#chameleonicpossessions — Public Fediverse posts

Drawdown Plan for DFS in #SecondLife

Somehow, my drawdown plan to get out of the daily drudgery of “playing” the Digital Farm Systems inworld game involves buying a few selected items. I’m selective about what I want: good quality mesh, well designed, that works with a traditional early 20th century aesthetic.

On the other hand, I discovered with dismay that

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2025/07/drawdown-plan-for-dfs-in-secondlife/

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Palia looks like an interesting MMO, but am I a Girl Genius?

I’ve been enjoying light farming while downsizing/cooking down my excess #DigitalFarmSystem inventory in #SecondLife and ran across some reviews of other games and MMOs in the SL Newser blog.

Girl Genius and Palia appeal to me, especially the former game. One of my longtime commu

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2024/11/palia-looks-like-an-interesting-mmo-but-am-i-a-girl-genius/

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Progress Report On Inventory Sort and Dumping DFS in #SecondLife

The progress report on reorganizing my bloated and discombobulated #SecondLife inventory is… it’s in progress.

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2024/11/progress-report-on-inventory-sort-and-dumping-dfs-in-secondlife/

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Customizing #SecondLife – So Many Bodies, So Much Junk To Sort

There are dozens of #SecondLife mesh bodies and hundreds of virtual fashion designers. Creators have to design multiple versions to rig to different mesh body brands. Last year, I bought the one that’s insanely complex but extremely adjustable and modifi

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2024/10/customizing-secondlife-so-many-bodies-so-much-junk-to-sort/

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#NVIDIA Settings for #SecondLife

My card is a GTX 4070 Super, but I made these changes and will check frame rate later. I attended a DJ/dance at Cafe Wellstone with NO issues and good framerates.Via: NVIDIA Users - settings that will make SL smoother

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2024/10/nvidia-settings-for-secondlife/

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PBR Materials Broke My Brain

This is one reason I fell out of Second Life. Technological advances that got beyond my ability to adapt.

Lost interest after making some progress in classes, as the new techniques got more complex.

Also, I was waiting for Firestorm to update, as I dislike the main viewer.

I could no longer get excited and make things. But hey! There’s

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2024/10/pbr-materials-broke-my-brain/

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Fell Out Of The World Again, Hate When That Happens

It’s been a year since I last logged in to Second Life, or updated here. Why?

I got frustrated with trying to learn Blender yet again, with PBR just coming in
I got frustrated with feeling like stuff I had created was hopelessly outdated
I felt pressured by another resident to be! Friends! In! Voice! A

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2024/10/fell-out-of-the-world-again-hate-when-that-happens/

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Cannes 2024 Immersive Competition

Sounds interesting, were any #SecondLife #machinima works submitted? There’s a separate immersive exhibition, patronised by artist Jean-Michel Jarre.
For its inaugural edition, a committee of industry experts and Festival de Cannes representatives, under the supervision of the General Delegate of the Festival de Cannes, will select eight im

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2024/04/cannes-2024-immersive-competition/

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Change Is Coming – Welcome to Steelhead City in #SecondLife

My chosen community in Second Life is going through some exciting changes - Sheriff Fuzzball Ortega is reorganizing things, and a crew of folks are working on various remodeling and rebuilding projects around Steelhead City. There will be parcels available for rental ver

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/10/change-is-coming-welcome-to-steelhead-city-in-secondlife/

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Channel Packing Tool #specularworkflow for #SecondLife or #gameassets

While doing homework for the coming #glTF workflow in #SecondLife I struggled with #channelpacking textures for manipulating how light reflects off of materials in a game engine. It’s easy in Photoshop, harder in GIMP.

Th

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/09/channel-packing-tool-specularworkflow-for-secondlife-or-gameassets/

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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon – Edit mode tools and hotkeys

Now some more fundamentals for review. If you find this series of posts tedious - please filter on #BlenderGoon as I'm trying to watch all his instructional videos in order.

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/09/learning-blender-with-blendergoon-edit-mode-tools-and-hotkeys/

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How To Sign Up for #SecondLife

This is Goonther Blackcinder's walkthrough for how to sign up for a free Second Life account. Personally, I recommend that you set up your account to go through the "community gateway" that most aligns with your area of interest - Firestorm Viewer's is good, and my favorite is Caledon Oxbridge University (a Steampunk/Victorian mini-nation within Sec

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/09/how-to-sign-up-for-secondlife/

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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon – V1.4 Blender Object Mode Tools

The next video in Goon's series covers Object Mode tools.

