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Second Life: The New Facelight

2016/10/04 by Nalates Urriah

Facelights were a basic part of a well-dressed avatar, back in 2008. Especially for a dark skinned girl that wanted her eyes to show in her pictures. But, when Linden Lab added the Advanced Lighting Model (ALM) feature facelights often produced a good imitation of a solar flare. (Earth has been dealing with a solar flare since Friday, 9/30 – Phone giving you problems?)

The video shows one of my new facelights. The first part shows it attached to my ‘Center’ attachment point. The later part of the video shows it attached to my ‘Spine’ attachment point.

Facelights are now BAD and we see few people wearing them. A few merchants still supply facelights with their skin or clothes products. Photographers mostly use ALM and Windlight to handle their lighting needs. Some high-end photographers use PROJECTOR lights. But, old style facelights are pretty much a thing of the past. We seldom need facelights these days. But, there are still occasions when we need to add extra light.

Second Life News 2016 w40

2016/10/04 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

There is a roll to the main channel this morning. The package running on the RC channels advances to the main software for all servers this week.

I want to know how it will end... — I want to know how it will end…

This is the package with ‘minor fixes’ and BUG-40565 “Significant script performance degradation observed in server version 16.09.14.319788” fixed.

There is no new package rolling to the RC channels. So, all regions will be running the same package.

Blender 2.78 Released Today

2016/09/30 by Nalates Urriah

A new Blender release is out: 2.78. You can download it here: Blender 2.78 download. There are new features that will help Second Life users. The full list of features is here: Blender 2.78 Release Logs. Interesting ones for SL users are: Viewport Rendering – Improvements in texture display Cloth Physics – New Dynamic Base Mesh and Simulation … Read more

Second Life: Windows 10 Slow Down Issues

2016/09/30 by Nalates Urriah

Microsoft is pushing updates. Windows 10 automatically obeys Microsoft and installs updates. Numerous people are finding their computers have been crippled after an auto-update. The problem is not just with Second Life™ viewers. But, SL users are NOTICING the problem as it has a massive effect on viewer performance.

BA - the search begins — BA – the search begins

The Firestorm Team has written a bit about fixing the problem in their wiki. See: Windows 10 Issues.

The problem with the FS fix is they recommend uninstalling updates; KB3176938, KB3189866, and KB3193494. Some of these are security updates. Removing them leaves your computer open to known exploits.

Project Bento Update 2016 w39

2016/09/302016/09/30 by Nalates Urriah

I’ve had problems with the previous two meetings. Changing computers, recording software, and a couple of air-head mistakes resulted in some messes I wasn’t willing to upload or spend the time to fix. This week I got things together and have a recording.

I have sped up parts of the video. So, you won’t have to manually skip through as many pauses in the discussion. But, only by 50%. I slow down to normal speed when people talk.

Following is a summary with time marks. Summaries are always my take on what I heard. Put some salt with what I write.

Second Life News 2016 w39

2016/09/27 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

Caleb Linden is taking some heat for announcing an update rolling to the Blue Stool [sic] channel.

The main channel is not getting a new package. The planned roll was held back to add a fix for slow script performance.

All three RC channels, including Blue Stool, are getting a revised package with Minor Internal Changes and Fixes BUG-40565 “Significant script performance degradation observed in server version 16.09.14.319788”