Last Post… Goodbye #InWorldz

Gone but never forgotten…

There has been a lot of hurt, anger & upset over this week since InWorldz Founder Beth Reischl made the announcement that InWorldz was to close Friday 27th 2018. I was there at the very beginning & I remained there until the bitter end. I have mixed emotions about what actually happened & I am uncertain about everything. However the last 24 hours before it finally closed renewed the respect I once had for the woman who started it all over 9yrs ago. Love her or hate her, Elenia Llewellyn (Beths Avatar name) did everything that she could do to save every bit of content on every single Region & save the OAR’s for the future. Watching that process restored my faith & admiration in Ele & her team. She could have just let it close & walk away, others have done so, but she didn’t! Almost 1000 Oar’s in 48hrs taken by Ele, Mai, Shawn & Jim Tarber.

InWorldz is gone, but I have faith that a better world will emerge… Old friendships have been restored & live on.

See you in the new world!

Last views….

Last Hours & Moments…

 

Old snaps from the early days

Regions for Rent #InWorldz

I have 3 Regions for Rent, part of a 4×4 so each Region comes with 12,000 prims. Rent is paid 4 wkly & is 12,500 I’z

Any questions please contact me Inworld

Rosa Dagostino

Britannia North

Britannia South

Britannia East

Getting my Head around PS cs6 #InWorldz

For almost 11 yrs now I have been a content creator for virtual worlds, when I began in #Secondlife February 2006, I tried photoshop, but just could not get my head around it, then I found paint.net even with that it took me a while to learn about layers & I was always aware that there was only so much that I could do with the program, even with the plugins for brushes & effects. I knew that if I could just use #photoshop then my textures, therefore my designs, would be so much better. I did try Gimp as i heard that was very like photoshop, but I would open it up see the 3 windows & quickly close it again. I have tried photoshop a few times over the years & have never felt as comfortable with it as i do using paint.net. However I think all that is about to change with the PS Cs6. I don’t know why but suddenly its beginning to make sense to me. I am comfortable with the interface though its a lot harder than the one I am used to with #paint.net, I don’t feel as overwhelmed by it as I once did. There are 1000’s of tuts on youtube on how to do things & I can hardly wait to begin designing my very 1st item of clothing with this wonderful program. I love all of the brushes I have found Free & installed. I love playing about with them all & seeing the wonderful effects I can use on my textures. For years I have gone with ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ now its ‘Your never too old to learn’ I put it all down to my faith in LOA which has literally changed my life since I became a deliberate creator of my own reality. There is Nothing I cannot be, or do, or have!

Rosa 😉

Can’t be sloppy with Appliers! #InWorldz

So I have been learning all about using appliers these past few weeks. I found the E-VOLVE ones very easy to use, but when it came down to the more complicated Mesh Body, Sapphira… the one & only in InWorldz, I believe. Well I needed a bit of help from the Creator & it took me a while to understand how to use them correctly. Now though its plain sailing… apart from, I have learnt that I need to be more accurate with my layer textures, I have always been a bit sloppy, you know leaving things long & using the system to shorten lengths etc Now its a whole new ball game, my recent designs have pristine layer textures, coz ya just can’t alter them once they are on the Mesh body 😉

I have found renewed inspiration for my designs too, I find myself designing for the Mesh body, I have always loved layers, now I simply adore them. All of my new designs have been created for use with the appliers. It takes a lot more time though, bagging everything up before you can release them. I have loads of new designs waiting, which just need bagging before they can be released.

Life as a creator in any world is not an easy one, but it is so enjoyable

Rosa 😉

You can find all of my latest designs on my Blog or just go shop for them at inIw Marketplace

Thank God for E-VOLVE @ #InWorldz

So Grateful to Rosie Lavochkin for her E-VOLVE appliers, which I have had in my inventory from year dot I think & only just rediscovered! I can use the appliers on her demo’s… Yayyy. I am still unsure how I process this for outfits which have more than 1 shirt/pants/undies etc But I can now proceed with the E-VOLVE appliers for those outfits which only have 1 shirt/pants/undies 😉

Rosie Lavochkin provides a really great Developers kit for her E-VOLVE appliers for her Mesh Bunz & Breasts, she provides everything that is needed. A Demo that works with the applier, a logo for your posters & clear instructions on How to

Well done Rosie Lavochkin… Other Merchants should take notes

Look out for those outfits with the E-VOLVE appliers… coming shortly

Rosa 😉

Appliers… What an Effing Headache!! #InWorldz

OK Since I left SL back in o9 when I 1st found #InWorldz, I sort of missed that whole applier thing & the Mesh clothing thing etc etc. I read recently in the IW Forums that we now have some Mesh Bodies (WTF for I do not know *rolls eyes) Anyway I read one Merchants comment about Appliers & how she had seen a significant rise in her sales since she started using them. So I thought perhaps it is time that I started using appliers too for my system clothing. Why, oh why did I have that thought! So I started looking into it more, I grabbed a kit & a demo of the body… well that’s no good as it doesn’t work with the demo! Which means I would have to buy the bloody body myself costing 3000 I’z… but I will never wear it… it is purely for me to see how my layers sit on it gggrrrsss

I can’t even see the body unless I am on the v3, creating clothing on the v3 is just a non starter, I use the v2, but on the v2 all I see when I wear the body is distorted… very distorted Mesh when I wear the body. Then I would have to repackage all of my outfits so I can include the applier, this is after I have found all of the clothing textures & put the UUID’s for each outfit into an applier… and then… redo my posters so that ppl can see that they have the appliers! Shoot me now!!

