Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Nalates Urriah It isn’t common to see people making all four LoD (Level of Detail) levels. But, we can do the polygon reduction thing for making a lower poly model for use with a normal map. The challenge is in making the lower poly models. Now Mixamo has a ‘decimator’ online that we can use. It is free to use until July 12, 2014.
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You’ll find it here: Optimize Your Polycount the Fast and Easy Way.
The new ‘fitted mesh’ avatars for new users were initially released as no-mod. It appears that has been corrected and the new mesh bodies are now mod-ok. Linden Lab announced the change: Updated Mesh Starter Avatars Are Now Available.
Update: Dagger Faulkwing finds that ONLY the shape of the avatars is mod-ok. So, these avatars still really suck.
There were also problems with some avatars’ feet sinking into the ground. They say that is fixed too.
Slink is rumored to be preparing a mesh body for release. A picture of it leaked. I am using the Slink hands and feet now, flat and high. The hands I love. The feet are OK. All the appliers for various things make both way too fun. I love the gloves and nails I can use.
The team building the Kokua and Imprudence viewers has announced they have moved their bug reporting and code repositories to Source Forge, a well know repository for open source projects.
The Imprudence Viewer’s bug reporting is here.
The Kokua Viewer’s bug reporting is here.
You can read the brief announcement here: Issue tracker move to SourceForge.
This week’s (23) server rolls returned the packages that briefly ran last week, until Wednesday evening’s re-roll that wiped them out. Yesterday (this week’s Wednesday) those were re-deployed with the only change being the security fix was added.
Le Tigre now has the Group Ban project package. With a Group Ban Project Viewer you can try out the feature. It is not 100% and won’t be until the update is rolled to the entire grid. This means for now you can group ban people. But, there are ways around the ban and those only close once the roll is grid wide.
Today Feedly, a news aggregator, is down. That means I am out of touch with the world. Here is their announcement:
Denial of service attack
2:04am PST – Criminals are attacking feedly with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop. We refused to give in and are working with our network providers to mitigate the attack as best as we can.
We are working in parallel with other victims of the same group and with law enforcement.
We want to apologize for the inconvenience. Please know that you data is safe and you will be able to re-access your feedly as soon as the attack is neutralized.
We will update this blog post as soon as we have more information:
Thank you for your understanding,
/Edwin and Seb
The time shown in the post cannot be right. That is probably a time zone error in a server setting.
Gaia Clary has posted that someone is selling a ripped off of AvaStar in the SL Market Place for L$8,000. The rip-off is an old version of AvaStar. The rip-off is here (so you know which one NOT to buy).
The real AvaStar is available at: http://blog.machinimatrix.org . AvaStar sells for US$27 or about L$6,750.
Gaia filed a DMCA June 5th. As of this morning the rip-off remains on the Market Place.