Fair Use & Copyright for Second Life

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The idea of Fair Use is something that creates considerable confusion for those trying to figure out what Copyright Law allows. At the Justitia Legal Resource Village there is going to be discussion and I suppose people explaining  Copyright and Fair Use.

The meeting will be at 10:00AM PST/SLT Saturday morning. Add it to your calendar.

Thanks to: Insert Funny Name Here.

Blender Cookie Tutorial: Composition

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I found the new tutorial interesting because it is more about photographic composition than about using Blender. That means whether you are into Blender, virtual world photography, or Machinima you’ll probably find some handy ideas for composing your images.

Part 1 of 4 is here: 28 min

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The full series is here: Improving Blender Renders with Photography Techniques. They are free.

Various viewers make it easier to get to the viewer’s camera settings. In the SL Viewer most of the settings are in the SL Viewer Debug Settings. Third party viewers often have a photographer’s panel that exposes all the camera settings in an easy to access way.

Somato

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Inara has an article up on Yuzura Jewell’s Somato… a program that simplifies texture baking. The idea is to project an image you have onto a 3D shape. Then bake in shadows.

Somato
Somato

Yuzuru asked I check out the program. I’ve been spending my time on other things and just haven’t gotten to it. But, I want to let you know Yuzuru has Somato out. So, check out Inara’s article: Somato: create textures and shadows for sculpts and mesh.

Learn more and download page for Somato.

New Second Life Zipper Project Viewer

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The Lindens have announced a faster installing viewer: Project Zipper Viewer. See the SL Blog announcement: Try Project Zipper for Faster Viewer Installation.

The download is: Project Zipper Viewer version 3.7.2.286810.

I am expecting a surprise to arrive any day. This release would seem to be part of the infrastructure change needed. It might also indicate why the surprise’s arrival is taking longer than expected.

I’ll test the new install process if I can fin d the time. But, there are a number of things to play with just now. Plus there is some real life work intruding on my play time.