Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Blender 2,72a is out and it has a bug. So, we’ll likely see 2.72b release on Tuesday. The bug is a crash caused by trying to paint on a surface that does not yet have a UVMap. You can read the Developer Notes to see what is going on.
Download Blender 2.72a. Find out what is new in 2.72a here.
This past weekend was a party weekend for me. I’m still moving a bit slow today.
Oz Linden says that when the Benchmark RC Viewer, the one that stops using a GPU Table to select viewer settings, everyone will get a viewer-settings reset to what the viewer now thinks your default settings should be.
I don’t know if that means ALL settings or just graphics settings. I suggest you backup your settings now.
The HTTP RC Viewer when used in Blue Steel regions is simply awesome. Download: HTTP Viewer version 3.7.18.295372. A list of Blue Steels regions is here: List of Blue Steel regions in Second Life.
I’ve gotten to use the HTTP RC Viewer for a couple of hours exploring Blue Steel regions. It is a nice change. I quickly got used to the fast render. When I left the Blue Steel regions it was like going from walking downhill to trying to walk in a swimming pool. Ooouf!
See Bittersweet Frostbite’s post about the performance: New Second Life “Berlin” HTTP Viewer: Fast, faster, much faster.
Not much new from the Lindens today.
As planned the main channel did not get a roll out. There were no packages on the RC channels, so there was nothing to roll out.
This Wednesday the RC channels a got a new package.
Blue Steel and Snack are now both running the CDN (Content Delivery Network) change. This adds a good number of regions to the test group. I have a Blue Steel region list at the end of the article.
Le Tigre and Magnum got a package with crash fix and a back end improvement in the Abuse Reporting pipeline.
I have lots of interesting bits this time. RL has been keeping me busy and I have SL projects I am trying to complete. So, I’ve been collecting these for a few days. There are several thing here that will affect most Second Life™ users.
The Lindens have a new job opening posted. Web Design Engineer Wanted.
I’ve been writing about the subjects for weeks. The Lindens have now made an ‘official’ post in the SL Blog. See: The Sky Over Berlin (and Elsewhere).
I have no idea why they chose the title they did. But, the post has a nice graph that shows the speed up the changes are making.
Hamlet pointed to my article: Ebbe Altberg Interview in his article SL 2 to Launch Without Shared First-Time User Experience. He took an idea in my writing much farther than I did. His quote from my article:
For SL2 they are developing toward user created experiences and will thus bypass a uniform path for all new users. So, the concept of a single entry door for SL will vanish. The Lab will provide retention data to experience owners. They will let designers compare their experience retention to other experiences, designs, methods, and retention rates. With solid objective data flowing back to the designers, it may be possible to find the magic combination.
It seems he and others took this to mean there would only be entry to SL2 via community portals. I never it took what Ebbe said to mean that. But, obviously others inferred that was what I implied.
The Main Viewer has jumped up to 3.7.17-294959. This is the new Login Viewer with some maintenance fixes mixed in.
Maintenance Viewer version 3.7.17.294943 – Minor fixes and additions. I’ve listed them before.