Brinksie

The sidelines

By Lili B. ⋅ April 16, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Seasons Hunt: Spring

By Lili B. ⋅ April 15, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s what some of the Home & Garden designers have in store for you at the Seasons Hunt Spring starting tomorrow !

Garden set: The Loft, Shelf: Little Boxes.

Table set: Kari.

Rustic and quiet, I like the landscaping of Roche. If you want to see it looking about the same as in these photos, you can use the Windlight setting I made on the fly there, here’s the .xml file (you must change the file extension from .txt to .xml and then place it in your skies folder)*. I also changed the colour of the water to these numbers. And then of course, you’ll need shadows too.

How to make an alpha layer

By Lili B. ⋅ April 7, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

Sometimes the alpha layer that comes with a purchased garment does not fit exactly and I’ve had to try alpha layers from different products to get something close enough that worked for me. But then came the time when I had to make my own and couldn’t figure out how ! It’s really pretty simple and probably comes easy if you’re a clothes-maker and are very familiar with clothing templates, but if you’ve almost never come near one in your entire SLife, then it’s hard to just guess.

I had to make an alpha layer yesterday; though I had tried to google this several times in the past I never found anything that explained me exactly how to, so now that I’ve had help figuring it out, I’ll show you too, for those out there who might be as helpless as I am. This is for Photoshop, but it’s probably much the same in The Gimp.

All these things

By Lili B. ⋅ April 7, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

I hadn’t been to Astin Miles’ shop since the time I bought a christmas tree there in 2009, I think. I love the entrance to his new shop build.

Calhoun Surf

By Lili B. ⋅ April 7, 2011 ⋅ 9 comments

Behold, the tank to end all tanks. The most beautiful back ever drawn, I am never going to need another. And it’s a freebie ! From Pig, at The Free Dove. I love this colour too, and I had completely forgotten about that freebie place. If you love this tank, like I do, it’s also been made in other colours, to be found at the Pig mainstore. The teal tank is part of a whole free outfit, and there’s one for men too.

PoseAnywhere 2

By Lili B. ⋅ April 6, 2011 ⋅ 13 comments

I have been using Tillie’s Posing Stand for over a year, maybe two, and I wanted to try and get the new PoseAnywhere HUD by DavidThomas Scorbal that is out now at Pose Fair, to see if I might like it more. I’ll do a little comparison of the features here.

You can see how PoseAnywhere works in these two videos: 1 and 2.

Adding poses. When you unpack the HUD and have watched each video once or twice, it really is easy to get started. There are three ways to add poses to your HUD and I chose to use the Pose Installer because I wanted to start with poses already in my inventory I knew I would use. I started with my (pda) ones; I dropped 5 copyable poses on the Installer, plus 2 no-copy ones. You can see in the picture: the Installer counts 7 poses total, but after installing, the HUD lists only 5 (click to view larger). That’s because the no-copy poses could not be copied over to the HUD, which makes sense and is definitely a plus for me, because it’s not infrequent for me to add a no-copy pose without paying attention and then cause my HUD to become no-copy, which always worries me in case I lose it or accidentally delete it. If you want to take the no-copy poses back, they’ll still be in the contents of the Installer. Some people might not care if their HUD goes no-copy, though, and might still like to get their no-copy poses inside the HUD, but I don’t think that’s possible, because you can’t drop poses directly in the HUD, it seems.

More really good avatars

By Lili B. ⋅ April 6, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

New and a little bit less new avatars from Really Good Builds ! As usual, they’re very affordable.

Pirate Hooker is, wow, not for everyone, I guess. I’m sure some people will appreciate the sculpted wiry pubic hair. I know I was impressed by it. Also love the animations that come with it!

Sick World is sick. And it pukes something nasty ! But it is really cute.

On a related note, I’d like to start featuring Mesh avatars here, if you or someone you know has done some really spanking Mesh avatars on the Beta grid, let me know. I’ve seen some really amazing things in youtube videos, but nothing in person yet. Get in touch ! Show me a link, a picture, or a video and perhaps we can arrange something so I can show your avatar here.

Shirt Tail Stomp

By Lili B. ⋅ March 26, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Well! I thought I was done but Tokidoki has made all these new skirts I love, and ruffled tops and scarves, too. I wanted to photograph them all, but I crashed a lot, so it’s just this one skirt. I like how overall it looks very much like a real skirt. I like the shape of the skirt and the placement of the belt, and the fact that the top is not just a simple torus plopped around my avatar’s waist. Those almost never look right; no matter how you resize, it looks awkward and rigid. But this, it all just shapes naturally around my form. I’m very pleased! The tops in this release are also very cute, very summery; and the scarves were the exact shape of scarf I had been looking for just hours before I had published my previous post.

Believe It Or Not

By Lili B. ⋅ March 26, 2011 ⋅ 8 comments

Along with Fashionably Dead and Très Blah, the Nylon Outfitters skins are possibly the only completely hand drawn skins that I’m aware of on the grid; also perhaps a little more than the two others, they might be more of an acquired taste to some, initially. Once I’d finished taking these pictures, though, I was feeling really at home in them and started to look forward to hopping off the stand and go about in them. Also, I tend to be a lot more inspired creating looks around fun skins than realistic ones; working harder at doing something *I* like, and so I end up liking them more and keeping them on longer afterward. And I’m really enjoying what I ended up with here !