Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
I just saw where Opensource Obscure posted in his feed that the current development viewer allows images to be posted to our feed. I have yet to learn out or try it out. But, its on my list.
Update: Was on my list… š
OK I found it. Press Ctrl-Shift-S to open the camera snapshot panel. See the image for the new panel in viewer 3.2.3 (the development viewer (244722).
Sending the image to your feedĀ incursĀ no cost.
This is a nifty little feature. But there is more.
The rumor is circulating that a group called the Freedom Continent has won the ācontractā to provide gateways to Zindra, the Adult Content continent. I have yet to see any formalĀ announcementĀ of the winner.Ā Venus Petrov points out the gateway privatization in a post in the SL Forum and brings up another interesting point. She asks if this privatization of gateway hubs is a pilot project that may be extended to gateway hubs in PG and M rated regions. You can read theĀ threadĀ and see what people are thinking. If you are a shop owner and this is a pilot, this will affect you.
Along with that rumor is news from Viale Linden that searches using the term āZindraā will no longer return the Linden owned gateway Zindra (region) as the #1 result. I guess because they changed the region’s name. So, privatization is underway.
In the 11/7 Adult Continent User Group (ACUG) meeting Blackcrow6667 Garmes spoke. I was late getting there as a preceding group meeting ran over, or at least I stayed over because of interesting conversation. According to Black the first part of the proposal Black was making is to build a learning center. The idea is to teach people to build in SL with Prims, Sculpties, Mesh, and to script. I wonder if it matters that the Zindra Help Vortex does the same sort of thing?
It seemsĀ today’sĀ roll out is having problems. Last week some regions were not coming back after a restart for update. It seems something similar is happening today.
If your region is not coming back, do ticket and post on the Deploys thread.
Last week New World Notes and several others, as well as myself, blogged about the game the Lindens built. This week we have some more details on the game.
There is a shiny new FAQ page in the Knowledge Base. Project LR Frequently Asked Questions. As one reads the page it becomes obvious this page is written for residents. There is less behind the scenes, techy, and motivations for the game and more about how to play.
In the explanation we learn that premium members can earn Lindens by playing the game.
Also, it is not possible to teleport into the region. One must find a portal. See the image to know what they look like. For now it seems portals are placed in premium sandboxes. However, if you find one and you are a premium member and it does not work, donāt panic. When the game region population reaches capacity the portals shop working. Wait a bit and try again.
Never fear. Dying in the game doesnāt hurtā¦ muchā¦ right. There are things in the game that can kill you. When you die you are teleported and reincarnated in a resurrection circle. I suppose it is a bit like Entropia. I am seriously considering a premium account.
There is some news from the Scripting User Group. Meaning something I find interesting.
The current update (week 44) running in Le Tigre is showing some scripting oddities. Most are around scripts that use the llTakeControls(). Kelly says it look like the control events are firing too often. So, if you are trying to steer a vehicle things are going awry.
Paraphrasing Kelly said something like: We put a cap on the total time the scripts for an agent can trigger. This is the time outside normal script time. When you press a key we give your scripts, that have control, an extra chance to run. This happens in ‘agent time’. To prevent abuse we added a cap per framer per agent (1ms per frame per agent). It is pretty large right now (it is adjustable and we may drop it later). Disabling scripts on a parcel only stops the script time block. The changes make it so you get at most 1 extra script run per frame.
Anything that adds more data to serialize per script is difficult. There is some potential to use a lot of script time but the recent changes on Le Tigre limit that severely.
Kelly says, ā1ms is generally enough time to run ~20 scripts. More if they are ‘quick’.ā
I noticed we have a new panel in the Second Life Viewer 3.2.2 (244260) Oct 31 2011. You probably know, if you follow this blog, that Googleās free translation service used by many games is changing to a paid service. That means our translator in the viewer will stop working about the end of this month.
The new panel provides an option to switch to Bingās free service. It also provides a place to add your Google API key, which you get from Google Translate API. In my article Language Translation in Second Life I estimated my cost of translation services if I had everything I chat translated. I think I could easily get by for US$20 per year. Since I donāt translate everything, it would probably be way less.