Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The Third-Party Developers meeting was last Friday. The video is here: Second Life: Third Party Viewer meeting (27January 2017). 54 minutes.
Following is my summary of the video.
There are 2 project viewers in Lab’s pipeline. They are not yet published as RC viewers. Soon.
The Bento Project User Group has changed to the Bento Developers User Group. Discussion is about Bento problems being encountered.
I’m still a bit loopy recovering from pneumonia. I messed up the video of this meeting. Oops.
One of the problems is the BVH animation files. The SL viewer-server upload of BVH runs an animation optimization process. Movements smaller than a certain amount are removed. This is creating a problem for those animating the new facial bones. Small movements are needed for subtle facial expressions. The BVH process filters them out.
I haven’t updated the server/viewer information since week #1. Blame bacteria, I do.
This week the main channel got a server update. The RC channels run the same package, no new package.
Machinimatrix has a new beta release out. You can get it on your product’s page… may be. My page still shows 2.0-beta-23 as the main candidate (green new). But, we’ve been warned not to use that one… Below with a red test button is 2.0-beta-29. Seems there is a 2.0-beta-28 some think doesn’t work… I’ve … Read more
I’ve been out of it with pneumonia, 103+ fevers, and some really messed up dreams. Just as the Lab was releasing Alex Ivy, the project name for the 64-bit version of the Linden viewer, I was getting sick. So, I’m just getting around to trying the new project viewer.
The download package is about 80MB. Firestorm releases are about 20MB larger.
You can download a copy here: Alternate Viewers.
Sort of… Starting my first day home. Looking north.