I have made some textures for winter and put them at Lendonias mountain tops.It looks a lot better and I can fit in some winter landscape.
I have started on some building blocks for a medieval city. There is no way I can build the main city without building blocks. So I am working on it.
On the developer grid website I just got a new project system and a new website for 2worlds2go developers. Soon I hope that more designers join 2worlds2go for even greater projects.
The work continues.
Today I visited SL10B. Very nice and I just love all the pod rides. But it got me thinking about why I am just visiting not living in Second life as I did before. I am in world a few times a week but I used to be online all the time. Creating stuff, partying and making new friends.
And so it struck me it is the creative tools they migrated off world and so did i. When you use mesh, texture creation tools and sculpties you need off world tools. So it is more ordinary computer work. They make creative work so much better but what I loved was working in Second life. Having people drop by and building something and the go off to a party and never leave Second life.
My very nice studios with great views that I paid thousands of dollars for was the reason why I staid in world in SL. Now I just visit and I would really want to spend more time but with the tools in the viewer today it is not possible to create in Second life anymore if you want to do great work.
I want another studio, maybe on a mountain top and great tools to create for the SL community. Time to think again Linden lab.
There world was a virtual world that was closed down several years ago but now is up and running again. I made a new account today and paid 10 USD to join the fun again. It is all very dated but have always loved the graphical look of There so I wanted to visit again.
At the time There had to compete with a very hyped Second life and also made a lot of mistakes. Remember this is the beginning of virtual worlds. Nobody knew how to run them.
In my mind There´s mistakes where that they did focus at a young group of users so it had to be fun and clean, no nudity. Today we know that most people that use virtual worlds are older and it is not always that “clean”. There did not let its users create what ever they wanted and on the other hand let everybody place stuff you could buy in any way they liked making the world cluttered and very ugly.
There did not have very much content making big areas totally abandoned and empty.
But There have a great physics system that make vehicles really drivable. And the world have a very clean graphic look as a ever lasting summer break. I think many grown up users would love a world like that today.
In today´s graphic environment with games like Guild wars 2 and some parts of Second life. Where the graphic work is very good.
I think There World stands out much better. It is not about, that you cant do better graphics it is a look and feel. And the physics make There ready for any game you can think of.
I have been looking for a world of my own to build. And as I cant get my hands on There Worlds code I suppose I have to write it myself. I be sneaking around There for a while stealing ideas or just hang out as before.
I you want to try out There you find it here https://www.there.com/
If you are using a modern op system like Win 8 you have to run the client in XP compatibility mode. Took me a while to figure that one out.
It is all very old you know.
