Gaia Clary has posted in-world the following survival guide. You might miss it if you are not a member of the Blender-Avastar Group. So…
Nalates Urriah
Second Life News 2014-40
Changes
The Lindens have a new post in the SL Forum titled: An Update on Several Improvements to Second Life™ (9/30 9:36AM SLT).
The first thing they mention is their changing the viewer from using a list of graphics cards to determine what settings to use to using a benchmark process to test the installed video card. Based on the tests they estimate what the card is capable of doing.
The viewer that has this change is a Project Viewer and can be found here: Second Life RC Viewers. I would call this more of a beta version than an RC version. Whatever it is, the Lindens could use some help testing it, especially if you have one of the newest video cards out.
Avastar-1.2 Released
The AvaStar RC has finally moved out of RC status to final version. You can read the details here: Avastar-1.2 is Out. Gaia is linking to an older video that givs an overview of AvaStar 1.1. I found it surprisingly up to date with the current AvaStar release.
The information on AvaStar 1.2 says it runs on Blender 2.70 and newer.
The listed new changes are:
- Optimized for better and easier workflows
- Support for Fitted Mesh.
- Many improvements under the hood
- Updated documentation
I find it easier to use YouTube when I want to find a particular AvaStar tutorial. See: Gapa Clary.
Windows 9 …er 10 Beta Releasing
Word is out that October 1, 2014 Microsoft will release Windows 10 Beta. This is said to be an early version. It may have features that will not be in the official Release 10 and lack features that may show up in the final release. But, for those that want to see the next Windows, you’ll be able to chase down some form of it tomorrow. See: Microsoft Announces Windows 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NI5fjTfpQ
Blender Texturing Tips
Indigo Mertel has a Plurk on an article on Blender Nation: 5 Texturing Tips for Technical Artists. Tis is well worth you time to check out.
The tips are for rendering in Blender. For us in Second Life™ this means they are good for baking textures.
Blender 2.72 Anticipated
The Blender 2.72 RC is out. It seems to be standing up to the users. So, we may sit it release this week. You can get the RC now and will be able to get the final release when it is out at Blender.org.
The developer’s notes for Blender 2.73 have been released. The items they plan to work on for 2.73 are:
- Tamito Kajiyama: Freestyle memory optimizationwill go into 2.73 (BF-funded project result).
- Thomas Dinges proposes to make Cycles Default as target. He will make a proposal to the list here next week, to outline which work should have to be completed for it (IO mostly).
- Freestyle built-in SVG exporterwould be a 2.73 target too.
- Dun Liang (randon)’s Windows IME support patchcould also go into 2.73 – allow better Asian character input.
- Jeroen Bakker: compositor memory managementis ready for final review. updated with all comments.
- Multiview is going to be a candidate, check the great doc from Dalai Felinto.
- FBX: there are two addons, the ‘experimental’ one has the latest work on it. Will get tested and improved for 2.73.
There are some other projects that may make it into 2.73. Whether they do or not, they are being discussed and some of them worked on. I find the descriptions rather sketchy.