At about 5:55 PM or so last night, 3 new sims got rezzed next to sLiterary to form this 4-sim cluster.
There’s yet another OpenSim/SL-esque contender that appears to allow the direct import of 3d meshes. No more fuddling with sculpties?
I’m working overtime getting way too obsessed prim-efficient-izing the Globe, and also retexturing the interior. It now looks a lot more grunge than it was before. I might even retexture the outside later. The plan really should have been rez, move, voila, Globe on 4 sims. But… you know me ;-P
Category: Builds, Daily Sumly
Written by ina on Sunday, 17 of February , 2008 at 7:55 pm
Tags: nepotism
Nepotism used to really piss me off, and it still does. But I have come to realize that I am basically the one who is most at fault in that regards. I have always had the best friend syndrome, where I fall in love with someone and then trust them completely and totally… and I suspend all doubts despite statistics and glaring evidence to the contrary…
I am not one to prefer being ruled by statistics. But, I have often neglected facts, bestowing the benefit of the doubt by default. I am not sure whether it’s total trust in the person or just me unwilling to believe otherwise.
Nepotism is basically when one suspends facts for belief and favor one person over another when both should have been judged from equal criteria. The cases that truly disgust me are where it’s negative nepotism, where person A likes person B, who hates person C… and thus takes person B’s words completely about person C regardless of facts — well, or just taking the lightest of facts as strong proof for person B’s words.
But anyway, the point is… I am a nepotist…
Category: Reflections
So, in traditional 3d programs, you have the ability to group entire objects no matter how big or how many “prims.” You don’t have that freedom on SL, due to limitation in link distances and also max prims per linked object.
But, it’s relatively easy to “select only my objects” and drag a bounding box around the building you want to move. But, in a citysim setting with buildings sardine-squeezed next to each other, precision selection might be a pain.
Enter one other use of my SLregapi. Use it to register an Ina alt per building/sector, so that if I ever have to move it, all I’d have to do is log into that alt and drag a bounding box to “select only my objects.”
The other day I contacted Concierge about whether the TOS max avatar count applied to RegAPI accounts. The reply I got stated that TOS doesn’t cover RegAPI yet.
So, here are the accounts used to rez the parts of my upcoming city sim build:
- Ina Gears (roads)
- Ina Looming (basement stuff)
- Ina Caudron (Blue District, except for SLface)
- Ina Hotshot (Red District, main entrance)
- Ina Westland (Red District Round Building)
- Ina Siemans (Red District hotels & resorts)
- Ina Hereter (Red District Skin City Art Museum)
- Ina Nestler (Red District WTC tall)
- Ina Clawtooth (Red District mass generica)
- Ina Major (the heavens)
- Ina Cliffhanger (The Sky Globe globe thingies and also empire state bottom foundations)
- Ina Ireland (Sky Globe Main)
Category: API, Amusing, Builds, Projects, Tutorials
Category: Projects
Written by ina on Wednesday, 13 of February , 2008 at 4:39 am
I haven’t really created a sim-sized building from scratch and my imagination for… a long time. Here, out of the blue is Primtings, which is currently being constructed in Sandbox Sex… and would be moved over to its own sim whenever Primtings sim is processed.
What is Primtings, you ask? Primtings is a primmed paintings gallery dedicated to the interactive exploration of famous paintings and artwork brought to virtual life via 3d prims and other techniques.
Here are more early “under construction” photos, including one with the infamous WIP sign, and also a view of the Sex Gallery below.
Category: Builds, Projects
Written by ina on Monday, 11 of February , 2008 at 1:15 am
Tags: hamlet, nunnery, ophelia
If Hamlet were to say, “Get thee to a nunnery” *today* to Ophelia… she might try googling it up only to find the complete dearth of info on the process. In this day and age, when one can almost always find a “step-by-step how to” or “dummy’s guide” to practically everything, with searches like “joining the army”, “joining the zombies” or “joining the __,” how interesting is it to chance upon a search with no pre-existing guides. One wonders… is this truly the path less taken? The googling turns up a page on TSUM and a number on Kidman’s possible Australian nunnery, which accepts married women.
TSUM describes a monastery in Tibet that until recent times were below minimum living standards, unable to properly shelter and feed its monks and nuns until recently, when some donation spiel started. Apparently, most of the nuns came from situations prone to domestic violence, and thus the path to Dharma is advertised as the better path.
A search for “Australian nunnery” yields more results on Kidman’s potential joining the nunnery, and also a Nunnery Hotel whose rates come with free food. Apparently, monastery hotels are now the rage according to CNN. But, hotels are brief escapades. What of longer stays — say, lifelong ones?
Searching for “how to join a nunnery” yields results about how Bhutan didn’t used to have nunneries, but now has 13. There’s also this other girl’s blog about her preference for cloistered life.
