple of days ago that linked to The Temple of the Collar. Someone asked me if I used RLV because of the link, and yes, both Aeon and I use the Open Collar scripts, but not in the necklace I was wearing. Rather, I took the script set and […]
Lighting
I mentioned in a previous post that I love playing with lights for photography in SL. I use projector lights nearly exclusively, and in combination with the Windlight settings and the Advanced Lighting Model and a good graphics card, you can get some stunning effects. I’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s possible, but I […]
Most of this is free
I was talking to someone today about this blog, and they said they loved it, and that Aeon and I are doing a wonderful job, but then they asked me from out of left field “How do you afford all the outfits?” After getting over my surprise, I told them that most of the outfits […]
It’s a kind of magic
Solas from Blue Moon Enterprises offers a beautiful set of robes (for men and for women) with a wizard’s hat for the Medieval Fantasy Hunt XV! Blue Moon Enterprises – Wizard’s Robe and Hat Dressed by Lexi – Magical Midnight necklace *N@N@* – Night earrings Baby Monkey – Brooke Leather Boot The hunt start is here, and there there is a Medieval […]
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 […]