Daz3D has added some Sculpted Prim tools to it’s Hexagon software. You can create and texture your sculpties using Hexagon then export them directly to a TGA sculptmap for upload to SL. The modeler looks pretty spiffy and includes advanced 3D painting tools, too. I’m excited to see more commercial 3D applications including support for [...]

A shotgun blast of metaverse goodies. I stumbled on this cool weekly video series about Second Life called Metaverse Week in Review. Lots of stuff features every week with interviews, machinima, news, and all sorts of shiny virtual world goodies. It’s produced by Mal Burns who also runs a blog, the Mal Burns Annex. Mal’s [...]

One of the next big changes in SL will be some changes to the way the scripts are run on the LL servers. The back-end that executes all of the scripts on the grid will be upgraded to something known as Mono. I don’t know a lot of the nitty-gritty details, but I do know [...]

Thanks Hotspur! This last Monday I host a big party at my newly re-opened New World Gallery. Lots of friendly art lovers showed up and we all had a great time. I especially enjoyed collaborating with musician MoShang Zhao, providing live visuals to along with his live concert. Hotspur O’Toole was in attendance and he [...]

Mermaid Diaries I happened on this stash of SL tutorials created by Natalia Zelemanov. She runs a cute, pink site called Mermaid Diaries. She has created quite a few informative tutorials covering everything from shoes, hair, and clothes to sculpties and particles. Definitely worth a look.