Scowl!

This is a piccie of me scowling. I’m not really mad or nuttin’, but I tole Robin she couldn’t talk much about the thing she is currently working on, cuz it’s really cool, an I tink it should be a bit of a surprised an stuff.  So I tole her dat if she said what it was gonna be, I would scowl at her – and no one wants me to scowl.  See the piccie?  Withering, huh?
 
If Robin does decide to post about it, an she looks here, she’ll see me scowling an know dat she better not.  ‘least that’s my cunning plan.
 
It is really cool, though, an if it works out like we want, an we do a lotta work together on it all like we hope to, then it can be really something exciting.  You’ll read about it here soon, really!
 
Also, be sure an stop by the island.  The weather is still pretty snowy now, but the upcoming weather looks good an we might see an early spring coming to Livingtree.  So if you wanna get some of the fun stuff like snowmobiles, snow people kits, an holiday bears – or jes enjoy our little winter wonderland – now’s the time.
 
I jes hope my face dun stick dis way.

Sweaters for Adults Finished!

Okay, it took a few extra days, but the Moose Sweaters for adults are ready to go!

Come and get a nice, toasty sweater so you can stay warm through the longest night of the year. (Which happens to be tonight. Solstice is at 1:08 am tomorrow, Eastern time. Happy Solstice! :D )



As it turned out, our Test Market recommended that I do something so that people could pull out the skirt and make a longer sweater, and also decided that they were good to wear with just the Jacket part, and no skirt.

So they have Skirts and Collars optimized for Ladies and Men, a Sweater (shirt icon) that has bulk for added warmth (Looseness slider) and a Jacket so the men's pants won't show through the back, and the ladies can pull the cuffs down over their wrists.

Available now, L$100, Mod/Copy/NO Transfer (but there's a Gift Button on the vendor.) In 19 colors, from Robin (Sojourner) Wood's AV Store, Livingtree (104, 128, 24)

Slight Delay...

I'm afraid that I'm not going to have the Moose Sweaters up for sale today, as I'd planned. Sigh.

There were a zillion things happening on Sunday, and Monday is my day off, so I sat down bright and early today to get the Vendor shots done for the sweaters.

The shots with the female model went as smoothly as can be expected, but when I switched into a male AV, and started to get ready to show the sweater on the guy, I realized there was a problem.

Because of the way the Skirt dives into the back of the male avatar, you could see his jeans where his sweater ought to be.

After some experimenting and playing around with things, I decided that the only way to really fix this is to make a Jacket that can be worn over the Sweater, with solid sweater colors below the waist. Just using the Jacket instead of the Shirt won't work, because you can't make the Jacket bulky. It's always going to look like it's painted on. So I'm afraid that guys will have to wear both pieces.

I also had to make the sides of the Skirt a tad more "poofy", because at a Poofy setting of zero, the pants show when the avatar moves. Using the Jacket it's not quite as bad, but there's a white line in the sweater at that point, so as the Avatar moves, the white appears and vanishes, which is still pretty bad. (I couldn't make the line match perfectly in the various avatar shapes, so this seemed like the best solution.)

So now the package is going to have skirts for both Men and Ladies, as well as Turtlenecks for both, and a jacket layer. Ah well, Ladies can wear the jacket if they want the sweater to come a little farther over their wrists, so I suppose it's not entirely a bad thing.

I'll come back and post pictures when I have them. Right now, I'm working on getting the jackets made for the 17 sweater colors I did.

Perhaps I should have done fewer colors, but they were just so much fun to do!

Free! Holiday Goody Boxes for Kids & Adults!

I have the Goody Boxes for kids and adults out in the middle of Livingtree Island now!

Mari put a funny toy in each of them, and I filled them with clothes, candy and stuff (more clothes, in the adult one, and less stuff.) Seven different things, all told, in each one! (Not counting the parts and variations.) And best of all, once you've unpacked the box, you can empty it out, put your own presents in, and give it to someone else! (It's mod/transfer, just so you can.)

Here's a sneak peek at a couple of the things you'll find in the Adult box. The Kids box has the candle, too, but a different sweater.



Both of these are new designs, and not available anywhere else at the moment, and the box is free! So come and get yours!

It's also snowing now, all over Livingtree. Come play the Elven Drums, sit by one of the campfires, or skate in the snow!

See you there!

Boys Cold Weather Skin Demos

The demos for the boys Cold Weather skins are up in Kick the Can now. I hope you like them. :D



As I might have mentioned, if you want one please IM me, and I'll get it to you. I'm not putting them in the vendors, because I don't want to spend the time making the 54 vendor images required when I could be making things to put in the Freebie Box!

Speaking of which, that's what I'm doing today. I'll post more about it later. :D

First Teaching Script out at the Script Shack

I placed the first of the free Teaching Scripts in the Script Shack a couple of days ago.

I'm not an Expert scripter, but I can figure out how to do most of what I want to at this point, and people have started to ask me questions about scripting; so I thought I'd put some of the basic stuff somewhere that people can get it easily.

Each Teaching Script will come in a prim that has the script running, so people can see what it does. Inside the prim will also be a second script, which isn't running, that will be heavily annotated, and a notecard explaining how to use the scripts to learn about scripting.

To use them, you'll pick up the script box (they're free) and take a look at the running script (it's labeled b). If you see something you don't understand, then open the Annotated script (a), and take a look.

You can also just read the Annotated script, but I'll warn you that it's mostly orange. :D (SL shows script comments as orange text, and all the annotations are comments.)

This first script shows the basic structure of a script, and also explains how to use Touch toggles, timers, how to get a color from an object, and how to generate random numbers.

The next one is going to explain how to get those blue menus to turn up when you touch an object. :D

Winter on Livingtree Island

After two successive winter storms, Livingtree has transformed into a Winter Wonderland. Snow blankets the ground, the river is iced in, and frost coats the trees. A few new, seasonal activities have also cropped up on the island, taking full advantage of the winter weather.

In front of Robin (Sojourner) Wood's AV Store, you can borrow one of Bloodsong Termagant's snowmobiles. Likewise, a kid-sized version is available in the front of Kick The Can. Both can provide you with quite a bit of fun, and can get you some tremendous air if you hit the high points just right. Vendors for both all reside near the snowmobile rezzers.

A three-ring ice skating area is nestled in the area between Polt Pfft (the rocky outcropping on the east coast), the play yard, and the mud puddle. It's full of ramps and other stuff, including a trampoline and a ring of fire!

A holiday gingerbread house has taken residence near Cheep Cheep landing. It looks tasty.

You can make your very own snow angel out in front of Kick The Can, too, as well as play in the poofy snow piles that dot the island.

In the stores are more to add to the fun, including holiday pinwheels in You Know, For Kids, a build your own snowman kit (and some pre-made ones for those with no time to build) at the AV store and Kick The Can, and the cold-weather skins, new kids' sweaters (and an exclusive one in the Kick The Can lucky chair), and the holiday luminaria mentioned below.

More goodies are sure to descend in the next few, as the holiday season continues.