A Little Beach House

Heh! Polynesian Gothic design!

Available at her shop, Anarya Design inworld, or on the Marketplace, Anarya has a free beach house fully furnished (205 prims) with a pool!
We just can't resist another house!

Every Day In Every Way ...

Adjusting the orientation with Edit.

It's been less than a year that I bought that Animare pose maker on a whim. I love taking photos and had collected quite a few poses, mostly freebies, but some purchased. I bravely waded into the pose making, knowing no more than what the instructions were and having no idea what to make until I recalled my obsession with the Classical Ages of ancient Greece and Rome and decided to make some poses from statuary.

Okay, they were a bit rubbishy because I hadn't set all the points, so the head or the whole trunk of the body would shift around while the arms and legs stayed put. Or sometimes the whole avatar would slip a little sideways. I wanted to correct this, but I didn't want to have to remake each pose. Instead, I put the poses into poseballs and set them out in a box as freebies.

Then last weekend I was looking at my collection (saved as .bvh files in a folder in my documents) and noticed that in the beginning I had written down all the numbers for each joint. I wondered if I could compare that to the series of numbers in the .bvh files and decode them.

If I could do that, I could just edit the .bvh file and upload that. So I copied the numbers from the .bvh files and pasted them at the bottom of the corresponding notes and printed them off. At last I could see what I had done wrong and hoped to be able to correct it.

The first set of three numbers (after the set of three "0.000001") was the Hip. In order for the avatar to hold still during the pose, the three 0s had to be changed to 0.1. This sets that point. Using the HUD it would just be moving one bit of that joint and then moving it back. It still says 0 0 0 on the HUD, but it reads 0.1 0.1 0.1 when saved to a .bvh file.

Now, unfortunately, the three numbers are not in the same order in Animare as they are in the .bvh file. So I had to puzzle that out as well. Once all the mistakes were corrected, I was able to take some final photos of various avs in position (as well as quickly making a fig leaf for modesty ... which I decided to include with the poses), make a Point Of Sale sign and  upload it all to my marketplace shop.

If anyone follows after me in my clumsy footsteps, here are the body parts in order along with the Animare positions corresponding with those in the final .bvh file. The numbers reflect the order that they appear in the Animare HUD.

Mystery ##     0.000001; 0.000001; 0.000001
Hip                  forth/back; side; turn
Abdomen         forth/back; side; turn
Chest               forth/back; side; turn
Neck               forth/back; side; turn
Head               forth/back; side; turn

Left Collar       forth/back; up/down; turn
Left Shoulder   up/down; forth/back; turn
Left Elbow      forth/back; up/down; turn
Left Wrist       up/down; forth/back; turn

Right Collar     forth/back; up/down; turn
Right Shoulder up/down; forth/back; turn
Right Elbow     forth/back; up/down; turn
Right Wrist      up/down; forth/back; turn

Left Hip           forth/back; in/out; turn
Left Knee        forth/back; in/out; turn
Left Ankle       up/down; turn; to side

Right Hip         forth/back; in/out; turn
Right Knee      forth/back; in/out; turn
Right Ankle     up/down; turn; to side

Once you know where you've gone wrong, you can probably easily fix it on the fly. When you upload (and I love Firestorm for this because you see the pose on your av and not on a dummy in a little window), wiggle your cursor around to make sure you are locked in place (where you want to be - some poses might just be upper body or an arm) and if there's a wiggle where you don't want it or some odd tilt to the whole av you didn't expect, you can just open the .bvh file, adjust, and upload it again. And keep doing that until it behaves.

More information at the Animare website - although I warn you that there isn't much, mostly because this is a very easy program to use.

A Dedicated Multi-media Exhibit of Fashion

Give it time to load ...

The latest exhibit at the Paris Metro Gallery is a multi-media exhibit by Fuschia Nightfire called "Paris Fashion." Surfaces of the interior of the gallery as well as monitors come alive with a machinima of a fashion show.  The music video is fairly brief and repeats. Be sure you have your media setting turned on. The exhibit  appears throughout the gallery, so you can go to a different area and see from a different angle.

And of course there is the
commemorative gown ... also with
a moving pattern on the mesh portion.

Spring Has Come ...

New item is on the leftmost lucky board.

... to the +9 mainstore. It's such a pretty little island in the sky just to visit, but there's also something new in the non-group lucky board. You have to be quick, though, because all the boards are set to one minute. You snooze, you lose. There would be a photo of the new item, but SL turned into Crashopolis for no apparent reason. I can understand how it might get annoyed with me camming around like crazy, but it stood still for that and crashed instead right after delivery of the lucky board prize. The "box" is now hanging in midair in my skybox and, honestly, I've had enough crashing for this morning.

Instead, here are some more photos of the mainstore:

Such a lovely, peaceful place.

A Tisket, a Tasket ...

A free set of baskets! Now all we need is something to put in them.

In celebration of being chosen as "Designer Of the Month" at the Home & Garden Market, %Percentage is giving out this set of free baskets at the Home & Garden location. All five come with and without shadow and vary between 3 and 4 in the land impact department.

Congratulations, %Percentage!

Peevishness

Griefing that doesn't rez properly. We can't see the penes.

Leaping on the meme bandwagon (late, as usual), Lludmila shares pet SL peeves.  Her biggest one, because of her size, which is within normal RL(tm) human range (well, for a female, anyway), is proportion. Houses and furniture that are just too darn big and can't be modded.

Beautiful Senzafine chair ... that's too big. The chair Lludmila
is actually sitting in was labeled "kid size" and it's a better fit.

This is just soooo wrong.

The saddest of the peeves was when the non-profit tier doubled. Linden Labs is now trying to win back some of the educational institutions - but, why trust LL again?

Mystery Manor burns as Info Island closes for good.

Lludmila has never had any success with vehicles (except maybe her horse, Major). Either she ends up at the bottom of the ocean somehow or ... it takes off out of control and SL goes all crashie.

Darn that swanboat to heck! At least things that float on water
should behave better! But, no-o! They end up in the air!

Fortunately, the nice things outweigh the peeves:

Lludmila loves her friends:

a) They're really clever and creative and 2) they're just so much fun!

Lludmila loves the art:

Location, location, location (Erdbeeren at Leroy sim).

RL(tm) quilt exhibit at the Panorama Gallery.

Who doesn't love Halloween in SL?

You content creators are sick! We love you!

And, one word: carousels!

Wonderful carousel at InshCon.

There's lots more stuff: cute outfits, a new house to decorate anytime or any way you'd want (and all of it fits in file folders), and all the clever and silly stuff people come up with. So, ja ja, it's worth a bit of peeve.

Ask And Receive

Remember the Starry Night van Gogh exhibit? Remember the vibrance of color, the thrill of immersion? I was just commiserating with friends a couple of days ago about how much I miss that particular build. I sent Ann out to find some art and after she got all depressed by what was on offer from the Destination Guide she saw a teleport to some van Gogh. There are some galleries and, as if in answer to a prayer, a van Gogh village. Ann had never been to the old exhibit, but was blown away by this one. You could spend hours there.

Ann waits in vain for the painting to rez.

But it isn't all just a series of reconstructions of paintings. This is a total environment with walks, a dance area, and beautiful scenery. It is definitely worth turning the render quality way up and suffering a bit of lag. Be sure to leave a tip so exhibits like this can continue.

Ann found this one of the most relaxing places she's ever visited.

Ann asks, "Is it shallow of me to really enjoy 'pretty'?" Well, let me think about that. ... Naaah.