DOF in Kirstens Viewer or Focus on me!

I made this short clip today to test the Depth of Field in Kirstens Viewer S 21.

There is a lot of info about what it is and how to enable it in the official SL viewer here along with a great tutorial by Torley. It was pretty much the same in Kirstens Viewer even if I couldn't find all the Debug settings. I used CameraFocalLenght 200 for this clip. If you have a lower number the effect is less obvious.

It was real easy to shift the focus point. I just had to move the mouse around.

My FPS was terrible as I say in the video. But it really didn't feel all that bad and the video clip came out ok.

I filmed in the Chapel Park on Wiladma Island, where this lovely little mallard family lives.

Add on for off sim reefs

We have quite a few off sim reefs in our store. Now they are getting inhabited. Well at least there is housing available on them. You'd have to be very small and since they are meant to be outside the region border it may not be a good alternative to a house on land. But it looks pretty.

Romantic isn't it?

This is the tropical island add on, in case you didn't guess. Not in the store quite yet, but will be soon along with a western variety and maybe some surprise one too!

A completely new bridge

Major McCaw has made a completely new model of bridge. It has a steep peak and a beautiful arch. Here's me and the mallards enjoying the cool new look of the landscape.

It comes in two sizes. The one in the picture is 30 meters, there is a 20 meter version too. You find them in Fort Serenity Waterfalls store.

Amazing sculpted avatars by Ub Yifu

We were out looking for a sculpted cowboy today.We didn't find any but the search sure wasn't wasted anyway. Came across this region full of amazing sculpted avatars by Ub Yifu.

Two of Ub Yifu's sculpted avatars

The guy to the right is a landmark giver and it is free! I also looked at the Second Life Marketplace and saw he has some great artworks there. I have to see more of his works.

For now here is the link to the Ub Yifu's store.

The artist in person(s) Don Quixote AND Sancho Panza :o)

This is my lucky day! When I logged back in to get the SLURL for his store I met Ub Yifu in person. A very nice encounter. He's not just a great artist, he is a pleasant person too :) It turned out he had a sculpted cowboy girl, and that he does custom work.

Fort Serenity Waterfalls Store has a website

Now Fort Serenity Waterfalls Store has a website of it's own,where you can read about all the waterfalls, ponds, streams and bridges we have. The site is still being filled with content but you can already find info about and pictures of some of the most popular falls.

Philbin's Mercantile and Mining Supplies

Fort Serenity Ranch Old Western Town

Have an old west style sim and empty cupboards? No tools for the barn? No gun cabinet?

Philbin's Mercantile and Mining Supplies

Major McCaw and I (mostly him actually, but I helped) have filled the store in our western town with lots of little things a wild west home needs. There are pots and pans and cans of all kinds of food, sacks and barrels and some guns, just in case you get a visit from the wild west outlaws. And lots more. Price level is about the same as it would have been back then too :o)

Fort Serenity Western Hotel

If you pop in next door to the hotel you will find lamp, tables, chairs, cloths and some fresh picked flowers for your home. Do keep peeking into the houses, there are plenty of bargain furniture :o)

How to hide related videos when embedding YouTube videos

Don't like the way the embedded YouTube-player shows other videos when done playing?

It's real easy to set it not to. In the link just add &rel= 0 directly after the url. Like this: 

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB_zWA5XWZI&rel=0"

For the embedded player I had to edit it in the HTML code for the component but that was just as easy. Just right click and pick the option for the component code (my viewer is Swedish that's why I can't quote the exact menu line, but it's probably even more intuitive in the English menu).

There are more parameters for embedding YouTube videos on the page that had that tip.