Category: News

  • Victorian Interior Textures – Set 1

    A new texture set! This time it’s a collection of 30 wall textures in a Victorian style, suitable for the Victorian gentleperson at home, or for Steampunk inventors in search of a stylish interior for their latest vehicle! As usual, you can get the texture set from XStreetSL, or in-world at the Templar Creations store.…

  • Second Life Viewer 2.0 — Some Brief Tips

    I don’t like it, you don’t like it, but LL is determined to force it down our throats. There’s plenty of discussion elsewhere about the pros and cons of the new Viewer 2.0, so I won’t pick that up here. Instead, I’ll just bring a few tips that might make your experience a little bit…

  • Building Blocks Hunt

    Templar Creations is participating in the Building Blocks Hunt, which will be running all through March. I think it might be a first, because it’s a hunt aimed specifically at builders — all the stores in the hunt are suppliers of scripts, sculpts, or textures. It’s being run by Mandi Blanco, and she has a…

  • Castle Textures – Set 2

    My Christmas break was a bit longer than anticipated, but now I’m back and with a new texture set! This is the second in the new collection of castle textures, and this one adds windows and doors to go with the walls from the previous set. Here is a quick preview: Visit the store to…

  • Castle Textures – Set 1

    This is the first in a new collection of texture sets, for castle builds. This set consists of textures mainly for walls, floors, and ceilings. As usual, they seamlessly tile, and are all at 256×256. A few examples: You can get them from the Main Store, or from the XstreetSL page.

  • Cave Textures – Set 1

    A new collection of textures, this time for cave walls and floors, and probably suitable for cliff-faces and similar environments. As usual, there are 20 textures, 256 x 256, and they all seamlessly tile. A few examples: You can find them at the Main Store, or on the XstreetSL pages.

  • Steampunk Textures – Set 7

    Now available from the main store and from XstreetSL, this new texture set is mainly for walls and floors, and consists of 20 seamlessly tiling textures. A few examples: View the set on XstreetSL Visit the Templar Creations Main Store

  • More Steampunk Goodness

    Yes, a new set of Steampunk textures! Not only that, but sets 4, 5, and 6 (the new set) are now available as a combined Steampunk Textures Collection 2, for a discounted price of L$250. A couple of samples pictures from the new set. There are actually four textures in each picture, but they fit…

  • The Future Looks Dark

    A new collection of textures, this time with a Dark SF look to them, akin to the textures from Quake and similar games. As usual, there are 20 textures in the pack, in a mixture of sizes (the smaller sizes are usually designed to be tiled — set the horizontal and vertical repeats to 5…

  • Putting Things In Motion

    Yet another Steampunk texture pack, but this time with a crucial difference: these ones are animated textures. Use them to bring your steampunk machinery to life, but please be careful — yes, I’m looking at you, Dr Frankenstein… Of course, animated textures need a bit more work than just applying them to a prim. You…