The longer I put this off, the more work I will have to do later on…

Wish me Luck!

Rosa 😉

Dancing with The Golden Touch… #InWorldz

I have had the most amazing evening in #InWorldz tonight. I got to dance with the Golden Touch Theatre!

Two shows, 1 at 10am IWT & the 2nd 1 at 2pm IWT all in my evening as I am in the UK

You have no idea of the Hours of work & the dedication these people put into their shows. Each & everyone of them are awesome, with the creation of the costumes, the scenery, the scripts the animations, the choreography, the particles, the fireworks, the music. Believe me you have never seen or heard anything quite like the Golden touch, in any world.

I have many photo’s to show… Over 130!! I know they won’t do them justice, you have to be there to really appreciate such talent & creativity. They will release a video in a few days.

I would like to thank each & everyone in GT Team for inviting me to be a part of this fantastic show this Evening… All for RFLofIW 2016

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After all that was the party with the fantastic firework display! More snaps!! 😀

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I am pooped!! lol

Night all

Rosa 😉

Viewer Nightmare… #InWorldz

I cannot say that I am comfortable on any viewer at the moment, I keep skipping between IWV2 & IWV3 & the latest firestorm… none of them feel comfortable. I tried the latest Alchemy Viewer as I heard that was the one now being used for all future IW Viewers… erm WHY???? Its like stepping back in time! No built in AO, can’t back up, can’t find nothing, certainly can’t build on it… if that is the future path for all Inworldz Viewers, well I guess I have to stop using InWorldz viewers.

I have started saving back some of my gardening features as primomesh, because none of the V3’s seem able to rez some of the maps, they rez the default, which is pants! I am aware though that not every resident of IW can use a V3, I couldn’t until I got my new laptop, so I don’t want to turn everything Mesh, I will have to find a happy medium 😉

I haven’t tried the texture thingy that everyone has been raving about, I did try to texture something yesterday using firestorm & i was like wtf! I couldn’t flip it, I could see no way of flipping, the flipping the texture :p So I logged in on a V2 & fixed it!

I don’t understand why all the shaders in all of the v2’s are now greyed out so that I cannot apply them, I know I used them on my old lappy

Mesh Tree & Field, next to Sculpted version on a V3

IWv3 hmmmm #InWorldz

I am torn over this new InWorldz V3. Somethings I do like, but a lot of it I totally dislike, problem is, once used, its kinda hard to go back to a V2 😦

I tried them all none of them came up to scratch..

I had been on IWV2 beta still on my old lappy, but … and I had not noticed this before… all the shaders etc in preferences are greyed out, you can’t apply them, so the world looks kind of dull compared to how it looks on the V3

On the V3 though, a lot of my sculpts are sort of broken… they do not rez at all. Even after applying the LOD 4, it seems to be the very old maps, you know before any alpha layer has been applied, when they were just colours… those seem to be the ones that the V3 just does not rez, so I am walking around my gardens & I see bare trees everywhere or my fields of grass are big balls, most annoying!

A really annoying thing too is that I still have OLD LM’s stuck on my favourites… I delete them they come back on a relog…. still have the very old clothes attached to my avie when I go into appearance too, which drives me nuts & has been doing so for the last 4 years.

I don’t like the chat window, I don’t like the inventory folders all being black or grey. I can’t find the AO so have had to go back to actually wearing one, I am sure there is a ctrl thing I have to do to get that AO up??

I suppose I will get used to this V3… overtime, but really do they have to change everything so drastically so that you have to go to re-learn school each time?

pffft

Rosa 😉

New Laptop #InWorldz

So this morning, when I logged on to my laptop, everything froze. There had been an update while I slept, how I do not know because I had feature turned off… no updates unless I allow them. With a frozen screen all I could do was reboot… Nothing… reboot again…. nothing. This had happened before, when the laptop was about 11 mths old & then it had to go back to samsung to be repaired, free as it was still under warrenty. 3yrs later & it has happened again, but I wasn’t ready! I mean I knew I was going to have to replace it sometime soon, but not TODAY I was NOT ready for this TODAY. I had not backed up my HD, so EVERYTHING… all of my Mesh, my clothing designs, my new posters I spent hours creating last night for my new release… All GONE! I could have cried.

So now I have a new laptop, this time I went back with HP, got the pavilion with Nvidia Geforce. You can’t beat a HP, none of my other laptops ever let me down, or locked me out so i couldn’t save stuffs, they just wore out after quite a few years.

So now i have my shiney new laptop & was finally able to download the IWv3 Viewer

Graphics inworld are Superb!