Who want make meshes for free?

We all know how expensive are those software to work with meshes and we know aswell, how hard is to manage some free ones.

Now you haven't any excuse to start learning meshes for free!
Daz3D starts a really crazy promotion during February where you can download for FREE their products including plugins and addons! Yeah, this could sound like a bad joke, but it's completely true. You just need follow the link to the Daz3D website clicking in the image, make an account and start creating art.

Even if the three software aren't the best, they are really nice and work perfect to start on this until you think you need something "bigger".

If someone don't know, Daz3D its a modelling and rendering software. You always could download for free, but as basic edition (not PRO). But now you have the opportunity to get the PRO version. Include an easy to use animation maker that allow you to export directly the animations in BVH format ready for Second Life, something that probably you could be interested.

Asides from Daz3D Pro, they are giving for free the nice sculpting and texturing tool, Hexagon. With a really intuitive interface you can sculpt models and texture them very easily without wasting too much time learning complex way. And you know what?, even include an option to make sculpts! And when I say "sculpts" I mean the ones we can see in Second Life because includes an option to export them.

I can't say too much for Bryce, really never tried that one. It's to create landscape, something that maybe you don't need at all for Second Life. But, why not, you can use Bryce to make some cool landscape for those pics you like to do in Second Life :)

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Second Life last names back!

Few days ago, some people could notice in a profile of a Linden worker, how he talk about getting back the possibility of choosing a last name from a predefined list of options.
For the most new ones, this is how SL worked always. This gives you an identity, an unique last name that only more or less people will share with you. It's have been known that most of the old users never liked the idea of calling everyone "Resident", for its last name. Asides from making a division in a range of avatars (the "news" and the "olds"), it also reduces the possibility to choose an unique name. So you will need use the display name always (something I have off always lol).

This time we said, they heard and we get. It's nothing new that really LL is changing the policy about hearing what people really want and need. This maybe isn't too noticeable for some people, even more for those who doesn't pays attention to what is happening around, since SL is not just a grid and goes beyond there with a forum, wiki, etc. where you can find how things were, are and will be.
A point for LL this time, let's see what's the next step carefully.

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