Build is 95% complete.

I haven't posted in a few days because I've been very focused on the build. I've got to say though, we're pretty much done. There's just a few small projects that I'm working on.



The forest came out pretty good I think. I kind of wish I could script a little better because I'd like for glowing spots to show up as people walk through it. But I can't seem to find any sort of scripting references for anything like that ... so I'm shit out of luck for now. That and I don't think I'd be able to handle heavy duty scripting right now.



Midare made some nice crystal trees for the white side of the forest. The waterfall took me forever. Forever. The first ten or so waterfalls I trashed because they looked like crap. I finally got the latest version of it working. When the outside was finally done, I was ready to rip heads off and beat some faces in. Was very frustrated and tired. Which was probably a bad time to start trying to build the cave.



I wound up trashing the first version of the cave when Zal saw it and wasn't impressed. I was so frustrated that I was ready to just trash the entire island. He managed to calm me down before I went defcon 5 on the land. I headed off to bed only to crawl back to the computer to lay out the new idea because I was struck with some inspiration. I have to say that I think the second version came out better and Zal seems to like it too.



It has three levels to it and the top one has the most sparklies I think. I have to go back in there and build some platforms so that things can be climbed on, but other than that I think we're pretty much done.



This was the first weekend where pretty much everyone was online. Haha, we kind of had an impromptu dress up moment. Lucas was flitting around dressed as a demon, and then Tali changed, Zal changed... Tess did, so I followed suit.







I always like seeing how people dress when we're doing the same theme because I think that personalities really come through in the differences.



I haven't seen Nef in a long time so it was good to see her this weekend. I like the look that she's currently sporting.



Just a few small projects left...

Furry Fun: Photoshoot with Mad Ninjaz

This weekend a few of us were around to take pictures in the theme that Zal picked out. It was neat to see everyone in their fursonas. I think that it was a very neat exploration of personalities.



We started out with Zal who did something tribal. First we tried to go to a jungle area that we visited a long time ago but it didn't seem to have enough trees so we went to this lost world place. I liked the water and some of the ruins. It may be a good place to revisit to do more tribal themed images. This is my favorite from the set of Zal pictures because I liked the semi-aggressive pose with the spear. It's kind of like, "I dare you to mess with me."



We looked around at a few different places before Midare found a nice stadium. It fit well with Tali's Sporty Skunk fursona! Her AO was great for this because it had some nice energy to it. Sports is a nice idea for a theme. This is the image that I liked best from the set of Talis images because I thought it was the best representation of that free spirit that I've seen in her from time to time.



Tess had a pretty good idea where she wanted to go for her pictures. The shop was really cute. There was a teddy bear store down the lane where we found a one prim panda. Tessie makes such a cute kitty. She changed her fur to orange after seeing that most of us had black and white avatars. Haha. I liked this image best from the set that I took.



Midare found the area where he wanted to take pictures in while I was taking care of some other stuff. It took awhile to rez in but this place was actually kinda cool. The train tracks and such kind of reminded me of the Sherlock Holmes movie that came out recently. He mentioned that he liked the globe and when I saw it, I have to agree that it's pretty awesome. This is probably my favorite image from the set though the light from the end of the tunnel looks pretty awesome in most of the other shots.



I knew that I wanted to do my photos in some sort of city. Midian City was the first place that came to mind but after having roleplayed there I know that they don't allow furries ... soo I didn't want to get ejected! Then I remembered the sort of futuristic grunge-city that I visited a long time ago and thought that might be perfect. The only problem was that the lag made it near possible to move, haha. But then again, I had my draw distance up to around 400. Regardless, I like the city a lot. It'd be fun to do another photoshoot there... if my computer could handle it.



The rest of the images can be found here, uploaded to the different sections. I'm not sure what the next theme will be, but there's lots of ideas to choose from. In the meantime it may be a good idea for me to look for some more poses.