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Thank you. It's 28 prims so I literally laid out a photo of a masher and used toruses and cylinders until it matched the picture...roughly. LK used to have like a pipe maker thingy example on one of her old regions. That was how i figured out how to piece that kind of stuff together. I think it was that ski cabin one.
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The way I create wiggly lines etc in blender is I find silhouettes, black on white and I "extract" the curves, then you extrude those curves, and last step you cap the curves. Can remesh it and make it more solid too. Prims and torturing them I am amazed by the beautiful vines I created with prims. We need to keep this art alive, very nice work 💗
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First mistake in the mansplaining is it is a circlet he was critiquing it as a tiara calling it a gothic gate,
yes the circlet which is different from a tiara both are beautiful headpieces, but they carry distinct vibes—tiaras exude elegance and sophistication, while circlets evoke history and mysticism. So my circlet being a gothic gate does evoke history and mysticism eh?
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yes the circlet which is different from a tiara both are beautiful headpieces, but they carry distinct vibes—tiaras exude elegance and sophistication, while circlets evoke history and mysticism. So my circlet being a gothic gate does evoke history and mysticism eh?
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Do you go into real stores and shit all over their products and displays? Coming on to someone's post with a nonstop barrage of attack is neither constructive nor kind. This is just criticism, which I hope will help you in your development. Nothing personal.
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Also curious about the Max series. I would much rather support content that's homegrown in the OpenSim. Taarna Welles made some very nice clothes for the Ruth avatars. I was hoping she'd keep going on that and maybe do some Roth ones too. But now I'm hoping she expands and does Max if that takes off.
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Taarna has rigged most of her women's clothes for Ruth 2.0 RC#2; RC#3 has the same mesh. Some of them can be worn by Ruth2 v4 with appropriate alpha masks. Juno has reworked the boxes available at RuthAndRoth by replenishing them with missing colour variants and adding her own alpha masks.
But yes, she's one of the names I have in mind for Max clothes.
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But yes, she's one of the names I have in mind for Max clothes.
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You get to choose. We create our worlds and their parameters and themes. If you made a Star Trek role play and people showed up as Hobbits you could show them the door. If people read and don't follow your theme that's on them.
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and the only club I have with a dress code is the Ballroom, to the point I had to make it group access only, and one of those fake dancers who is around when I need her, is in the lobby giving out group tags for people who are dressed proper to enter the ballroom..but you can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink.. they dont accept the group invite they dont get access.. plain and simple
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"Honestly, one of the benefits I can see for ameteur builders getting together is working out an *informal* standard of what things ought to be, house sizes, door sizes, etc. Do we build for 1:1 scale, 1:5 scale or something different? Those kind of questions." The door thing can be a dividing topic. I tend to make my avs realistic heights and make my doors to scale but some folks have really tall avs and want the big ass doors.
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How do we define content though? Are the "hobbyists" not also creating content? Not all content is bodies and heads in the mesh sense.
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Well for a start I would classify those who are not advertising their created content as more of a hobbyist as it is intended more for personal wear or use.
For those creating buildings, furniture, lanscaping etc, maybe TGA is not aimed at those sorts of things as standardization is not nearly as important. On the other hand there may be tip and tricks, especially OS related that builder might benefit from. We might be loners but that doesn't mean we have to be alone all the time. Builder tend to get along with other builders best. Barbie's with Barbie's etc.
Opensim used to have this sort of community before mesh came in and Google+ was the de facto "forum" for many in OS.
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For those creating buildings, furniture, lanscaping etc, maybe TGA is not aimed at those sorts of things as standardization is not nearly as important. On the other hand there may be tip and tricks, especially OS related that builder might benefit from. We might be loners but that doesn't mean we have to be alone all the time. Builder tend to get along with other builders best. Barbie's with Barbie's etc.
Opensim used to have this sort of community before mesh came in and Google+ was the de facto "forum" for many in OS.
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Morning and Happy New Year from me as well:)
I'm grateful you're addressing this Harper because I was trying to find the words to comment on the other thread. You've said it perfectly.
"Moreover with the extremely low user numbers of Opensim would there be a point to creating an organization (beyond a collection of friends -I mean, if you already know each other knock yourselves out)?"
THIS! This is the crux of it. Yes people who make the same stuff might want to collaborate in the best practices but don't make it a thing that causes other people to feel like it's an elite club. Also the very passive agressive "dumbing it down" and taking a public shot at someone who disagrees with you was not so nice.
I don't have a horse in that race as that's not my area of building and knowledge but that's just my take.
I have been building for a long time and I still consider myself an amateur. I'm self taught and I often don't follow the rules of math...lol
I definately learned by taking other great builders objects apart and modding them. I started at Yadni Modni's Junkyard back in SL and all those freebie boxes. I also discovered Arcadia Asylum and Linda Kellie by her old SL name which is evading my brain. Then in the OpenSim it was Vanish Firecaster's work, Fred's, of course Linda Kellie and many others. I deeply admire folks who have figured out the mesh thing as that's still not something I have skills in. Marianna has done so beautifully and so has Luna. I still mostly build with prims. Call me a dinosaur but I do.
