Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
Drac has another short video out. It shows parts of the upcoming Fantasy Fair. 1:30 minute. [youtube IxapITVp1c8#!]
Tuesday saw the roll out of the HTTP Package Monty Linden has been working on. This ran on all three RC channels last week. The package has to do with changing the connection protocols used between your viewer and the Second Life™ servers.
A few people are reporting an increase in PING time. I haven’t seen it yet.
Some are complaining about region crossings. Simon Linden discussed crossings with us in the meeting.
The feature formerly known as: Server Side Avatar Baking is moving forward. Nyx Linden tells us today that the Sunshine code is now in the Beta Viewer branch. That means we have a working viewer with the near final features. So, far the server side is only running on the Preview Grid, ADITI. Look for the region SunshineTest.
If you find a bug, report it ASAP. Otherwise the bug will likely make it into the main release viewer.
Nyx was asked how quickly this feature would roll out to the main grid. Nyx and Oz have both said it is a bit of an awkward rollout and may take some time.
Geenz Spad was at the Content and Mesh meeting today. We got a bit more information on the Materials System that is rolling out.
We’ve had one update to the the Materials Project Viewer and Geenz is expecting to get another out this week. Some say the viewer is stable and they are using it for their main viewer. We’ve been warned that may not be a good idea. That is because of how the viewer handles, or doesn’t, the textures on existing objects and it may not be consistent, meaning the viewer could mess up existing items.
If you didn’t read through my index of or listen to the Metareality podcast What is the Problem?!?, you missed Karl Stiefvater’s comments on the mesh deformer. Karl was addressing a point that has come up in JIRA 1716.
In some version of the Mesh Deformer Project Viewer there was a significant delay between the time a mesh garment was worn (rezzed) and the Deformer started deforming it. In some cases on some computers that was 2 to 4 minutes.
Drax has a video out previewing Fantasy Fair, which opens April 20. [youtube zvclRK_zJj0]