Wednesday, January 13, 2010

K, Who Do We ask To Change? LL or Designers?


I love this Thursday special from Pieces of Candy  (pants, top and belt). But on closer look, my pant's stick out! Why can't LL allow certain edit rights? or designers just give it?


Sunday, January 10, 2010

I Designed My Real Life Lighting 1st in Second Life


I have been working on a kitchen remodel in RL. The lighting over the sink peninsula was was a real problem in design. I want the pendants to hang parallel. If you look at the picture from the manufacturer, (LBL Lighting), 2 of the pendants are not on the rail system, but direct wired to a ceiling fixture.

Although you cannot see, I built the counters according to the measurements in RL. The sink is off center. I played with curves until I found what worked with the length and width of the counter, and on a grid, it was easy to see where the alignment of the 3 pendants worked out. I was ready for new lighting in my SL home, so I built it! Below are the results. I ended up using a rusty corroded metal texture to simulate the "Jelly" pendant. I know there is a mathematical way of figuring this out, but I hardly remember to try to use circles radii, let alone arcs. The rail pieces ended up being sections of a circles stretched and cut until I got it!