Are Rigged/Fitmesh Items Impossible to Mod?
No. There's plenty of ways you can mod rigged/fitmesh items. Stop making them no-mod. Ok, so there's this trend going around where content creators are making their rigged mesh items no-mod,...
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Draw Weight Revisited
Draw Weight RevisitedAbout two years ago I wrote an article showing how, with some modding chops, it was possible to drastically reduce avatar draw weight. I posted this image, showing how I cut my...
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A Tale of Two Content Creators
A Tale of Two Content CreatorsA short story of two ways content creators canrespond to criticism and what their decisionmeans for you.I can be rather blunt when positing a marketplace review. When I...
View ArticleThe Penny FAQ
Over the years I've said a lot about SL, but when I post in forums or talk to people in SL I keep running into people who put words in my mouth instead of listening to what I actually say. I end up...
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Second Life vs. World of Warcraft
A picture is worth a thousand words. Here is a height comparison of the various WoW races, with a typical, maxed out SL avatar superimposed into it. The SL avatar is in scale to the WoW...
View Article"Hi"
I was wandering SL and I ran across an avatar with this in their profile:Why is it that some women in SL think their vertices and polygons are so much better than everyone else that they wont accept an...
View ArticleThe No-Mod Rebuttal
My opinion on no-mod content is no secret. I will almost never buy no-mod and neither should you if you value your money, your land or your avatar. Okay, okay, there are exceptions. Scripts totally...
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Better SL Living Through Modding - CRAnQ Scrapper's Retreat
I do a LOT of modding. It's safe to say I have modded every modifiable item I've ever purchased in SL, and so I'm going to be posting a series of articles where I showcase some of the items I've...
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Reducing the Cost of Land by Scaling Down
The topic of land pricing in Second Life is a popular one on the forums and in everyday SL chat. Most people agree that land simply costs too much.First off, hey, we'd all like land in SL to be...
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Smaller Doors Anyone Can Fit Through
Or How to Enjoy the Benefits of Building to Scale Without Making it Impossible for Others to Explore Your Creation!A lot of people tell me that they want to scale their builds down, but feel that if...
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Simple Performance Tricks Anyone Can Do When Building
Two Three Simple Tips to Increase FPS and Reduce Lag in a Sim.A lot of the tips I give on building and optimization can get a bit technical but I wanted to share two simple tricks anyone with even the...
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Optimization Tutorial: Creating Your Own LOD Models!
Creating Your Own SL LOD Models_____________________________Before we begin, this is not a "how to learn Blender" tutorial. You should already have a basic grasp of Blender to get the most out of this...
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Feature: Visual Size Display in Appearance Editor
One of my very first posts was about avatar size. It's an issue that's been around since the beginning of Second Life. After a discussion with Vir Linden at today's Content Creation group meeting, I've...
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Why Anticipated Second Life Features Go Unused Once Released
Linden Lab as a usability problem.They cater Second Life towards a general audience of hobbyists, but then make the tools more difficult to figure out than similar tools found in programs aimed at...
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Just How Much Does Unoptimized Content Affect You?
I often talk about the need to optimize content in Second Life, and frequently I find people underestimate just how much that would improve SL for everyone. People seem to think that because SL is so...
View ArticleUnoptimized Content is a Huge Problem, But How Can LL Fix it Now?
Like clockwork, whenever the problem of unoptimized content in Second Life is brought up, there will be people saying "There's nothing to be done for it now! Changing the rules will break too much...
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Tips for a Better SL Experience
Here are just a few tips that can help make SL more enjoyable!Better Camera Settings!Tired of the SL camera sitting several metres above your head? Feel like you're actually right there in the world...
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Tips for a Better SL Avatar!
Here are some tips to help you avoid common proportion mistakes and create a more attractive avatar!One of the older starter avatars. The original is on the left. On the right is my altered version....
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Tips for a Larger, More Detailed and Less Expensive Second Life!
Sadly the sim is gone, but this entire city fit into 1/4th of a sim. Including the trees and hills in the distance. All of the buildings are 1=1 scale instead of 2-3 times larger like most people in SL...
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Textures and Lag
A lot of people never consider the correlation between textures and lag. Fact of the matter is, most of SL's performance issues are due to texture bloat. Videogames rarely use textures larger than...
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The Best Building Tip Nobody Knows!
Use skyboxes for building interiors! Turn doors and other entrances into teleporters so people can enter and exit. This frees you up from the constraints of the environment and also makes sims less...
View ArticleBlender for Beginners
Do you want to create content for Second Life but have never touched a CG modelling program in your life? Are you an SL pro, but have absolutely no experience beyond making content for SL? In either...
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Pixel Factory Debut!
After a long, long hiatus I am relaunching my Second Life store as Pixel Factory. I've retired all of my pre-mesh content except for my free shape set and camera HUD. The first brand new items are...
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Applying EEP to Your Parcel
Here's a quick tutorial on applying EEP settings to your land parcel in Second Life.First, open up your inventory and scroll down to the "Settings" folder, if you've created your own settings, or...
View ArticleFediverse/Mastadon
A while back I created a Fediverse account. What's that? You might know it as Mastodon, the less musky alternative to Twitter. Seeing as how the musky boy is now banning links to other social sites,...
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