"Do we need an organization?" Isn't that what OSW is? For better or worse with all it's drama it's still the place we can share builds, how tos and other information.
And we were all new once. We should NEVER forget that. There is no wrong place to begin here and it feels very uncomfortable and unfamiliar until you get that practice. I still get stuck all the time and don't know where to go with a build because sometimes creativity is just hard.
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I'm grateful you're addressing this Harper because I was trying to find the words to comment on the other thread. You've said it perfectly.
"Moreover with the extremely low user numbers of Opensim would there be a point to creating an organization (beyond a collection of friends -I mean, if you already know each other knock yourselves out)?"
THIS! This is the crux of it. Yes people who make the same stuff might want to collaborate in the best practices but don't make it a thing that causes other people to feel like it's an elite club. Also the very passive agressive "dumbing it down" and taking a public shot at someone who disagrees with you was not so nice.
I don't have a horse in that race as that's not my area of building and knowledge but that's just my take.
I have been building for a long time and I still consider myself an amateur. I'm self taught and I often don't follow the rules of math...lol
I definately learned by taking other great builders objects apart and modding them. I started at Yadni Modni's Junkyard back in SL and all those freebie boxes. I also discovered Arcadia Asylum and Linda Kellie by her old SL name which is evading my brain. Then in the OpenSim it was Vanish Firecaster's work, Fred's, of course Linda Kellie and many others. I deeply admire folks who have figured out the mesh thing as that's still not something I have skills in. Marianna has done so beautifully and so has Luna. I still mostly build with prims. Call me a dinosaur but I do.
"Do we need an organization?" Isn't that what OSW is? For better or worse with all it's drama it's still the place we can share builds, how tos and other information.
And we were all new once. We should NEVER forget that. There is no wrong place to begin here and it feels very uncomfortable and unfamiliar until you get that practice. I still get stuck all the time and don't know where to go with a build because sometimes creativity is just hard.
"Linda Kellie by her old SL name which is evading my brain."
Karra Baker.
And yes, Linda's stuff is great to work with as she intended. For example, she put many of her own textures into boxes, even some clothes textures if you're lucky enough to find them, and nearly all her Clutterfly creations are available as untextured kits as well, usually complete with shadow maps etc.
Granted, her clothing meshes are of varying quality and only available in-world, but if you can export them, you may improve them without breaking any licenses. Jadwiga Abremovic, for example, has taken the infamous Ruffled Bottom Dress and not only reduced the horrendous complexity of almost precisely half a million to something saner, but even tried to re-rig it for Athena and Ruth 2.0 RC#2/#3. (Pity that none of them fit Ruth2 v4 as well as at least one of the original Clutterfly meshes.)
I hope I'll soon have some more SFposer-upgraded Clutterfly furniture ready.
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Karra Baker.
And yes, Linda's stuff is great to work with as she intended. For example, she put many of her own textures into boxes, even some clothes textures if you're lucky enough to find them, and nearly all her Clutterfly creations are available as untextured kits as well, usually complete with shadow maps etc.
Granted, her clothing meshes are of varying quality and only available in-world, but if you can export them, you may improve them without breaking any licenses. Jadwiga Abremovic, for example, has taken the infamous Ruffled Bottom Dress and not only reduced the horrendous complexity of almost precisely half a million to something saner, but even tried to re-rig it for Athena and Ruth 2.0 RC#2/#3. (Pity that none of them fit Ruth2 v4 as well as at least one of the original Clutterfly meshes.)
I hope I'll soon have some more SFposer-upgraded Clutterfly furniture ready.
Funnily enough it wasn't Karra Baker so there must be a few names she went by. Some of the packaging pics came to us here though so I figured it out. And I love Jadwiga's stuff too.
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Wonderful points well written, thank you for writing them...very well said...*sheds a tear and pours a forty for Opensim Creations*
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I'm so sorry to hear this. Loving kindness to you and all who knew Trizzy. I knew her very casually from visiting her amazing regions and she was lovely and gifted the OpenSim with her presence, talent and creativity.
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So very nice to see you @JamieWright!! I want to stop by your winter region before it is Springtime!! Will you have your educational cultural holiday Roleplay again? I sure hope so, I learned so much visiting they were all thoughtfully created. Merry Christmas 🎄💗🎄🎅🏽💗💗
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All those scenes from before are still there. Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. I didn't do days of dialogue this year and I added a Solstice Supper at 6 Cooper Street with a ritual circle out back. There will be something added every year as time allows. I really want to create a Diwali celebration but that might eventually end up on the fall region since it happens closer to Halloween. And I will update the Chinese New Year stuff for the Year of the Snake soon:)
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