Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Not much new news. The meeting lasted about 30 minutes. Here is the video and I’ve summarized it below.
As most know, Project Bento is in testing on main grid. The last Project meeting was held on AGNI at Hippotropolis. I haven’t heard if this is a permanent change or was due to issues on the ADITI grid.
They surprised me! Project Bento, server side, arrived at the main grid Tuesday. Torley Linden has posted about the Lab enabling the project on the main grid. See: Project Bento Testing Is Now Live on the Main Grid!
This is a testing release. You will need the Project Bento Viewer to upload animations and meshes, and to view them without distortion. Bento mesh weighted to the new bones looks horribly distorted in non-Bento viewers. Expect to see lots of questions in the forum about how to fix the problem.
Just send them to the Linden announcement… or here.
The day after a holiday we got a roll to the main channel of the grid. That is a bit unusual. This package is one that repairs a server crash.
The RC channels will get a new package. All three will run the same package. This one is about:
Here is the video of the Project Bento user group meeting. There is a POST meeting video that I am working on. It has good information. Cathy Foil was answering questions from her experience with Bento from building MayaStar Bento support.
Dan Linden, at the Server Beta UG, elaborated a bit about project Bento going live SOON, saying, “And by live, I mean the server component that will allow the upload of Bento meshes animations that have additional bones. The Bento Release viewer is still a ways off. You’ll need a Bento Project Viewer to see Bento content for now.”
The preview grid has been and is a problem for many users. At Thursday’s Beta Server UG meeting some attendees were able to use Last Location as their login destination. For a couple of months that has not been possible.
I can now use Last Location, sometimes. It depends on the region. I cannot
This week (21) we saw a security patch rolled out on the main channels. Without announcement the package had been rolled out to an RC channel earlier, possibly in week 20. It was rushed past the announced Minor internal improvements. No visible functional changes to Second Life package. This package was announced in week 19. It failed to make it out of QA in week 20 because of system problems interrupting testing. So, we would expect it to roll out in week 21. Now it appears it will roll out in week 21.
Today, Tuesday 5/24, the main grid was updated to the latest server package. Dan Linden calls it a security update. That is all the release notes say too.
The three RC channels will all get the same crash fix package for a problem found last week (20) Wednesday.