Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
There are two formats of animation file used in Second Life™. Which one to use? Medhue gives us his take on the two formats.
Basically, ANIM avoids the SL Import Program’s gotchas.
Medhue talks about animation priorities, for the overall animation and/or for each individual bone.
Bone translation has additional options in ANIM. If you aren’t familiar with the idea of bone translation, think bone placement.
This week there is no planned roll of the main channel servers.
The RC channels are getting a new package and will roll on Wednesday. According to the ‘deploys’ thread they all get the same package. This package includes:
My understanding was the change for Estate Owner and Manager control of parcel access in a region was to be in this release but, I see no mention of it. Last week Oz, Grumpity, Caleb, and Mazidox Linden were all talking about it.
The question keeps coming up in the SL Forum, what is a mesh body and why won’t my clothes show? I am so confused… Yeah, I can see how that would happen. So, I need something I can link them to. This is the ‘something’. I’ve tried to keep it simple for noobs without 3D modeling experience.
To understand Classic and Mesh avatars one has to understand Second Life™ has a history and understand some of the basics of 3D modeling.
SL Started in 2003, 2004 depending on what you define as ‘starting’. It started with a basic avatar that evolved over time. That is the Classic avatar. It is still with us.
If you take off everything your avatar is wearing that you can take off, you are looking at the Classic avatar. You can click the top menu Developer (press Ctrl-Alt-Q to reveal the menu item if it isn’t showing)->Avatar->Character Tests->Test Male/Female. This will set your avatar to the very basic (Classic) default-test avatar known as Ruth or Roth.
Medhue Simoni has posted a tutorial on making hand animations and a pose library.
Having a pose library makes animating go much faster.
Pantera Północy has his 30+ minute video of the 4/7 meeting posted. I’m just getting around to watching it.
Maintenance Viewer – No new news.
Voice Viewer – Vivox is not providing changes for Linux so Lab is not changing their viewer, which is mostly unsupported by the Lab in any event.
On a better note, the Lab has given up the idea of disabling viewers with older voice packages.
The Lindens have been upgrading the server operating system. Mazidox Linden describes it, “For those of you who don’t attend regularly or just missed that meeting, DRTSIM-323 is an upgrade to the simulator operating system to bring it up to more modern standards. It won’t change anything you should notice, and could change anything, at the same time.”
This is like a user changing from Windows 7 to 10. Everything working on 7 is supposed to work on 10. But, until you try it, you don’t know.