Of course vacation plans in SL are subject to complications just as in RL You think you have everything packed and just as you’re about to get into the car you panic that you forgot something. Is it in the suitcase or..or is it lost? Similarly, I had spent hours setting up for this shot, tweaking the light, setting the pose – and that was after chasing down suitcases, cars, cats and parking lot textures! We won’t even talk about the cars I got at a very good price – too good to be true even with broken scripts. (Yes, I am lodging a complaint because at least one had a negative review because of the same issues I had). After all that and then taking the picture, editing in Gimp because the only opening suitcase I could find that was half modern or not beat up was pink…after all that, you realize the jacket you’re wearing is a mess!
In all fairness, it was a few years old and the creators have a tough time dealing with the varied size avatars..but my avatar is 6 and a half feet tall and muscled…and small is too big! So, refusing to leave home like that I had to go shopping. I hate shopping for men’s clothes for this very reason. Time lost shopping only to pull something else out of the drawer and set everything up for the photo again.
Unable to get the exact same lighting, I then spent another hour trying to (and took screen shots of the settings this time!) get the same angle, same light ( and failed) before saying ‘enough!’. I’m getting really good at changing the color of items in Gimp by now so that was easy.
Almost ready to upload and then I noticed the cat was missing half it’s head! Really!? Log back in, set everything up as close as I can and…get a good picture of the cat from the same angle and distance…and hopefully with light close enough that it’s easy to bring into the image. One last check and I realized that on one of my monitors it was too dark so I lightened the image before uploading.
There! Now we’re ready to go. Get into the car! No, not you kitty…
Yes, it wasn’t too long before I was told the image was too dark. I’m just ready to hit the road by now though I am a bit concerned that I’ve missed my flight…
