relaxing

relaxing
Originally uploaded by eyanayohkoh

This is my first painting that includes some elements straight from Second Life. The tree, terrain, and person (me!) are taken from a high resolution snapshot in my home sim, Mew.

The moon and stars are from scratch in Photoshop, and there are some touch-ups on the SL snapshot done in Photoshop as well.

I'm not sure I have the lighting done properly. Something seems a little off, but I'm not sure what it is.

edit: The stars look oddly blurred in the lower resolution versions of this image. I painted everything at 4000x3000 and it looks fine there. I'll have to figure out a way to make it look better in a regular resolution or just paint a new star field.

Rolling Restart Bug Fixes

I just read about the rolling restart Linden Labs plans for the 6th and this bug fix made me smile.

• SVC-912: Sky Eclipse’s avatar crashes regions EVERYTIME she logs in, regardless of where she logs in

Poor Sky Eclipse!

Eyana playing a song on DJ Max

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I recorded myself playing DJ Max Online. Yeah, I mess up a few times. I hadn't played in a long time.

Land-and-Water-Planet

Land-and-Water-Planet
Originally uploaded by eyanayohkoh

The second planet I painted. I finished just a few moments ago. I think I'm getting the hang of it. My next scene will probably tell a story.

Eyana's-Planet

Eyana's-Planet
Originally uploaded by eyanayohkoh

I'm not sure what I am going to do with this in regards to SL (besides maybe wall art). I wanted to paint some noticeable debris around the planet, but my attempts looked awful so I just turned off those layers.

This was painted from scratch in Photoshop.

Ice Cave

I just uploaded some snapshots of the ice cave I've been working on as a sculptie learning project. Here is a link. The sun is set to midnight and I have the RenderGlow option in Debug settings enabled.

Let me know what you think!

Sculpties

I still have several projects up in the air, but mostly they have been pushed aside for the moment while I try to learn some more about making and texturing sculpties. When I get home today I think I am going to try to make a mannequin sculptie. Last night I figured out lighting and shadows to an extent. I would post a snapshot but I'm at work and cannot get on Second Life to get any. Besides, the snapshot would be rather boring anyway.

Couple of Links added

I just added a couple of links under the Tutorial section on the left side of the page. The basic script examples page has several scripts that were written with the intention of teaching some basics about scripting in Second Life. The double tap detection script is an example of how a script can detect a double tap on the keyboard (useful for dash/dodge type things). I'm sure there are ways in which it can be more efficient or accurate, so it might get updated from time to time.

from the hip blog

I'm glad to see people enjoying the grappling hook! Thank you for the blog mentioning, Elusyve!

If you haven't seen Elusyve's blog go ahead and check it out!

Eyana's Quick Shading Tutorial

Below is a quick tutorial on a method of shading. I did this somewhat in haste so things aren't exactly the way I would leave it in the end, but the method shows through hopefully.

There is no text describing the images, but I tried to take snaps of the important steps with the menus open so it could be seen. I will update this thread at some point and make it more tutorial-ish.

New Stuff on the Way

I haven't updated in a bit, but I want to post saying that there are a couple new things on the way. Expect to see more sci-fi type guns and blasters soon, as well as a few new avatars and gadget toys.

Also, the store underwent serious remodeling, so check it out if you haven't seen the new building.

C:SI Politics and Policies Rant

Recently, someone opened a new sim for C:SI combat. They aren't selling their own weapon system. The sim is just there for dueling, mainly because another sim was closed for a while and the person opening wanted another alternate spot for sparring.

Apparently this is a big deal to the owner(s) of Samurai Island and Samurai Edo. The person who opened the new sim was banned from all of the C:SI owners' sims. Gasp! If they don't want their stuff working in other sims then they should restrict the scripts to work only in certain regions (which subsequently would cut their business in half or more).

What in the world is wrong with someone spending their own money to open a sim for C:SI combat? Do they really expect people to be content going to Edo? It's *always* laggy, and sometimes the people there can be very annoying.

Another note about Edo is they are hiring security, and so far the person hired I would not trust at all with any amount of responsibility.

And what of Shrouded Isle? Are Alyssa and Jed going to get banned from Edo and related places for owning a sim initially based around the C:SI combat system?

There has to be more behind this. I really would think they would welcome another sim simply for the free advertising.

More on this later I guess.

Calendar Woes

I'm trying to get the feed to my new google calendar working, but it only wants to show one event even though I've told it to show a maximum of five. Of course, there are only two events scheduled so far, but it should be showing both.

Maybe I'm missing something simple. I'll leave it for now and hope it magically fixes itself, but it's more likely tomorrow I will need to figure it out.

o.O

I'm sorry for the awful writing in that last post. Meh.

Slacker Days

I stayed up very late last night and somewhere around 6am I decided to have some wine. It was very nice and relaxing, but I did get a little tipsy and I skipped classes today because of it. That's definitely something I shouldn't do very often.

A dream I had was centered around Second Life. I had some kind of vague conversation with Felidae in the dream and then I went on a sort of adventure to try to gather new players to Felidae's Aztec temple so they could be sacrificed in her name. It was very, very odd and I'm certain a shrink would have some interesting things to say about it.