2014

Last year i haven't posting here a lot. It has been a year of study for Marcthur. An endless amount of tutorials, new tools to master, plug-ins to try, try & error and new discoveries of techniques useful for the 3D models made for Secondlife & Inworldz.

While Cloud Party died silently, while SpotOn3D went to heaven together with Cloud Party, we had to go on with limited time and a smaller market for all we made last 8 years.

Marcthur started to make a medieval bridge with a corridor for pedestrians. As mesh of course, and textures, and a scenery, and details. Just to practise textured mesh what opened a new world for his range.

It takes months of sweating, cursing, finding new tools and some less good insights that's part of the limitations of Virtual Worlds.

The results in amount of new products might be disappointing, but the quality is sky high, as usual with M&M Creations, level of detail is amazing and the master has got his degree, so from now on it's a capital M for Mastering Mesh.

 Even our real life home has been rebuild as a 3D Model, included the wild boar weather vane on the roof, the moss on the roof stones, the cute shutters painted 'lavender' and all stairs, indoors and outdoors, as it really is.

CloudParty

First we thought; "oh no, not again another virtual world with the same amount of drama, bugs, down-for-maintenance, issues blabla". But very soon after just 1 hour, we were totally hooked. And specifically NOT because we would have suddenly high sales in there, or the huge amounts of overactive regions that can be visited. Not because it is all like the virtual worlds we know for 6 years, like Inworldz, Spoton3D and Secondlife. None of it all.

 Cloudparty is 'a different kind' that manages to keep the fun with a still relatively small community with a huge variety of nationalities all working together to build a virtual platform with the help of 'just a webbrowser based world'.

It is true one of the founders has worked for LindenLabs, but almost nothing can be found that can be compaired with Secondlife. 

First impression; Fresh, stunning fast and easy to learn interface with an Iphone-menu with App's Icons as sub-menu's, all mesh based, technically high advanced with shades of every object, good lighting effect, open area where you may build and test your creations, a fast working marketplace where you can return your purchases the 24 hours after your purchase if your not satisfied, free uploads and pictures made inworld which can be shared on Facebook, friendly people from all over the world, helpfull fellow-users, a clear and easy link with your friends on Facebook and last but not least; it is just a website! All Clouds as being regions, have their own link, move 1 inch and the link will change and can be copied anywhere you like. -----> like this ; https://a.cloudparty.com/loc/2000/-54.3,-31.7,-25.8,-1.6

If you are not dependant of prims and sculpts, if you are kind of SL-tired and of its clones; it's worth visiting Cloudparty by clicking this link; http://www.cloudparty.com/. No Facebook account is needed!

To see some of our products on the market of Cloudparty; 'shirt' or 'nature'
To keep up to date with the latest news and to attent meetings and events, check out the weblog of Cloudparty.
Their Wiki-pages are very good and truly helpful without getting lost!!
To discuss, show-off, ask for support, report a bug and give comments and support the Forums will be the perfect place.

More news soon!

REZDAY January 27th 2013

For every Secondlife friend & collegue we have; sunday is our REZDAY. 

M&M Creations do celebrate and we invite you to join us during a RezDay Weekend Hunt at our Mall.

Check out all information in-world by clicking the sign above our Kiosk at the central main TP!!

The hunt will be open from tomorrow morning around 9AM CET!

http://www.doublemcreations.org

in-world location; http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/DoubleMM/177/74/77

Not long after the 27th January 2007 we bought our first small plot of mainland on a sim called Montsereau. 

During these sentimental times 6 years ago, our first steps as having a Secondlife, we overlooked our new bare property with no other dream then to create our own content and share it with the rest of this pixel world.It was the PRE-sculpty time, MESH was unthinkable. 

So Marcthur still without a hat and both no shoes, which were cubistic and causes much virtual pain and grown in toe-nails. 

Second Life was much easier these days and ‘down for maintenance’ was a weekly event that made us switch on the TV and be impatiently bored.                

And see what can happen in 6 real lifetime years!

