Day 1212: Countdown to Grand Opening (12 days to go)
Progress report since yesterday:
Third Day
(Way Above and Way Below)
Lots of water, big open skies. Isnt it beautiful? :)
But if Im not going to have a roof, I should put something up there. Something interesting...
Something like a crystal? Im such a mermaid ;P
First, I'll make the sculpties in Yuzuru Jewell's Tatara. Yuzuru is the brilliant author of Rokuro.
Since he came out with Tatara, it's been like my all time favorite sculptie tool. It takes minutes to create the base for a sculptie. You can then import the base into Wings 3D for tweaking :)
BTW, Yuzuru has a bunch of really great video tutorials (from making a sculptie heart to a diamond). You can see them here.
For this arch, I want a sharp edge. So this is ready to go straight into SL :)
I want this arch to be big. Really really big. So Im going to use megaprims :)
Once Im in SL, I'll use my super duper SALT HUD to order a megaprim close to the size I need. Amazingly, the SALT HUD is free!
OK...so, what size do I need?
How about 70 x 70 x 1?
Nope...too flat.
Umm...10 x 50 x 70?
Better. But, it would be nice if it bent down a little more.
I know, I know. How about 50 x 10 x 70?
*Thud*
Help! Im being squished!
Whew! Saved by applying the sculpt map to the megaprim :)
Oh, if you ever use megaprims this big, be sure to mark them "Phantom". That way, they wont cause any lag.
Next I'll make the giant crystal that goes in the center.
Copy the arches a bunch of times, and Ta-da! :)
Last thing for tonight: I have to do something about the bottom layer of this sim terrain. It's so totally...blah!
Hey, Im going to be spending a lot of time down here underwater!
Because of Fleur's great list of tips, I found a bunch of great places for underwater landscaping :) Thank you, Fleur!
Bibi's Coral Reef Shop & Underwater World has a set of coral rock textures that work well as terrain texture.
You can even mix and match them on sculptie rocks to get an awesome underwatery-reefy look :)
Oh, oh, and there's something Ive been wanting to do since I started SL!
Meet my friend, Chester! Isn't he adorable?
I know, I know, deep sea anglerfishes dont belong in a reef. But hey, this is a mermaid sim ;P
And if you would like to adopt your very own anglerfish, you can find him at the GNUbie store. Amazingly, he's free too :)
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7 comments:
If you like Salt, you might like http://megaprim.sl :-)
Peter, thank you, thank you! I just tried it and it's awesome :) I can finally figure out what sizes are available. This really helps a lot!
I just wanted to say thanks for still having the link to my blog on your side bar. I was looking through them today and noticed it was there. :)
And here's hoping everything goes smoothly with getting the store set up the rest of the way! :)
Misae, I think I mustve taken the link out earlier on one of my blog rolls (lol to keep the list manageable). I just added it back, cause I saw the link you gave me. Sorry about that!
Oh it's fine that it was removed. I wasn't active with the blog for a while. :) I just appreciate the linkage! :)
Thank you for using my sculpted prim tools!
I will write how to make sculpted jewelry on my tutorial blog in the near future.
Misae, Im glad you started blogging again. Lol it's addictive, isnt it?
Yuzuru, thank you so much for your wonderful tools! Seriously, I wouldnt be able to make sculpties without them :)
And I look forward to your tutorials. BTW, they are great, and Ive seen them all!
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