New World Notes

Win $500 in Sinespace's Free Home Region Customization Contest!

Sinespace has a new home region customization contest that starts tomorrow, with the winner (or winners, if you work with a group) getting a cash prize of $500 from the NWN media partner.

 

Every Sinespace user starts out with a free home region, which can then be completely modified by region templates that instantly turn it into a futuristic nightclub, floating city, etc. From there you can further customize your home region by uploading your own furnishings, or buy them from the shop.

 

Here's all the details, and don't forget to share pics and video of your submission on Twitter, Instagram, or Flickr, and tag @sinewavespace. By the way, to help get you started shopping, New World Notes still has some exclusive redemption codes for 500 Gold in Sinespace -- details below:

SL Fashionista Blogger's Tips for Customizing Sinespace Avatars

On her blog Honeyjunkies, famed virtual world blogger/YouTuber Daeberethwen Arbenlow has some impressive sneak preview pics of the Shyla avatar from DAZ 3D, a new developer for NWN partner Sinespace. (Read about it on Forbes here.) Daeberethwen has some starting tips for avatar fashion fans:

 

"Starting with the default shape and then tweaking it was the easiest way to modify the shape to look decent," she tells me, "but also it is important to have a general idea of facial anatomy ratios."

 

Here's the extremely handy reference guide she uses for those ratios:

Daz 3D’s Hyper-Realistic Avatars & Accessories Now Available in Sinespace

Screenshot taken in Sinespace with no post-processing - click for detail!

As Forbes just reported, Daz 3D, the world’s largest 3D character and outfit library, has become a developer and content vendor on the platform of NWN media partner Sinespace. (Shop page for Daz Originals here.) Used in the making of movies like Captain America and Iron Man, you may have seen Daz 3D-based character models in “Is she real or digital” viral social media posts. 

This is the first time Daz characters are accessible to consumers outside the rendering software and in a virtual world as playable, customizable avatars. (Watch the video above.) 

Daz 3D’s high poly count models (with millions of polygons) are optimized for use in a multiplayer game space. The Sinespace team tells me all clothing in Sinespace is compatible with these avatars, as they are using the world’s morph feature, which can be further customized -- also they will soon enable the Daz models’ original 4K resolution for maximum realism for screenshots, etc.  

Just for the holidays, Sinespace is offering a special 500 Gold giveaway to twenty New World Notes readers who want to buy Daz items and other cool content in the shop, such as discount items during Sinespace’s Winter Sale -- details below:

Building Bearimals: How a Prize-Winning Sinespace Mesh Creator Made the Transition from Second Life

What you’re watching above are the zanily adorable Bearimal Gokarts, from Martin of Secret Weapon Productions, winner of the recent Wicked Witchcraft Challenge from sponsoring media NWN partner Sinespace, a virtual world built on Unity. They’re now available in the shop for 400 Gold (i.e. about $4 USD) for your all your Bearimal go kart racing needs, with the wacky animations featured in the video triggered when the racers get close to each other.

Martin, as it turns out, is also a developer for Second Life, where he creates and sells custom mesh content as Malakina Gummibaum under the Girl Life brand. He tells me it wasn’t too difficult to jump from creating mesh content in SL to doing so in Sinespace:

Special Sinespace Black Friday Offer: Get 1 Month Free Premium With 150 Gold Per Week + Other Benefits!

Just in time for the holiday season, NWN partner Sinespace has a special offer for anyone reading New World Notes: One month free Premium benefits, which include:

• 512 megabytes of space for customizing your free home region. (Up from 128mb for basic account holders.)
• 25 maximum concurrent users in your home region. (Up from 10 maximum for basic accounts.)
• 150 Gold per week for shopping in Sinespace’s massive in-game store!

Plus all the benefits listed here.

Read below for how to redeem this offer:

Join Sinespace's 3rd Anniversary Party for Fun Live Events, Free Home Design Contest, Gold Giveaways & Much More!

Starting today, NWN partner Sinespace is launching an epic three year anniversary celebration. If you haven't visited the Unity-based virtual world recently, these next 5 days are a great time to join the party, while checking out all the features and updates that have been added.

Highlights include a Parade of Homes Competition, where you can customize and show off your free home region for a chance to win a prize during the Sinespace Anniversary Awards Ceremony. That ceremony happens next Tuesday at 2PM PST, where Sinespace founder Adam Frisby will give a keynote address on the state of the virtual world, and award prizes to the best Sinespace creators.

Go here for the whole schedule of fun, and be sure to join Sinespace's official Discord.

Win $500 In Week 7 Of Sinespace's Creative Challenge Starting Tomorrow!

Starting tomorrow (November 9), NWN partner Sinespace is opening up its seventh weekly content creation challenge, awarding $500 to the user who creates the best item or scene and submits it to Sinespace's developer server next week. And yes, mesh-based content previously created for Second Life and other platforms can be submitted.  (Above is a cool recent challenge submission by "Hellen", a new hairstyle for Sinespace avatars.)

This is the challenge page. Here's how to apply and submit:

Win $500 In Week 6 Of Sinespace's Creative Challenge Starting Tomorrow!

Starting tomorrow (November 2), NWN partner Sinespace is opening up its sixth weekly content creation challenge, awarding $500 to the user who creates the best item or scene and submits it to Sinespace's developer server next week. Last week's challenge, by the way, went to SecretWeapon Production, who created this rideable, driveable Behemoth Orc Adventurer. And yes, mesh-based content previously created for Second Life and other platforms can be submitted. 

This is the challenge page. Deadline is end of November 8! How to apply and submit:

Sinespace Halloween Celebrations Launch This Weekend! And Last Chance to Submit Entries to the $3000 Wicked Witchcraft Challenge

Starting tomorrow, NWN partner Sinespace is launching its Halloween event spectacular with events running from tomorrow (Saturday) until the end of the month. Click here for all the event listings.

Speaking of spooky, there's still time to submit a creative work in Sinespace's Wicked Witchcraft challenge: Create witchcraft- themed interactive content in Sinespace (clothing, accessories, furniture item, spawnable memento, etc.) for a chance to win $2000 or $1000 in cash plus an exclusive Creator membership. Deadline is October 28 -- click here for all the details.

Here's some highlights from the Halloween festivities:

Win $500 In Week 4 Of Sinespace's Creative Challenge! But First, Read Some Advice From Lead Dev Adam Frisby

Starting tomorrow (October 19), NWN partner Sinespace is opening up its fourth weekly content creation challenge, awarding $500 to the user who creates the best item or scene and submits it to Sinespace's developer server next week. (Last week's challenge, by the way, went to this realistic tugboat with puffing chimney by SecretWeapon Production, pictured here.) And yes, content previously created for Second Life and other platforms can be submitted. This is the challenge page.

Sinespace founder and lead developer Adam Frisby has some important developer advice to increase your chances of winning:

• "Please test your work! It hurts us to discount entries if they were broken, especially if they were well made.
• "You can update your work between submission and us testing it - but be aware, when we test could be anywhere in the following week, so your update may not be guaranteed to be tested.
• "Myself and @Jayden Catnip are not part of the judging pool, and will happily offer advice to entrants. So if you need more assistance, please reach out to us on Discord."

How to apply and submit: