June 2007
52 posts
Chip Poutine: LL trees are such a pain. i want to select by drawing a box around them, or at least be able to toggle that capability. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: successfully moved a 2200 prim build (between two sims). sweating less now. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Cadroe Murphy's BezierLathe →
Takes the originial BezierGen concept and creates enclosed volumes by rotating copies around an axis.
Chip Poutine: turning off the twitterbox. getting ready to present. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: Prepping for Saturday presentation for Design Museum London as part of the Design Museum@Second Life Series and RIBA Architecture Week. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: Great session on Wikitecture with Keystone Bouchard. Now back to the build. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
“Architecture is a form of thought and thought occurs through pictures that we...”
– Kate Allen (aka Fraser Fonda)
Chip Poutine: made it through a texture-sourcing dirge. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Cool Builds Updated
The Office – Home of LOL Architects, a studio program at the Royal Technical Institute of Technology Stockholm. RMIT Island – Site of student work from the RMIT School of Architecture and Design.(via SL Foundations - Full Content)
Resources Updated
Rokoru – An easy to use lathe tool for creating sculpted prims. Terrain Editing Tools – Emma Nowhere discusses invaluable tools such as Backhoe, Bailiwick, and more. (via SL Foundations - Full Content)
Quick Tips Updated
When moving more than one prim, the positioning axis appear in the spatial center of all the prims. Sometimes that isn’t where you want it, especially if you are zoomed up trying to make very small position adjustments. Add temporary prims to change the position of the axis to a more useful location, and delete them when you’re done. (via SL Foundations - Full Content)
Videos Updated
Eric Linden’s Intro to Textures: SL Video Tutorial Series (via SL Foundations - Full Content)
Chip Poutine: just saw my first green jello avatar. fruity. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Gathering Refuge
In addition to the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm’s LOL Architects utilizing Second Life as a tool for architectural education (previously mentioned here and here), this post at Sharon B’s Mindtracks reports at least one more university utilizing the metaverse to teach design and problem-solving skills, namely the School of Architecture and Design at Australia’s RMIT...
Chip Poutine: Reading “Virtual Suburbia: Gathering Refuge” (http://tinyurl.com/yujyr4) (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: signing out. new blog post is almost ready to go, but want to look at it with fresh eyes in the morning - (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: out to buy clamps and carpenters’ glue. don’t ask. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: disappearing prims. <strike>bedtime</strike> wishful thinking. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: figuring out where to meet for lunch tomorrow (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Autodesk Acquires Navisworks →
Autodesk announces the acquistion of UK-based NavisWorks, whose product offering includes Roamer, a real-time 3D walkthrough technology. While it is unclear whether the technology provides networked collaboration, this can only fuel rumors that Autodesk is opting for their own brand of metaverse. The main success of their presence in Second Life is that they took steps to leave the walled garden...
New World Notes: SITE SEEING, PART I →
Welcome NWN readers :D
Chip Poutine: the boy is here. an amazing day. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: off to the hospital again - contractions coming on like a freight train :) (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
More of Chip Midnight's work →
…with sculpted prims (via Bloghud)
Korova Milk Bar
Speaking strictly from personal observation, the residents of Second Life have spent considerable energy creating spaces inspired by literary reference. Some are based on specific authors and works such as John Norman’s Chronicles of Gor, others are simply evocative nods to science fiction and fantasy novels that lack obvious attribution. Star Wars fandom notwithstanding, there seem to be...
Chip Poutine: Reading “Virtual Suburbia: Korova Milk Bar” (http://tinyurl.com/232q3e) (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: Working on new Virtual Suburbia post. Something tells me pack it in early. Contractions just stopped this am. Odd. Will they stay stopped? (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Midnight's Sculpy Tutorial Pt. 1 →
Chip Midnight’s first tutorial on creating sculpted prims (more specifically the head depicted on the SL wiki) from ‘arbitrary’ meshes in 3D Studio Max (with a tutorial on at least one additional method of doing so to come).
pinot in the pipes
The mention of Réussir Vigne seems to have perked up Capozzi Winery Island in the blogosphere. In addition to the previously mentioned coverage by Second Life Business Review, we’ve been recently noted in a couple of additional French blogs (here and here) as well as by the Snooth blog and prolific Flickr user Vieeto Voom.
To help keep track of Capozzi Winery Island on the web I have been using...
sign tuning
Previously it was mentioned that we were making some adjustments to the signage on the island to improve readability. The need for this was underscored in screenshots taken by the author of this post covering Capozzi Winery Island for the Second Life Business Review. Here is a hybrid before/after image showing the changes. Text appearing just above the horizon line seems to be much more legible...
Chip Poutine: trying blogbackuponline.com - backup of virtualsuburbia.com in progress. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: swapping out the reuters display at the mauve infohub (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: @lordflydigerido: the main reason being that its a really long, confusing name. marketing departments don’t like that. (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: @lordflydigerido: you deserve it. there’s a reason they call it sketchup and not ‘draw-something-very-specific-that-i-have in-mind-up’ (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: @lordflydigerido: also, try double/triple clicking on an object when selecting it to save having to click on every segment and face (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
Chip Poutine: @lordflydigerido: the trick to sketchup is using groups and components. otherwise geometry gets ‘gooey’ and sticks together. also… (via Twitter / Chip Poutine)
