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Today the Lab announced New Feature to Make Life Easier for Estate Owners!
The feature is about allowing region owners and estate managers to restart their regions from the web.
This is needed because in griefing situations it is often not possible to get into the region to use the viewer controls to restart and clear problems.
Part of the feature allows the region to be restarted in ‘safe mode’. Safe mode disables scripts, collisions, and physics.
From the Third-Party Dev UG meeting June 1, 2018 we have some news. Plus, the usual stuff.
The main channel moves up to version #18.05.25.515749. This version includes;
Once the Estate Tools improvements are added to the viewer, the tools will be live. The improvements are mostly about easier editing of ban lists.
The three RC channels get version #18.05.30.515812. This version has a few user visible changes;
Not long ago we were teased with information that not all ‘internal fixes’ are security things. Some are to support SL15B surprises.
My Thursdays have been busy. I’ve been missing the Content Creators’ meetings. Today I made it. There is some new news.
The meeting has moved back to Animesh4, ADITI, Second Life ™. Took a minute or two to track them down. Then my OBS wasn’t picking up the audio. It took me a bit to figure out what was wrong. The video is missing the first 10 minutes.
00:10 – The Land Impact cost for Animesh has been reduced from 200 to 15 plus additional cost for the total polygon count and kickers for LoD use. Poor LoD will drive up the cost.
This actually changed a couple of months ago. Vir Linden posted about the changes here: Animesh – Updated Limits and Cost Formulas.
I think the current RC Animesh viewer has these changes.
03:20 – All cost formulas in use have problems. Lindens are working on it.
04:00 – Stress testing for Animesh… most of the testing was done during Bento development.
Designing Worlds has done an interview with Linden Lab’s™ CEO, Ebbe Altberg. You can see their video of the interview here, Designing Worlds DW370 – Ebbe Interviewed. (Run time 1hr 51min)
There is talk of a road map for Second Life™. This ‘map’ apparently isn’t a published document. The interview focuses on where Ebbe is taking Second Life. So, I take it as a word picture.
However, Ebbe does talk about where they hope to take SL and what will happen with various aspects of SL.
If the video is too long for you, check Inara’s article. She has a summary of the interview. Designing Worlds In Conversation With Ebbe Altberg – Transcript + Audio.
Monday was a US holiday, Memorial Day. So, today is the Lab’s first workday this week. As of 10 AM SLT this morning there is no Deploy post. But, there is some HOT new news today. See the Other News section.
From the Server-Scripting meeting, Simon Linden: Let’s see … for server news, we had a rollback last week of the RC channels for a bug. I think there was a post somewhere about that. We’re going to have updates out tomorrow that have that fixed … and possibly another release that has a few other items in it. It’s all internal changes, as far as I know.
Second Life Love Me Render Viewer version 5.1.5.515528 – This an update from the previous version 5.1.4.514788 released in week #16.
Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 5.1.5.515527 – Last updated in week #21.
Second Life Project 360 Snapshot Viewer version 5.1.3.513006 – Last updated in week #10.
Second Life Project Animesh Viewer version 5.1.4.515420 – Released week #16.
Second Life Project Bakes On Mesh Viewer version 5.1.3.513936 – Last updated in week #14.
Ryan Schultz has published a little tutorial on his site, Second Life Steals, Deals, and Freebies: How to Find Free and Inexpensive Items on the SL Marketplace. I think it is a handy tutorial on how the SL Marketplace search features works… I use the word ‘works’ loosely.
Using the left-column of filters makes finding stuff a bit easier. But, one has to know to make the search using the top ITEMS – Merchant/Store search setting ‘Search In’, ‘Show Maturity Levels’, and ‘Keywords’ before adding the left-column filters.
The ‘Sort By’ in the mid-upper right of the page just below the ITEMS search is also a big help. The sort can be changed at any time in your searches.
You can also search for a store or merchant. Once you select a merchant/store you have the option to ‘Search this store’. Then follow with left-column filters.
Things in the marketplace do not age out. Also, when merchants stop using Second Life, their stuff remains in the market place. Even if it requires a third-party server to work and that server is taken offline. All of which is a BIG gotcha for new SL users.
So, the sort order can be important search criteria.