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What a poser.

24 Jul Filed under Building Tools, Poses, SL Fashion, Virtual Fashion. No comments.

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 →

Filling with your pattern

Creating Seamless Textures in Photoshop for Second Life

17 Aug Filed under Architecture, Building Tools. No comments.

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 →

Experimenting with Blender Software

Sculpty: with or with out salt? Using Blender

14 Aug Filed under 3D, Building Tools, Buy it, Education. No comments.

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 →

Screen Shot from RabbitStats

RabbitStats — Who goes there?

4 Aug Filed under Building Tools. No comments.

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 →

Why to have a second avatar

Alter Egos — An avi for work and one for play

2 Aug Filed under Uncategorized. No comments.

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

2 Aug Filed under Education, Fashion Institute of Technology. No comments.

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 →