Tired of paying for textures? Why not make your own? This is how to do it using Adobe Photoshop. Have you ever found a texture you love, but then when you try to tile the pattern it looks plain awful? When textures are created seamlessly you … Read More →
Tag Archives: building
Sculpty: with or with out salt? Using Blender
As I have complained about before, I find myself getting more and more aggrevated with building the FIT campus. I have torn down so many buildings and amphitheaters trying to find the sweet spot between function and design. Many of the educational sites are great in offering freebies … Read More →
RabbitStats — Who goes there?
Who’s spending time at your campus while you are not there? I am sure like everyone working with school funding in Second Life, my budget needs to be minimal. Someone turned me onto RabbitStats. Very easy to set up and sends me a nightly email telling me … Read More →
Alter Egos — An avi for work and one for play
The first thing I realized right away when using Second Life for both work and fun is that I had to create a second avatar for work purposes. I was horrified when showing Second Life to a group of instructors and a random friend of mine logged on an IM’ed a totally … Read More →
Pleasure and Pain — Building a SL Campus
Incorporating virtual worlds into traditional educational environments has been under the radar at the college that I work for. To be honest it has been avoided because it is so difficult to provide Administrators with the precious “metrics” needed to gain support and funding. I just … Read More →
What a poser.
What a poser. I tried using Poser 7 today for the first time to create the below pose. It is certainly far from perfect, but definitely satisfying! Poser has come out with version 8, and now 2010, but if you go for the trial, the site … Read More →