Domino Marama's blog

Thanks to everyone who voted on the educational version poll!

The results are mostly split into two large groups, those who are happy with the way things are, and those who would like a free or very low cost version of Primstar 2.

Unfortunately, I've already proven that the donation model does not work for funding Primstar's development. Here's the donations we've received for Primstar 1.1.0 and the public version of JASS so far this year:

I've just sent another new feature off to Gaia for testing. There's four new controls which affect the vertex distribution on new sculptie shapes. Great fun to play with and it turns up interesting results on some shapes

Originally I planned 3 products in the star range, Primstar, Avastar and Simstar. Simstar however didn't really have enough features to make it a separate product. So we've decided to merge those features into Primstar. The main feature is support for raw terrain files. I finished coding this yesterday, and Gaia is currently documenting the features and preparing a new Primstar release.

So very shortly, you'll be able to edit your private region terrains in Blender!

Sometimes when you try to do the right thing, people just take advantage of your generosity. That in itself isn't a problem, but when they then try to make out that they are better than you and attempt to destroy what you have done it becomes a bigger issue.

While I was sleeping, Gaia stayed up late to launch Primstar-2 (I had been coding all day though to get it ready )

http://blog.machinimatrix.org/2011/04/18/primstar-2-dev-release-available/

This is just an early adopters program and is far from feature complete, but it's enough to get you started in using Blender 2.57 for creating sculpties.

Today (30-January-2011) Domino Designs and The Machinimatrix agreed on a partnership to create Primstar-2, a content creation toolset for Second Life and similar online worlds.

Primstar-2 will be based on Blender 2-5 (or newer) and contain tools for creating sculpted prims, regular prims and meshes. We are also aiming to merge all features of the currently available jass-2 products into Primstar-2.

Hi everyone,

The cold (flu?) I had over Christmas has gone now, but the added strain (on my neck from all the sneezing) has aggravated my median and ulnar nerve problems. I'm also doing new physio therapy exercises to help decompress those. At the moment that's all leaving me in pretty much constant pain. It's not going down to what I consider my safe level for computer use at all

Hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season.

Sorry for not being around, but I've not managed to shake off the head cold that jumped on me as soon as I relaxed after releasing Primstar 1.0.0

It's starting to ease off now but I still don't feel well enough to hold my office hours tonight. Having two different ailments that make it hard to sleep has left me pretty exhausted.

I hope everyone is enjoying making sculpties and I hope to be more active again soon.

With donations still far short of funding the next stages of Primstar development, I'm selling off the last of my domain portfolio to try and cover the gap.

http://memorised.com is the first to appear as a Bido Auction

There are three others for sale

http://xbis.com

http://retunes.com

http://cuptie.com

During this weeks office hours, which will be at my beach place this Sunday from 2pm to 4pm SL time, Primstar 1.0.0 will be released. Going to be a busy couple of days getting the manual and scripts finished