Luca Grabacr has made some nice videos about Second Life™. Today, Nov 8, a new one just posted to YouTube. Check out thie 3+ minute video.
OK… that is pretty neat.
Thanks Luca.
Second Life
Things about SL
Second Life Has New Avatars?
Did you know Linden Lab has new avatars for the noobies? I had not realized it. But, Cerise @ SLUniverse posted about the new avatars and I noticed that post. Want to see some of the new avatars and mesh clothes?
This image shows the first page one lands on after clicking JOIN. By default they now have ‘Classic’ avatars selected. It is still possible to select Vampires and People. Those are mesh body avatars. But, the Classic Avatars look to be all new. The older avatars are still in the Library. I just don’t see them on sign-up process.
Second Life Server News Week 45
Caleb Linden forgot to update the Deploys thread in the forum. :/ They apparently have him buried in work. Whatever, the main channel did get an update today (11/3). I’m just not sure which of the two RC’s made it. One was some server fixes the other the same fixes and an additional bug fix. Hopefully the later made it out.
The new RC package has a new support tool, that mean a tool for the Linden Support Staff. It helps them re-align region edges. They sometimes get out of sync when the land owner moves the terrain up or down a significant amount.
I’m guessing there are some other bug fixes too…
Can You Help Kokua Viewer Dev’s?
This Kokua Viewer update adds version 2.9.15 of RLV and brings Kokua on par with Linden viewer version 3.8.6, which I think means it has the Quick Graphics and Avatar Complexity features, but with out the build number… it may be the Notifications viewer updates. Whichever, The Dev’s need help testing this update.
See: Kokua with RLV 2.9.15 and code update to SecondLife 3.8.6 — Request for test.
Areas of the viewer they are asking be tested:
- Inventory handling.
- Outfit remove and replace.
- Individual wearable items remove from avatar and wear from inventory.
- Mesh model upload.
- File uploads.
Firestorm + MadPea
Inara has an article up about the new testing of Community Gateways. We have seen the idea of community gateways appear a number of times over the years. We are now on the eve another iteration. In this one Linden Lab, Firestorm Developers, and MadPea Game Designers have teamed up to create a new gateway.
See: Firestorm ready to launch Gateway; MadPea join as partners.
The new gateway will be open Saturday 10/31 with events at; 13:00 SLT – Mankind Tracer, 14:00 SLT – Nance Brody, 15:00 SLT – The Changhigh Trinity Sisters Fire Show, and 14:00 SLT onwards – DJ Quad.
Check Inara’s article for more information.
Wayward Peaks Halloween
There are a lot of interesting places in Second Life™. Dolls and Demons, love the pictures, has an article up about a Gotcha Event: Hanging With The Bad Boys. Checking out the regions mentioned I came across Wayward Peaks. It is an awesome Gotcha event. There are Gotcha vendors are all over the region. So, you’ll be exploring.
The region is full of mesh. Much of it has poor LoD modeling. If you have set your RenderVolumeLODFactor set to 4, a bad move, you won’t notice. Using 1.125 I noticed. At 1.125 you have to be close to things for them to look right. But, in general the place is interesting.