Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Nalates Urriah I was looking at patterns today and saw it had a new update. It is showing as version 01F (49936). On the NEW screen are listed; ProtoWorld2 – The previous world Beta testers started with, Barren Plain – a new flat world, Red Bluff – a new vertical world, and Hanging Gardens – a fun build no doubt made to give people and idea of the possibilities.
I had to learn to jump to get the materials I wanted. I also found collapsing shapes behave a bit differently.
My previous article is the long version of this highlights list. See: Looking Back at Second Life 2012. This is a very abbreviated version of that article. See the long article for more detail and links.
The main events in Second Life™ during 2012 were:
The Linden Blog has a new article this month titled: A Look Back at Improvements to Second Life in 2012 and Forward to 2013. It is worth the read, but it is pretty small. Having written 568 posts this year I thought it was a little light. So, I decided to look back over the year. I had no idea how much work I was getting into.
This article is the result of my look back at 2012. I have uploaded the WORD (docx) file I used to compose the article. I think it makes for a handy quick reference that can be searched. I find trying to search the blog for specific information less than ideal. So, if you want a quick reference to when things happened, get the file. Please do not re-post or publish it.
This article is long. But, check it out to see how many things you remember. I was surprised how much I had forgotten. I was also surprised how fast and how slow some things happened.
For a short version of this article see: 2012 – The Short List
Please forgive the poor use of tense. I found writing in past tense rather awkward. Also, notice I have made page numbers correspond to months.
Update: I have added the 2013 review here: Second Life 2013 in Review
Ciaran Laval has an article about the recent update to the Lab’s CHUI Project Viewer. (CHUI = Chat Hub User Interface) Checho out the article: CHUI Project Viewer Gets An Update.
There are some new features and a bit of a change in organization of the Hub. I think it is getting beyter.
One nice feature is the access to past conversations. I’ve been using Notepad++ and digging through the hard drive to pull up conversations and transcripts of user group meetings. While I find that easy and don’t really need the feature, this will make the chat histories available to new users and those not into hard disk geekdom.
I keep wondering why I get so many hits on the Astra Viewer. My last review was in November 2011. The web site for the viewer seems to have disappeared. I had assumed that development on the viewer had stopped. But, it seems not.
One can Download Astra Viewer from Github: aurora-sim / Astra Viewer – Download. This version is 7 months old. I can’t really see where it is being actively maintained. But it seems to get updated every 3 to 6 months, which would suggest a new update may arrive at any time.
Indi on Plurk pointed to an article by Bryn Oh, a well known artist in Second Life™ sharing tips on saving prim count (Land Impact) cost. Check it out: Prim reduction trick.
This is about redoing prim counts for prim objects and mesh objects.
Plus: Bryn Oh’s blog is pretty awesome and worth checking out.