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Second Life
Things about SL
Second Life: Reflective Surfaces
Hamlet came across a video by Beev Beev that shows how to make reflective surfaces in Second Life™.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhqhZDd_33Q
Pretty neat.
Hamlet has more details here: How to Simulate Environmental Reflections in Second Life.
Second Life: Aditi Inventory
Recently a fix for updating of our inventory in ADITI (preview/beta) grid rolled out. Some people are working with it now. I started writing about the changes being made this last December in: Second Life’s ADITI Inventory Update Change.
Today is the first time I’ve logged into Aditi since the change rolled out. So, my inventory has yet to update. I am hoping for a Friday morning update.
Project Bento Update Week 12
I made it to the Bento meeting. This was pretty much just a status update meeting. We did get word that a new version of the Project Bento Viewer will likely be out next week (13).
I still have trouble logging into ADITI. It takes 5+ minutes for me to get logged in. Others at the meeting tell me they too have the problem when they log into Last Location. So, I’ll be trying to log directly into the region by name. I’m told that works better.
The result is I missed the first 10 minutes or so of the meeting. Then the first 5 minutes or so of audio is missing. Because the viewer didn’t connect correctly. 🙁
Second Life’s Insilico Closed?
For weeks there have been rumors and some confirmations of bannings and sim shutdowns. The subject came up in a recent interview with Ebbe Altberg, Linden CEO. We didn’t learn much as the Lab doesn’t talk about bans or ToS violations.
Honour McMillan has more photos of Insilico here.
What Ebbe pointed out is that a person banned can say almost anything about the process. We have no way to fact check their claims because the other side, the Lab, is muted. Saying anything creates legal liability for the Lab, so…
Second Life: Custom Mesh Head Animation
Project Bento is moving ahead. The AvaStar people are working on building tools to help people animate the new avatar. You can see a video of where they are now. YOU HAVE TO CLICK…
This isn’t something we will have access to this week or next. We may not see the final release of Project Bento for some weeks and possibly months.
We may have the AvaStar tools soon. Building the animation tool is a simpler task than building a player that works with the new skeleton and the legacy version animations.