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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
[ Albert Einstein ]
Happy Sliders Sunday!!!
His car is Horizont Agressor LAMBORGHINI with max speed 325 km/h, acceleration to 100 km/h per 3.2 sec and 7-speed preselective transmission. This is a super sport car is the first production car in the world to use an inertial navigation system. The use of gyroscopic sensors and accelerometers allows for more accurate measurements of the vehicle's movement, thereby significantly increasing the quality of its handling.
- Cyber Monster Mask by CREATiCA available on Commotion Event on 20.09.2019
Taxi - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lono%20Ku/71/97/2780
Video - youtu.be/IyXgJ__btJQ
Photo Location - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/INSILICO%20SOUTH/100/104/3602
Flickr compresses images, affecting their quality. I rendered this one multiple times at varying resolutions and light settings and each time uploaded it to check distortions caused by Flick's compression algorithm. This is the least bad. The original file looks better.
I am making progress with Blender. Never thought I would be able to make things like this. When I first opened Blender, I had no idea what to screen showed, and it took me a full day to work my way through the first 30 minutes tutorial I had a go at. The first task being somehow getting rid of the infamous default cube!
Still, I figured if others can do it, so can I. If something is learnable, I can learn it. It took some determination though.
The alien space ship is made by applying the discombabulator on a torus mesh (a technique explained by Kev Binge here), then I removed a ring of protrusions and replaced it with a cylinder in which I made windows (inset faces, extrude along the normals) with an emission shader for the lights.
For the city I used the same technique as the one I used to make the carpet with the piano some time ago:
I first made a dozen or so low poly buildings and put those in an object collection.
Then I set up a plane as particle emitter but instead of emitting hairs I made it randomly emit hundreds of buildings from the collection at random heights. This is a lot quicker than having to copy/paste and resize buildings manually.
Light effects are created with area lights. And the fog is created with volumetrics.
By keeping everything low poly, it is possible to make such scenes even with my computer. The most important thing is a good graphics card with decent cooling.
A Symphony of Construction 2023 build. Visit the website to admire the other builds and musical pieces. Definitely worth a visit!
The second stage
It slithers awake
Twisting inside
Its fingers writhe
The ovomorph opens slow
Like a macabre flower unknown
From within the black
It now attacks
Hugged around your face
Lungs can't stand the strain
Forceful insemination
Mankind's annihilation
FACEHUGGER!
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This is Part 2 of an alien trilogy set of photos...you can see part one Here! and stay tuned for part 3!
When you need coffee and the barista reacts to your grumpy look.
Hey, I look much better after my first cup.
After that disaster with the OFE units, the Blue Mystery company dissolved and was never heard of again. Or so it seems.
They moved off-world and worked in secret for many years on a new line of robots. With the launch of their latest product, S.A.P.E (Sentient Automated Planetary Explorer) they took over space exploration.
And indeed for a while all was well and Blue Mystery was able to clear their name. Until reports came in from far and wide about the sheer stupidity of the S.A.P.E. units. It was not long before people referred to them as "Stupid Apes". And with that the fate of Blue Mystery was finally sealed.
A cool new addition to the 80 days sim : *80Days* IN A GALAXY ... a STAR WARS venue
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Exorium/147/132/22
I love this outpost. It does have a lot of mesh figures standing here and there but Camila did a wonderful job finding some alien ones and grouping them to make some fun photo vignettes. So far I found two bars you can go inside where you can sit and have a drink.A lot of the buildings look closed but if you touch the airlock door, they open and you can enter the bar, diner, boxing ring or whatever. It looks like a space outpost on an outer planet that is a mix of high tech and medieval village so you'll see a space flyer and also a butcher stall with carcasses to sell meat. I love the feel here. It's perfect to hang with friends and do a roleplay or do a photoshoot featuring scifi clothes.
If you join the 80 days group, you can rez things temporarily for taking pics which is how we're using the Firefly jetbike by Abranimations
Landscaping/Interior decorating of the scenic outpost by C̲a̲m̲i̲l̲a̲ (camila.runo).
A lot of the things are linked here probably to reduce prim count so for many things I can't provide details. So this time I'm going to pass on listing everything I can click on.