Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
The Mesh User Group meeting is moving back to ADITI. The meeting has been in AGNI in the Mesh Sandboxes. Those will disappear tonight. So, a new meeting place is being selected in ADITI.
The majority of meeting participants feel ADITI is a better place for the discussion. I think the big selling point is the free mesh upload available in ADITI. Whatever the reason, Charlar decided to go with the majority and have the meeting in ADITI.
I remember Robin from when I was first learning about Second Life and how to build and texture things. She now has a new 3 part video tutorial out. These tutorials are nice because she starts at the beginning and explains all the basic concepts of how mesh objects work in SL. I think these are the best tutorials for anyone getting started that has never used a 3D modeling program.
Inara Pey posted the tutorials on her blog in: Mesh in SL: a tutorial by Robin Sojourner.
You can find other Sojourner tutorials listed on her Wiki User Profile.
If you are considering a wiki profile check out my: Second Life Users and Micro Bloggers.
I don’t write much about the Cool VL (Virtual Life) Viewer a viewer made/maintained by Henri Beauchamp. However, if you are using any viewer for Second Life or OpenSim, you are likely running some of Henri’s code. I won’t try to itemize all of his contributions to the SL and OpenSim communities. I will say his contributions and name shows up in many places. Today I saw that the Cool VL Viewer, formerly Cool SL Viewer, has a new release: 1.0.26.0.16 – 2011-08-27. So, I wanted to take a look at it.
You can learn about the viewer on the viewer’s web site: SLDev.free.fr. You can Download Cool VL Viewer here.
Several people have not been able to upload Mesh in ADITI, the preview grid, but they can in AGNI, the main grid. Most often this is because they have not run through the Intellectual Property thing for ADITI. Yes, you have to do it twice, once for AGNI and once for ADITI. For ADITI visit: https://secondlife.aditi.lindenlab.com/
Also, after viewer and server updates some people are crashing when the attempt to tp to the mesh sandboxes. See: VWR-26698
Also, the 3.0.0 has a video gotcha that causes some people problems. If you are having a problem, visit the Snowstorm Page and get a copy of the latest development viewer. There are some video fixes included that have helped some users.
Hamlet has a good article by Iris Ophelia on the advantages and disadvantages of mesh clothing. See: Ophelia’s Gaze: 3 Great SL Fashion Items Which Show Off the Potential — and Limitations — of Mesh. I’ve tried to get the concepts of how mesh clothes will work out. But, Iris’s explain may make more sense to some readers.
If your thinking of buying mesh clothes to try out, Iris’ is a must read article.
Mesh
This week mesh made it to main grid and is officially rolled out. With the exception of regions in the Blue Steel Release Channel mesh is enabled in all regions.
Oskar Linden said,
You all already know what went live this week. Mesh! There were times I wondered if it would ever ship. We started that in late 2009. I’m not saying the release is without issues, but getting it out there has been a big step. Now we can work on polishing it. We already have a phase 2 in the works with fixes and updates.[We’re] not sure the date for that but Septemberish.
Along with mesh comes large prims. All our prims can now be sized to 64m in X, Y, and Z directions. The only restriction for this is your viewer. Older viewers may be hard coded to the 10m limit. Using those viewers you will NOT be able to make a prim larger than 10m. Viewers used in OpenSim, like Phoenix and Imprudence, have the options to allow limits to be overridden.