Yes, I know ... I've been soooooo bad at keeping up with the blog! The sim I reside on changed it's theme and I had to do a total designing re-haul of my parcel. In RL the company I work for decided to downsize and I was let go. I haven't found another job yet, BUT I've been doing some freelance AND I've been contacted by a RPG company that would like for me to illustrate for them ( :))))) ... WOOOT! Anyways, I had to admit after all the SL and RL events, I was feeling VERY burned out and decided to take a break ... But now I'm BACK!
Now, I found a VERY USEFUL tidbit on Miriel's SL Blog in regards to getting rid of ugly face shadows on your avatar ... I've cut and pasted her post below:
"Aha! Finally! I've figured out how to eliminate environmental shadows on the avatar, and I'm an idiot for not doing so sooner. It's so obvious.Go to World > Environment Settings > Environment Editor (or just hit Ctrl-Alt-E, if you like that kind of thing). Click the Advanced Sky button. Go to the Lighting Tab. Turn the Sun/Moon Color to 0 all the way around to eliminate the shadows. If you don't want to eliminate them entirely, just turn them down until you're happy: the lower you go, the fewer shadows and highlights will be cast by the sun or moon.That's it. You're done.You may want to turn up the Ambient setting to make the scene brighter, or turn up the Scene Gamma. You may also want to go into Atmosphere tab and make sure the Distance Multiplier or Density Multiplier is set to 0 (one or the other, though you can do both if you really want) to keep things from being hazy. Lastly, if you have local lights on, you may want to go back into the Lighting tab and fiddle with the Sun and Moon Position slider, because the sun position determines how bright local lights will be. Local lighting will also add some shadows back onto your avatar.There are a couple downsides to this technique, though. One, the sky itself will look pretty bad. Two, your scene will be pretty desaturated and may look washed out, though I'll experiment more to see if this can be worked around. For me, though, it at least beats the awful shadows cast by the avatar nose."
All I can say is: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!! Thanks Miriel!!!
Okay, I've got to get back to completing a RL freelance assignment ... I will be posting again this Saturday in regards to a couple of new pieces I made for Absinthe Minded and a special announcement for N30 Photo Studio addicts!!!
Hugs,
Absinthe
