Second Thoughts

I have been experimenting madly with Second Life’s new Sculpted Prim feature. These things are so great, opening up so many possibilities for builders. I feel like a newbie again, twisting tori on my First Land. :)

My experiments have led me to try modifying the sculpted prim shape using SL’s video features. Instead of using a single sculptmap image to define it’s shape, this sculpture uses a special movie. I created about a dozen distinct shapes, created sculptmaps for them, then created a video that blends them together to create the smooth transitions. There’s also some tricky scripting involved to increase the rate at which the shape updates.

You can see the sculpture in-world on my parcel in the Caledon Highlands.

These girls have somehow managed to make this skit even funnier than the orginal - I don’t know how. I dare you to watch this without laughing out loud.

When I visit Tanglewood Forest, I’m usually crawling around on the forest floor as a beetle, or maybe a two toed sloth. Today I flew over amongst the clouds there, instead. A wondeful surprise atop this ginormous beenstalk - a vute country home in the clouds. A n airship protects the borders of Kittwickshire as well.
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My first visit to the Wastelands and the Great Fissure. WOW! great builds, amazing textures, and a lots of decrepti, rusty machinery.
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AutopilotPatty is re-modelling the Gallery Tamrannoch. This round, earthy cottage that she found is so cool! I think that the gallery will have a more outdoor, natural feel. Who needs ceilings in SL anyways!?
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