I'm going to try to speed up for these and spend less time looking for funny Blender memes to replace the "featured image." BUT THEY ARE SO FUNNY...

Ten or thirty minutes later I fin

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/09/learning-blender-with-blendergoon-v1-4-blender-object-mode-tools/

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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon – Viewport Navigation

The next video in Goon's tutorial series goes over viewport navigation, whether using the gizmos in the upper right corner, or keyboard shortcuts. I have struggled in the past with some of these and with some shortcuts, they just don't "stick" in my head, like Shift-C

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/09/learning-blender-with-blendergoon-viewport-navigation/

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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon – Install Blender

I'm going to watch every one of #BlenderGoon 's #Blender tutorials in order, because I keep getting frustrated by my lack of grounding in the fundamentals.

Goon (Goonther Blackcinder) is a #SecondLife resident who teaches at #BlenderSchool inworld at (SLURL) GoodVibes

There's an active Discord group - there's

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/09/learning-blender-with-blendergoon-install-blender/

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Playing Around With #PBR in #SecondLife – Safety Not Guaranteed

As I'm on a sort of vacation from my RL job this week and next week, I've been able to spend more time attending classes, fooling around with Blender, and thinking about what I want to make for fun, for creativity, and maybe for some $Lindens.

After attending the PBR class

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/09/playing-around-with-pbr-in-secondlife-safety-not-guaranteed/

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The Virtual Farming Addiction: Going Lukewarm Turkey in #SecondLife

Over the last few weeks, I've been "picking up" my virtual fields as they gradually reached a harvestable state - with this game, when you harvest, you get a new bag of seed of the same kind to "plant."

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/08/the-virtual-farming-addiction-going-lukewarm-turkey/

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Getting My #SecondLife Just In Time To Celebrate

My #FirstLife house remodeling project is finally complete, and as of a week ago or so, my big desktop computer is set up and working in its new location in a combination guest room/sewing room.

So for the past week I've been reconnecting with friends, and even managed to make it to #RelayForLif

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/06/getting-my-secondlife-just-in-time-to-celebrate/

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They’re Coming To Take Me Away

I'm dancing at Club Gearz in #SecondLife with my friends in Steelhead Bay  listening to the radio stream on SciFi.com. My landlord Fuzzball Ortega is a DJ there and he streams live on Fridays for a regular community dance. The first half of the set is always weird stuff he finds. The chat went like this:

Now playing: Baltimora -

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/03/theyre-coming-to-take-me-away/

#ChameleonicPossessions #SecondLife #SteelheadBay

Bad luck Cynthia Farshore! #Second Life

My #SecondLife friend Cynthia Farshore was driving a cute Mardi Gras band along the route of the Caledon Mardi Gras parade and hit a bad sim crossing, derailing into a nearby lake. She frequently had to stop and reposition the train she was riding when there were tricky turns and crossings. I was "wearing" my vehicle and still had

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/03/bad-luck-cynthia-farshore-second-life/

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Mardi Gras is anytime in #SecondLife

The #SecondLife community of Caledon held their Mardi Gras parade and ball a week or so after the actual holiday. The parade followed a route that was set with fleurs-de-lys that was mostly along a scripted rail line (it's community land, so the same music could be heard all along the way).

Naturally, people tu

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/03/mardi-gras-is-anytime-in-secondlife/

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Meanwhile, I FINALLY GOT MOAP to play my favorite music station.#TheColoradoSound #SecondLifeSolutions

I cannot stress how much this had affected my inworld mood lately - something changed with the way this station's stream was handled by the Firestorm viewer...

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/02/meanwhile-i-finally-got-moap-to-play-my-favorite-music-station-thecoloradosound-secondlifesolutions/

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New Keyboard, What Is This You’re Typewrong? #SecondLife Problems

My fridge came with no-mod kitsch photos, so I covered them up with kitchen photos.

DFS often provides the ability to resize the no-mod tools so you can fit them into smaller or larger spaces as needed. But you can't change textures, or colors

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/02/new-keyboard-what-is-this-youre-typewrong-secondlife-problems/

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Shopping or Shenanigans?

This entire region of "black kite" is a huge, literally immersive art installation. A well known #SecondLife content creator has a shop at the end of one of the jettys... the rest of the region has... adult interaction areas that are very artful, not at all private, and rather clever. And the music is nice.

