Luna Lunaria^✦ @lunalunaria

So sorry to hear Milly :-(

I think it's important for creators to make those arrangements before anything happens. There is a group in OS that maintains a safe repository of my work.

You're going to force me to build a lodge to go with that gorgeous winterscape

Lol. no, I try to steer clear of the OSW drama. This is my little kodama spirit from Princess Mononoke

I haven't implemented any pbr on my regions as of yet, so what you're seeing is all materials textures. The new viewer has too many issues so I'm still on the previous version.

Agreed. I've been scratching my head over this one trying to understand just what the controversy is, since this is a full perm item and nearly ubiquitous in Opensim. As a creator, all my items are copy and modify so users can change them any way they like. As long as no one is pretending to be me and trying to sell my stuff I'm good.

I'm so sorry I was unable to attend. We've been out of town all week for a family funeral

Cool to see some of our older work holding up and even looking better. Stoked to begin working with it starting next week. Out of town this week.

Got the viewer. Looking forward to working with pbr materials :-)

Yay! Excited about this one

I would have loved to attend this event but sadly I didn't hear about it in time :-(

Thanks Ankhsenaton! You can find the original mermaid outfit here: https://opensimworld.com/hop/90015. These are no transfer so I can't pass you a copy of mine. I can provide the metallic red scales texture, along with the materials, since that's mine, along with the bikini top and the bangles. I don't share the hair. The headdress came from here as part of a complete outfit: https://www.kitely.com/market/product/18471482/Woodland-Pr... but I completely changed the headdress textures.

Thanks Lily! I agree, we should be friends :-)

I think you're right. I took my Digiworldz avi over to Aquadark today and found it there. The one I have was something people were passing around on an old grid I was on back in 2017. For this look, I only used the tail and the AO, and the only original texture on this is the one on the fins, everything else I changed. The hair, skin, bangles, bikini top, and shape are mine and the headdress is from Kitely Market, but I even modified that with completely new textures.

Hi LChan, I just recently completely rebuilt this. You can see the pics on my Facebook post here: https://www.facebook.com/LunariaEmporium/ and you can walk through it at my store. HG Address: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store

Thank you so much Leon! This build took about 4 months of intense work.

Thanks Xenon :-)

Thanks Passion :-)

Thank you Milly :-)

Pisces

Thanks Marianna for the great article! Sketchfab is my go-to website, for both free and paid items, when I'm looking for mesh components to add to my primarily prim builds. After trying multiple download file types, I find that I prefer GLTF 2.0 when available. And as Marianna noted, taking the time to truly assess your mesh will prevent issues uploading.

I mostly use Blender 4.0, and the primary tools I use are Merge Distance, Decimate, and Smart UV Maps. If a mesh comes with textures and uv mapping, I use only merge and decimate to preserve the original map. If there are no textures, I will join all the pieces into one object, merge distance, decimate, then create a new uv map. I also use Blender 2.79 for baking normals on highly detailed mesh objects, like statues. here's a good video on that process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r-cGjVKvGw

The key step I use when exporting to collada is to uncheck the Triangulate box in the popup menu under Operator Presets / Geom, otherwise you might get the dreaded 'Vertex number more than 65534' error. If I get a physics is missing error, I will try other LOD levels before going back to the drawing board in Blender. If I get a 'Dae Parsing' error, I go back to Blender and make sure all faces are facing out and not flipped. Here's a good video tutorial on identifying and correcting those: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT_ozJW8v50&list=PLIyBt3CA...

As for physics, I use the latest Firestorm viewer and tend to use a variety of approaches, depending on how the user will interact with the mesh. If it's just to be seen, I'll select a low or medium level LOD then select 'cube' or make a similar basic object in Blender to encompass the mesh. If it has a high vertex number and it's something that will be up close and interacted with, especially furniture, I will select at least the medium physics option then apply the analyze tab. If the upload already has a very low vertex number to begin with, I will change all the LOD's to match the high setting and skip the analyze step altogether.

These of course are just my preferences and are not being promoted as the only way or best way to approach some meshes. Other creators will have their tips and tricks and preferred ways of handling mesh. Hopefully, some of this will be helpful.