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Second Life Viewer: RC Second Life Big Bird Viewer version 3.7.29.301361

2015/05/13 by Nalates Urriah

This viewer was promoted from a Project Viewer to an RC viewer today. This viewer has fixes for some attachment-related issues, particularly when multiple attachments are added or removed at the same time. It also has enhanced logging, so your SecondLife.log file will have some additional lines related to avatar state in general and attachments … Read more

Tutorial: Second Life Masking

2017/12/292015/05/13 by Nalates Urriah

Lildaria Resident started to do a tutorial on Masking in Second Life™. But, she found a good tutorial already exists. She reprinted that tutorial. See: Tutorial: Understanding Mask Mode. (Image and user poofed…) Blackspot by dolletjes, on Flickr In the tutorial it is talking about masking meaning alpha layers, hiding parts of the avatar or … Read more

The End of Second Life?

2015/05/13 by Nalates Urriah

Everything ends. It is just a matter of when. We hear this story of Second Life™ ending all the time. It is not new. Lots of Chicken Little. That SL has not ended, does not mean it won’t. The sky COULD fall. But, I think we will have plenty of warning should the end draw near.

mediterranean girl — Mediterranean girl by Annahyss Resident, on Flickr

I came to Second Life from Myst Online, which has closed and come back a number of times. So, I’m used to games I like closing. Rizom is another one I liked and played for a time. It too closed and came back. Others just closed.

Second Life: Catching Up

2015/05/12 by Nalates Urriah

Being gone for almost 2 weeks, there is lots for me to catch up on. These are the things I found interesting.

Scripting

I previously mentioned this. But, now the new avatar height and hover controls officially have their counterparts in the Linden Scripting Language (LSL): LLGetObjectDetails() and LLGetAgentSize(). See: New LSL support for Avatar Shape, Height and Hover.

A part of LLGetObjectDetails() is the flag: OBJECT_HOVER_HEIGHT – Gets the hover height of the avatar.
If id is not an avatar, 0.0 is returned. Normal values are in the range of-2.0 to 2.0 with a default value of 0.0. This value does not reflect the avatar shape’s “Hover” setting, only the dynamic viewer setting.

Firestorm Viewer 4.7.1-45325

2015/05/12 by Nalates Urriah

I downloaded a copy today. Installed it, no problem. I did the remove and then install process, which is annoying. But, enough people have problems when they install over the last install, it is probably a good idea.

It is hard for me to remember when I made my last settings back up. But, the ‘restore’ settings seems to have missed a few settings. I reset those few manually and made a new backup of the settings.

Second Life and Adult Sex

2015/05/132015/05/12 by Nalates Urriah

This week there is flurry of postings about the Atlas Obscura article about Second Life™. ~~Strawberry Singh~~ Ziki Questi is disappointed in Hamlet’s New World Notes post I think is attempting to put things into some perspective and warn of the problems with the type of posts that unrealistically spin the nature of SL. She Plurked: …read this ill informed post… referring to Hamlet’s post.

Unavailable by Mr S. is looking at you, on Flickr

Hamlet’s post may be annoying to many, but I can’t see where he is misinformed. See: Reporter Who Only Gets Expert Tour of Second Life Only Gets Part of Second Life’s Story Right.