1 Year GREENE concept – anniversary sale

Even though we officially founded GREENE concept in March, we spent the first three months developing only. We officially launched our brand towards end June 2008 – so by now we are 1 year old. There will be some new releases coming down shortly – for now we have marked down many products in our mainshop to 99, 149, 199, 399 and 599 L$.

Come and visit our shop in Beachwood and check out the promotions!

Newness from GREENE concept

The Home, Garden and Patio Expo runs until Sunday, and I asked my friends Zeeva and Angela to help me show off our new items:

To the left is the new Emphasis bench, styled along the lines of the Emphasis chairs, and equipped with a color change menu. It seats 3 avatars. On the right is the Twisty bench for two people.

The Bubble Chair is based on a design by my friend Gina Glimmer and was lingering in our workshop for ages. We finally finalized it and but a nifty particle effect in it. The textures on the bubbles are animated, as well as the sitting pose.

While the Emphasis chairs are not new, the associated coffee table is. It looks especially beautiful with the silver Emphasis chairs, which is why we packaged it into a set for 200 L$ (basically buy 4, get one for free).

The new dining tables were blogged already yesterday, but Zeeva and Angela looked so cute sitting on them (sitting poses included) so I post them again.

All items are available on the Home, Garden and Patio Expo (SLURL).

Dinner anyone?

Among the new items we show at the Home, Garden and Patio Expo are three dining tables, consisting of a balanced mix of regular prims and sculpted prims aimed at fast loading and good Level of Detail (LOD) rezzing. The tables feature a Spring, Autumn or Holiday runner and have two sitting-on-table poses built in. Right now they are exclsuively available at the Expo. Versions with different permissions will be available in our shops next week.

Home, Garden and Patio Expo 2009

“The Home, Garden and Patio Expo returning to SecondLife; May 4th through the 10th. Four sims featuring some of SL’s best builders; from prefabs and furniture to flowers and swimming pools.. the Expo is the place to visit for all your home and land decorating needs. Each Expo Exhibitor will have Relay for Life Vendors selling items earmarked especially for cancer research.” (official PR text)

GREENE concept is pleased to be among the well over 50 exhibitors, featuring some of the bigh shots in SL home decor like Barnesworth Anubis, Woodshed, Organica or Second Spaces of my friend Elle Kirshner.

Ivanova has been creating with a vengeance lately, so we have many new items to show. There is the Emphasis Bench – an addition to our Emphasis chair line. The Twisted Bench for couples, and a series of new tables. And we donated two of our topsellers for the benefit of RFL Cancer Reserach.

We look forward to welcome you on the GREENE concept booth – direct teleport is here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rhodium/68/29/61

Bye, bye Onrez – 50% closing sale

The web shopping portal onrez will shut down on February 11th. Linden Lab has bought both of the competing platforms – onrez and Xstreet SL – and onrez will be the casuality of this move. I personally regret this for various reasons: not only did onrez had the better user interface from a merchants perspective, it also charged no commission fees for sales. I hope Linden Lab will save some of the features of onrez and implement them on the Xstreet SL platform.

To show our gratitude towards onrez and its users, for the remaining time we have marked down all our items listed by 50%.

That’s right – get everything by GREENE concept which is listed on onrez (which is basically everything except the new Emphasis chairs) for half the price! I will pull the plug some time on the 10th as Linden Lab announced balances do not get withdrawn automatically.

Click here to access our onrez storefront with the 50% sale items.

Bye, bye onrez – it has been a nice time. Thank you!

Customer reference: Conny Quaggy / Koblenz sim

Over the last days I noticed a customer who returned three times to our shop, each time buying one or two of the Berlin sofas. Today I contacted her because I was curious what she used them for. It turns out Conny is the head behind the Koblenz Sim, an accurate respresentation of the German town whith its signature monument “Deutsches Eck” (see http://www.sl-koblenz.de/). The Berlin chairs were needed for a live literature reading in the rooms of the Koblenz castle. Conny provided this wonderful photo where the furniture can be seen during the event. The Koblenz sim holds events often, please visit it at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Deutsches%20Eck/26/70/50

The San Jose spectrum

I have completed the San Jose fatpacks. These are all twelve, menu selectable colors in one San Jose. They are available in both a no-copy/transfer version, at L$800, and copy/no-transfer version, at L$1000. This is a good value. Especially in the copy/no-transfer version. A sim owner can place a rainbow of seating for forty avatars, coming in at only 56 prims.
It was Peter’s wonderful idea to have the San Jose fatpack ask the owner, upon rezzing, if they want everyone to be able to change the color, or just themselves. As usual, the owner can also disable the shadow plane prim if they wish by touching the handle.

Learning scripting

Sometimes learning is hard. The most difficult thing in Second Life® that I have studied is scripting. I admit that I have done very little in the way of animations.

I recently got into a scripting project that made me feel most unlike a scripter. It was a piece of furniture scripting describing sit targets and changing animations randomly between sitting avatars, and it was behaving in very unpredictable ways. I was using both different animations and learning, for the first time, the LSL permissions system. When I thought I had entered some information correctly nothing was working correctly and I was getting script errors. As usual, this meant that I was doing something wrong. I just couldn’t figure out what.
I took the advice of a good friend and stepped away from it for a day. Then I attacked it again with hammers and pliers and almost immediately discovered my error (it was a silly mistake, really). It was good too because I had begun to feel that my tools might have been defective. I like my tools.

When things begin to get so hard that you bang on your keyboard and snap at the cat who wants your attention, take a break. It will help. And then you will remember that learning is fun