Reading Radar

It’s kind of painful trying to get anything done in SL lately. I just don’t have the time to get in except for a tiny window in the early afternoon and sometimes in the evening. I had to blow off a recording appointment with Itazura yesterday and I’ve pretty much just had to say “screw it” to any projects that require collaboration or video recording with anyone else. But all that aside, I finally decided to start work on the podcast exhibit in the SLPN HQ on Podcast Island that was meant to go in from the very start.

The exhibit is inspired by and uses content from Crap Mariner’s SL5B Podcast Exhibit, along with some videos I made for it. To be honest, I’m afraid it’s either going to take me a month to get it done, or else it’s going to look like the hit and run project it’ll have to be if I don’t. Oh, well. I’m getting pretty good at not doing anything very well. Why stop now?

So .. ta da! The first screen for one of the videos. Yay.

The players will get the key of the parcel media texture, then load their own texture, and then play their specified video. When stopped or done playing, they’ll restore the regular parcel media texture. It’s about as good as you can do for different video players on a single parcel. I guess I could do better by having them all use the same texture and differentiating stations some other way, then playing for each agent individually instead. I might have to do that, but for now I’ll try this approach.

Ok, if you’re thinking that this blog post has no purpose, you’re right. All it’s doing is making me feel like at least I’m getting something done. Cause I’m not really.

Who says SLPN types aren’t in the Christmas spirit?

Ho Friggen Ho, Smearedy Claus.

When winter falls, the critters of the land have to go into survival mode. And that’s pretty easy for some, since there’s now a big ginger bread looking thing on podcast island.

This guy looks a little annoyed though… Maybe his paws are cold… something’s got him howling. Maybe he’s worried that Linden Lab will come after his skin next… you know how anyone who has a realistic animal avatar is… surely they’re up to some kind of sick beast play. There’s no way it could be fun being a wolf or anything. After all, if you don’t want to be a normal looking human in a world where you can be anything, something HAS to be wrong with you.

Oh, well… it’s fun anyway.

Wolf avatar by Jakkal Dingo.

Last year I used a lot of prims to cover Podcast Island with ice. This year, I pulled out 4 megaprims and slammed ‘em down. Done. And I actually could have done it with one, probably, but I couldn’t find the 256 x 256 which I have stashed somewhere, and I didn’t feel like unboxing more megaprims.

Ok, so I actually wound up using 6 as I was getting an error about not being allowed to reposition near the east side of the sim, so I used a couple of narrower prims, but, oh well. It’s still nice and icy.

Thanks to Crap Mariner for linking to the sculpted icicles by Dirk Talamasca (seen below). I’ll have to get more of those put out soon. For now, the bridge is probably best navigated at the center and not the edge, unless you really feel like hitting the ice below. Of course, it won’t matter - you’re an AVATAR! Jump ‘em if you got ‘em.

I don’t have any sculpty snowbanks or anything, but maybe Chug or Stuart does.

UPDATE: Turns out Dirk Talamasca makes sculpty snowbanks too.

And Random Person has a pretty cool sculpty snowman kit.

UPDATE UPDATE: And then there was one. One prim that is. Covering the island. Ice. You know. Instead of the previous six.