Ana Lutetia: 04/01/2009

23 April 2009

Traveling Prim Project Template

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21 April 2009

scary

wearing the UI
posted by Ana Lutetia on Curio using a blogHUD : [permalink]

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20 April 2009

tutorial | Anti-Analising

According to the wikipedia, Anti-Analising is

In digital signal processing, anti-aliasing is the technique of minimizing the distortion artifacts known as aliasing when representing a high-resolution signal at a lower resolution. Anti-aliasing is used in digital photography, computer graphics, digital audio, and many other applications.

For me it's the difference between a pixelized image and a perfect image. By default and until yesterday, I never had any issues whatsoever with AA but now I have to use the AA features in the SL™ to cope with this issue. I have seen lots of pictures in the SL™ feeds showing pixels... Mayhaps, people simply don't know how to solve it or maybe they haven't noticed it yet. So, here's a quick and dirty way to solve this issue.

Can you tell the difference between these two pics? If not, click on the images for full size and look at the arms more closely. See it? The first pic doesn't have Anti-Analising and the second does. That's why you won't see pixels or rough edges in the avatar.

These images are unedited and using the same WindLight settings.

The way to solve this issue is to manually increase the value of AA in the Hardware options of the Preferences menu:

However, when I do that, using the normal Second Life® viewer, this is what I see:

... but it's working perfectly in the Cool Viewer (as you can see by the previous blog posts).

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tutorial | upgrade or downgrade your graphics card drivers

I read somewhere (on plurk probably) that most people wouldn't know how to upgrade or downgrade their graphics card. And that got me thinking that would be nice to write a blog post about it. Not everyone has to know to do it but a little more knowledge won't hurt a bit.
Before you do anything to your computer make sure you have a backup of your current driver and the latest driver. And, if you decide to this, you are doing it at your own risk and this blog does not take any responsibility for any damage you may cause to your computer.
Most graphics card come with a CD with drivers. The first you should do when getting a new computer is to install ALL of the CDs to have the most updated drivers... until the moment the CD was burned. That means that even if you install the driver from the CD, you can still be installing an old driver.
For the latest driver, you should download directly from the manufacturer website, in my case, NVIDIA (or EVGA as my graphics is actually an EVGA with a NVIDIA chipset):

Or you can use the guru3D website to find older drivers or other cool stuff. Another extremely handy is the Driver Sweep that you can find the same website. But, remember that:

The software available from Guru3d.com/HardwareGuru.com are provided "as is" with NO TECHNICAL SUPPORT. All software is to be used at your own risk; this site does not take any responsibility for any damage in whatever form or context.

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Have you ever consider advertising in SL™ blogs or even magazines? Have you thought about having your AD in one of top SL™ blogs?

Because I like stats and they can be useful, here's my Alexa and Compete ranking side by side with some of the major fashion websites about Second Life®:

AnaLutetia.com :: 429,003
Fashion World of SL :: 293,277

As you can see, considering this is a one person blog it has excellent rankings.
Place your AD in one of most visited SL™ blogs!

You can check ALEXA rankings by installing the Alexa toolbar. Or you can also add some other cool addons to your Firefox:
* SearchStatus 1.29 (will show Google Page Rank for the websites you visit)
* Live PageRank 0.9.6 (will show you Google Page Rank and Alexa ranking for the websites)

The ADs can be 125 x 125 pixels or 468 x 90 pixels.
The payment will be made through a (scripted) prim placed in my blog HQ for both solutions: only my blog or Joint ADs. For now, the partnership is only between my blog and JuicyBomb.
According to Second Effects list, my blog is in the Top10 of most read SL™ blogs. Your AD will be seen in one of the most read Second Life® blogs!

Os anúncios podem ser de 125x125 ou 468x90 pixels.
O pagamento realiza-se através de um objecto scriptado no espaço do meu blog para ambas as soluções: somente para o meu blog e para os anúncios conjuntos. Por enquanto, a parceria é somente entre o meu blog e o blog JuicyBomb.
De acordo com a lista publicada no blog Second Effects, o meu blog encontra-se no Top10 de blogs mais lidos no SL™. Assim, o seu anúncio será visto num dos blogs mais lidos do Second Life®!

Die Anzeigen können in den Größen 125 x 125 oder 468 x 90 Pixel gestaltet sein.
Die Bezahlung erfolgt durch ein (gescriptetes) Prim, das sich in meinem Blog HQ befindet und für beide Lösungen funktioniert: nur mein Blog oder Joint ADs. Zurzeit besteht die Partnerschaft nur zwischen meinem Blog und JuicyBomb.
Der Second Effects Liste zufolge steht mein Blog in den Top 10 der
meistgelesenen SL™ Blogs. Ihre Anzeige wird also in einem der meistgelesenen Second Life® Blogs zu sehen sein!

Les publicités peuvent être de 125x125 pixels ou bien de 468x90 pixels.
Le paiement se fera pour les deux solutions (seulement sur mon blog ou publicités sur les blogs partenaires) par un prim (scripté) se trouvant au QG de mon blog. Pour le moment le partenariat est seulement entre mon blog et JuicyBomb.
Selon la liste du blog Second Effects mon blog est dans le top 10 des blogs SL™ les plus lus. Votre publicité sera vue dans un des blogs les plus lus de Second Life®!

宣伝のためのテキスチャーは125 x 125 ピクセルか 468 x 90
ピクセルに限られます。支払いはどちらの宣伝方法（私のブログでのみ行うか、他のブログと共同で行うか）を使うにしても、私のブログ本部に設置してあるプリムを通じて行われます。現在のところ、私のブログとJuicyBombだけがパートナーシップを組んでいます。Second Effects（セカンドイフェクト）の調査によると、私のブログはSL(tm)ブログの中で最も読まれているブログのトップ１０にリストされています。ここにあなたの宣伝を載せれば、最も広く購読されているセカンドライフ(R)ブログの中で掲載されることになるのです。

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