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Strawberry Meme & Liquid Mesh

2013/11/202013/08/16 by Nalates Urriah

I read the memes that Strawberry comes up with each Monday. I’ve never taken the time to do one. The post Strawberry wrote to start this week’s meme is one of the better articles on Liquid Mesh. Her position is intelligent and rational. I decided to provide more of the background on my thinking about Liquid Mesh. Rereading my articles I think I the last one was overly negative. See: Inventory Meme & Liquid Mesh.

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And consider.

Liquid Mesh items are being sold across the grid. Not all are labeled Liquid Mesh, but the advertising term is gaining popularity. As word of the possible destruction of Liquid Mesh spreads we may see more items sold under other promotional names. All will convey the idea that a mesh item can be changed to fit your shape. There is no official Linden supported way to do that that supports a change when the Leg Muscles setting in the Appearance editor is changed.

World Makers Episode 9: Elie Spot

2013/08/16 by Nalates Urriah

Drax has a new video out today. Yay! This is an interview with Elie Spot (SL) aka Tiffany Mitchell (RL) one of the creative types behind Mon Tissu. The store is in Mayfield, one of the early mesh build regions in SL. [youtube Y89KjbBwMBA]

Second Life Avatar UVMaps Quirks

2013/08/15 by Nalates Urriah

When the current avatar was made the Lindens were optimizing for performance. This meant they took some crafty shortcuts to save download and CPU time. One of those crafty design features creates some strange behavior with the Second Life™ avatar’s UVMap and how the viewer handles it. Gaia Clary of Machinimatrix.org has figured out what … Read more

Second Life Boobie Bounce Revisited

2013/07/08 by Nalates Urriah

In my intermittent travels I came across this funny but informative video on making your own physics layer to control boobie bounce. Made by IsolteEmber the video is a funny look at adjusting bounce and how the controls work. Be warned she rambles a bit, but even that is kinda funny. [youtube 4pjY_QAjYFY]

Second Life Quick Standard Size Modeling

2013/06/30 by Nalates Urriah

I came across Sidden Munro’s video on her work flow for making the various standard sizes. Her process save slots of work. This is a 9 minute video that will save you huge amounts of time making standard sized clothes. [youtube Nuubb5C64Ck] Starting at the 07:00 minute mark she starts showing how to export the … Read more

Matching Skin Color – Second Life

2020/07/052013/06/24 by Nalates Urriah

This tutorial is intended for those people using RedPoly kits. But, anyone can learn some basic ideas on how to match skin color. Like starting with changing Windlight to eliminate extraneous color and shadows. (7:40 min)

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I usually run my viewers on DEFAULT Windlight or local region settings. So, I haven’t needed to change my Windlight for some time. I had forgotten how few Windlight settings come with the new viewers: 36. The CalWL setting was not in my current viewer.