Day 1231: Sirena NEW Animated Flexi Braid (Brooke)

Nice to be able to sit around the mermaid pool without clicking "Edit", isnt it? ;P

OK, that's not entirely true...I spent the week working on the new flexi braids. It's an animated hair that goes to a flexible braid, including the fuzzy ends. And the best part is, it comes in all 60 Sirena hair colors ;)



"Brooke" is an animated Flexi Braid! It's long hair that flows down to your lower back. Using the Hair Tie, it goes up to a flexible braid that moves along with you. The braid even has a fuzzy end :D Of course, the hair plays an animation when you change styles.

Comes in all 60 Sirena colors, including color tips!


All Sirena hairstyles come in 3 sizes, (S)mall, (M)edium, and (L)arge for easy fitting and adjustment.

There are 60 textures in 15 color packs to choose from. And all hairs can be color-tinted (with 66 colors) to give you even more color choices!

Check them out online at http://www.sirenahair.com/ or at Sirena Hair. Click on Search, and enter "sirena" as the keyword. The SLURL is Sirena Hair (116,217,22).

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Day 1224: A Brand New Day

It's done. Yay!

If you have been following along these last 2 weeks, thank you so much for your encouragement, tips, advice, and support! There were times when it looked like it would never end. There were times when I almost gave up.

Im so glad I blogged about this build and had a chance to share it with you. I am glad I survived those ruthless people who forced me from my old store. Now, it feels like I can move on.

It's a brand new day :)

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Day 1224: Grand Opening + Wet Hair + Free Gift

The new Sirena Hair sim is officially open! :)

The theme is freedom, without walls or doors, accessible from land or sea (or air). A magical island with sights and sounds.

To celebrate the opening, I made a special unisex WET hair sized for men and women, along with a sim-warming Free Gift (Sirena Sports Bottle, free this week only!)

(And no, in case you are wondering, I wasnt
staring at Second Steve's new chest for hours. I was just making sure the lighting was good. Honest :P)

Here's the SLURL: Sirena Hair (116,217,22)



"Cody" is a water-sensitive WET hair! It's a flexi short hair that's perfect for men
and women. The hair turns wet when you enter water (sim water, water from
accessories, or scripted prim water). It even drips :) After a few minutes, it
will dry out and return to its flexi state.

Comes with an animated Water Bottle to make the hair wet, and an animated Towel to dry the hair. You can also wet/dry other people's hairs ;)








Cody is sized for both men and women, for an easy out-of-box
fit!












Free gift: Color-change water sports bottle and towel, works with all Sirena WET
hairs. Perfect for those water fights!

You can also pour water on other people. Comes with a towel to dry your friends after you drenched them ;P


All Sirena hairstyles come in 3 sizes, (S)mall, (M)edium, and (L)arge for easy fitting and adjustment.

There are 60 textures in 15 color packs to choose from. And all hairs can be color-tinted (with 66 colors) to give you even more color choices!

Check them out online at http://www.sirenahair.com/ or at Sirena Hair. Click on Search, and enter "sirena" as the keyword. The SLURL is Sirena Hair (116,217,22).

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Day 1223: Countdown to Grand Opening (1 day to go)

Progress report since yesterday:

Fourteenth Day
(The Cutover)

One more day, one day more... (did you see Les Mis? ;P)

Today is it. I have to cut things over to the new sim to get ready for the Grand Opening tomorrow.

Time to get all those last minute things out of the way.

Like putting those cool water textures from Real Waves all around the store...



And sound too. All kinds of nature sounds :)

BTW, the environment sounds are free from Real Waves! All you need to do is rez them, that's it!










And I made the depth even around the sim, so it's just the right height for mermaids to swim and shop :)











Finished the tunnel between to 2 sections of the store, so we can go from one side to another without having to swim all the way around.











Then, it was finally time to cut the store over.













The Landing Point will stay the same. The new store is right behind the New Release area.

And I want to cut the store over with as little downtime as possible (lol Im not really sure how to close the sim anyway :P)








So here's my goofy idea: Create some temporary walls under the existing store. These walls wrap around the Landing Point, and will direct visitors to the new store.

Late at night, when there's no visitors, push the walls up then get rid of the old store as quickly as possible.

I admit...not the brightest idea. Hey, Im half fish, OK? :P



So, when no one was looking, I pushed up the temp walls and started moving the old store 200m up.

Well, at least, that was the plan...

You see, Im not very good under pressure.







The walls made it hard to select the old store. And I was terrified of breaking the new store.

Plus, I was having problems linking these prims that are too far apart.

All this was happening when people were starting to arrive :(






I admit, I lost it.

Forget about saving the old store. I started deleting the old store. Any prim I could find. As fast as I can.









Then, I terraformed like mad to connect the existing Landing Point to the new store with sim terrain.

Thankfully, I remembered a trick I learned back from a class at NCI: You can turn off Simple rendering (Advanced/Rendering/Types/Simple), which makes it MUCH easier to terraform under an existing structure.





Piece by piece, the old store began disappearing...













After a frantic hour (or so), the new store is up...finally!












Here are the few pieces of the old store I managed to save before I freaked out.

A chance to say a proper Goodbye.

We've had a good few years together, didnt we?

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Day 1222: Countdown to Grand Opening (2 days to go)

Progress report since yesterday:

Thirteenth Day
(Details, Details)

The Grand Opening is almost here... Nervous. Nervous! There's like a thousand little things to do still!

OK, did the Store Directory sign. Heehee, I always wanted to make a sign that says "You are Here" ;P



Created the "Open Packages Here" area.

Had to Subdivide the land, which is a terrifying thing to do! There's a scary message about all your land settings getting changed and stuff. Def hate doing it ;P








Put in an invisible Greeter at the Landing Point. I did it mainly to warn visitors not to give L$ to people pretending to work in the sim.

Can you believe people actually do that? ;P









Setup all the mermaid poseballs at the mermaid pool...












Updated the Update Group picture...













Even setup a Customer Service area...

*Whew*

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