Restless Studio Full Perm Wikimedia Textures

Restless Studio provides several packages of full perm textures gleaned from Wikimedia. These textures have been cropped, scaled, and digitally modified for tiling. All are freely licensed for reuse, redistribution, and resale under one of the Creative Commons licenses. This means that Second Life residents can use them in their builds, modify them (with appropriate re-licensing), copy them, transfer them to others (again, with appropriate licensing), and even resell them.

Why buy these textures when they are freely downloadable at Wikimedia ? Well, you are certainly welcome to search through Wikimedia and download the upload at 10L per texture but the time and money you spend doing this yourself will far exceed the moderate price of the already prepared packages. In addition, most texture packs provided by Restless Studio are modified to allow seamless tiling of textures. This and many other questions are addressed in the Wikimedia Commons Product FAQ.

Here are links to the currently available Restless Studio Wikimedia Commons Texture packs:

• Flowers - 45 full perm textures, 90L
• Nature - 27 full perm textures, 50L
• Space - 17 full perm textures, 50L
• Fungi - 29 full perm textures, 60L
• Nudes - 42 full perm textures, 145L
• Seamless Stone Textures - 10 full perm tiles, 50L
• Seamless Brick Textures - 64 full perm tiles, 250L 
• Seamless Camouflage Textures - 25 full perm tiles, 100L
• Seamless Metal Textures - 10 full perm tiles, 50L
• Seamless Mixed Textures - 70 full perm tiles, 250L
• Seamless Textile Textures - 18 full perm tiles, 75L
• Seamless Wood Textures - 25 full perm tiles, 100L
• Seamless Texture Mega Pack - 222 full perm tiles, 495L

Also available is the THiNC book "The Nudes of Wikimedia" which includes 42 freely redistributable full perm textures of high quality photographs of female nudes plus a THiNC book of these textures.

Michele Merkin Pool Party!

Michele invited me over for a pool party at her palatial estate. So much fun hanging out in RL in my SL avatar but Michele's hair is really starting to bug me. I'm soooo jealous.

Michele Merkin Hot Tub Party!

My close personal friend and fellow supermodel Michele Merkin stopped by last night for a late night hot tub. With all the string bikini wearing and unwearing and Michele's hair flying in my face I only managed to snap this one photo. Jealous much ?

Photography & Digital Photo Editing by Missy Restless. Michele Merkin photo released under the GNU Free Documentation License (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michele_Merkin_1.jpg).

Ahimsa the 5th Element

A short clip of Ahimsa and I dancing at Organica set to the Diva opera singer from the movie 5th Element. I'm wearing the white sheer knit outfit from Cubic Effect that I reviewed earlier on this blog. It's one of my very favorite outfits but maybe not as cool as whatever that is that Ahimsa is wearing :)

Emerald Enhanced Physics

Want to view more realistic breast movement in Second Life? Note, many residents I have talked to about this are confused. These settings control what you see, not what others see. If you disable enhanced physics on avatar breasts in your viewer that is no guarantee others will not see your breasts bouncing - that is solely dependent on their viewer settings. Similarly, if you enable breast physics it does not mean others will see yours jiggling - it just means you will see theirs.

To enable and configure enhanced physics on avatar breasts follow these steps.

1. Download, install and use the Emerald Viewer http://emeraldviewer.net/
2. In the Emerald Viewer, edit your preferences "Edit -> Preferences"
3. Click on the "Emerald" tab on the left
4. Click on the "Page 2" tab at the top
5. Click on the "Effects" tab
6. Check the box "Enable enhanced physics on avatar breasts"
7. Adjust the physics settings (the default settings did not work well for me). The following settings are similar to what I use but are probably toward the "too jiggly" end of the scale - you may wish to experiment:

• Breast mass:       90
• Breast rebound:  11
• Breast max vel:   85
• Breast friction:    11
• Breast min vel:    15

   8. Click "Apply" then "OK"

You may need to relog for the updated preferences to take effect.

Come watch me dance!

Hahahaha!

Me & Neri @ Kirby

Me and Neri and Coleridge and Miss went club hopping early am 13-July-2010. Neri took us to this cool sphere in the sky that is maybe somebody's home with nice cushions everywhere, good music, and a little Buddha statue that says wise things when you click it. It was a nice place to relax - that's me on the left and neri on the right. Thanks nerianenko!

Photography by Missy Restless