Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
The meeting was short, about 18 minutes. Not much was talked about. But a little.
Oz mentioned the Quick Graphics viewer getting promoted to default viewer status. That is the Jelly Doll viewer, or more technically correct the Avatar Complexity Viewer. Oz says they are getting good reception in most places where people would scream or applaud.
The Quick Graphics Viewer is out. Some people are having some problems with the viewer. A semi-clean install seems to fix the problem. So, what’s semi-clean install?
This week has been busy, RL. So, I’ve missed some of the goings on. One is the release of the Quick Graphics viewer as the main Linden Viewer.
To learn more about the development process and history of this viewer and how it works see my articles on Avatar Complexity. Also, Inara has a good write up titled: Avatar Complexity and Graphics Presets in Second Life.
There is no rollout and restart for the main channel this week. Because of problems and down-time on the Beta grid (ADITI) last week testing on the pending server update couldn’t be completed.
This week the package is ready to move from the Beta grid to the RC channels of the main grid. So, we’ll have a roll to and restart of the RC channel regions Wednesday.
This is a package without any user-visible changes. It has unnamed improvements.
I’ve always had trouble getting my lashes to look good. Frustrating and tedious process. Then I saw this Damien Fate video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3IE__qhdns
Oh wow… They are available in the Marketplace for L$295. May never buy another set of lashes…
UPDATE: (5/17/2016) Strawberry Singh has elaborated on these lashes. See: Lash Heaven
If you use the Preview/Beta Grid (ADITI) then you know that there were problems in ADITI this week. But, last week on Friday parts of the main grid went down. The operations people via April Linden have posted an article on what happened.
See: The Story Behind Last Week’s Unexpected Downtime – 2016-05-09 10:22 AM
As part of the problem the Grid Status page went down. This is a tuning issue. That site normally has very few users. But, when the grid goes down users flood in and swamp the site. That is a common problem for hosting systems and there are ways to scale up to handle the load and down once demand passes. So, a future outage from overloading is now less likely.
When the Grid Status site is down there is a fall back: Twitter. See: SLGridStatus. This service stayed up. It has 12k+ followers.
I have the SL Grid Status in my favorites. Now I have added a Twitter link.