Second Life Ice Skating 2022
Flyte Ice Skating Lake by Jenna Dirval and her Team http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FlyGearZ/7/215/26 Flyte on the FlyGearZ region has a wonderful skating lake set in a moody landscape of snow...
View ArticleSecond Life Winter 2022
Esprit Christmas Village and Skating Lake by Camila Runo There is a well developed winter themed region on Esprit by Camila Runo. Walk the winter woodland trails and skate the surrounding lake. Then...
View ArticleFallingwater by Miltone Marquette
I was inspired by one of Inara Pey’s excellent Second Life destinations reviews to visit another nice replica of Fallingwater in Second Life. Fallingwater is the home designed by Frank Llody Wright...
View ArticleSecond Life Skiing 2022
Try the timed ski runs on Coeur Lac d’Annecy Ski Resort… https://secondlife.com/destination/coeur-lac-dannecy-ski-resort https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Coeur%20Lac%20Annecy/51/21/2179/
View ArticleCloud Edge in Second Life
Cloud Edge on the Echo Mountain region in Second Life is a wonderful atmospheric walk in the mountains above the cloud. It is created by Funky Banana....
View ArticleSecond Life – The Magical Kingdom
The Magical Kingdom is a region in Second Life built by The Muggles group involving Dain Voxel and Suzie Anderton. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/THE%20MAGICAL%20KINGDOM/ Second Life Destination...
View ArticleSecond Life – Crystal Coast – Scuba Diving
I was prompted by a tweet by @nanami_Fray to explore a scuba diving location in Second Life at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Coast/189/68/37″>Crystal Coast. Video and Image from...
View ArticleSecond Life – Fantasy Cove
Fantasy Cove is a Second Life region moody build by digitalbleh. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fantasy%20Cove/49/151/1001 Second Life Destinations – Fantasy Cove Flickr Photos
View ArticleFirestorm VR Mod 6.6.8
Up to Firestorm 6.6.8 if you see errors like “missing vcruntime.dll”, “missing msvcp.dll” or the application is not starting at all, then please download and install Visual C++ Redistributable for...
View ArticleSecond Life Mole Day 2023
I joined the “Mole Day” celebration on 5th February 2023 to thank the Moles for all they do on behalf of Second Life residents. The Moles are the builders and maintainers of the shared spaces in Second...
View ArticleSecond Life – Les Salines – February 2023
Once again, I was inspired by one of Inara Pey’s excellent Second Life destination reviews to visit another nice build in Second Life, this time of a late Nineteenth Century western town in the...
View ArticleSecond Life PBR – Resources
Example PBR Materials (Chrome and Brass) on Door Knobs Physics Based Rendering and glTF materials use is coming to Second Life and a project viewer already exits for testing things using the Beta...
View ArticleSecond Life PBR Materials Tests
A development of Second Life is introducing Physical Based Rendering (PBR) materials based on the glTF specification. Some links and resources are in my earlier blog post. Test Materials with...
View ArticleReady Player Me Avatars in Second Life and OpenSim (Onigiri)
This blog post describes a process to take Ready Player Me (https://readyplayer.me) avatars via Blender and the Onigiri add-on to use in Second Life and OpenSim. Onigiri is a type of Japanese rice ball...
View ArticleRuth2 v4 Rigging
Sean Heavy has documented a process to add an armature/rig to the Ruth2v4 open source mesh avatar and to export components of the avatar for Second Life and OpenSim using the Onigiri Blender add-on....
View ArticleSecond Life – Teletubbies
The Teletubbies (by BBC – see Wikipedia) have arrived in Second Life.. or at least via outfits created by Blueberry and on display on the Cutieland region. So say “Eh-ho!” to Tinky Winky (Purple),...
View ArticleSecond Life Linden Bear Island
Many Lindens and Moles of the past and present have their own personal and unique teddy bear to share with Residents who ask them for it. Most of these Linden Bears are modifications of the Linden...
View ArticleSecond Life Bear Hunt
Many Second Life “Lindens” and “Moles” of the past and present have their own personal and unique teddy bear to share with Residents who ask them for it. Most of these Linden Bears are modifications of...
View ArticleSecond Life – Senra Avatars
As part of improvements to onboarding new Second Life users, a project by Linden Lab known as the “New User eXperience (NUX)” a range of new mesh avatars and clothing has been created. A dev kit to...
View ArticleGoatswood and Houndstead Abbey in Second Life
Another wonderful Second Life atmospheric build By Hera (zee9) in August 2023. Start at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Themyscira/149/183/28 for transfer to Goatswood –...
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