Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
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 as We Know It. See her article and pictures here. Some regions just can’t be done justice in a still photo.
Flying through with via camera and walking through are different experiences. I suggest walking.
Wednesday a new package rolled to the RC channels, all three. This page has a couple of changes:
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 be.
The idea is that scripts can now detect avatar gender and play the correct animations.
The OBJECT_HOVER_HEIGHT flag returns the Hover Height value, between -2.0 and 2.0. This is the value in the shape, not the newer Hover Height slider accessed by right-clicking the avatar. I have no idea how this might be used.
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.)
I went to the Open Source UG Meeting this morning. Not something I usually do. I had some questions and this UG is a good place to get certain questions answered.
So… what is a jelly baby? The picture explains it better than words.
The solid color avatars in the image are what we call jelly babies. I first heard Whirly Fizzle use the term. I like it. I’ve also heard avatars rendered this way called Gumby or Gummies. I talked about this in: Second Life Performance: Render Muting.