Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Nalates Urriah The latest rave on UFO’s is the supposedly massive ship (size of the state of Idaho, USA – which is a WAY ambiguous comparison because of the state’s frying-pan shape) caught in a video of the sun released by NASA from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on July 15, 2015. Note: NASA was not claiming it was a UFO.
On another scientific (tongue in cheek) front a Muslim cleric has discovered Galileo was wrong. The Earth doesn’t orbit the sun.
If you haven’t heard, the Android devices using the Stage Fright media library are vulnerable to hackers. There are reportedly 950 million devices that are vulnerable.
If you are running an Android operating system 2.2 or older, you are safe. Otherwise you will need an update. It is unclear which carriers are pushing the fix to their customers. But, the fix has been sent out by Google.
Anti-virus programs will provide you some protection. But, many require manual updates. So, run your update process.
This is a Torley video that tells about the New VMM. This is a nice explanation of how VMM works.
This video leads into three other tutorial Videos. Check them out.
Remember Merchant Resource? Well, the second in that series of tutorials is out.
This Tuesday the package running on the RC channels moved to the main channel. That package was said to be Simulator fixes… whatever they were.
As of late Tuesday (5+PM PT) there was no information about what would or if any would roll to the RC channels Wednesday.
Presumably the Lindens are still working on the Experience Tools database…
KatsBits.com has a written tutorial on baking normal maps from mesh geometry in Blender 2.74. See: Bake Normal Maps From Meshes. It is a long tutorial and explains how to avoid some of the common mistakes.
Have you seen any good tutorials lately?
Are you looking for a good tutorial on something?
Inara made it to last Monday’s open source user group meeting where Oz Linden apparently talked about the Second Life Render Muting feature and where it is in the development pipeline. You may remember that a bug was causing the Jelly Babies to be invisible. That is fixed.
Now the feature is waiting on UI changes. Once those are complete we will get an RC viewer version with the feature. Inara is guessing sometime in week 32, which I think is a good guess. I am looking forward to this feature. I think it will have a significant impact on performance in the long run.
Inara quotes Oz talking about the notices that will appear when our Draw Weight changes and when those around us are not rendering our avatar. We will be able to control how long those messages stay on screen. We already have a Debug Setting to tell the viewer when to render high draw weight avatars as Jelly Babies. Presumably we will have that control out where we can adjust it easily too.