Kendra's Mentor Blog

Not Dead

kendracharlton — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:11:06 +0000

Obviously I haven’t updated in quite a long time. I am also no longer a member of the Second Life mentor group, however I think I will keep this blog up because it still has a lot of helpful points and I may start updating it again when the time is right. There’s just been so much going on right now that I haven’t been able to update, sorry.

About Sculpty Prims

kendracharlton — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:55:55 +0000

Vlad Bjornson has made various helpful video tutorials on several different subjects. One of the subjects he covers quite frequently is sculpted prims, also known as “sculptie” or “sculpty” prims. He probably has one of the best sculpted tutorials that I have seen yet, so I thought I would share it with you all in hopes that it might help you understand what sculpted prims are all about. Be sure to also check out Vlad’s website and his WeGame page!

Because I cannot seem to get WeGame videos to embed properly, just follow the link:

http://www.wegame.com/watch/Intro_to_Sculpted_Prims_in_Second_Life/

Eloh Eliot’s Full Perm Skins

kendracharlton — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:37:41 +0000

Play around with these in Photoshop, or another paint program, and make your own SL skin!

clipped from www.vintfalken.com

Artisans these skins are provided as separate textures and can be used to gain knowledge AND to help the new. Double threat If you have an interest in skin making or know any broke avies, don’t miss these designs by the great and generous maker Eloh Eliot. Deck the halls with good looking avatars!

These 12 free skin textures (each skin exists out of a head texture, a lower body texture and an upper body texture) are full perm, which means you can export them back to RL to play with them – and learn from that – in Photoshop. The way to do this:

In Second Life, find the texture you want to copy to your hard drive and open the skin texture so that it shows on your screen.

Make sure it’s selected: it should be in front and the frame is dark grey, not transparent.

Go to the File menu and choose ’save texture as’.

… the rest of the process should be familiar.

This just gets better & better. Eloh Eliot has made the original .psd files of the skin textures available:

More Free Skin Choices From Rave Nation

kendracharlton — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:42:20 +0000

Sae Luan has made a few more colours of her new free skin. Catch the first post I wrote about them HERE. Find the other colours HERE. Read the forum post HERE. Now if only I could get in-world to grab ‘em. D=

New freebie style @ Moonshine

kendracharlton — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:55:28 +0000

Shelly Toonie says “Ok..dollarbie I reckon, but here it is. Rosey is messy flyway piggies with color change hairties. 12 tipped shades for 1L”.

I do not see a store location, or the location of the freebie in the post, but she does give us a LINK TO HER BLOG. I suggest you search for either her name (Shelly Toonie) or her store’s name (Moonshine) to find it. View the forum post HERE.

Sensual Scarlett Freebie

kendracharlton — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:51:07 +0000

This just in from Annabelle Nicholas of Luxurious Fashion:

“A gift to you from the Luxurious fashion line. A sensual outfit for clubbing or for that special moment wiith that special someone.”

You can find the store HERE. See her blog HERE.

Free Skin

kendracharlton — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:47:49 +0000

A free skin by Sae Luan of Rave Nation is available for all the ladies.

”When one creator goes open source, the entire community benefits! Thanks to Eloh Eliot, I am excited to present this free skin for you guys. I named it cotton candy because it’s so pink makeup~ I worked alot on the face and eyebrows ;p I hope you will enjoy this skin, I am having a ton of fun learning! “

Get the skin HERE. Read the forum post HERE.

Colours – Mix And Match!

kendracharlton — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:31:39 +0000

There are people out there that find creating colour schemes to be a bit of a challenge. I like to pretend that I am not one of these people, but sadly I probably am. I don’t feel too distressed by it though, as Cory Edo has confessed that she is not an expert at it either in a post in her blog.

Like most bloggers, Cory has kindly shared some resources to make this task a tiny bit easier: Kuler and COLOURlovers. The niftiest feature available on both of the websites would have to be the Photoshop Swatch (.ase) file. This means that you can place the colours right into your Swatches palette without having to use the eye drop tool to get the exact colour/shade. Hurray for features that make life easier! The least favourite feature both of the websites share is the fact that you are required to register with them in order to use them to their full potential.

Tips of the Week Now Available for Streaming/Downloading!

kendracharlton — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:23:59 +0000

Yay! Streaming these videos will be great for events!

clipped from blog.secondlife.com

Tips of the Week NOW available for streaming�inworld…

… and download too!

� Video Tutorials (click me!)

SL Inventory Issues

kendracharlton — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:20:39 +0000

Read and be warned! Be careful about what you are rezzing at this time!

clipped from blog.secondlife.com

[UPDATED] SL Inventory Issues at this�time

[Update 9:21 PST] We are still examining this issue and looking into resolving it. Keep an eye on this post for further updates. -Elle

Second Life is currently experiencing Inventory Issues. It is highly recommended that Residents do not rez or edit any items in their inventory or attachments on their Avatars. Second Life at this time is restricted to Linden Login only until this issue is resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.