Monday, December 28, 2009

A scar in the wind

Kidnaplism Freschi has released a quite unique katana-in-each-hand weapon, the "Kazekiri". (Click here for TP!) Its behaviour, down to camera movement, replicates several video games such as Street Fighter.



Out of the features described in the image above, I would like to point that it features air combos as well as small dashes (four directions), and that it is DCS / CCS / WARPS / XRPS compatible. Here are a few snapshots of the looks of the katanas, unsheathed.







        

Want to see more? Kidnaplism has prepared a Youtube video to show you the Kazekiri in action.

Yes, definately, just one scar in the wind and you'll adopt it.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Le Ciel

Kiba Tachikawa of ::Bushido:: did it again. Here is another outfit from the japanese musical sphere! (Click here for TP!)

It is worn by Gackt in Malice Mizer's "Le Ciel" video.


Sunday, December 20, 2009

Names

Unlike the November 23rd public post on this blog, the Kodama no Ki merchants group message about Cryoban contained a list of known copybotters to watch for. Four days later, someone not belonging to the group sent me an IM saying he's received the notecard I made. He said he has been aware of X and Y's copybotting habbits for a while, but that nobody believes him, because they are SIM owners. He also gave me a few more names to add on the list.

Well. I guess that if the notecard is spreading around, it means it's useful. So here is the reworked list of people (and their supporters) banned from Kodama no Ki for having copybotted products, without having done a public apology or effectively proved that the affirmation is wrong. The list was made up from credible reports and my general knowledge. (I have been around since 2007.) This is prior to Cryoban, by the way - the Cryoban script detected only one resident so far, and since I can't make any clear proof he has copybotted, I am keeping his name out of the list for now.
  • Acidic Burns (banned & dead), aka Acid Popstar (banned), aka Chester Popstar (banned), aka Thiago Mimiteh (banned) : sculpted prims from Unknownsoldier Maximus, and more. Darknight Low is also known to have worked with Acidic Burns, but I couldn't find anyone else's creations yet in his line of products.
  • Madisonn Guisse (banned & dead) : sculpted prims from Haruko Fukai ("skirts roupa ninja foda"). The said clothing was worn by Cipo Cale (banned & dead).
  • Gwolf Carducci (banned) : textures from Hiroro Mayo.
  • Kazuno Yokosuka (banned) : prims from Giorno Brando's big torii.
  • mizaki Kytori (banned) : products from Laqroni and Armidi. A resident saw him wandering KNK, inviting customers to his shop.
  • Naruto Umia (banned) : copied my friend's clothing and skin under his eyes.
  • Phoenix Thor (banned) : boots from Mai Runo, mask(s) from lantern Oyen.
  • Sephiroth Lusch (banned) : a whole SIM, lantern Oyen's products, and a tree from Botanical.
  • Smithys Dover (banned) : "zack shoulder" from Murgatroyd Zauberflote, worn by a guy named karazhi Arun.
  • Tidus Gynoid (banned), aka Tidus Gravois (banned) : skin from togashigenzi Mopp.
  • Yoruichi Kamachi (banned) : is hosting Phoenix Thor and said she doesn't care about copybot.
I am showing this list out to the public as a proof that I am not banning people out of personal grudge, but rather to encourage honest creators to keep the good work!

P.S.: For your information, the rest of the banlist containts mostly cheaters and their bots.

P.S.II: Be aware that the Lindens seem to be automatically shutting down accounts that use the cloning function from the third party client "testclient", even if it was done on a friend, as a test, with no abuse reports. It happened to someone related to Kodama no Ki. My advice is, if you want to make sure you are not doing a mistake out of curiosity, you should stick with the default client, at least until the Lindens come up with a list of trusted clients and links to download them. Why? Because you can't know everything your third party client is doing. I'm sure one day there will be an issue with one sending passwords somewhere...

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Black white rabbit

Kiba Tachikawa is bringing one more visual Kei outfit to Second Life. Click here for TP!



This is worn by D's vocalist Asagi in the band's music video for Yami no Kuni no Alice (Alice in Darkness). The whole video has a gothic Alice in Wonderland theme and Asagi is supposed to be the "white rabbit", black version.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Westernization

D15 Koba has put an interesting set of kimonos in Kodama no Ki. (Click here for TP!)
As the following poster says : "If you clap your head, you can hear the sound of Westernization."



These kimonos reflect the changes Japan went from Meiji restoration to Taishō romantism (roughly from 1868 to 1911). If you look at your underwear, you see buttons. If you clap your head, you notice there is hair, rather than the bare skin part of your chonmage (topknot). But it's not western style completely yet.

There are three kimonos in the set, and you can buy them together or separately. One kimono is plain light brown, one is navy blue and checked, and the other one is black with polka dots. The sleeves, collar and obi (belt) are resizable through a touch menu. By the way, D15 says he's stoppd using the long-click thing feature because too many people didn't figure it out ;)