Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
Pine Lake is a post-apocalyptic build in Second Life™. I’m not that much into doing travel guide stuff for SL. But, occasionally I find a place that is like… Wow! Pine Lake is such a place.
You can get a kinda lame idea of what the place is like from their Flickr Group. The images there today do not do the build justice.
It is the attention to detail that impresses me. Wow! Just wow. The amount of detail is incredible.
The Main channel was restarted with version #17.11.11.510664. This update includes Internal Fixes and a fix for BUG-139176 Issue with OBJECT_REZZER_KEY reporting incorrectly after linking and delinking prims. This version has run on the RC channels for a couple of weeks.
There will be no updates to the RC channel this Wednesday. The next day is a holiday in the USA. So, the RC channels will continue to run the packed just promoted to the main channel.
The internal fixes are typically security fixes and data collection changes. Recent some of those changes had to do with various copy exploits. Simon Linden says they have caught a bunch of people trying to use those exploits.
However, there are still exploits allowing copying without the Lab being able to detect it. So, Simon asks that people keep filing JIRA and Abuse Reports. Lindens are still working on closing the exploits. So, the reports guide their work. Help by filing a report, if you have actionable information.
The next Third-Party Dev meeting is 12/15.
Alex Ivy RC Viewer is holding up well in testing. Actually, better than ever.
There is the one startup crash, they haven’t been able to reproduce. The one they think likely from benchmarking crashing systems. They think they have a fix. The supposed fix will be in next update of Alex Ivy, likely arriving from QA just after Thanksgiving. If that fixes the crashes, then they will be ready to release Alex Ivy in Early December as the main viewer.
This is sort of a big deal. I’ve been using 64-bit viewers almost exclusively. They are WAY more stable than 32-bit viewers. If you are not running a 64-bit OS, update ASAP.
When Alex Ivy is released the Lab will have a 32 & 64-bit Windows viewer. They have a 64-bit Mac viewer and no 32-bit Mac.
If things go as planned, they will build a Debian 64-bit Linux viewer. They will not be able to put much time in on QA. But, they plan to get a Linux build out.
The Lab is counting on the community to provide QA and fixes. Otherwise, this won’t be a working Linux version. Think of the Lab as providing the foundation. The rest is up to the community.
Oz Linden tells us there is a 64-bit Linux version in the Rendering branch. More about the rendering branch below.
Again, there is no roll to the main channel. It continues to run #17.10.06.509394.
Blue Steel, Le Tigre, and Magnum will update Wednesday to version #17.11.11.510664.
The main viewer remains 5.0.8.329115, released in week #42.
Second Life Alex Ivy Viewer version 5.1.0.510354 – No update, released week #44.
Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 5.0.9.329795 – This is a new version. The previous version 5.0.9.329707 was released in week #42.
Second Life Voice Viewer version 5.0.8.328552 – released in week #42. No update.
Second Life Project 360 Snapshot Viewer version 5.1.0.506743 – no update since week #27.
Second Life Project Animesh Viewer version 5.0.9.329815 – This is an updated version. The previous version 5.0.9.329458 was released in week #42.
Black Dragon got some updates and a new version is out. 2.9.1
NiranV also has a huge article out on alpha blending verses masking and how broken the viewer is.
Cool VL Viewer v1.26.21 is out and the version with Animesh support, sort of. Animesh is not completed and may change. So, what is out is supported.
Firestorm – We are waiting. Soon, before the end of year… maybe.
This Friday 11/10 was the first meeting of a new user group, Web. This meeting is for discussion of all the Second Life™ web properties.
I’ve combined the summary and index.
03:45 – Getting Started. Welcome.
I am having a difficult time logging into the ADITI grid. I can get logged in, but I’m mostly not fully connecting. I can’t move, walk, or teleport. Can’t even move by sitting on something. Sometimes the chat service does not connect. Voice seems to always work. With persistence, I make it in with a usable connection. Never a problem in AGNI.
So, it is a good thing Medhue got his streaming working. I’ve linked to his video. Unfortunately, he had the gain turned down and the audio is very low. So, you may get blasted by any other sound that comes on while you are watching.
There was more news from the Server Beta UG later in the day. I’ve folded that information in with the CC coverage.
The index with time marks is below this summary.
A new version of the project viewer rolled out: Second Life Project Animesh Viewer version 5.0.9.329815. If you are running the project viewer, it will force an update. My update went as intended. Just the project viewer is updated.
Shadows now work. I think he means animesh things now cast shadows.
Animesh linksets now will allow a mix of animesh, mesh, and prims. To be more technically and grammatically correct… linksets can now contain any type of prim. I think the primary reason was the need to have a prim for the root of the animesh link set.
Also, viewer crashes were fixed. So, less crashing.