Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
A blog named MoviePilot has a NICE article about Second Life™: Second Life: How to Navigate an Online Virtual World (and Maybe Even Make Some Money).
Sex is mentioned in an adult way. 1920’s Berlin is mentioned.
In general this is one of the best articles I’ve seen about SL in some time. Please click over and check itout.
See: Brave Dinosaurs & Win Prizes in PaleoQuest!
Well… if you read this blog or any of several others, even if you read only the Linden Blog, the arrival of VMM and the Merchant Outbox ceasing to work is no surprise. But, the forum is full of people that are shocked and outraged that the Lab would make such a change without telling them. And there is a flock of mental midgets that can’t imagine why the change was made…
Send such people this link: Linden Lab Official:Viewer-Managed Marketplace FAQ.
Yeah… week 30. I wrote this a couple of weeks ago and it got lost. The information is still good, so today it gets published.
Massively Overpowered pointed me to a video showing how big World of Warcraft is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=32&v=ihF0wJlYSus
SL Blogger Support has an article about problems some bloggers are having. One is in regard to voicing opinions. Check out comments below the article: She’s mad as hell and she’s not going to take this anymore!
You may be ahead of me on this. Blender updated July8th and I am just noticing it… a month later. There isn’t much that affects those using it for building Second Life Models.
See: Blender.org
Obviously I’m not working on my Blender stuff… RL work is picking up. Yay!
The list of new features is here (also download). About the only change that helps Second Life™ users is the Decimate modifier being improved.
Second Life’s Strawberry Singh has an article on Avatar Physics (booby bounce) with mesh bodies: Second Life Avatar Physics. It includes a link to this video: (dancing starts about halfway in)
Strawberry’s berries bounce…
Strawberry points us to Firestorm’s tutorial on Avatar Physics, which teaches you how to make your own physics layers. She has made her own layers for the Maitreya Lara mesh body. These are almost free (L$1).
Hamlet has an article where he is pointing to Kat Alderman’s comment (here) on Hamlet’s article: Second Life No Longer a Creation Platform, But an End-Point Display for Creativity.
Kat’s statements that caught my attention are: