Scripting

#SL Server News Week 31

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The main channel got the Advanced Creator Tools (AKA: Experience Tools). Torley Linden has a new video out showing a bit of what they can do. Watch it on Hamlet’s NWN in: SL Creators: What Will You Do With Your New Teleport Agent & Temporary Attachment Tools?

Server Scripting July 2012.

You can read the official Linden announcement on the SL Blog: First Set of Advanced Creator Tools Launched Today. These are the tools that were used in Linden Realms.

This set of tools gives us new Scripting Functions. We will soon start to see new teleport units appearing. They will use the new functions: llTeleportAgent() and llTeleportAgentGlobalCoords(). These are for intra-region and inter-region teleports. A nice feature in them is you can control which way an avatar faces when they arrive.

One of the odd kinks in how the functions work is for the teleport to work differently than they do now, at least permissions-wise, is one must own the TP device. That is where llAttachToAvatarTemp() comes in.

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Second Life News Week 29

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Firestorm

Today the Third Party Viewer List was updated and the new Firestorm Viewer release has moved to the top of the list, being the most stable viewer in use, congratulation FS/PH Team.

Dolphin Viewer 3 follows Firestorm and is ahead of Imprudence.

I have yet to crash while using Firestorm… There are other minor annoyances, but crashing is not one of them.

More Phoenix users are changing to Firestorm. There are no numbers out on how many or how fast. They are rather secretive about those numbers.

Main Channel

This week the main grid is getting new software. The Lindens have decided the Advanced Creator Tools will be rolled out to the main channel. The Advanced Tools are also known as Experience Tools. These are the functions that were used to build Linden Realms.

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Scripting User Group Closing?

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For the last few weeks there has not been much going on in the Scripting User group that Kelly Linden chairs. The group has been getting smaller, fewer people attending. There has also been less to report about in regard to scripting. Today’s meeting was no exception.

The news we have been getting from Kelly has been more about server upgrades than scripting upgrades. So, Kelly is considering rolling the user group into Andrew Linden’s Server/Scripting User Group that meets Tuesday and Friday.

While uncertain, today’s meeting may have been the last scripting group meeting. Kelly is usually at Andrews meetings, so it will still be possible to discuss scripting problems with him.

Does this suggest that we will see a period of slower growth in the Linden Scripting Language? That is hard to say. Time will tell.

Update on SCR-79

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In my article #SL News Update Week 24 I wrote about SCR-79 and a possible new group matching function.

Many tasks in Second Life® would benefit from a better function for group membership checks. It would help scripters and residents. Residents would not have to pay as much attention to which group they have active. Scripters would not have to deal with getting residents to change their active group to get free group gifts or access to restricted locations.

But that is not to be. Kelly Linden was hoping to be able to add a better group check. Kelly relates what he found. I’ll try to explain provide context for the decision after the quote.

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#SL Scripting Update Week 24

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There was discussion about using an external editor for scripting. Some people are unaware there is a Debug Setting that allows one to select which editor they want to use. In Debug Settings it is:

ExternalEditor – Path to a program used to edit LSL scripts and XUI files, e.g.: /usr/bin/gedit –new-window “%s”

The feature is set in Preferences in some Third Party Viewers (TPV).

Editors

I think the more popular editor is LSLEditor. It changed from a purchased editor to an open source project some time ago. You can find the down loads in Source Forge as the LSL Editor Community Edition now. It is version 2.46.0.

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Pathfinding Update Week 23

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This was an interesting meeting. I met Horatio, a tiny polar bear AI character. I think Horatio is an excellent example of what Pathfinding can do. He/she is an awesome little polar bear.

Cute Horatio

Horatio will obey commands like ‘come’ and ‘sit.’ Plus Horatio is soooo cute. This is one of Motor Loon’s creations if I understood correctly.

ADITI

Lorca Linden says they have had a few bugs in the ADITI Pathfinding packages during week 23.

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