You may not have heard, but Linden Lab is changing how they will handle freebies on XStreetSL. Basically they are going to charge a price for having freebies on XStreetSL. There are two controversies that swirl around this change. A good review of those can be found in Ciaran Laval’s blog post, So are you still calling Myth#1 a myth Pink?
Second Life
Things about SL
KirstenLee's S18-1 (214)
KirstenLee has updated her site with news of an updated viewer, (214). This viewer gets better and better. I use it for most of my photos in SL now. I have not had time to use this one yet. I plan to use it this weekend. More later. KistenLee S18 Viewer
Greenlife Emerald Viewer Breasts Review
Update 12/2/2009
A new version 1101 was released Wednesday. See: Emerald Viewer Review – Update
12/3/09: I’ve added an index to all the Emerald Viewer Reviews. See: Emerald Viewer Review Index
Update 10/18/2009
The 1.23.5 (950) version has been released to handle the new LL updates. Greenlife Emerald Downloads 950
Second Life Blog Thread: Female Avatar complete. End of “bouncing-Prim-Business”?
Emerald Impostures Warning: [Emerald] Imposters!
11/6/09 – Emerald License Violations – Emerald goes after abusers
12/2/09 – Second Life Inventory Loss & Recovery
Linden Lab 3rd Party Viewer registration coming: Discussion: Third Party Viewer Policy
Massively covering the issue: Linden Lab to alter third-party Second Life viewer policies
10/24/09 – Modular Systems Response: [Emerald] Regarding ‘Third Party Viewer Policy Changes’
10/21/09 – JIRA Report: Import “Breast Physics” feature from Emerald Viewer – This is about having the feature added tot he standard Second Life Viewer.
11/23/09 – Speed Rezzer for Emerald Review
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10/21/09 – Added Vertical IM or Chat Tabs info.
10/21/09 – Added CryoLife Detection + 10/26/09
10/21/09 – Added Emerald Viewer Manual
10/23/09 – Added Emerald Attachment Points
10/24/09 – Added WARNING: Emerald Losing Shapes
Original Post
This week Modular Systems released version 1.23.4 (904). This version has lots of new features. One the guys will like is bouncy boobies. One everyone will appreciate is the client-side-AO. Read on. (Continued from GreenLife Emerald Viewer Review)
Emerald AO
AO’s or Animation Overrides are typically prims with animations and a control list that attaches to the viewer window as a HUD (heads up display). They control the walking, running, setting, jumping and other animations by overriding the default animations. The AO’s contain little computer programs (scripts) to run the animations. The scripts add to the sim server load. Now the Emerald team has added a client side AO. Skills Hak added this feature. Running the script client side means less load on sim servers and frees up a HUD slot. Plus it expands the number of animations you can load. Scripts in SL have a size limit. Plus Linden Lab (LL) is considering limiting scripts in some way like they limit prims (think tier).
Imprudence 1.2 Beta 2 Viewer Review
Massively has posted an update on the Imprudence Viewer. Get the details there. See: Imprudence 1.2 Beta2 viewer for Second Life Also, check out the Imprudence Metaverse Viewer Blog.
Previous Imprudence Review Post: Imprudence Viewer 1.1.0 Review
Blue Mars Developer’s Tools Review
To create things in Blue Mars one must become a developer. So, how easy is it to register? No problem. How easy is it to build something in Blue Mars? Not very.
Registration
First, one registers on the Blue Mars site and gains access to the Developers’ section of the Blue Mars web site. The tools needed to build things for Blue Mars can be downloaded from within the section. The developer is getting a sub-licensed copy of CryEngine 2 MOD SDK*. Easy enough. Blue Mars is supposed to offer more control over ownership of created items. From the look of the info on your personal developer’s page it looks like that will be the case.
Second Life Currency Exchange Extended
I wrote an earlier post on the Second Life Currency Exchange as a tutorial. Parts of the post are being updated. The idea behind that post was how to easy get a better price and understand some of what is going on there. However, the SL Exchange is not the only currency exchange available to Second Life residents/players. One is Virtual World Exchange or VirWoX.
VirWoX Advantages
The biggest advantages VirWoX offers are for residents outside the USA. They can avoid exchanging Linden Dollars for US Dollars then their native currency. That saves a transaction/exchange fee. Europeans can use direct bank transfers to avoid some other costs too and supposedly be safer.