Not much development news this week. I’ve tried to fluff it up with interesting news.
Servers
No update to the main server channel.
Second Life News 2015-09
Second Life
Things about SL
Second Life Bits 2015 Week 09 #2
Fabulously Free
I skim through the Fab Free site in my Feedly reader. Today it is consumed with stories about The Wash Sale (Biannual – really!?! Every other year?) It has stiff for L$10. You’ll find the stuff in the Wash Sim.
Fab Free is often the incentive for my visiting a number of new places.
Second Life Avatar Extinction?
Is the end coming?
Wow… what does one stock up on for a disaster in Second Life?
Second Life Fitted Mesh Doesn’t Fit
Yeah, we know… ‘Fitted’ does not necessarily mean it fits. But, Astrid Kaufmat has an interesting post in the forum about the problem. She is on about figuring out how to work with the SL avatar in 3DMax/Blender/Maya modeling programs without having to have a plugin. Well… good luck with that. I finally gave up, bought AvaStar, and started having fun.
She goes into great detail about the problem. But I’m pretty sure she hasn’t figured it out. She certainly seems to have missed the problem some of us have recognized. Explained here: Second Life Shape Export.
Astrid has been around since 2011. But, she seems to have missed the discussions on the ‘deformer’ and the problems with changing the system avatar. She goes on to recommend a new avatar for SL. I believe that is a losing battle.
Second Life Bits 2015 Week 09
Freeze Frame Bug
It seems there is a bug in the SL Viewer. Yeah, I say that like there is only one… Well, you’ll see this one if you take a snapshot using Freeze-Frame and then close the camera panel before your release Freeze-Frame mode. The only fix at that point is to relog.
Once you relog, open the camera panel (Ctrl-Shift-S) and turn off Freeze-Frame. You don’t have to, but I would probably forget it is enabled and take another picture, close the panel, and have to relog again.
Firestorm’s Tool Tip Tuesday 09
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 thing is something power users will likely use several times per login secession.
These tip videos are getting about 9,000+ views after a couple of weeks. This is a very small percentage of the Firestorm users. Since Firestorm is used by more than half, closer to three-quarters, of the users of Second Life that means very few people know about TTT Videos. Pass around the link to the YouTube Channel.