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Second Life: Enhanced Environment Project

2018/10/17 by Nalates Urriah

This is coming along nicely. Simon and Oz Linden have started using it in the AGNI grid. You have to have an EEP Viewer to see the change, but, soon the RC viewer will go main and EEP will be an official feature of SL. At the Server-Scripting UG meeting I arrived using the Firestorm … Read more

Second Life News 2018 w42

2018/10/16 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

Mazidox Linden says there is no roll to the main channel this week. The channel will stay on version #18.09.20.519894.

All three RC channels will update Wednesday to version #18.10.04.520268. The changes are listed as Internal Changes.

Clocks

Viewers

The main viewer is still version 5.1.9.519298, released in week #40.

Second Life Animesh Viewer version 6.0.0.520211 – Updated in week #41.

Second Life Bugsplat Viewer version 5.1.9.519462 – Last updated in week #37.

Second Life EAM Viewer version 5.2.0.520057 – Moved from Project Viewer to RC in week #40.

Second Life Love Me Render Viewer version 5.1.8.518751 – Released in week #34.

Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 5.1.10.520444 – The previous version released in week #34. This is new this week.

Second Life Project 360 Snapshot Viewer version 5.1.6.515934 – Last updated in week #10. The back-burner version…

Second Life Project Bakes On Mesh Viewer version 5.1.9.519785 – Last update week #39.

Second Life Project EEP Viewer version 5.1.10.520475 – First appeared in SL RC Viewers week #41.

AvaStar 2.5 to Release 10/27

2018/10/12 by Nalates Urriah

It has been in the works awhile. Now there is a planned official release date, October 27, 2018. The announcement is here: AVASTAR 2.5 RELEASE DATE 27-OCTOBER-2018. The listed highlights are; Improved support for Male characters Improved Collada export of characters with custom Shapes Improved User interface Rig Converter stability New Weight Copy Panel Complete … Read more

EEP Debut – Oct 2018

2018/10/05 by Nalates Urriah

The Enhanced Environment Project, EEP, has its semi-official announcement, Environmental Enhancement Project (aka EEP!) Feedback Thread. You find it in the SL Forum in Creation. I say ‘semi’ because the gold announcements of new features when released is made in the blog section Featured News.

EEP_001 – My landing point 128,128 EEPTesting, ADITI – Nice moon.

The feature is still only working in the preview grid, ADITI, and requires use of a project viewer: Second Life Project EEP Viewer version 5.1.10.520121. (release notes) You’ll find the download links in Alternate Viewers. This is a bump up from the initial confidential links released only to those participating in the Content Creators’ UG.

This is a PROJECT viewer and thus is more likely to have bugs. So, it is not a viewer for daily use and is a bit risky.

Big News for Slink Physique Original Peeps

2018/08/31 by Nalates Urriah

Have you seen? Erratic, a Maitreya exclusive merchant, is thinking about making clothes for other bodies! Strawberry Singh has the story in an article titled I’m feeling so Erratic. Plus, she made a video. In the $L50 Friday event an Erratic L$50 top (Fat Pack) is on sale for multiple body styles including Hourglass and … Read more

Second Life ACI is SO Screwed…

2018/08/30 by Nalates Urriah

This week has seen discussion on the ARC/ACI values and how broken they are. See the SL Forum thread: Rigged mesh LoD bug. I knew ARC/ACI weren’t all that accurate. But, I thought they were reasonable comparisons. I still believe once up on a time they were. But, in light of this new information I can’t prove that.

ARC = Avatar Render Cost
ACI = Avatar Complexity Index

The purpose of ACI is to influence users and designers to buy and create more efficient mesh content. Something along the lines of Consumer Reports, but free and in your face.

A couple of things have happened that has not only changed ACI’s usefulness but distorted it and pushed us away from its goal. Possibly even making it counterproductive