Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
Strawberry Singh has a meme called What’s Your Digits? It is about shape and mesh bodies. So, what can I add to that?
If your new to Second Life™ you may not know the viewer’s appearance editor reports the wrong height for avatars. You can check this yourself by rezzing a cube and stretching it to whatever height you think you are. Make it phantom and walk into it.
Various games made in Second Life™ are showing up in the news. I think the reduced news flow coming out of the Lab has bloggers looking for things to write about. There is a lot inside SL to write about. Honour has an article up about a build in SL named: End of the World … Read more
Wednesday a new package rolled to the RC channels, all three. This page has a couple of changes: Internal server logging changes New flags for llGetObjectDetails() OBJECT_BODY_SHAPE_TYPE OBJECT_HOVER_HEIGHT The OBJECT_BODY_SHAPE_TYPE flag returns the avatar gender type, 0=female and 1=male. Basically <1 = female. Values in between are permitted… but, I’m not sure what good they would … Read more
One of the Lab’s people is speaking at April’s HackbrightPRO event on Thursday, April 16, 2015 (6:00pm – 8:00pm) hosted at the Linden Lab office in San Francisco. I suppose all are invited. Register/RSVP and get more information here.
There are two featured speakers; Julie Russell, IT Manager, Medium an online publishing company, and Tara Hernandez, Director of Systems & Build Engineering, Linden Lab.
A new set of finds is up here: Weekly Fitmesh Finds – April 11th.
Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge Launch Today this week, Gear VR ‘2’ Compatible and Available from All Major Carriers.
If you use a translator in Second Life, you know recent changes at Google have caused several models of translators to fail. You also know that since 2012 the viewer’s built-in translator cannot be connected to the Bing or Google translation services as originally planned by the Lab. Viewer translation is essentially broken. We have to use an add-on.
Following this blog you’ve seen the recent previous articles. (See: Second Life: Metanomics Translator Failing.)