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Blender Hi-Poly Sculpting to Low-Poly Models

2014/10/14 by Nalates Urriah

For those of us in SL creating high detail and low poly counts is a challenge. While this tutorial and the tools used are not completely for Second Life, the techniques used are applicable.

Second Life Updates to DK2

2014/10/13 by Nalates Urriah

The Oculus Rift Project Viewer has been upgraded 3.7.18-295296. Along with the upgrade comes a post in the blog: Oculus Rift DK2 Project Viewer Now Available. They are still careful to point out that this is a somewhat incomplete viewer, but then Oculus Rift is incomplete. However, those with DK2 units can play with this viewer.

Second Life Photography

2014/10/13 by Nalates Urriah

One of the features added to Second Life some time ago is projectors, lights that shine on things. Bryn Oh used a headlamp thing for use by those visiting his latest exhibit, which is a projector. But, we see little use of projectors as lights in SL. Or maybe we just don’t notice them. There … Read more

AvaStar Transfer Registration Ending

2014/10/13 by Nalates Urriah

If you have not yet registered your purchase on the Machinimatrix.org web site, it is time to do so. You need to register to be able to keep a permanent download link and to get your updates. At some point the transfer from the old download to the new registration process will stop working. Gaia … Read more

Bits of Second Life 2014-41 #3

2014/10/12 by Nalates Urriah

Patterns

Linden Lab has announced they are going to stop development of Patterns, their version of Minecraft, but prettier.

Those that purchased it can still play it. But, the server side functions will no longer work (sharing worlds).

So… was it just not providing the rate of return needed… or did the Lab want the Pattern’s developers for development work on SL2?

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Second Life and Oculus DK2

Jo Yardley saw Ebbe Altberg/Linden in 1920’s Berlin. He was testing out the Linden Lab Viewer for Second Life with Oculus Rift DK2 support. She also caught his Tweet about having the viewer out next week. I assume he means ‘out’ as in a new RC Viewer update.

If it is as an RC Viewer then I expect it will have the new CDN and HTTP Pipeline features included. But, that is just my guess. The CDN and Pipeline features are probably 2 or more weeks from making it out to the main SL Viewer. But, they would be a BIG plus for an Oculus RC Viewer.

Second Life News 2014-41 #3

2014/10/11 by Nalates Urriah

Viewers

The main viewer is 3.7.17-294959

RC Viewers

A Maintenance Viewer version 3.7.17.294943, which is on the Alternate Second Life Viewers page. You can read its release notes here: 3.7.17 Release Notes. Fixes and improvements are:

Voice – These updates fix a number of problems. Oz is encouraging dev’s to get the updates for voice into their next releases.
privacy
rendering
texture animation
avatar distortion (Avatar distorted when changing outfits)
inventory management
sounds
mouselook in Mac
scripting crashfix
multiple UI fixes in script editor, Pay flow, chat, stats floater, edit menu etc.