viewer | Snowglobe 2.0

The regular viewer wasn’t the only one getting a facelift. Snowglobe also has a 2.0 version:   This version of Snowglobe is available in the wiki: Snowglobe – Second Life Wiki //

viewer | Second Life 2.0

Welcome to a modern version of your Second Life®:   You can downloaded the Second Life 2.0 Beta directly from the Second Life website.   Further reading: Second Life® official blog :: Second Life Viewer 2 Beta, Now Available Building 43 :: Second Life launches new innovative browser New World Notes :: Robert Scoble Interviews [...]

tips & tricks | turn on Anti-Aliasing inSL

[original size for better view -- left pic with jagged edges]    While scrolling down Gogo’s blog, I came across this entry that someone suggested Gogo heavily post-processed her photos. The person also says that white hair inSL always has pixelated edges… which is not true at all. Just look at Winter‘s blog! I don’t [...]

interview | Grazia Horwitz

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how to | clear cache in Second Life®

I’ve received this as a notecard in-world having Orange Planer as the creator. It’s a very helpful notecard since I’ve tried to explain a couple of time how to manually clear cache and it wasn’t clear to them. Maybe I wasn’t making myself clear enough. Anyway, if you do it right, you won’t damage your [...]

Imprudence viewer

I have been meaning to do a post about Imprudence almost since it was released. I have been blogging about it here and there but haven’t done a post solely about it yet. I have blog previously about the flexible sculpties and the worn tab but I haven’t blog about all of the new features [...]

tips and tricks | re-render stuff

You know when you arrived somewhere and everything is grey? Or when you are waiting forever a texture to load and it just won’t? Hyang Zhao showed me one of Emerald viewer features that I wasn’t aware of. It’s on the features pages but I didn’t read it even once. (I never read manuals anyway…) [...]

tutorial | enabling shadows in SL™

So, after reading the articles about shadows in Second Life® in Massively, by Vint Falken, in New World Notes (by Hamlet Au) and by Gwyneth Llewelyn I was really curious and wanted to try. To enable shadows, you will need to: 1. In the Advanced (menu) → Debug Settings, set “RenderDeferred” to False if it [...]

WindLight presets

This is the WindLight preset I use more often. It is perfect for studio and outdoors pics: This WindLight preset is available inworld for free. You can grab your copy in my blog HQ. //

Anatomy of Lag

Hi! Ana Lutetia has kindly invited me to post on her blog, so don’t start wondering about the abrupt change of style (double-pub intended) Rest assured, I’m not going to pester you with any fashion tips *grins* Instead, for this blog post, I’m trying to cover some of the usual myths related to lag, what causes [...]