This weekend from Saturday morning 9AM CET till Monday morning 9AM CET we celebrate our 6th anniversary with a HUNT in our M&M Creations Mall.      
Marcthur & 10 invite you to join them during this weekend!

THE HUNT

-- You will hunt for small Card-sized VOUCHERS with their value displayed on the objects looking like credit cards.

-- They are set for sale for 0 *zero* linden dollars each, they are NO COPY & NO MODIFY.

-- If you find a voucher, do NOT FORGET TO TAKE the voucher after the purchase! (We will have your purchase registered, but this is for your own convenience)

-- You may only BUY 1 voucher to give all hunters a chance to find one, only 17 are available over the 48 hours of this Rez-Day-Event.  ((If we have your name twice or more in our transaction history, you will be disqualified and we will replace this voucher for the more sportive hunters.))

**Which means; if you find one with a value of 1000l$, but you are sure you can do better, leave the one for others to find and go for the  vouchers with a higher value.**

-- They are only hidden in the mall and its round side-shops.

-- You can bring anyone you like to hunt together with your friends and inworld family.

-- The hunt will be opened Saturday morning 9AM CET January the 26th and closed Monday morning January the 28th same time.

$$ Vouchers to be found $$

 5x 500 l$

 3x 1000 l$

 3x 1500 l$

 2x 2000 l$

 2x 2500 l$

 1x 5000 l$

 1x 7500 l$ 

*** How to use your voucher ***

 Create a wish-list of products of M&M Creations in-world you would like to have with the same value of the voucher.

 Create a notecard, add the name of the avatar that found & bought the voucher. 

 (!!!So please, do not hunt with your main account and ask to send the hunt-pack to your alt account!!!)

 Send 10 Goosson the notecard & the voucher (transferable object).

 We will create your M&M Creations Rez-Day Hunt Pack during week 5, 2013.

Thanks for joining our celebration, Have Fun & Be Inspired!
 Marcthur & 10

Best wishes

Rigged Meshes

Big NEWS;

Marcthur started creating Rigged Mesh clothes!!

Mesh can be used for static objects like furniture, landscaping, attachments and all objects which do not deform.

A Mesh can also be dynamic, the mesh moves with the avatar. Dynamic meshes are used to make complete avatars, avatar parts or clothes. The name for these meshes is RIGGED MESH.

A rigged mesh cannot be resized as a normal prim. It is "glued" to the body and will only resize with the appearance sliders.

Our rigged meshes are designed against an average shape (mostly the avatar ‘Ruth’ shape).

If you change the appearance sliders of your shape to extreme values the rigged mesh and its textures will deform to extreme values too.

When wearing another shape the mesh resizes automatically to the new shapes appearance sliders.

The resize process needs time to calculate, so may vary in time depending on your systems capabilities.

But we are still waiting for the implementation of the Deformer. This tool has been developed by an ex-Linden with a team of 3rd party-viewer people. This Deformer will be available for all 3rd party viewers and that's good news! LL has to approve the Deformer, but the big group of people who contributed the money that was needed to develop the program did a great job by doing so. For us as creators there is no need to sell packs with 5, 6 or even more basic sizes. Just 3, (XS, M, XL) will be enough to prevend the textures to distort too much and still having more extreme body sizes just by using the appaearance sliders.

SpringShop

M&M Creations SpringShop is still grounded at our MainMall!!

Lovely spring flowers, spring Alpha textures, birdsnest & eggs (natural and coloured), springtrees with birdsounds, the swingbench with its cute animals (animated! or as BuilderPack), the animals are boxed seperately as Full Perm Prims or Copy & Modify! Vine-Lights in 3 Designs, a cute cosy tent with an animated spring rug to relax and much more!

3D Models

Our WebShop has enlarged its collection with 3D Models. Non Rigged Fashion Meshes for sale as .DAE File.

This means you can rigg these yourself to modify the models to use them the way you like. 

3D Models sold by M&M Creations do not have the usual LOD's that makes them ready-to-upload to Secondlife!