From Japan to SL

The SL birthday festival was finished. I got hundreds of gifts and hundreds of snapshots. I will bring out some interesting photos here, but since they are not an introduction of the presentation. please forgive me if I did any different interpretation than that of the artist. The main characteristic of the SL18B was “heaviness”. It was easy to take a bird’s eye view of the site usually, but not so this year because of the slow reading and inoperative camera, and sometimes I was forced to log out. So, I adjusted the view distance to the minimum to set the camera position and lighting, then extended the limit to shoot pictures.




This is a shot with the minimum view distance. Just after the distance change, the land can be seen for a while, so I took pictures meanwhile. The reading took more than a few minutes and some parts were blurred again after some period.




The pods and balloons are as usual but with fewer numbers. Naturally it was not easy to read textures while moving. In this picture the road and the crystal on the right look blurred and the shape of distant trees is strange due to reading error. It was frustrating to see the textures of walls, rocks and land repeating in and out while shooting pictures.




There were many vacant areas as usual, but it seemed that there were more dark plants this year.
It could be for showing off the presentations, but I would prefer more bright and happy fields for the festival.




This year’s theme for SL18B was Hidden Worlds. There was a presentation for the planet Pandora. It was amazing to see the cool reproduction within the limited area. The RPG was restarted at Pandora. I would report it later.




The above presentation was by Tina Stormfield. The floating plant is by Papillon Link. That was seen at the Mars of the future world INSILICO. In these articles, let me call the presenter without the title.