Working with alt’s

[13:43]  GREENEconcept Helfer: It’s fortunate you are online
[13:43]  GREENEconcept Helfer: Can you send me the vendor textures? I forgot to send them to me.
[13:43]  GREENEconcept Helfer: Oh my, what a sentence.

The “Berlin” seats are available for sale now

The “Berlin” seats were in fact the first items GREENE concept ever worked on. It’s an upholstered stool, sitting 4 avatars. There are 3 poses inside, randomly selected upon sitting. They are available as copy/no-transfer for 700 L$ and no-copy/transfer for 250 L$. Right now only available in-world, with SLX and OnRez coming soon.

The modify permission

   A recent, and very helpful comment from Thaumata Strangelove has prompted me to write about our permissions philosophy.
   We have made our furniture so that customers can modify it.
   GREENE concept makes no-copy versions and no-transfer versions of our products, everything about them is modifiable except for their scripts. This way an experimenting owner cannot accidentally break the scripts. But they can add a tint to individual components or even replace the textures with ones of their own making.
   While it is true that no mod scripts cannot be edited or viewed by their owners, and thus they cannot be turned off individually, it is possible, since the customer can modify the whole product, for them to turn off all scripts running in the product using the tools menu while in edit mode.
The customer who wants to, may turn off the existing scripts and add their own scripts, and add their own animations if they are so inclined.
   We will generally advise against modifying a no copy item extensively.

   Thanks for reading.

Perfection

[1:10] Ivanova Shostakovich: How closely do you want to match the texture?
[1:11] Peter Stindberg: Would “exact” be ok?
[1:11] Ivanova Shostakovich: Yes, Exact is never too much to ask.
[1:12] Peter Stindberg: We chat quoteworthy
[1:12] Ivanova Shostakovich: Post it!
[1:12] Ivanova Shostakovich:
[1:12] Peter Stindberg: Already doing so

Shadow on the wall

The recent attention on the experimental shadow feature came just in time for our furniture development. All our items have static shadows underneath them, to add to the realism. Ivanova made some nice and subtle twists to the shadows, and in fact we rebuilt the items in an external 3D app to test how the shadow needs to be painted.

Even though I am convinced that dynamic shadows via the SL client will not be available to the majority of residents within the next 6 months, we have added a new feature to our furniture. Upon click by the owner, the shadows can be switched on or off. Should dynamic shadows come, a simple click will disable our static shadow.

Permissions – the headache that protects us

We recently learned the importance of the permissions system of Second Life. Having newly created inventory transferred between our business associates taught us how important.
I confess that I had given the whole permissions system (with regard to IP rights) little more than a cursory glance, simply relying on it to do its thing.
I know now that modify rights are fairly straightforward. Copy and Transfer rights are more closely related to each other. Having an object that you intend someone else to own should not be composed of objects which contain things, such as animations or other objects, which have permissions contrary to the permissions you intend to set for the whole.This is just a good practice, but it is especially important if you want the intended owner to have any copy or transfer rights.
Bear in mind that I am talking about the permissions someone else will have when they buy or are given the object in question.
I believe modify rights are a little less touchy. You can set textures and scripts contained in a modifiable object to be no-modify. This is important for something that you wish your customer to be able to resize or adjust, but which contains scripting it would be best if no one went mucking about with, or if it has texture which is set just so and should not be changed. This cuts down on customer service calls

If you intend to build things to sell, learn the SL permissions system. It’s worth it.

When worlds collide – cold calling gone wrong

Dear Sir/Madam

My name is Xxxx Yyyyy and I am contacting you on behalf of the Spanish manufacturer of knobs and handles called “Zzzzzzzzzz SL”, www.Zzzzzzzz.com

We are sending you our website and images of some of our products. Please, let us know if you want us to visit you.

Looking forward to hearing from you

Logo.jpg
Product Brochure.pdf

Xxxx Yyyyy
Dept. Comercial/Sales dept.
Tel.: xx xxxxxxxx
xxxx@Zzzzzzzz.com
www.Zzzzzzzz.com

We hasz shop!

I moved my translation office to the Beachwood sim in August last year, and never regretted it since the estate is very lovingly yet professionally run by landlady Kitty Umarov. On the central plaza, there are four large shops, but Kitty never rented the fourth one but made it a point to build a cafe there as a community meeting point. This morning, Kitty informed me that one of the other three shops became available, and after some pro forma haggling I rented it for GREENE concept.

The new shop is smaller than the workshop floor, but not only is it nicer, it also brings along access to the parcel settings, so we can have the place listed in search. Since Ivanova gave GC the afternoon off, I had to move the boxes and furniture over there myself. Sigh.

Visit us at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Beachwood/100/137/38

The showroom is open

Sure, when it comes to heavy lifting, it’s me who makes things happen. She-boss simply tossed me the finished products, and He-boss preferred the white-collar “work” of listing them on the web. And both “graciously” left the showroom floor to me. And here am I, trying to put the 12 San Jose’s up for display. Didn’t work out of course. So I had to build boxes, push the furniture around, pack and pile boxes, paint them, label them, arrange them. Sheesh, I’m sweaty all over… AND they made me work on a Sunday!

However I think I arranged the San Jose’s nicely, and I put the two I like most on display. Now it’s up to She-boss to finish the vendors. And guess who they will call when it’s heavy lifting time again? Yeah, me…

Well, I’m off for the shower. Check out the showroom and if you are so inclined – buy one (or two or three) of our furniture.

Cheers, GC

San Jose colors and patterns

As our San Jose informal meeting couch/sofa is released and available for purchase, I wanted to make a post with a picture of all the different colors here.

These are all twelve designs we have available. There are a variety of colors. Hopefully, we have enough to please most people. They were a joy to make.