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Second Life MMO’s?

2015/04/08 by Nalates Urriah

The acronym MMO is about Massively Multiplayer Online, usually follow by a G for Game and in some cases RPG for Role Playing Game, but you knew that? Yes… Did you know MMORPG predates the computer gaming era? I bet not. Did you know the MMORPG type games with a persistent world evolved from MUD games? (Multi-User Dungeon)

MUD games were mostly mainframe based and were popular in the 1970’s. My dad told me of playing one by mail… I can’t even imagine what that was like. One turn per week… I complain about an extra 100ms of lag.

Second Life Bits – Week 15

2015/04/07 by Nalates Urriah

Linden Lab Hiring

The Lab is continuing to hire people. Today the ad for a Senior Architect in Web Design is popping up all over the place. The Lab has been making an effort to hire from the SL user base and going outside when no qualified candidates are found.

See: Jobs AliBaba

FREE Broken Ankle Fix - Ankle Lock — FREE Broken Ankle Fix – Ankle Lock by Strawberry Singh, on Flickr

Designing Worlds

The Designing Worlds peeps have done a show interviewing Draxtor Dupree. Drax is a good talker and he makes this an exceptionally interesting show. You can watch it on Prim Perfect here.

Second Life: Weekly Fitmesh Finds!

2015/04/07 by Nalates Urriah

iHeartsSL,com has an article from the site Mesh Body Addicts and their weekly articles on Fitted Mesh Finds. The point of the article is to report on fitted mesh items found in the past week. The contact for the site is Lil Daria (LilDaria Resident).

What's new: Slink Physique fashion — What’s new: Slink Physique fashion by LilDaria Resident, on Flickr

The Addicts can be found on Facebook and Flickr.

I think this is a great idea. I see very little fitted mesh on the grid. There is lots of standard size stuff. But, that stuff doesn’t fit me well.

Second Life: Mesh Bodies

2015/04/07 by Nalates Urriah

Coventina Dalgleish posted in the SL Forum: General Observations On Mesh Bodys – 4/6/15. Coventina came across a mesh body that has 2 million faces. OMG!

BA - angel daydreams — BA – angel daydreams by ~ Boudicca ~, on Flickr

The question asked is, don’t the Lindens have a limit on the size of mesh uploads? Well, yeah. They do. But a body is often 3 items, the hands 1 or 2 more items, the feet also 1 or 2 items, and the head another item. So, while it isn’t easy it is possible to get to 2 million faces without exceeding the Linden upload limits per mesh part, just make lots of parts with lots of materials.

Massively Resurrected

2015/04/07 by Nalates Urriah

In February of this year I wrote about Massively closing: Massively Closing? Today I see that Massively Overpowered launched February 10th. MassivelyOp.net is a new effort by the founding staff of the now closed Massively site, formerly part of Joystick. See: About Massively Overpowered. I found them because they published: MEET THE MMO THAT LIVES … Read more

Second Life: MayaStar News – Week 15

2015/04/06 by Nalates Urriah

A week or two back I covered MayaStar®, the addon for Maya® users developing Second Life™ content. I suppose many are aware of the similar product AvaStar for Blender. These are different products made by different people. They are not competitors as they serve different audiences.

Even if you are a Blender/AvaStar user there is still a bit of information here that may help you in your design work. I’ve sot of added the work flow Cathy is building into MayaStar into my AvaStar work flow.

The video is 30 minutes long.