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Blender and Shape Keys

2015/05/11 by Nalates Urriah

Blender has had shape keys for some time. They are a common part of most 3D models. But, since we can’t import Blender generated shape key information into Second Life™, the keys have not been much use to us. However, they can be used to make different size dresses, shirts, hands, feet, and whatever along … Read more

Second Life Layer Limits RC Viewer

2015/05/11 by Nalates Urriah

This morning a new RC viewer installed: Second Life 3.7.29-301305, the Layer Limits RC Viewer. The release notes are here. The primary change in this version is: The Layer Limits viewer lets you wear up to 60 wearables of any type. We’ve changed the logic for what limits are enforced on clothing worn by avatars: … Read more

Prejudice in Second Life

2015/05/10 by Nalates Urriah

Kara Trapdoor has written an article titled Role Play Prejudice Much? Her writing was inspired by a thread on Facebook. Seems a guy Nick Morgan was getting crap for some of his role play… not his technique, but the character types he chose to play.

Fantasy Faire by Kara Trapdoor, on Flickr

There is no doubt people are prejudiced. It isn’t just a Second Life™ thing. In all of human history people have been prejudiced and that has not changed. Nor do I see any evidence humans will give up their prejudices in the future. People form their opinions and from that point on it is very hard to give them up, no matter how much proof piles up they are wrong. But, there are those that deal with their prejudices and overcome them.

Second Life & Virtual Reality

2015/05/09 by Nalates Urriah

We are getting closer to hands on. The Oculus Rift is to release in the first quarter of 2016. At this point I think the first round of pre-release technical challenges has been met. So, any possible delay would be from manufacturing and supply problems.

Now that the Samsung Galaxy S6 is in production the supply of display screens for the Oculus should be adequate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5XVq4NLnwk

Unity and Unreal, game engine platforms, are both announcing support of HTC RE Vive. This means game developers can move away from having to develop support for the various VR headsets and use the support provided by Unity and Unreal. This saves developer’s time and means new games will move through the development pipeline faster.

Second Life News Week 17 TPD

2015/04/27 by Nalates Urriah

The Third Party Developers met last Friday. This is the first of those meetings to run a full hour in some weeks. So, we have new information on several subjects. Some of that information I published on Saturday and Sunday as smaller posts rather than one gigantic post. This article will be the smaller bits of news from the meeting. But, it still went over a thousand words.

Oz Linden announced the next TPD Meeting is next Friday May 1. This is one week away, out of the normal pattern. He will be gone the following weekend and is pushing that weekend’s meeting up one week.

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Second Life Login Failure Update

2015/04/26 by Nalates Urriah

We currently have an inventory problem that prevents logging into Second Life. The currenlty frequent cause of the problem has been tracked down to having Flat Inventory.

Let the Magic Unfold by Carthalis Rossini, on Flickr

A flat inventory is an inventory where thousands of items are in a single folder. Mostly the term denotes an unorganized inventory where stuff is mostly in the root or objects folders rather than being organized in folders and subfolders. As the viewer is downloading inventory folder by folder a folder with thousands of items can take too long to download and cause a time out. This jams up the login process and you get a failure message.