Because you do not get rid of an obsession just like this, here are some work in progress shot of this week. And yes I’m considering using liquidmesh for this. That is, if I ever manage to finish it.

Enjoy 😀

As usual you can find them at the KDC main shop on the Secondlife Marketplace or on the Primbay

Remember to report any bugs if you want them fixed!

I didn’t want to make the cuffs a “resized” version of the collar, because I feel that the locks should stay at a consistent size for the different parts of this set. The difficulty here is to get them to look like they match perfectly, the cuffs have to be smaller, but the hinge should be as wide and as tall as for the collar since they are made from the same steel parts.

Good result so far, however the welds look slightly different, I’m getting some unwanted shadowing because the piece is rotated 90°, I might put it back vertically to eliminate that.

I’ve settled for a “circular” section (the simplest of the two) rather than an oval shape. An oval would not really be harder to make than a circle but I stuck to circle because… well circles have a certain elegance.  I’m not sure if I will stick with it, but it looks good enough for now.

I took a couple of days to try to really get into blender. While I’m fairly proficient with 3D Studio Max, i don’t think it’s where the future is. While max has a wide array of plugins available, they are almost all made by for profit entities, add to this that Blender has a much better file format support and has always been the tool set of choice for SecondLife ( all the way back to sculpted prims, then meshs, then rigged meshs and now fitted meshs), you can see why I’m interested by it.

Blender is kind of a strange beast, getting used to its control scheme is quite difficult when coming from something more “Standard”. But the tools are not very different from Max really. But unlike Max where hotkeys are there but optional, on Blender it’s almost a requirement to know a good amount of them, while most of the hotkeys have their UI equivalent, it’s not true for everything (that or i haven’t found them yet).

The new Blender rendering engine take a lot of time getting used to it. The results are very pleasant and realistic even with just a sun light and a basic sky but the tools available are… strange to say the least, and I’m not talking about the “noodle” interface, that’s not the issue. Some materials turn out to be extremely difficult to produce and what should be a very simple thing turns out to be not so simple to produce. I get the feeling that on Cycles, material creation is very close to what shader programming would be.

Ironically I have yet to touch the “old” rendering engine which might be more appropriate after all, it’s just the old reflex scanline < mental ray that you tend to have in Max.

I don’t think I can just move to Blender “like that”, I’m gonna need a lot of practice to get comfortable with it.

New face slappers will mute themselves after you get slapped twice by the same person and will not display the emote message for half an hour. Hopefully this will make the tool less intrusive.

Send me an IM if you want the update!

As per request from a few dear friends, the ankle version of the classic leather cuffs is now out, enjoy 🙂

As usual, you can find it in the KDC main shop on the SecondLife Marketplace or on The PrimBay.

I just released a patch that fix the following issues:

• FIXED: RLV TPlure restriction not always clearing when a leash is removed.
• FIXED: Mitten-ed hands detection.
• ADDED: Running animations are now checked/applied when sitting/standing (takes a couple of seconds to kick in)
• CHANGE: Cleaned up the mouth opening code for gags, no more mouth flexing.

And here is a list of the products that have been updated:

• All the PonyPlay bits.
• Wasp gasmasks.
• Lined chrome chastity belt

That’s all for now 🙂

I just released a patch that fix the following issues:

• FIXED: RLV TPlure restriction not always clearing when a leash is removed.
• CHANGE: Streamlined neck freezing code for the classic leather and heavy metal collar.
• FIXED: Mitten-ed hands detection.
• ADDED: Running animations are now checked/applied when sitting/standing (takes a couple of seconds to kick in)
• CHANGE: Cleaned up the mouth opening code for gags, no more mouth flexing.

And here is a list of the products that have been updated:

• Lined chrome collar.
• Classic leather posture collar.
• Classic leather wrist cuffs.
• Lined chrome wrist/elbow/ankle cuffs & thighs bands.
• Laminated wrist & ankle cuffs.
• Stuffed ballgag.
• PonyPlay bridle.
• KDC/ER Chrome collar
• KDC/ER Chrome wrist/ankle cuffs.

Initially conceived by one of KDC’s subsidiary companies as a clamp to hold rocket thrusters on an asteroid mining spaceship, they never managed to secure the budget to design the REST of the spaceship.

But we realized that what they came up with could still be of some use…

It has all the standard TouchBound collar functions as well as neck animation (i didn’t plan to have one initially but it turned out that the collar is a little on the tall side). It’s the first product to use a “dual lock” system. Basically, it is fully compatible with standard TB locks and will use a little shroud and pin adapter to do so. Or you can use the (massive) new padlocks, but they will only work on TB products that have large metal flanges to accommodate them (which is only this collar at the moment).

And since it’s not christmas yet, i repackaged the anchor point and the leash handle for the TouchBound system in a FREE bundle! Check it out at the main KDC shop :).

As usual, you can check these products at KDC’s Main Shop, on the SecondLife Marketplace and on PrimBay

Finally! I was a bit burned Friday so I decided to take Saturday/Sunday off, the weather is pretty horrible here: hot and wet. Which makes it difficult to get on with work.

Two shots today, one with the large padlock, and one with the shroud adapter for small locks. Enjoy 🙂