New store is here….

We have been quiet for the last few weeks as we have been busy working on a couple of exciting projects (more about this in the up coming weeks).  But one that I can announce is the rebuilding of our wee store, inSight Designs Textures ……..

Why change it? Nowadays most merchants have an xstreet account for those that want to view products quickly and with out leaving home so to speak, we even have a website where you can view our entire texture collection, our online catalogue but I still like shopping inworld when I have the time, you can discover a lot about the products and designer by visiting their store but thanks must really go to Gwyneth Llewelyn for her blog post over at Ana Lutetia called the Anatomy of Lag.

I had read it  a while ago and can heartily recommend it.  It gives a great insight into the myths surrounding the old problem of  lag within Second Life® and some of the ideas she suggested to help eliminate these issues we wanted to implement within our store.

This included avoiding open spaces, so not every texture has to display at once, reducing texture sizes AND reducing the amount of textures (okay that’s hard within a texture shop or even a fashion shop with numerous vendors and ads but we reduced the actual build  images to to only 4 and with a bit of tinkering inworld these 4 textures can be placed on one single texture and then offset and rotated  to create the illusion of more images being used when in fact there is only one).

Please feel free to come over and take a look, the texture changing scripts can be seen with working models and the textures are arranged into two categories, building material textures to the right of the building  and the fabric textures on the left and if you have any questions myself and Lubo can be contacted inworld or leave us a message.

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   Mauricette Morane says:

   August 28, 2010 at 8:10 am

   Lovely build! So OK, I’m a bit late taking notice… :-)
   There wouldn’t be any plans to release a scaled down version as a prefab for personal use by any chance?
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   Amisha March says:

   August 28, 2010 at 8:44 am

   Thanks Mauricette :) Actually it’s me that’s a bit late. I promised a while ago to make a smaller version but time runs away from me!! As soon as it’s done I’ll drop one on you :D