One wonders if it’s just a googlian conspiracy for the peculiar lack of guidance on joining a nunnery. The other yields this as the first link for a search on “joining a nunnery.” And again, you get the idea that nunneries are badly kept places, where the nuns all starve. :-X And yet, another yields this as one of the top results.
Tibetan nuns seem like wonderful people, and they know these finger tricks.
In conclusion, I’d say that a modern Ophelia would be thoroughly confused at finding out *how* to join a nunnery. NASA may even have to issue out another RFI.
Category: Amusing, Projects, Reflections, Reviews
Written by ina on Sunday, 10 of February , 2008 at 4:50 pm
Tags: tagged
A looong while ago (last year, actually!) Cyanide and Dedric tagged me. Here is my tagback.
1 I’m not an actual blonde in RL :-O
2 I love classical music
3 I got a pcgamerbike even though I’m more often underweight in RL than overweight >.<
4 I love SL!
5 I love black olives
6 I would love to be an artist 24/7, but life, ego, and reality, wouldn’t let me.
7 I love GuitarHero!
8 I played the piano, the viola and violin, and xylophones and drums and GuitarHero!
(Alphabetical order)
1 AM
2 Codebastard
3 Dahlia
4 Edgware
5 In
6 Qarl
7 Shenlei
8 Spin
Dedric
I tagged you from http://dedricmauriac.wordpress.com/
I got tagged and it’s my turn to post eight random things about myself to my blog and then tag eight people whom I would like to know more about.
1 I don’t have blue hair in RL
2 I like down-tempo trip-hop music
3 I have had 3 ablation procedures on my heart
4 I am hapily married
5 I love black olives
6 I don’t have $1 million
7 I love my grandmother
8 I played the trumpet and piano
Don’t blame me. Blame <a href=”http://stellacostello.net/2007/12/08/meme-metoo/”>Stella Costello</a> for tagging me. My 8 are:
aEoLuS Waves - http://drainwaves.com/
Crap Mariner - http://secondlife.isfullofcrap.com/
Cylindrian Rutabaga - http://cylindrian.wordpress.com/
DrFran Babcock - http://drfranbabcock.wordpress.com/
ELLiebob Bean - http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/Default.aspx?name=ELLiebob%20Bean
Gomem Desoto - http://gotodesoto.com/
Ina Centaur - http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/Default.aspx?name=Ina%20Centaur
Torley Linden - http://torley.com/
Now it is your turn! Go forth and blog/vlog/podcast …
Cyanide
TAG–You’re It!
I was tagged for the “8 Random Things” game and had to post 8 random things about myself on my blog (http://cyanideseelowe.wordpress.com/). (I guess you could do a notecard if you didn’t have a blog, or post inside your profile too.)
I’ve fulfilled my end of the bargain and now it’s your turn…
I’m counting on you!
1. Rezago
2. Madcow
3. Morris
4. Ina
5. DanteOsaka
6. Dreamingen
7. Felix
8. Jordan
When you are done, you get to tag 8 more people of your choice.
Category: Amusing, Uncategorized
Written by ina on Friday, 8 of February , 2008 at 5:01 pm
Tags: 3d, antics, machinima, pre-viz, software
Antics is to fall in love with — both as a previz tool and as a rough blocking tool and as one of the most easy to learn and customize machinima-making tool so far (they allow for direct import in .3ds format). (Also, I can totally imagine bringing in the renders into AfterEffects to convert to cartoon-ish form to make production quality cartoons!). I especially love the camera shots and transitions, the intuitive keyframing and smart camera sync’s, although their zoom/navigation system is a bit confusing — and lack of custom shortcuts is almost as painful as building in SL. Their basic build system is SketchUp-esque (well, sans push-pull - you have to click the wall button to add walls), but it’s intuitive to block out a 2d floor plan and then to click add walls. Like other OpenGL programs, their textures are limited to base 2’s. Interestingly, the system is powered by a command line system (such as “go to chair”) with more-or-less obvious theatre syntax.
They’re kind enough to offer a free unlimited version (it just lacks premium content). And they happen to be running a medical competition when I chanced to find them, so here’s my entry–basically the first thing I made in Antics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH-ohpjzEUc
Category: Reviews, machinima
Written by ina on Thursday, 7 of February , 2008 at 7:05 am
Tags: captcha, french, mandarin, voice
It’s kinda fun voicing out the numbers in Mandarin Chinese and French, donating my voice to the blind who encounter captcha’s 
http://www.captcha.net/audio-record.html
Category: Amusing
Written by ina on Tuesday, 5 of February , 2008 at 7:18 pm
Tags: clalive, exhibit, museum, the tech, thetech
I guess I just found this TechVirtual project at the right time. I guess I get to tap into this component of my dark past. Hey, and look I passed their word challenge on first try! ;-P
Category: Projects
