Oh my… what a mess. The current state of the Linden 360-viewer is for the geeky only. The instructions for setting up to display these images, via web or just on your local computer, is described in a Bitbucket thread: JS 360-snapshot-web-viewer and the SL Wiki.
No problem. Just install Python and set up a simple web server… As Ebbe has said, “Who the f**k installs servers?”
The instructions on both the sites assume you know about web servers and tech. But, all the needed parts are in Bitbucket.
Microsoft has announced that their translation services are changing. The date is April 30, 2017. They will be changing to a new set of API’s they named Azure.
Time passes by
I have no idea how many, if any, SL Translators depend on the Microsoft API’s. But, those that do will need to change.
The fifth new region is called: Sandbox Premium Weapons Testing which, as the name suggests, is dedicated to testing your SL munitions! In the past, weapons testing was done in general sandboxes where it was prone to overcrowding, griefing and instability. It was very difficult to get testing done. Now we’ve opened up more space for Premium members to test their combat gear in a less disruptive environment.
Portal Park II Oct 2016
The other 4 sandboxes are 3 running RC server packages, one running the main package and they are adjacent to each other. These allow quick testing of items in all 4 versions of the server software running in the main grid.
Second Life Portal Park is an in-world Destination Guide. This is a fun place to wonder around.
LLSit is a new scripting feature I’ve been writing about for the last couple of weeks. It rolled to the main grid last week.
I have been learning more about making videos. There are the individual ‘things’, tasks… whatever. Then there is the problem of putting them together. First tries tend to be lame… but, this isn’t too bad… well, hopefully it isn’t painful and gives an ideas of what Burn2 is like.
There are various tasks I wanted to figure out. Audio in Premier, Adobe’s video editor, is a new area. There is an amazing range of tools for audio in Premier but, they are well hidden. Plus there are a number of image and video editing tools, less well hidden. Lots to learn.
With the release of the VLC viewer (4.1.1.320331) we will see the video market in Second Life start changing. It as of today, it hasn’t changed much. As it has in most of the rest of the RL world. So, with 4.1.1 we will have a better experience with YouTube and other services.
VLC Viewer and Streaming Media – TV’s
NOTE: On starting the 4.1.1 viewer I started crashing. I changed regions and all seemed OK. Before I logged off I got a notice that a newer version was available: 4.1.2.320461. I’ve installed it and it seems to be OK.
