The game continues. The instructions for it are here: Pulse Games Presents: Don’t Panic.
For other fun Halloween places see the Haunted.
Nalates Urriah
Photoshop CC 2014
There are some tutorials coming out from Adobe showing what is new in the latest releases of Photoshop. This one is on the font selection changes made recently. See: Adobe Typekit.
We now have far more ways to find fonts and preview them than we used to have.
There is now an easy way to deal with missing fonts you may find when working with a colleague’s files.
Another new feature is smarter Smart Guides. Scroll down for the tutorial.
There are changes in linking Smart Objects.
Blender 2.72a Released
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.
Second Life News Bits 2014-43
This past weekend was a party weekend for me. I’m still moving a bit slow today.
Viewer
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.
Second Life News 2014-42 #2
Not much new from the Lindens today.
Servers
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.
RC Channels
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.
Bits of Second Life 2014-42
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.
Web Design Second Life
The Lindens have a new job opening posted. Web Design Engineer Wanted.
Second Life HTTP & CDN
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.