Black Tulip, sponsor of the SL Christmas Expo. Opens today!

The SL Christmas Expo, in benefit of RFL, comes a third year, opening its doors today, December 5th at 10 AM SLT, and it will remain open until the 15th.

This year, Black Tulip has joined as sim sponsor, releasing three new items, all of them for the RFL vendors. Click here for the Taxi.

New Blender book for creators:

For photographers:

For everybody:

New Blender books and sales for Black Friday

This is a special sales weekend, and the first offers are the two new Blender books, set to promotional price during the weekend:

All the full permissions mesh in the main store is marked 50% off.

Also, some selected books, animations and scripts are set to L$60 and L$75. Check them out at the main store, at the sale area.

More news to come when the SL Christmas Expo opens its doors December 5th. This year, Black Tulip has joined as sim sponsor. Keep an eye not to miss them!

Don't forget the new items released for the Creators Winter Market: the promotional price is valid only there!

New Blender books and Mesh for Creators Winter Market

"Creators Winter Market", sponsored by Merchant Resource Central and Builder's Bargains, opens its doors today until December 22th. Black Tulip has joined in, and for this market releases three new items, all of them at special release price while the market is open.

A two books-mini series explaining in full detail how to create a Christmas candles setup in Blender that should use animated texture flames in SL, covering all the stages, tips and solutions to possible issues:

And a full permissions mesh arrangement of said Christmas candles setup, including the baked texture:

There are more upcoming exciting events: Black Friday, and the SL Christmas Expo. This year, Black Tulip has joined as sim sponsor. Keep an eye not to miss them!

New Blender book: UV Mapping and Texture Basics, Part 3

This weekend, "UV Mapping & Texture Basics" continues with the third chapter. We seam and unwrap the model, and in our way, learn more useful functions of the UV/Image Editor, as well as how to proceed in case of trouble. A notecard with the required download links is included.

New Blender book, full perms mesh for creators and a special group gift

This weekend, "UV Mapping & Texture Basics" continues with the second chapter, introducing us more in detail into the UV/Image Editor and the seaming process. A notecard with the required download links is included.

Remember the "Spooky Times" event (still running!)?

I decided to release the mirror as a full permissions object for creators, at the main store. There are two mirrors included in the package. One of them has an extra face that you could use to perform scripted tricks to show/hide an image over the mirror surface :-)

This weekend is also time to celebrate!

The last weekend, the group hit the number of 250 members, and I've prepared the following gift to say thank you all!

Activate your group tag and grab this Murphy bed for a single avatar, ready to work together with a sitter system *and* the door script, taking advantage of one of the new features of the recently released door script. Notecards with the setup are provided in case you have the script and want to save time setting the bed to work as a real Murphy bed :-)

Talking about doors, remember that the door script V2 is still set to 50% off its price during this weekend only!

Online documentation: http://blacktulip-doors.blogspot.com/

Have a great weekend :-)

Multi Door/Drawer/Curtain Tool V2, is here!

It was November 2011 when the first version of "Multi Door/Drawer/Curtain Tool" was released, and since then, it has made easier the life of hundreds of builders, when it comes to script doors. During this time, some of you have requested new features to the tool, giving some cool ideas, and now, Version 2 sees the light! Before anything else, I want to thank you for your suggestions, and for your patience. It's been a whole month of developing, testing and (of course!) writing quite extensive documentation about it. It's my wish that the final result is worth your time and consideration.

It's released now under Builder's Bargains to 50% off its price, so if you didn't buy the first version, now you can get a great deal!

Online documentation

Why do I say "if you didn't buy the first version"? Because if you bought the first version... A free update should have knocked on your door :-) (no pun intended)

This is not the only news, and there will be more for the weekend. Keep reading to know about FOUR online tutorials I have added in my website.

Four new online tutorials, including "Doors in SL"

I wanted to prepare a tutorial related to building doors, to accompany the release of V2. As I was writing, I realized that there would be some other topics that would be a good complement, like talking about how to link phantom and non phantom prims, or talk about sculpt prims... so I went for the class material of my classes about, and after some work over said material, you can now check online the following tutorials:

• Land Impact: An explanation. Linking phantom and non phantom prims.
• Introduction to sculpt prims
• Prim Generator
• Doors in SL

The "Doors in SL" tutorial explains how to build all sorts of doors, from regular prims, to sculpts and mesh! This is an essential resource to builders that you don't want to miss out.

Feel free to share the links if they could help more builders :-)

New releases for "Spooky Times"

Isabelli Anatine, from "Uncertain Smile Poses" has organized an event called "Spooky Times", featuring Halloween related items from several creators. It opens today at 4 PM SLT and will close October 31th. I've put together a couple of new items, released to promotional price (both set to L$150 now). Once the event is over, they'll come to the main store at full price (that will be L$225).

Your taxi, here. Head to the little room full of easels and goodies to check out. Have fun! :-)

Remember submitting to the store Flickr's group your photographs, whether using the prop or the furniture, I'd love to see them! Join here and add your pics: http://www.flickr.com/groups/blacktulip/

Pssst: This week, a major release is coming. One of your favorite scripts, updated. Stay tuned :-)