Western Event at Worlds' End Tavern

Had a wonderful time playing music at Saturdays event, which was Western themed. MistyMelody and Figment having a good time and being very funny.

Minova did an amazing scenery and I will be posting photos soon.

Here is the playlist for tonight.

• Deep Purple - Stormbringer
• Black Strobe - I'm A Man
• Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
• The Mooney Suzuki - You Never Really Wanted to Rock 'n' Roll
• Grinderman - Depth Charge Ethel
• Jeff Beck - Rollin' And Tumblin'
• Fleetwood Mac - Shake Your Moneymaker
• The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
• The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
• Primal Scream - Rocks
• The Music - Freedom Fighters
• John Mayall Feat. Eric Clapton - Key To Love
• The Doors - Roadhouse Blues
• The loveGods - Sadie Mercedes
• The Noisettes - Sister Rosetta (Capture The Sprint)
• The Music - Breakin'
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Six Barrel Shotgun
• The White Stripes - Let's Build A Home
• The White Stripes - Jumble, Jumble
• The Automatic - Monster
• The Fratellis - Chesea Dagger
• Manic Street Preachers - Kevin Carter
• Stereophonics - Madame Helga

Slartibartfast

Had a lot of fun landscaping and building a pub.

I was landscaping a large region so I tried a few ideas and discovered a new things. I will describe these on another entry together with screen shots.

I started by drawing a landscape map with key locations marked with positon and height. I took about 3 hours as I included the buildings. Then I went to the sim and created poles 0.5m x 0.5m x10m high and applied a builders texture marked off in meters. I located each one of the poles at the key locations, copying the position and heights off the map.

Using the landscape dialogue, I select a rectangle of land, flattened it and then changed the height till it came halfway up the poles. I kept doing this till most the land was the correct height. Raising the land had left deep narrow 4m valleys between each of the rectangles of land. I selected these as a 4m wide selection, flattened them, changed the height and then smoothed it.

Now I had the basic land heights and moved onto making the landscape look more realistic. I imporved the landscape with a simple technique I discovered and I will describe that and the pub in another entry.

I quite fancy doing Cornwall, I wonder if they can use me on Earth Mk. II?

Tanglia discovered

My Island was delivered today.

TANGLIA is here!

I have started by printing out the Island plan and building the floors for the buildings. There won't be a lot to see, but awhole lot of building to do.

Just waiting for Carla to get here so she can be the first here, then I am opening it up to friends.

Island may take a while

Seems we may have a long wait for the Island of Tanglia to be ready. Linden Labs took two months to prepare my friends Island. Talking to Babeth Kaupas, co-owner of the "A and B" region, it was 2 months between their Island going from Pending to Fulfilled. Pending means that the Island is paid for and that it is scheduled to be built. Fulfilled means that it is built and ready to be used.

I have great people ready to help me build, Laya, Carli, Maya and Carlotta. The extra time will allow me to develop the terrain map in more detail, build some key parts and start on the textures.

Tanglia - Island

My Island, Tanglia is now Pending and will be ready soon.

Stages are:
Not started - You have reserved a region but not paid for it.
Processing - Region is paid for but in a queue waiting to be processed.
Pending - Region is in the process and will be up soon
Fullfilled - The region has been put up.

Times for me were:
Processing to Pending (4 days)
Pending to Fulfilled (7 days)

Can't wait to go there and start building!