Chandra’s Page

UPDATE: Alan Kiesler created fabu Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro versions of the template, which supercede the original TGA-only version I posted on this site. See below for the download link. Thanks, Alan!

First, the bad news. Due to recent snafus on the Second Life forums (SL account required), the sail template Kanker Greenacre provided for customization of his lovely Flying Tako sailboat disappeared. The topic in which the file was posted on the forums seems to have fallen into a digital black hole, and not even the mighty Torley Linden was able to retrieve it.

The good news: I talked to Kanker, and he mailed me a copy of the template, which I am now hosting.

DHL has apparently discovered the secret to stopping facts you don’t want to hear. As originally attempted by Usagi in the Welcome Area, the time-honored use of the letter G to stop facts has become a #secondlife tradition.

Aimee Weber never fails to amaze me with the detail in her texturing, so it’s no accident that on most trips I take to Midnight City I make it a rule to invade whatever skybox project she’s got going.

The shadows baked into the textures of this laboratory build are, hands down, the best I’ve seen in Second Life. Aimee is truly a master of the medium. There are more pictures of this stunning room in the portfolio section of Aimee’s website, without the map of the upcoming Relay For Life grounds, posing stands, or assorted clutter in my picture.

I love Second Life. The sights. The sounds. The fashion. The fashion faux pas.

Exhibit A: This dapper gentleman I ran across in Midnight City. His pasty white ass, bared in his leather chaps and clearly visible from halfway across the sim, was what first drew my attention. I wish I’d left it at that, because orbiting the camera around to his front side revealed what could be the single worst fashion choice I’ve yet to see in Second Life.

Put that thing away before someone gets hurt.

An island I tried to teleport to last night was offline, so SL performed its magic and dropped me in a nearby sim. In this case, it was a happy accident, because I ended up in the Korean language welcome area, which is still under construction.

The focus of the Korean welcome area is an attractive glassed-over enclosure on the waterfront of an urban area. The detailing is superb, but not so much that the area’s frame rate suffers.