Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Well… this week. There is no Bento meeting this Thursday. So, for a Bento fix, check some of the past announcements. These are a couple of videos I missed when initially released.
And Aki has a wyvern in development. If you watch the Bento Meeting videos you have seen the wyvern. And the avatar wings she has/is made/making.
I had the question of whether I could use a cheap free-player ship and be a factor in the game play or was I just fresh meat for the long-time players?
In a recent major battle 17% of the ships free-players will be able to access were in the battle. With something like 60,000 world-wide players participating in the battle, that means over 10,000 ships in the battle could have been free-players.
Not much happening Project Bento Development; bug fixes, consideration of the legacy animation incompatibility… that is about it.
We get word that the Firestorm ‘beta’ viewer now in testing by the Firestorm testers is providing more information. I suspect the Lindens are watching to see how many legacy animation problems are reported. Actual discussion gives me the impression the Lindens are not happy with any of the work arounds they and others have come up with to resolve the problem. It looks to me like they will break the legacy content as there is likely fewer defective old animations than new Bento animations.
Oh my… what a mess. The current state of the Linden 360-viewer is for the geeky only. The instructions for setting up to display these images, via web or just on your local computer, is described in a Bitbucket thread: JS 360-snapshot-web-viewer and the SL Wiki.
No problem. Just install Python and set up a simple web server… As Ebbe has said, “Who the f**k installs servers?”
The instructions on both the sites assume you know about web servers and tech. But, all the needed parts are in Bitbucket.
A new bug fix release is out. This version has 69 bugs fixed. I hadn’t found a one of them…
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 existing viewer snapshot system (control-shift-s) is being extended to add a mode where you can take a picture that encompasses all directions at once.
Placed in a suitable web site with some HTML and JavaScript, the image can then be scrolled to look around as though you had a window into Second Life at the moment the picture was taken. Please visit our wiki for details
This is also integrated with a number of other Snapshot improvements contributed by the author of the Black Dragon viewer.
The SL Blog announcement is here: A New Perspective on Second Life.