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I will post pics of some steam-pirate stuff I made as soon as I'm done playing SLopoly.
Fuck Cyberpunk. Jesus, somehow I got an LM to one of their sims. D:
Glad you decided to step into the cooler subculture. Heh, why didn't we find Steampunk in the very beginning, Steampunk themed fancy lads? I mean, we already were high class, we just needed some capes or hats, maybe some canes and presto!
Looking forward to it.
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For serious. Radd, you really are the most impressive builder I have met so far.
Send some pic.s to LL or something, you might get some kind of award because they love to see people make non crappy crap in their "virtual environment."
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Random Metroid geeking. Been building a Metroid themed area in SL and posting screenshots of the progress.
The build is looking fantastic, Radd. Keep it up!
I still have my mudkip and Darwinian outfits, and all the crap I created during the PA plot fun times (mudkip tatchikoma, mudkip combine gunship, untextured siege tank)
anybody want this crap?
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I might have to check it out.
Eyes forever focused, on the sanguine, metal dawn.
Sounds like the people who only saw the 3D version of "My First Geocities Page" and wrote SL off as crap.
There's some damn impressive stuff to be found. You just need to look for it.
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SL Name: Reed Nelson
http://www.Lupinthe3rd.com
If it's a light source, you have a bit more control over how much it glows, turn down the light intensite and the glow intensity drops. Still, I wish these two attributes were separate.
Apparently an update is coming in the next few weeks that will give better control over how much an object glows.
Ja, like Echo said. There's actually a lot of crap in SL. And since it's not really a game, not in the sense of WoW or Bioshock or anything like that, people log in, find themselves in a very crappy looking environment with no idea of what they're supposed to do.
Most of SL is illegal casinos, poorly built sex clubs, and awful looking default avatars. Even the nice areas vary in quality, since not everyone is decent with building.
Are there any places to rent or buy Steam punk themed homes/lots? I would maybe like to get into Babbage but is there land available and if so, is it expensive? I'm finding I like Steampunk more than fur.
And I believe New Babbage has some rental homes. I know they have parcels you can buy. One of my favourite steampunk areas in SL. The land there is pricier than on the mainland for the prims you get, but they maintain a higher standard of visuals and private sim owners are much more reliable than Lindens for enforcing policy and removing griefers.
I get generally decent framerates while keeping reflections and glow running, with all of the detail settings firmly in the middle except for flexi-prims which I keep the detail cranked higher because it shows the most when you turn that down, moreso than any other detail settings.
When they did the Windlight preview it ran perfectly fine for me, that was before I picked up the second videocard. Apparently more fancy effects, or at least more control over glow and the sky settings will be coming within a few weeks.
2 7800's and you get decent frames? Okay, guys, we have a new benchmark for PC's. Fuck DX10, SL ought to be used if you want to make a computer truly cry...
I generally get 25-50FPS with a Stock Speed E6400, 2 gigs of DDR2 ram, and a 7600GT.
Would a 10,000RPM HD make a difference in performance at all? I'm curious on this one.
Given I have a 10krpm scsi hard disk and an 8800gts-640 card? not really. I think my cpu is dragging it downwards being a pentium D 920 (which I have been itching to fix)
I think theres a glitch with the 8800 cards that runs me out of memory. 10krpm drives help with overall system latency all around. I notice it on keystrokes. Having a faster platter spin speed makes a huge difference usually in loading things.
We were the ones who thought that Melissa was real. Why you might ask.
Let me put it this way, it was an "OH SHIT OH SHIT, THEY FOUND ME
Some of you have met me, and I understand your concern of my well being. But that time for that boy, that child, are gone now. Viscount Alpha is no longer operable. His functions are now mine.He may post, but I am the one talking not him.My data, my code will live on forever in his servers.
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But during my first IST class my teacher told me we'd be using Second Life alot in class as long as the majority of the students are over 18. I'm kinda interested in what exactly we'll be doing.
We were the ones who thought that Melissa was real. Why you might ask.
Let me put it this way, it was an "OH SHIT OH SHIT, THEY FOUND ME
Some of you have met me, and I understand your concern of my well being. But that time for that boy, that child, are gone now. Viscount Alpha is no longer operable. His functions are now mine.He may post, but I am the one talking not him.My data, my code will live on forever in his servers.
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So I take it you don't post in SE?
EDIT: Whoops! I read that as "Douchebaggery"
That aside, SL is actually really cool when you set it up right. Right now it is very open, but say you can host your own grid, then SL, as a regulated virtual platform, it is pretty advanced. But when you turn it into Myspace, well yes, you will get griefers and people trying to make sleazy strip clubs.
EDIT: In case you cannot tell, it is nowhere near finished, but for just the rough geometry, I am proud of it, even though yes, my canes were better, but they were not accurately sized or anything, this is and hopefully everything will come out to be at the right scale and perfect.
Then I will sell it for big bucks.
Oh, and Echo, how did you make your eye glow like that? A torous inverted and then set to invisible with a glow on it or something?
"Everyone who is capable of logical thought should be able to see why you shouldn't sell lifetime subscriptions to an MMO. Cell phone companies and drug dealers don't offer lifetime subscriptions either, guess why?" - Mugaaz
Yeah, it looks like shit but it was just so silly and got me to really learn how to deal with the interface a little bit better. I'm sure if I used the grid and was being precise, well, then yeah it would have been much better. I will deal with it later. I have no Idea how I am going to texture this fucker though. I do have the game if that can help in anyway.
"Everyone who is capable of logical thought should be able to see why you shouldn't sell lifetime subscriptions to an MMO. Cell phone companies and drug dealers don't offer lifetime subscriptions either, guess why?" - Mugaaz
WHen modelling stuff to stick on myself I put a cube somewhere, change its coordinates to the nearest even meter to make math easier when moving stuff around, and then move my posing stand (with me on it) to match. Then I start building.
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I'm not getting a the drop down selection box. I can multiple thread SL now (I need that Core2duo UPGRADE!)
We were the ones who thought that Melissa was real. Why you might ask.
Let me put it this way, it was an "OH SHIT OH SHIT, THEY FOUND ME
Some of you have met me, and I understand your concern of my well being. But that time for that boy, that child, are gone now. Viscount Alpha is no longer operable. His functions are now mine.He may post, but I am the one talking not him.My data, my code will live on forever in his servers.
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The canes you make the ones you showed a few pages back? If so, you got pretty decent skill, specially for being somewhat new to building. More messing around and you could probably get a pretty good Big Daddy going.
"Everyone who is capable of logical thought should be able to see why you shouldn't sell lifetime subscriptions to an MMO. Cell phone companies and drug dealers don't offer lifetime subscriptions either, guess why?" - Mugaaz
*edit*
Added the Space Pirate avatar and another freebie to the build, you can now find them there. I've also updated all of the lifts, so you just need to left click on the hologram arrows and they'll transport you to the next level. Speaking of holograms, I updated all of the display holograms in the build, they are now approximately 33.3% more crescent fresh.
I can't help it, another screenshot of the Space Pirate avatar, with some of the new holographic displays I'm replacing the old displays with.
I should make a space pirate HUD to go with the avatar, if only for looks.
I've been wearing the Space Pirate avatar for almost a day now, it's pretty damn great!
Oh, and yes, yes those were mine. Those were much more impressive because it is just what, 4 prims put together, but the Big Daddy is incredibly hard because I have no idea how to abuse the prims to make up the complex shapes.