Second Life and Virtual Worlds
General Viewer Information
Yesterday I published my update on the servers and viewers. Monday Inara published hers. Today the Lab announces a new Project Viewer: Second Life Project 360 Snapshot Viewer version 4.1.2.320965. The release notes are here. Download. I’ve written about this feature coming. Now it is here, almost. The release notes describe the project as: The … Read more
Microsoft has announced that their translation services are changing. The date is April 30, 2017. They will be changing to a new set of API’s they named Azure.
I have no idea how many, if any, SL Translators depend on the Microsoft API’s. But, those that do will need to change.
There is no rollout to the main channel this week. The RC channels will get a new package Wednesday (11/26).
The new package has a fix for a bug that came with it when forst released. Plus a couple of bug fixes for the new forced LLSit.
Sunday a database for the ADITI grid went down. That created login problems for those people trying to get into ADITI. It is fixed. People were able to get in Monday (10/24).
We got a new Bento RC viewer this week. I was using it to video this meeting. In the first part of the meeting Vir Linden updates us on fixes to the viewer and its remaining problems.
00:00 – The first 40 seconds have no sound because no one was talking. So, I sped up the video and shrunk 3+ minutes down to 40 seconds. Later in the video you’ll see silent parts of the video speed up.
Today, Tuesday 10/17, the main channel gets a new feature and security update. The new feature is the script function llSitOnLink( ), which requires an Experience Key as it is a ‘forced’ sit. The documentation for it is here. As of this morning I can’t find the function in the SL Wiki’s LSL Portal… Search only returns the mentions in the server release notes.
There is no mention of the security update in the release notes for this package.
If you use the Linden viewer, you may have found your search windows open when you log into Second Life™. It has happened to me. It’s a “What’s with that?” experience. Surprising. Not exactly what I want.
Next is the “How do I turn THAT off?” There is no Preferences setting or Debug Setting.