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Gaia Asking for Help

2014/07/09 by Nalates Urriah

Gaia Clary of Machinimatrix.org is making a new video tutorial on weight painting for Second Life™. A new post is up on her blog asking for input. See: Weighting with Blender. The actual tutorial part being worked on is here: Course: Weight Painting (Blender&Avastar). AvaStar is not required. Plain Blender (2.70+) can be used for … Read more

Education in Second Life

2014/07/09 by Nalates Urriah

Virtual reality/worlds have extensive possibilities for education and training, we all know that, I think we do… But, I suspect most are like me and think little on the problems educators have using virtual worlds as their classroom.

SLeducate - University of Western Australia (UWA) — SLeducate – University of Western Australia (UWA)

If I think about it even a little I realize the first problem is just getting a student into the world and to the right location. The University of Western Australia (UWA) has an article up about those challenges. See: Eliminating a headache faced by all SL virtual educators!

Experience has taught us over the years that existing Learning Islands in Second Life™ don’t really get people new to Second Life to a level of usability needed to take a class. Often people are still figuring out how to use the viewer rather than focusing on the lesson.

Bits of Second Life

2014/07/09 by Nalates Urriah

Second Life™ Market Place

Hamlet has an interesting bit up in the article Update, Emily Short’s Blood & Laurels: From Linden Limbo to New York Times Feature in Four Months. Have you noticed he likes long titles?

MistyMountains_020 — Misty Mountains – 2013

The Market Place has seen some odd happenings. This was announced:

[Posted 3:46 PM PDT, 07 July 2014] We are performing unscheduled maintenance on the secondlife.com maturity filters that is causing some Marketplace listings to be listed under the wrong maturity rating. It is also causing event creations and Classified ads to fail due to the maturity filter. Please check back here for updates as we have them.

Experience Tools Update 2014-28

2014/07/082014/07/08 by Nalates Urriah

Today Dolphin Linden was at the Scripting-Server User Group meeting answering questions about the Experience Tools (XP Tools) and how they will work. The made for an interesting meeting. I posted about this meeting’s coming Q&A last week.

Dryland Mado - 2014 — Dryland Mado – 2014

The current request for Beta Testers is for experience creators, Madpea or Loki Eliot type people. Latter they will be asking for experience participants (users) to join the beta testing.

There is a knowledge base article up: Experiences in Second Life. This is mostly for users not scriptwriters. We are told by Oz and Dolphin Linden that wiki documentation is in the works. The current draft is being reviewed by those Lindens that do the reviews. Scriptwriters check the last line of this post.

Second Life News 2014-28 #2

2014/07/08 by Nalates Urriah

Servers Late yesterday Maestro Linden posted the Deploys post. The main channel is rolling this morning. The new package contains the changes in LSL that allow us to control Materials via script. See llSetLinkPrimitiveParams and llGetLinkPrimitiveParams. Look for the new perimeters in those named; PRIM_NORMAL, PRIM_SPECULAR, and PRIM_ALPHA_MODE. RC Channels Blue Steel and Le Tigre will get a new maintenance package … Read more

Jobs at Linden Lab

2014/07/08 by Nalates Urriah

We know that Linden Lab is hiring. While one might think that new hires would be for work only on the new world being designed and built, some are positions that will deal with users and aspects of all of the Lab’s products. See: Job: Chargeback Specialist – Linden Lab – San Francisco