Nalates Urriah

Firestorm Viewer Tool Tip Tuesdays

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Others are covering this new service provided by the Firestorm peeps. So, I’ll be brief.

The Firestorm Viewer is the power user’s viewer of choice. But, even power users can’t know all the features rolled into this pretty awesome viewer. Many of the features are things you would probably use if you knew about them. So… the team is making little videos to show you how to use the features. (6 min)

This one is an example. Lots of good stuff in a short video. They say there will be another one released next Tuesday. They first post on the Firestorm Viewer Blog.

Obviously these are primarily for Firestorm users. But, some of the controls work in other viewers too.

The Camera Tools are a Firestorm and Third Party Viewers thing, at least for now.

AvaStar’s Sparkles Sale Ending

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Gaia Clary at Machinimatrix.org is running a 50% off on Sparkles for AvaStar users. It ends February 15, until then Sparkles Pro: US$15 web* – US$7.50±/L$1,800* in-world, with 1 year of updates. (Prices are a bit unclear. I checked and the regular price is/will be $15.)

If you are not sure what Sparkles is… the video is a preview. But, read on…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfO1PKge4Q4

Sparkles is a standalone tool set for building clothes and characters for Second Life. It is integrated with AvaStar, but does not require AvaStar to be used. The list of tools is:

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Blender 2.73a

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A new version of Blender came out last week; 2.73a. Click for: Download Blender and changes overview.

Blender 2.73a Released January 2015
Blender 2.73a Released January 2015

This download is a 90mb file. I use the ZIP version of the install as it operates as a standalone version. That allows me to have multiple versions installed at the same time.

AvaStar will need to be updated to the latest update (avastar-1.3-18_blender-2-70) to work with Blender 2.73a.

SL Wiki 2015-05

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Second Life Wiki is editable now. That changed a week or so ago. But, in the process we lost a lot of newer wiki pages. Plus lots of people were waiting to update information on various subjects in the wiki. So, far the last few days I’ve seen a lot of activity in the wiki. In the last 24 hours about 600 pages have been added or edited.

Release Notes for the Experience Tools Viewer (3.8.0-298001) popped back up today. The page includes a link for the viewer. 

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Myst-Uru & Devokan

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I came to Second Life as part of a group of Myst fans migrating when Myst Online: Uru Live closed, again. That was 2008. By 2009 some of us were attempting to unite Myst fans across numerous games and platforms. There was a lot of contention about playing Uru Live anywhere but on official Cyan Worlds servers. But, as there were no official Cyan servers, fans were building parts of Uru in various games.

Sunrise in the Devokan Regions
Sunrise in the Devokan Regions (2009+/-)

One of the efforts was titled Devokan. Dot and Paislee were the main movers and shakers of that effort. I got to play in Devokan and enjoyed the RP and beautiful regions. 

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MADPEA: First Game Of 2015 – Buried

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MadPea has made an announcement about their coming game/hunt that starts February 1st. An interesting aspect of the game is Geo-Caching, commonly now written as: geocaching. In RL these games are taking advantage of the GPS in the new generation phones of the last couple of years. GPPS coordinates are used to hide and find ‘geocaches’, things hidden somewhere on the planet.

MadPea: Buried
MadPea: Buried

MadPea is working out some way to have geocaching in Second Life. They will have an early opening for bloggers January 30th, a Friday. Not a good time for me. So, plan to check Inara’s blog. I am guessing she’ll make it to the RSVP event. 

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