Things about SL
Recently a fix for updating of our inventory in ADITI (preview/beta) grid rolled out. Some people are working with it now. I started writing about the changes being made this last December in: Second Life’s ADITI Inventory Update Change.
Curious….
Today is the first time I’ve logged into Aditi since the change rolled out. So, my inventory has yet to update. I am hoping for a Friday morning update. Continue reading
I made it to the Bento meeting. This was pretty much just a status update meeting. We did get word that a new version of the Project Bento Viewer will likely be out next week (13).
I still have trouble logging into ADITI. It takes 5+ minutes for me to get logged in. Others at the meeting tell me they too have the problem when they log into Last Location. So, I’ll be trying to log directly into the region by name. I’m told that works better.
The result is I missed the first 10 minutes or so of the meeting. Then the first 5 minutes or so of audio is missing. Because the viewer didn’t connect correctly. 🙁
For weeks there have been rumors and some confirmations of bannings and sim shutdowns. The subject came up in a recent interview with Ebbe Altberg, Linden CEO. We didn’t learn much as the Lab doesn’t talk about bans or ToS violations.
Insilico – Feb 2012
Honour McMillan has more photos of Insilico here.
What Ebbe pointed out is that a person banned can say almost anything about the process. We have no way to fact check their claims because the other side, the Lab, is muted. Saying anything creates legal liability for the Lab, so… Continue reading
Project Bento is moving ahead. The AvaStar people are working on building tools to help people animate the new avatar. You can see a video of where they are now. YOU HAVE TO CLICK…
This isn’t something we will have access to this week or next. We may not see the final release of Project Bento for some weeks and possibly months.
We may have the AvaStar tools soon. Building the animation tool is a simpler task than building a player that works with the new skeleton and the legacy version animations.
With the release if the Maintenance Viewer (4.0.2.312269) in week #11, invisiprims pretty much died their final death. Support ended for these critters in 2011. The code that renders them invisible has been in viewers up to this release. But, with this release something changed.
Dry Dock via Invisiprim – Noted by: Callum Meriman
Inviziprims were prims with a special texture that caused things behind the texture to become transparent. Rendering-wise this was nightmare and problematic. The Lindens took advantage of a happenstance of the render pipeline to get them to work. I understand Crazy Mole once built a dry dock using invisiprims (the picture). Many boat builders used them to make the water inside their boats disappear. Continue reading
Hamlet has a tip he got from Trinity Dejavu over on Reddit. See: Simple Trick to Speed Up Second Life Rendering.
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The ‘trick’ is to turn off avatar rendering when you first arrive in a crowded place. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-4) One press turns off avatar rendering and a second press will turn it back on. B turning it off your viewer can concentrate on rendering the ‘area’. Later when you render avatars they ‘seem’ to render faster because the viewer just has to render them as all else is already rendered.
This doesn’t make it any faster or actually reduce render time. Actual time to a final render is probably longer. But, psychologically we break the wait time into two parts with each being less than the single pass render but added together… more. Basically it is just easier on our patience.
But, I haven’t put a stop watch on it yet…
I see there is a new promo video out for Second Life…
Doesn’t really do it for me… but, it is something.
Second Life’s main channel got an update to day (3/22). This is the RC package from last week, which is some Script Fixes and Minor internal improvements.
The RC channels are running the same package, no update this week.
“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak..”
The main viewer updated last week to version 4.0.2.312269, the Maintenance RC viewer with lots of fixes. Continue reading