The continuing story of life in virtual and why I love opensim!
Sorry, its been a long time! However, facing one’s constant newbness isn’t always easy! For instance…I just recently learned there’s a little + sign in people’s profiles that you can use to invite them to groups with! Who knew??!!!!! Yes..I have been doing it the long way this whole time!....SO…guess I’m just one of those perpetual newbs lol…and I’m ok with that.
Speaking of newb…its time we revisited my attempts at making sculpts. Many of you will remember the wonders of having sculpts, cutting down on our prim usage with them (and yes visiting places that went overboard with sculpts and waiting forever to have the little bubbles turn into builds!). I am one of those people who found Blender to be…challenging shall we say? My first couple of years trying to make something in blender resulted mostly in lots of things with lots of extrusions and no discernible shape or logic or reason….
Then one day….eureka! (I thought) and I made SOMETHING! (oh and btw..that one day was about 5 years after I first tried to learn blender….hey I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer!).
I was soo excited! I had this vision of what I wanted it to be and I pushed and pulled and twisted and what not!
Then I very carefully made my sculptie map.
Uploaded it into the grid I was in at the time.
Rezzed a prim.
Applied the sculpt map!
Aaaaaaand…got something that was almost completely, but not totally, unrecognizable as anything……
Well, after some sizing inworld…I was able to turn it into what could be considered a fruitbowl. Further sizing turned it into something that could be considered a vase.
And I didn’t touch blender again.
Well, til mesh came out….
So, just over the weekend I created a highwaisted, pencil skirt. I didn’t use Marvelous Designer, I didn’t use a full perm creation template.
I made it completely old school.
And..it is recognizable as a skirt!
Its pretty basic, and it won’t win any awards for high fashion, and it won’t get any “oooohs and aaahhhs” when people see it. Some of you might even roll your eyes at it…but you see its not that I made it for you, its not that I made it for me…its that I made it at all…..kind of miraculous.
I’ve attached a picture of it (with a top made by a friend of mine and shoes by another and of course Ruth 2.0 body by Shin).
So, maybe just maybe I dressed it up a little bit so you all wouldn’t see how its lacking ;p. My hope is that it encourages others who might be thinking “I can’t do that” or “this is not good enough” to not be so critical of themselves and their creations. We all start somewhere and if we keep at it we learn and grow.
And if I never make another mesh clothing item again that looks at least this good, well I’m ok with that.
Sorry, its been a long time! However, facing one’s constant newbness isn’t always easy! For instance…I just recently learned there’s a little + sign in people’s profiles that you can use to invite them to groups with! Who knew??!!!!! Yes..I have been doing it the long way this whole time!....SO…guess I’m just one of those perpetual newbs lol…and I’m ok with that.
Speaking of newb…its time we revisited my attempts at making sculpts. Many of you will remember the wonders of having sculpts, cutting down on our prim usage with them (and yes visiting places that went overboard with sculpts and waiting forever to have the little bubbles turn into builds!). I am one of those people who found Blender to be…challenging shall we say? My first couple of years trying to make something in blender resulted mostly in lots of things with lots of extrusions and no discernible shape or logic or reason….
Then one day….eureka! (I thought) and I made SOMETHING! (oh and btw..that one day was about 5 years after I first tried to learn blender….hey I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer!).
I was soo excited! I had this vision of what I wanted it to be and I pushed and pulled and twisted and what not!
Then I very carefully made my sculptie map.
Uploaded it into the grid I was in at the time.
Rezzed a prim.
Applied the sculpt map!
Aaaaaaand…got something that was almost completely, but not totally, unrecognizable as anything……
Well, after some sizing inworld…I was able to turn it into what could be considered a fruitbowl. Further sizing turned it into something that could be considered a vase.
And I didn’t touch blender again.
Well, til mesh came out….
So, just over the weekend I created a highwaisted, pencil skirt. I didn’t use Marvelous Designer, I didn’t use a full perm creation template.
I made it completely old school.
And..it is recognizable as a skirt!
Its pretty basic, and it won’t win any awards for high fashion, and it won’t get any “oooohs and aaahhhs” when people see it. Some of you might even roll your eyes at it…but you see its not that I made it for you, its not that I made it for me…its that I made it at all…..kind of miraculous.
I’ve attached a picture of it (with a top made by a friend of mine and shoes by another and of course Ruth 2.0 body by Shin).
So, maybe just maybe I dressed it up a little bit so you all wouldn’t see how its lacking ;p. My hope is that it encourages others who might be thinking “I can’t do that” or “this is not good enough” to not be so critical of themselves and their creations. We all start somewhere and if we keep at it we learn and grow.
And if I never make another mesh clothing item again that looks at least this good, well I’m ok with that.
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