Blogging Makes Work for Idle Hands
I was going to post about Jeska Linden's "Proposed Principles", but the more I think about it, the more irritated by all the surrounding aggro I get. Frustrating. Enough other people are debating it. I have better things to do than add my voice to the clamour.
So. On to other, less gut-wrenching topics... how about LSL? Tateru kindly provided me with a script for flames - it was a version of the script I'd been using (the standard particle system from the library), so I was able to identify which variables I had set wrong and adjust them a bit to get some of their effects without losing what I like about my results so far. Well, kinda. It needs some more tweaking, but I ran out of time because I was running around with Henrietta earlier.
One of the things Hen and I were looking at (besides a lot of land that she's being allowed to build on! I swoon with land envy!) was the guillotine at YadNi's. I tried to capture it in a snapshot, but, as usual, forgot to hide my HUDs. This isn't a big deal for regular snaps (crop crop crop), but in high-rez shots, the HUDs show up as tiles (I'm sure there's a really impressive reason for this, but... I don't care). So my lovely shot of Hen getting her head cut off and spouting blood everywhere had a multitude of tiny dots all over it. Regardless, it was amusing to see and you should try it. There are many days when I'd like to cut my head off (the oh-shoot-me-now, aim-for-the-head, filler bunny sort of days), and this could help.
While I was there I bought a Gir avatar.
See what I mean? If I'm not occupied with projects or chatting with friends (Hen has to leave for her commute earlier than I do) I drift into shopping mode.