Tag: Second Life

  • Second Life Prim Lights – 3

    Full-bright and Glow This is the last article in my short (and rather infrequent) series about lights in Second Life. I’m going to take a look at two elements of textures which are often used in conjunction with lights, and which are also widely misunderstood and misused. Let’s start with Full-bright. This can be switched…

  • TextureMania Hunt

    Mandi Blanco has organised another hunt, this time dedicated specifically to textures (including sculpt textures). Naturally, Templar Creations is taking part, along with a host of other (very talented — check out the gifts page on the Texture Mania blog!) texture creators. It starts today (1 July 2010), and you can find more information and…

  • Dark SF Textures – Set 2

    This is my second set of textures with a dark science-fiction theme (think ‘Quake’, or similar games). Lots of metal plates and piping, and a few lights and control boxes thrown in. All the textures are 512 x 512, and you can view them all at the Texture Gallery. To buy this set, either visit…

  • A Not-So-Brief Guide to SLurls

    This started out as ‘A Brief Guide…’, but I found that there was more to say about them than I thought! If you are familiar with SecondLife, you will certainly have come across SLurls. In-world, they appear as hyperlinks (you can see them as such in chat or in notices, amongst other places). They look…

  • Texture Galleries

    It’s always been difficult to provide a good way of letting people preview a texture set before they buy it. I put samples of the textures on the Xstreet pages, but these only show a few textures, and tend to load slowly (possibly because of the amount of traffic that the Xstreet servers are dealing…

  • Medieval Textures and Farmhouse

    Not one, but two new releases. They are closely related though — one is a set of Medieval Village textures, and the other is a Medieval Farmhouse which makes use of some of those textures. The Medieval Village texture set consists of 34 textures, including both transparent and non-transparent versions of the four textures which…

  • Exhibition Hall Textures – Set 1

    I recently completed a small commission project, building an exhibition hall for the Geneva Motor Show: I created a number of textures specifically for this, and I’ve taken these and improved them a bit (I think!), added some additional ones, and am now releasing them as a new texture set. Here’s a few samples, and…

  • Victorian Interiors – Set 1, Take 2

    An explanation and an announcement Charity Tearfall posted a brief, complimentary review of the Victorian Interior textures on XstreetSL (thanks!), but suggested that it would be good if the windows were transparent. Well, she’s right, it’s always useful for windows to be transparent! Unfortunately, and as you are probably aware if you are a resident,…

  • 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…