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@JupiterRowland has shared lots of PBR textures for you at Gracie and Dexter's. These are wonderful textures thank you Jupiter! I needed and used one this morning Rubber I needed for tires at Corazon del Mar! Thank you!
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Two more things, I guess, are fair to mention.
These aren't just PBR materials. They also come with matching Blinn-Phong bitmaps so that your objects don't look grey to users of Firestorm 6, Singularity and other older viewers that don't support PBR. Still, you have to apply the Blinn-Phong maps manually.
Also, I make my sources known. The sources are licensed under Creative Commons CC0, and so are my materials.
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These aren't just PBR materials. They also come with matching Blinn-Phong bitmaps so that your objects don't look grey to users of Firestorm 6, Singularity and other older viewers that don't support PBR. Still, you have to apply the Blinn-Phong maps manually.
Also, I make my sources known. The sources are licensed under Creative Commons CC0, and so are my materials.
I'm currently working on stocking a material shop in OSgrid. But I still have a whole lot more materials to pack up for that.
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Many of my next wave of textures will be leftovers from retexturing one of Selea Core's Low Prim Houses and texturing the self-made surroundings. Including tons of tiles.
I hope someone who has always wanted to build a liminal public bath reads this.
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I hope someone who has always wanted to build a liminal public bath reads this.
Well I had to look up liminal public bath and this is what I found. "A liminal public bath or bathroom represents a transitional, often eerie space—typically empty, quiet, and dated—that feels detached from its surroundings. These spaces, such as vacant locker rooms, tiled restrooms, or traditional Japanese sentō, create an "uncanny valley" effect. They symbolize moments of pause, transition, and, for some, a hidden, quiet sanctuary." Now I want to make a liminal public bath....lol
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Where to start...
Basically, the keywords you'll want to look for are "Liminal spaces" and "The Backrooms".
It all started with a picture posted on 4chan in 2018. What it showed was a HobbyTown that was empty in order to be renovated. But with the complete lack of furniture and the neon lighting, the image gave the impression of an eerie abandoned office building.
https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/22661164/
In a reply, the place shown in the image was referred to as an otherworldly place called "The Backrooms". And thus, The Backrooms was born.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-backrooms
The Backrooms alone, with its aesthetics, evolved into a "found footage" creepypasta video from 2022...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo
...several video games, starting as early as 2020...
https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3614536/play-shad...
...and even a film that's scheduled to come to the theatres this spring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backrooms_(film)
But liminal spaces go beyond that because more and more settings were found to feel like liminal spaces.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/liminal-spaces-ima...
This quickly went from empty office spaces to hospital and school corridors... to abandoned malls... to parking decks... to underground stations (here we get wall and sometimes ground tiles already)... to the same, but flooded (here we get the water)... to public swimming pools. Often only dimly lit, with water in them, maybe with some sparse decoration, but with not a single person in sight.
There's a subreddit about liminal spaces.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace/
In fact, level 37 "Sublimity" of the Backrooms game is a public swimming pool. The fan nickname of this level is "The Poolrooms" because it's The Backrooms, but as a pool.
https://backrooms.fandom.com/wiki/Level_37
This level, this setting alone achieved such a cult status that "Poolrooms" became their very own phenomenon with their own subreddit...
https://www.reddit.com/r/poolrooms/
...and video games like Poolrooms and Pools.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2978690/Poolrooms/
https://poolsthegame.com/
Interestingly, most poolrooms aren't even real. Some are, but most were made in Blender.
If the OpenSim community was savvier in terms of Internet phenomena, more creative and less hell-bent on making everything look like "Second Life decked out in only the newest and most expensive premium stuff", we would have had tons of such places in OpenSim since the early 2020s. OpenSim is perfect for not only liminal spaces, but Backrooms-like stuff, both in terms of technology and in terms of "you're guaranteed to not encounter anyone else as you're exploring these places".
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Basically, the keywords you'll want to look for are "Liminal spaces" and "The Backrooms".
It all started with a picture posted on 4chan in 2018. What it showed was a HobbyTown that was empty in order to be renovated. But with the complete lack of furniture and the neon lighting, the image gave the impression of an eerie abandoned office building.
https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/22661164/
In a reply, the place shown in the image was referred to as an otherworldly place called "The Backrooms". And thus, The Backrooms was born.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-backrooms
The Backrooms alone, with its aesthetics, evolved into a "found footage" creepypasta video from 2022...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo
...several video games, starting as early as 2020...
https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3614536/play-shad...
...and even a film that's scheduled to come to the theatres this spring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backrooms_(film)
But liminal spaces go beyond that because more and more settings were found to feel like liminal spaces.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/liminal-spaces-ima...
This quickly went from empty office spaces to hospital and school corridors... to abandoned malls... to parking decks... to underground stations (here we get wall and sometimes ground tiles already)... to the same, but flooded (here we get the water)... to public swimming pools. Often only dimly lit, with water in them, maybe with some sparse decoration, but with not a single person in sight.
There's a subreddit about liminal spaces.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace/
In fact, level 37 "Sublimity" of the Backrooms game is a public swimming pool. The fan nickname of this level is "The Poolrooms" because it's The Backrooms, but as a pool.
https://backrooms.fandom.com/wiki/Level_37
This level, this setting alone achieved such a cult status that "Poolrooms" became their very own phenomenon with their own subreddit...
https://www.reddit.com/r/poolrooms/
...and video games like Poolrooms and Pools.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2978690/Poolrooms/
https://poolsthegame.com/
Interestingly, most poolrooms aren't even real. Some are, but most were made in Blender.
If the OpenSim community was savvier in terms of Internet phenomena, more creative and less hell-bent on making everything look like "Second Life decked out in only the newest and most expensive premium stuff", we would have had tons of such places in OpenSim since the early 2020s. OpenSim is perfect for not only liminal spaces, but Backrooms-like stuff, both in terms of technology and in terms of "you're guaranteed to not encounter anyone else as you're exploring these places".
OK I love stuff like this. Have you ever watched the TV show Severance? It's got tons of this vibe. The liminal spaces, the abandoned feeling. Kinda post apocalyptic but also just brain breakingly odd. If you haven't watched, I think you'd like it.
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I have Selea's house kit omgosh I love that house, I have lots of her content and loved visiting her place. I liked how she had it set up was enjoyable to visit. I loved supporting her and Linda Kellie with tips when I could. Back then well like when I created Blue Moon at Virtual Highway grid we didn't have mesh yet or Kitely market at the grid so all our content was literally from scratch. I remember making Qtips for a lab, it was really rewarding to pull off making some of that content back then. These women are cherished by me. Some of the old content I have not seen it reproduced either. It is treasure.
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You know I feel the same about the legacy content. It is definately a treasure. Do you have the Qtips on Gracie and Dexter's someplace? I seem to recall you posting about those somewhere.
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I created these at Virtual Highways Blue Moon I had RDA Resources Development Administration in the sky a cool lab where they were mining extraterrestrials. I had it set up cool with lab and made those qtips. Sadly when I bought the OAR there was a mix up with one of the sims, that one sim was lost. Logger Sewell tried to find it but was not labeled in the confusion of Tiffany passing away. I have mentioned these many times because of all the things I created it was the most unique to me. Was simple just a prim and the tip I cannot remember what I did I think I had a sculpt map of a hump of clump of something lol.
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I hear that. It's hard to lose our creations like that. Been there many times. I've seriously made my poutine about 3 times over because it's been lost to more than one grid ending. The same grid twice in fact but we don't need to rehash. Somehow the tacos endured and that's the important one...lol
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