Category Archives: product reviews

Iaido in Second Life

KTG KATANA "HAKUOU"
Check out this fantastic product video for the "HAKUOU" katana:

I purchased one of these myself recently, and I have to admit I’m kind of jealous, because it’s every bit as cool as the video suggests.
The build quality is excellent, and looks very much like a real katana.  I’m a little bummed because it [...]

Playing with PrimComposer

PrimComposer is a 3ds Max plugin by Shack Dougall that can greatly streamline the building process for Second Life content creators by turning Max into an easy-to-use offline building environment.
I’ve mentioned recently that I have started work on a new weapon, but I decided to take a little detour first to try and get up [...]

Pixologic ZBrush 3.1 Crashes to Desktop on startup

Quick Summary: Pixologic ZBrush 3.1 and Process Explorer by SysInternals/Microsoft do not play well together.
There are probably a hundred and one reasons that this happens to other people : When starting up ZBrush, the program will get as far as displaying the "Initializing ZBrush" splash screen, then suddenly and without any warnings or errors simply [...]

The Lodo Loft – by Ravish Tyne

Long-time (in SL™ terms) friend of mine and very well-known C:SI personality Ravish Tyne recently finished working on an awesome loft prefab, and I wanted to share my enthusiasm about it.

See more pictures of the loft on SL Exchange.
As you can see from the picture above, and especially from the other pictures on SL Exchange, this [...]