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Changing Windlight & HDR in the Second Life Viewer

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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!)

HDR vs No Adjustment
HDR vs No Adjustment

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.

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Second Life Photography Tips

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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)

Designing Worlds Logo
Designing Worlds Logo

The second is here: Second Life Photography Part 2 – After you’ve taken your picture: A Designing Worlds exploration with Strawberry Singh, Honour McMillan and Wildstar Beaumont. (Video is in post)

If you are looking to improve your photographic work check out these two shows/videos. The first is about taking images and the second about processing them.

One of the things Strawberry points out is that over the last year she has started showing people she is photographing a screen shot of their self before starting. She has found it is the only way to know if everything they are wearing has rez’d. Too many times she had to redo shoots because something was not rendering. This is a more recent problem and over the last month seems worse.

Honour gets into more tech and details about what she is doing. I cover that in a separate article. It will publish about noon today. I haven’t figured out how to link to an unpublished post… and have it work once posted. I’ll add a link here later… sorry.

Second Life Needs… What?

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

Shug Maitland Feb 2015
Shug Maitland Feb 2015

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.

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Second Life Bits 2015-08 #2

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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. 

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Second Life Bits 2015-08

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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.

Paint SL Purple
Paint SL 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. 

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New RC Login Viewer

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Login Viewer version 3.7.25.298971 – Some time ago we got the multi-login buttons viewer. This version is a reversion to a single login button. No one has offered any explanation. I assume the Lab is watching stats and making decisions. I don’t see a related JIRA item.

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I sort of like the multiple login buttons.

Project Managed Marketplace Viewer version 3.7.25.298865 – This Project Viewer was updated on the 13th. The release notes list 22 fixes for this version.

There are 3 RC Viewers and 5 Project Viewers. Click the download link above to see them.