I am not the first to hear news of things in SL, but I heard about these changes to xstreet. Xstreet will most likely begin charging 99L a month to post freebies, and 10L per month for all items 1L or greater. Also will have at least a 3L commission on all items that cost 1L or more. Got to love the idea of losing money every time someone buys something. These changes to Xstreet will cause me to remove all or the vast majority of items from the site. I have kept 95% of my no transfer items on the service to give people the ability to easily send items as gifts to friends, but sadly I will have to use other means when they make these changes to the service.

I was able to read all about this thanks to two sites, and recommend everyone read up on these changes. The site with the most information was on Shopping Cart Disco, and another article even was posted on Massively.

It will be sad to see how much these changes will impact the SL community. I suspect that a majority of people will be switching to other services like Xstreet that are cheaper to use. Xstreet was able to grow from nothing, and I feel that these other services will be able to do the same now that LL is breaking their service.

I know a lot of people have been using Emerald for a long time, but I just recently gave it a shot. So far I have to say I am enjoying this viewer a lot. The only other viewer I have tried excluding the basic SL viewer was Kirstens. Kirstens does have some nice features, but to me it just isn't good enough to be an everyday feature. Plus the best feature in Kirstens is the ability to render shadows, but that really requires a very high end computer to take advantage of. When I try I get one frame per second if I am lucky.

So I decided to give Emerald a try and it really does have a lot of great features I wouldn't want to go without. It adds so much and performs better at rezing objects and textures than the regular viewer. My personal favorite things it adds are double click teleports, a tab in inventory that shows what is worn, and the ability to turn off the particles for when editing prims. Another good feature it has is that I shows what viewer others are using. This can be good in protecting against those that use viewers that can copybot, and Emerald actually can warn you when one comes near. Lastly just for kicks I will say that Emerald adds breast physics for female avatars.

The website for Emerald has a more detailed list of the added features for Emerald here. So if you want a good performing viewer Emerald might be a good choice. I have heard of a few other viewers that are supposed to be good as well, and plan to give them a try. So far Emerald does seem to be the most popular viewer out. I will update if I find another viewer I enjoy more.

Well here it is another new release, and one that was a pain for me to come up with to finish. I came of with what I felt was a nice necklace design, but had the hardest time trying to figure out what would hang from it. Then it came to me, how about an ornate looking hourglass. So that's what I made here. An hourglass made from fine looking wires and carved wood.

Other elements that make this item stand out are the cords used are much like my Revolt Watch in that they are segmented and linked together by small chains. This new item though is a bit different, because the cords used decrease in diameter as it gets closer to the front with the hourglass. It also has a few parts dangling in the back to show where the necklace would have been tightened to fit around the neck.

This item can be found in SL at Relentless Unknown, and on Xstreet right now. I may also begin remodeling my store in SL very soon, because I tend to get bored of the look very quickly. It is also something i enjoy doing and can be creative with the look of the building. So I will apologize now for any future messes and will update with a new SLurl if I move the current building into the sky a little while I build below.

I just went through and updated all my items that are available on Xstreet to the sale prices that are in my store in world. I was going to leave it a special in world sale only, but decided to change my mind. So I updated my Xstreet quite a bit and added more of my items from my store to it. Will continue to try and update it in the coming days as well, unless I get distracted and make something new for the store. Here is a link to all of my available my items on Xstreet.

It has been a while since I made a watch, so that's what I decided to make for this week. I created a watch that has five bands and detailed chains holding them to each other. I also have chains holding the watch body to three of the straps as well. The clock is able to display the time it is in SL on the watch face, and contains no annoying hover text above it. I never understood why people put that above their watches in SL. I make my watches for looks, and if I want to know the time I'll look at the top right corner of my viewer to see it.


This next picture is to give a few more examples of the detail work used in the watch. In creating this item I used 255 prims, which is just 1 prim away from the maximum amount of prims that can be linked. This item also comes with no mod, copy, no transfer permissions. To allow for the size to be changed though it has a re size scripted system that allows for changes in increments of 1%, 5%, or 10%.

This item is available in SL at my store Relentless Unknown, and here on Xstreet. Thank you and I hope to have another release within a few days, because it has been my goal to have at least one new item each week. My big sale is also still going on at my Store in wold only with all items except for the last four new releases reduced to either 50% or 25%. A majority of the items are down by 50%. Come visit the store through this SLurl if you want to check out the savings.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween, and remembered to turn their clocks back an hour for daylight savings time. In honor of daylight savings time though I have an announcement...

Relentless Unknown is having a big sale with everything in the store either 50% or 25% off. The only thing in the store not on sale are my last three releases, which would be the last three prim eyes I created. I would also say over half of the items are in the 50% off category. This sale will last for the entire month, and is the perfect time to pay a visit.

The percentage off of each item is listed in the boxes description to make it easier to see what the savings are. The sale is also only taking place in my store within Second Life, and the prices are not changing on Xstreet, sorry for any problems this might cause. Here is a link to the SLurl to the Relentless Unknown store.

Relentless Unknown SLurl