rif_fox

well me and a few friends rented a house in SL
so i was decorating it up to look real nice here is a few screen shots of it.














the lab is still getting worked on at the moment.

decided to do some fishing today.
and at the same time cranked water reflections to the max.




not bad

well after alot of modifying in sl i came up with the look like me real costume.

well i had fun last night bought a airship/sub.
it was a fancy one so in a friends place we checked you the underwater reef.








then following that we went fishing in his pond.





all in all the place is real fun :)

ok i found two bugs and made them repeat themselves many times. so instead of filling out a bug report that will end up in a bin someplace im putting it here along with pic proof.

first was the worst... random times i had it happen when my chat got corrupted to a point where everyone can see it. it corrupted the skin and all that i wear. or so it looked like a corruption...
i found out the SL viewer has an issue on the mac version when the mac animated dock is in view all the time and the screen is pushed up a bit.

i tested this many times now and auto hiding the dock and stretching the window to full and rebake textures fixes this.. so this is some odd resolution/conflict with the 3d dock.

here is a photo what it looks like.





these bugs can be fixed easily i seen em before in other games.
and yes i do have game design experience. if any staff are forwarded here that see this and are in game i would like to have a chat with you.. this affects game play and should be priority 1.

heh ohh well ill end the post here before i start getting frustrated.

later all.


remember setting your dock on autohide and stretching your window full screen fixes this.


now another matter..
another bug i found is the multithreading mode in the game using the advanced menu. this keeps the mac nice and cool but on some systems like mine that is the new macbook it has a major flaw.
i have 2 video card modes in it. the NVIDIA 9400 and NVIDIA 9600. both are easy to switch back and fourth. and both give the same error result in multithreading. i would go to an area. and alot of the textures fail to load. to the point where you are waiting hours for the area to load.. the only way to get it to load is to move the mouse pointer over things. remember when that is off everything is fine.

here is the multithreading on..

copied from hollys journal

( rif and holly in diagon alley )

note homer playing in the background :P

well i recently discovered second life.. after a few friends help and camping for a while i got a nice avatar. im slowly making it look more like my costume it will be slow tho. :P

anyways here is a pic of me.





and my name there is rif foxclaw
if anyone want to add me as a friend.

well when it snows it really snows and rif is not amused. :P






and here i look angry sort of.

tell me what you think. i was playing around with the editing software on my mac. this edit took only 1 hour :)

well i got my mac a few days back.. i was bringing it up to par with all the stuff i use here.

and yes its running both winXP and mac at the same time. i set it to use my mac firewall so xp has more resources. ill me doing some internet on
XP and mabey gameing since i can now run 3d games in it.. WOOHOO!

but yeah was fun testing it so far.. im going to wait until i move my dsl over to it for a bit since i got to run the cable through the floor to my room.

i would take a picture but my sister has the camera. ill get one soon enough tho. and yes this thing is better than a pc. no crashes or anything.. if windows flips out i tell it to either close or restore before the crash. nice features in that :)

here is a useful link that might help in the future.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Build_a_60_Watt_Solar_Panel/

well there was even more photos done that i was not aware of.. like this.




and well this


again these seem to be spreading and thats a good thing :)
here is the other archive.

http://fursuit.timduru.org/view/OtherEvents/Ottawa/20081011

here is a good reason why you should becareful not to hug rif if he dont know you well :P




hehe only kidding it was part of a meetup this weekend. here is an archive of photos and videos.

http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc16/Zetscoony/

well when they say when its hot outside drink lots of water.

well i was real busy testing ans saveing arcade games onto cd.
some of them are real nice and most of them you never seen around here.

like this one.




mind you on my computer its all full screen. but they are mega fun. so far up to 10 cd's full of games. once done ill load them all on the computer and there will be years of fun there :)

well i did another mod and this one is a nice one. not only do i have to worry about Li-Ion batteries no more but i stretched the runtime of this thing to over 22 hours.
i get that much time since i turn the psp off at the battery pack itself. so i dont use its sleep mode. with sleepmode for some games hours are cut down a bit.

here is a photo of the patch.




and yes my psp is hacked and i can run almost anything on it.. i have all consoles on it now. plus an amiga computer emulator so it can be used as a pocket computer now as well. :)

and if the batteries die i just replace them with ones allready charged up.. i do a mass charge all at once and im good for a few months.

here is a caption this!! :)




tell me what you think.

ok all i took a walk quickly with the head on today. after the thrid wave of film shooting i had like 3 min to spare so i got this done.




what you think of that setting?

i recently seen this real nice laptop from asus and well looking at it at what it comes with looked cool.. what was even better is that this thing can run win XP!!!

i was like yes! finally. whats best is its cheap. $200 to $450 depending what you need or want on it. like memory upgrades etc.

what i would need is the basic unit and a external dvd reader and writer and im happy.
whats better is this thing is fast.. its 900mhz.. same as mine i have now. but this thing runs circles around mine.. so they did some tweaking.
here it is with win XP on it booting up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1YSsTYppO4

thats the fastest i seen yet. well on that speed.

i seen other demo videos of people playing WoW and others stuff at real good framerates.
now this im actually thinking of getting before i hit the mac. they finally made something that seems good and toss vista out in the garbage!!

here is thier site for more info.
http://eeepc.asus.com/ca/product.htm

dont let the size fool you it can run full 3d games. i seen that thing in action. despite what media says.
even seen one running the mac os lepoerd. so its basicly a tiny PC. what you can load on it i guess its up to you. :)

for me it would be a replacement for this big clunker of a boat ancor i got now.