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#SL News 2 Week 37

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Interest List

The interest list is all about how fast things rez and download due to the number of requests being made. A small number of requests complete quickly and the viewer can go about rendering the newly downloaded stuff.

Server-Scripting Meeting 9/2012

Figuring out what you are looking at so the viewer knows what to request from the server is a bit of a chore. Andrew Linden has been working on improving the interest list to improve performance.  This week (37) his code is moving into testing.

We should be seeing it on the ADITI grid. The changes are server side. No viewer changes are required, if I understand correctly. So, the effect will show up quickly not having to wait on viewer QA.

Andrew says there is an experimental change that could cause some viewers to use more memory. For now he has that disabled. Andrew says they will test that feature with a custom viewer and decide how much of an impact it has. Then they’ll see if they can better coordinate the viewer and server for better performance and less memory use. He did not get into the details… of those details…

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MetaReality Podcast Week 37

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Yay! We have a new MetaReality podcast out today: Aaaaaaand We’re Back!

My timeline of, summary of, and comments on the podcast follow. As usual this is not a transcript. I provide time marks for the things I see as subject change points or interesting entry points, so you can check out what interests you.

If you decide you should yell about something, be sure you check out the audio first. The subject content I hear and you read from my writing may have no relationship to what was actually said.

 

Metareality Podcasts

01:15 MetaReality podcasts are loved by a good number of SL users. As evidenced by Gianna getting all sorts of questions via various media about whether she was going to be doing more podcasts. Gianna is committed to continuing the podcasts. This recent break was due to RL busyness. So, we will see more podcasts coming. Yay!

2:00 Material System – Discussion about this new feature starts.

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Torley Celebration

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Daniel Voyager has a post up about a Torley Linden party to acknowledge Torley. See: Attend St. Torley’s Day 2012.

Torley Linden Rez-Day

We don’t see as much of Torley these days. When I started playing in Second Life™ in 2008 he was way more active making numerous video tutorials. I watched a load of them. His silly fun style is great. He is very much a part of SL’s history. His love of watermelon colors is well known.

I’m not sure Torley is a saint, but I think I understand why many would have that sentiment and it is all in fun.

Friendly greetings… and happy rez-day Torley! Thanks for your help and contributions.

Check out the announcement and story on Daniel’s blog.

Interesting #SL Things in the Background

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BUG-81

BUG-81 – add the number of groups you’re in to the bottom of the group list. I’m not sure that is the exact title, I can’t read the JIRA. Whatever, this is a feature in Marine Kelley’s RLViewer and is in a beta version of Dolphin 3. The code is being contributed to the SL Viewer project. So, we may see it in a future version of the SL Viewer.

It would be nice to have a count of the groups I’m in. Once upon a time we could click WATCH and follow progress on the JIRA item and hopefully give the Lab an idea of how many were interested in the feature.

BUG-59

BUG-59 – Add a GO TO LINE # to the script editor. (Not exact) This would add the ability to enter a line number and have the script editor scroll to that line. Could be handy. We’ll see it in Third Party Viewers and probably the SL Viewer.

RLV API

The Retrained Love Viewer has features not included in the SL Viewer. These are features that in a technical sense allow a viewer to be programmed to accept instructions from another viewer or scripted object. There are a number of possible uses beyond dominate/submissive play.

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Group Edit Update Week 37

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Update: The JIRA post was updated 07/Sep/12 5:07 PM. ADITI regions Aglia and Chooqu Clone have the new server code.

Group Edit changes are moving forward. The server program with the changes was being built (compiled) on September 7th. My previous article included links to the Project viewer and the JIRA. The test regions in ADITI will be posted in the JIRA.

JIRA – SVC-4968 – Group won’t load – too many members

For now, bugs found by Third Party Viewer Developers won’t be able to be added to this SL JIRA item, unless they are individually added to the correct JIRA groups. You can tell if you are in the group by looking at the bottom of the JIRA item’s page. If there is a Comment Button, you are in the right group, provided the item has not been closed.

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Valve-Steam and Second Life

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With coming presence of Second Life™ on Steam™ gaming several possibilities open up. Probably just as many questions come up too. It is too early to know how Valve™ and Linden Lab™ are going implement the union. But, people in general are interested in what Value is doing and thinking.

Valve’s Steam

An article I came across this morning is: Can Valve Go Beyond Gimmicks With Its Gaming Goggles And Wearable Computing? The opening paragraph is what caught my interest.

Virtual reality and the quest for the perfect controller are the stuff of science fiction, but in reality traditional controllers work perfectly well for gaming. Much more exciting than wearable computing is the possibility of a Steam Box.

A good virtual reality controller for Second Life would be great. Has this been in the works for awhile? Is this some part of plan? I suppose it could be… or not.

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