A large version of this image may end

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/02/shopping-or-shenanigans/

#ChameleonicPossessions #Photography #SecondLife

Sorting Out A Near Disaster in #SecondLife

It literally sorted itself out eventually. Most of the stuff showed up in the sorters that I put out, and some things sorted themselves back into the right folders. I was sweating there for a few hours, though.
Oops. I accidentally dumped my entire inventory of no-copy DFS objects into a scripted sorting prim; more than 150

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/02/sorting-out-a-near-disaster-in-secondlife/

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Yeah, About That Making My #SecondLife Simpler Thing…

Last week, I blogged about making my #SecondLife simpler, more organized, and spending more time in creative pursuits and less time on mindless virtual farming, tending, planting, harvesting, cooking...and so on.

Over the last couple of weekends, and l

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/02/yeah-about-that-making-my-secondlife-simpler-thing/

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My Virtual Farming Life

The #SecondLife #DigitalFarmingSystems game, or lifestyle, starts out with a simple “kit.” You start with a cow, a bull, 2 dirt fields, hay seed, tomato seed, and a water well.

The next thing you know, you’ve bought dozens of kinds of seeds, pigs, chickens, ducks, llamas, goats, gators, ostriches, 10 kinds of fruit trees, multiple kitc

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/01/my-virtual-farming-life/

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Nawlins: Press Release – Morte Gras

I’m planning on participating as a vendor, but have been sick for a few days. But I hope to have a new exclusive hat and an updated bunting set for this event in #SecondLife
ALT TEXT: Morte Gras, a dark Mardi Gras event 11FEB-28FEB in Flox sim 128,128,28

: Press Release

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/01/nawlins-press-release-morte-gras/

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Kickoff Video #RelayForLife in #SecondLife

#RelayForLife in #SecondLife video features avatars of many species and types walking a virtual relay track

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/01/kickoff-video-relayforlife-in-secondlife/

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Need To Start Creating In #SecondLife Again

The last time I made anything new or created something myself in #SecondLife was February 2019 for an inworld hunt I had participated in for years.

Then I got sucked into the inworld farming game (DFS) and spent all my time feeding, tending, planting, cooking, and photographing products for selling in t

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/01/need-to-start-creating-in-secondlife-again/

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Second Life Newser: Interview With Gem Sunkiller

Long time reader of the #SecondLife newspaper the #SLNewser - you have to ignore the outdated look. #RelayForLifeInSecondLife is a huge fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, raising millions of real US dollars over the years. In the int

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/01/second-life-newser-interview-with-gem-sunkiller/

#ChameleonicPossessions #RelayForLife #Steelhead #RelayforLifeinSecondLife #RFL #SecondLife #SLNewser

Second Life Newser: Interview With Gem Sunkiller

Long time reader of the #SecondLife newspaper the #SLNewser - you have to ignore the outdated look. #RelayForLifeInSecondLife is a huge fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, raising millions of real US dollars over the years. In the int

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/01/second-life-newser-interview-with-gem-sunkiller/

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Second Life Newser: Interview With Gem Sunkiller

Long time reader of the #SecondLife newspaper the #SLNewser - you have to ignore the outdated look. #RelayForLifeInSecondLife is a huge fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, raising millions of real US dollars over the years. In the int

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/01/second-life-newser-interview-with-gem-sunkiller/

#ChameleonicPossessions #RelayForLife #Steelhead #RelayforLifeinSecondLife #RFL #SecondLife #SLNewser

Second Life Newser: Interview With Gem Sunkiller

Long time reader of the #SecondLife newspaper the #SLNewser - you have to ignore the outdated look. #RelayForLifeInSecondLife is a huge fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, raising millions of real US dollars over the years. In the int

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/01/second-life-newser-interview-with-gem-sunkiller/

#ChameleonicPossessions #RelayForLife #Steelhead #RelayforLifeinSecondLife #RFL #SecondLife #SLNewser

Second Life Newser: Interview With Gem Sunkiller

Long time reader of the #SecondLife newspaper the #SLNewser - you have to ignore the outdated look. #RelayForLifeInSecondLife is a huge fundraising event for the American Cancer Society, raising millions of real US dollars over the years. In the int

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/01/second-life-newser-interview-with-gem-sunkiller/

#ChameleonicPossessions #RelayForLife #Steelhead #RelayforLifeinSecondLife #RFL #SecondLife #SLNewser

The Virtual Fashion Industry in Second Life ~ VIRTUALITY

I’m more of a #VintageFair or #SteamHunt person but #VirtualFashion is big business in #SecondLife

https://www.lelanicarver.com/2023/01/the-virtual-fashion-industry-in-second-life-virtuality/

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