When they were announced and the first demonstration specimen were shown, they were the big hope. When they got available they led to frustration and were a big disappointment. Meanwhile a lot has been done and they seem to be even more amazing and more worthwhile than when first shown off. The talk is about the ↑sculpted prims (“sculpties”) for “↑Second Life“ (SL). I will go into details when it is time for making shoes, collar, and tie ↵for Fantomas, but now I just can not withhold what I glanced upon during the last days.  Sculpties are a way … Continue reading →

advanced second life avatar customization  This is a kind of follow-up to ↵second life creation, dealing a bit more in-depth with customizing avatars for “↑Second Life“ (SL). Basically there are four dimensions of manipulating the avatar’s visual appearance: shape, skin & clothes, attachments, and animations. In order to realize a complex vision of a custom avatar you have to tinker within all four dimensions. Here is an extreme example, one of Detect Surface’s masterpieces, the “Cyver:Refract”—available for purchase at (SLurl:) ↑D&D Creative Labs in the (SLurl:) ↑City of Abaddon:  looks by animation    The complete avatar is covered with attachments … Continue reading →