16 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in General, JTL Designs, Second Life
Greetings, Ladies and Gents!
JTL Designs is proud to present the next in it’s line of urban mesh builds; the Studio Loft! At only 32 LI and 15x25x25, this four story dwelling or storefront makes an excellent addition to any urban, victorian, steampunk, grunge, or industrial setting. Functioning stairs, skylights and loads of windows round out this urban staple. Come take a look for yourself inworld here or check it out on the marketplace here! Stay tuned!
-the management
09 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in General, JTL Designs, Second Life
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Greetings, Ladies and Gents!
JTL Designs is proud to release the latest in it’s line of mesh remakes; The Corner Hotel. We’ve managed to cut the original build’s 168 prims down into just 84 LI!! Perfect building for an urban downtown setting. Designed to be 5 stories with roof access (4 of which are complete suites for possible rentals, plus two smaller shop spaces on the ground floor). Our urban line fits with most genres including steampunk, victorian, industrial, grunge and more. Available on the SL Marketplace here and also available to view inworld here. Come look for yourself!
-the management
23 Wednesday May 2012
Posted in General, JTL Designs, Second Life
I know, I know. It’s an old build, but I redid it with mesh! The original build was 56 prims and one of my favorite urban builds. It’s a short little squat blocky build surrounded by much taller buildings. I thought it had that ‘quaint’ office feeling for my urban cityscape (pictured below).
I think I captured it nicely with mesh and at only 19 LI (prim count)! Whoah!! I’m not trying to toot my horn or anything, but ZOMG 
So far with my mesh remodel I’ve saved a whopping 500 prims on my 4,000 prim parcel. I’m still going! Come check it out here or on the SL Marketplace here.
Oh and comes with a free working clock!!
-the management
13 Sunday May 2012
Posted in General, JTL Designs, Second Life
01 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in JTL Designs, Second Life
There it is. Tomatoes incoming.
For a while now I’ve been dabbling and learning the in’s and out’s of mesh design in Blender. I’ve finally come out with some things I think I can put my seal of approval on; whatever that is worth. I’m proud to announce two mesh buildings finally released into the wild (available here). Yeah yeah, about time, I know. What can I say? I’ve been busy! I’ve also released a few do-whatever-you-want freebies on OpenSim Creations if anyone is interested fyi 
Hope you enjoy!
-the management
13 Monday Feb 2012
Posted in General, InWorldz, JTL Designs, opensim
Greetings Ladies and Gents,
When JTL Designs first joined InWorldz in April of 2010, it was a brave new world full of promise and vision and good times. I’ve met some great friends, learned an enormous amount about building/opensim/grid operations/you name it, and made memories I’ll take with me forever.
It was also my first real experience with an opensim based grid. I had logged into a few occasionally, but both features and content were sorely lacking. Economically, technically, and socially most worlds were just not for me. That’s not even mentioning residents. So when I first logged into Inwordz Desert Isle, it was pretty impressive. There were 15 people online if I recall correctly, 5 of which were at the welcome area and 2 of which were the grid owners (though I didn’t know it at the time). For a couple weeks I logged in and the welcome area was busy with people talking about bug fixes, workarounds, and excited about their own projects. To say it was intense is putting it mildly. There was an excitement in the air, and the new faces were changing daily. I watched the grid grow by the thousands, then tens of thousands. I sprung for a region that first month I was there and have had it since. I had very little to do with it’s growth, but I’ve been watching it since like a proud daddy, lol.
But time goes on inevitably, and things gradually change. JTL Designs is moving on to other projects very soon and so I’m sad to announce I’m closing operations in InWorldz. I sincerely wish the grid and it’s inhabitants the best of luck, and I’m definitely going to keep an eye on it in the future. For now though, it’s farewell.
But I’m onto other things and hopefully not wasting anyone’s time. I’ve been exploring more and more opensim grids (they’ve all come a very long way), and am even dabbling with Unity3d and other projects. Of course I’m still in Second Life as well. In fact I hope to rework many of my projects utilizing a multi-platform mesh and possibly some inworld game designs. So stay tuned, I’ll be around!
-the management
13 Thursday Oct 2011
photo courtesy Charles Morris
For those who may not be aware, a small team of individuals and educators have created an opensim based learning project called Let-Us-Learn.
Let-Us-Learn is an international project that aims to investigate the potential of a 3D virtual learning environment (3DVLE) designed to engage learners in collaborative, creative problem solving activities in which numeracy, literacy, life skills and creative activities are embedded in a motivating game-like environment.
What’s this got to do with us? I’ll get to that. The general idea is make opensim technology into a learning environment for students in countries such as South Africa and Uganda (among others). Teaching everything from farming techniques and household economics, to multiplication tables. It is one of the most interesting projects I’ve ever had the honor of helping with.
InWorldz LLC. actually wrote and contributed the money module the project is using to teach basic economics as well as some other grid stability features. My own involvement has been limited to some minor sculpt work (don’t let the contributor page fool you much, lol). These guys all deserve a tremendous amount of credit. But, they could use our help still. To date the project is run mostly out of pocket to the Let-Us-Learn team. Airfare and travel expenses aren’t cheap nowadays and they’re working on their second international trip. So, they’ve asked for some help in the form of a charity event. Freedom Astheta and Cryptic Quandry are organizing a benefit in InWorldz called La Ville Macabre.
The event takes place from October 15th through November 1st and runs 24/7. Explore some spooky builds, take some pictures with friends, have some fun, and remember it’s all for charity. If you can’t make it to the event itself or even inworld, you can always consider donating on the website too!
04 Tuesday Oct 2011
Posted in General, Second Life
20 Tuesday Sep 2011
Posted in General
It’s not a huge secret (in fact it’s kinda old news) that I’ve been dabbling with urban themed buildings in Inworldz. I’ve totally rebuilt the Isle of Alchemy region into a grungy city type thingy.
But! With the addition of 64 meter prims to Second Life, I can finally bring some of that to my peeps across the interwebs. Not all unfortunately, there’s still some issues there with sculpty bounding boxes *shakes fist at SL*, but progress is progress! Without further rambling, I added 4 new urban builds to my line in Second Life:
SL Marketplace Link
20 Tuesday Sep 2011
Posted in General, InWorldz, Second Life
Greetings Ladies and Gents,
JTL Designs and the Department of Government Cheese are very proud to welcome you to our new WordPress blog! We plan to collaborate here to bring you both new releases in Second Life and Inworldz (and any other grid we happen to assimilate..er explore! For those who don’t know, the management is led by Johnnytreadlightly Nightfire (me!) in Second Life, though many refer to me simply as JT or JTL (that’s where the name came from). No relation at all to Justin TimberLake, I swear. Recently, Johnny Night in Inworldz as well.
A lot of the same stuff, in an entirely new blog. For those that are already familiar, I transferred a lot of the stuff from the old Ning site to here, so skip it For those new to JTL Designs, all I can say is “I’m sorry!”. I’m not the most organized of people even in the best of times. I do enjoy making stuff and selling stuff though, so I do hope you’ll stick around. We’re becoming so modern we even have a twitter account (see sidebar). One of these days I’ll be up to date, I swear.
I added both Cariama and Inbiz sites to the mix. Both of those sites (for me at least) focus on Inworldz stuff at the moment, but hopefully I’ll add Second Life to Cariama as well. I am also of course listed on the SL Marketplace for our Second Life users. Also Meta-Life in SL, though I won’t link that till the site is up again (downtime, ughh).
I’ll do my best to update this with new releases! (Speaking of which, I got 4 yesterday in SL. Woot! Next post.) So without further delay, welcome to JTL Designs!
-the management
