Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Just now, 6/21 @ 3:15 PM SLT they are were talking live… Actually live from 2:00 to 3:30 PM SLT/PST.
00:00 – Grumpity Linden relating her coming to Second Life. Interesting.
03:25 – Oz Linden explaining how he came to SL. Also interesting.
08:40 – Oz what do you like best about your job? Good answer here…
12:00 – Oz, are you inspired by what people do with your engineering? Grumpity waxes poetic…
18:00 – Have gotten to see much of SL15B?
About 40 minutes ago the Lab posted a SL15B surprise, Another 15 for 15: LOWER Land Prices and Reduced Set-up Fees!
Private regions tier will drop by 15%, setup fees by 41%… does not apply to gaming regions… the money games.
To offset some of the loss of income the fee for converting L$ to RL$ bumps up from US$0.99 to $1.49.
Today the Lab announced New Feature to Make Life Easier for Estate Owners!
The feature is about allowing region owners and estate managers to restart their regions from the web.
This is needed because in griefing situations it is often not possible to get into the region to use the viewer controls to restart and clear problems.
Part of the feature allows the region to be restarted in ‘safe mode’. Safe mode disables scripts, collisions, and physics.
Designing Worlds has done an interview with Linden Lab’s™ CEO, Ebbe Altberg. You can see their video of the interview here, Designing Worlds DW370 – Ebbe Interviewed. (Run time 1hr 51min)
There is talk of a road map for Second Life™. This ‘map’ apparently isn’t a published document. The interview focuses on where Ebbe is taking Second Life. So, I take it as a word picture.
However, Ebbe does talk about where they hope to take SL and what will happen with various aspects of SL.
If the video is too long for you, check Inara’s article. She has a summary of the interview. Designing Worlds In Conversation With Ebbe Altberg – Transcript + Audio.
Monday was a US holiday, Memorial Day. So, today is the Lab’s first workday this week. As of 10 AM SLT this morning there is no Deploy post. But, there is some HOT new news today. See the Other News section.
From the Server-Scripting meeting, Simon Linden: Let’s see … for server news, we had a rollback last week of the RC channels for a bug. I think there was a post somewhere about that. We’re going to have updates out tomorrow that have that fixed … and possibly another release that has a few other items in it. It’s all internal changes, as far as I know.
Second Life Love Me Render Viewer version 5.1.5.515528 – This an update from the previous version 5.1.4.514788 released in week #16.
Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 5.1.5.515527 – Last updated in week #21.
Second Life Project 360 Snapshot Viewer version 5.1.3.513006 – Last updated in week #10.
Second Life Project Animesh Viewer version 5.1.4.515420 – Released week #16.
Second Life Project Bakes On Mesh Viewer version 5.1.3.513936 – Last updated in week #14.
Bakes On Mesh – The feature is live on ADITI. At the Beta Server UG meeting we found some of the current problems. One of which is phantom skirts. You see people with a tattoo wearing a black system skirt. They see you wearing one. But, you can’t see the skirt you are wearing.
You can take off the tat and the skirt will vanish. Put the tat back on and no skirt. At least until you relog.
Also, the bake service is slow delivering baked textures.
So, we’ll see Bakes On in testing over on ADITI for a bit more.
Region Crossings – In November 2017 Animats started a thread on region crossing problems. It is still running, now 7 pages long. See: Vehicles vs. sim crossings, why it’s so awful. The latest information and Animats testing results appear in this thread.
There are a couple of links to people using Animats fixes in their vehicles.
The Lindens are working on region crossings again. They just improved region server to server communication. A version of that change is running on Le Tigre and Magnum RC channels.
Animats main interest, avatars being half-sit – half on and half off, is next or near next on the fix list.
ADITI Inventory Sync – OS upgrades on ADITI are in place and we are told inventory sync’s are working again as a result… or something along that line.
There is apparently confusion among users on when the update occurs. The trigger is logging into ADITI. Some time after your log out the system will sync your inventory. Apparently, the sync process gets behind and an individual sync may not happen in the expected time frame. But, I think we should see it within 48 to 72 hours at most. I think mine are happening within 24 hours.