Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
Update 3/5/10: Many people are reporting much worse performance with 2.0. This has to do with Texture Memory, a graphics setting. See links below for more info.
The viewer is out and people are playing with it. I’ve had some time to use the viewer. There are things I like and things that really suck. I believe the adoption of this viewer as the standard Second Life viewer will push many longer time residents to use third party viewers.
Rumors are a new version of Snowglobe will be released… any minute now…
Snowglobe 1.2.4.3007, November 18, 2009 is the current stable release.
Snowglobe Release Candidate 1.3.1.3125, February 5, 2010 is the current advanced version.
Snowglobe 2.0.0.0, February 22, 2010 is apparently the rumored new Snowglobe.
Oh wow… we finally get to see it. I’m downloading now.
Download Second Life Viewer 2.0 Beta
New World Notes has an article on it up today. Second Life 2.0 Analysis: Epic Win for Userbase, Competition Killer… But Not Mass Market Game Changer (Yet)
Linden Lab is answering questions here: Answers to a Few FAQs on Viewer 2
Emerald is currently in a fast release cycle right now. A significant release came out on the 17th with 2 more quick releases following. I am expecting at least one more soon.
Updated from Emerald Viewer 1.23.5.1582 (2/17) to Emerald Viewer 1.23.5.1585 (2/18) and as of 2/22 to version 1.23.5.1626 1.64 mb Download
Update: Some Mac users are (were) having voice problems (1585). Get download: Mac Voice
There are (were) some image upload issues with v1585. See: Emerald Viewer Image Uploads Hotfix
The download I got today (2/22) actually shows version 1628…
The grid manager has been improved over version 1582. It now saves your log on information. Yay! That helps. There is now an ‘Edit Saved Logins’ button on the login screen.
I’ve been distracted by Myst Online reopening…
Kirsten has a new release of her viewer out. I’m downlaoding it now. More later.
Many of us have heard that Blender 2.5 is on the way. Blender 2.5 Alpha 0 is out and can be downloaded. It is Alpha software. Some features from the 2.4 series are not all working in 2.5. How the missing features are implemented is changing, so there is some delay. There seems to be lots of changes coming. One thing that has not changed is installation information which is still limited and what is out there pretty much assumes one is a geek. So, I’ll provide some help I think is less geeky.