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Firestorm’s Tool Tip Tuesday 09

2015/02/25 by Nalates Urriah

It was Tuesday again. Seems to happen every week. This last Tuesday another FS Tip came out. In this one Jessica is teaching us about the command line available in the Firestorm Viewer’s chat. This is one of the way neat things about the Firestorm Viewer. There are plenty of neat features. But, this command line … Read more

Changing Windlight & HDR in the Second Life Viewer

2015/02/24 by Nalates Urriah

In the Designing Worlds how (previous post) Honour McMillan explains a problem solution for photographers using the SL Viewer. The idea is we often just want to just tweak a region’s settings. In Firestorm that is easy. You just do it. In the SL Viewer it doesn’t work. The settings are grayed out until you select a preset, which changes everything. The region’s settings are effectively hidden. But, there is a work-around. (Lindens: don’t break this!)

Honour explains in the Designing Worlds video:

Open the environment Sky Preset editor and select any preset. World->Environmental Editor->Sky Presets->Edit Presets…->select any preset.
Next open the Water Preset editor, select any water preset, X it out or cancel.

You’ll see the region switch back from the Sky Lighting Preset you selected to the region’s settings when you cancel the Water editor. Now your Sky Presets editor is using the region’s settings and settings in the editor are still enabled. Good work-around.

Second Life Photography Tips

2015/02/24 by Nalates Urriah

Prim Perfect has done a couple of shows with Strawberry Singh, Honour McMillan and Wildstar Beaumont that are about SL Photography. The first is here: Designing Worlds looks at Second Life Photography with Strawberry Singh, Honour McMillan and Wildstar Beaumont. (Video is here: Part 1) The second is here: Second Life Photography Part 2 – … Read more

Second Life Needs… What?

2015/02/21 by Nalates Urriah

Shug Maitland wrote What Does Second Life Need? I like that she thinks. Now she has me thinking.

A recent article of Inara’s got Shug thinking. All signs are that SL1, our current Second Life, and what I call SL2, the new virtual world Linden Lab is building, will run simultaneously. Shug’s question is can SL1 compete with SL2? Good question.

I’ve heard and read lots of opinions. But, few include why they hold their opinion.

Shug and many of the rest of us agree we need a better avatar, Avatar 2.0. The starter avatars we have now are probably the direction the Lab will go with SL2. The skeleton, skin, and animation will likely all get better.

Second Life Bits 2015-08 #2

2015/02/20 by Nalates Urriah

Server Scripting UG 2015-02 - Script Kiddie? — Server Scripting UG 2015-02 – Script Kiddie?

Sony Sells Online Entertainment

This is about the part of Sony that develops games like; Everquest, PlanetSide, DC Universe Online and the recently released H1Z1. This part of the company is being named Daybreak Game Company by the new owners: Columbus Nova, an investment firm. (reference)

Is Columbus Nova speculating on Virtual Reality or games in general?

Facebook & Oculus

Venture Beat has an article on Facebook developing apps for the Oculus. Well, gee, ain’t that a surprise… NOT!

Chris Cox, Facebook’s Chief Product Officer, explains their idea this way, “When you’re in Facebook, you’re just sending around these bits of experience — a photo, a video, a thought.” With Oculus they hope to create a fuller experience.

Some of these apps are so simple to build anyone can do it, or so says Chris.

See: Facebook says it’s developing its own apps for Oculus.

Second Life Bits 2015-08

2015/02/19 by Nalates Urriah

PAINT SL PURPLE

The fund raiser runs from February 21 to March 7. This is a Relay for Life fund raiser.

To raise awareness of the fund raising effort the organizers what people to paint Second Life purple. Color your avatar, shops, homes, whatever purple.

You get a free make it purple kit here: SURL.

A kickoff party is planned for Saturday 2/21 at 4PM on the American Cancer Society Island. It is expected to last until 7PM to 9PM when Special Guests Satin & Erin along with DJ Dianne Wycliffe will be heading up the party.