When do I know that I need therapy for stopping to play Second Life? 1) When you spend more time online playing the game than working for your boss.2) When a 20-hour day just feels “natural” to you.3) When every hour spent “off-line” is spent reading programming manuals, looking for […]
Daily Archives: August 15, 2004
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Having played around with objects (hard to master), scripting (well even harder really) and clothes design (stupidly simple if you know Photoshop well or something similar; the only hard part is being a good clothes designer. Like in the real world!), I thought I would take a hand at animations… […]
Wow. I thought this would be easy. LSL (Linden Scripting Language) looks like C++, Java or Javascript, so I thought I would give a go at it. Actually, just like Java, it’s an interpreted language, but it gets precompiled before it goes into the magic stores at Linden’s. The hard […]
I started building my first home the hard way: aligning objects one on top of the other. It took ages just to get the various parts of a wall fitting correctly around the windows. And when I was finished, ah well, the house was too small to let two people […]
This was my home in Second Life® for almost 10 months, I have since moved on, but I’ve left here a few old photos… Uli is a mountainous region with a lake and a river well below. I live almost at the top of one of the mountains, so I […]
Well this is probably a very silly concept, but here it goes… Good clothes design in Second Life is actually very cheap! Some of the best designers (like Von) do amazing creations and sell them for as cheap as L$ 150 (you can search for “House of Von” in the […]
So, how did I do it? Actually I’m no designer, much less a clothes designer. What I did was to copy some designs from La Redoute’s online website. This is a French catalog shop, selling their clothes all over Europe. One thing I found out is that they don’t have […]