Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The main channels are getting a roll today, Tuesday. This update is described as a security update. The release notes describe the update a minor changes, logging changes.
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The main viewer remains 4.0.7.318301, as of this morning. The same as last week.
Remember. Bento is not quite complete. This is as up to date information as you’ll fnd today.
Cyan and Obduction are showing up in the news more often. Eurogamer.net has an interesting article: Myst connection: The rise, fall and resurrection of Cyan. The story about Cyan, Myst, and Uru isn’t told quite as I remember it. It is encouraging to hear Obduction is moving toward console gaming.
I have my new computer running. This is the first large video I’ve done with it. The viewers perform way better than on the old computer. I bottom out at about 20 FPS instead of 2 and average 40-50 FPS. Look at last weeks video to see the difference.
I haven’t decided on a video capture program. I tried the XBox recorder (Game DVR) built into Win 10. It isn’t what I need. It automatically shuts off at 60 minutes. Problem. Plus it only records what is in a window, meaning not good for tutorials. Plus the voice recording was horrible. I spent most of my time editing this video just getting voices intelligible. Some of it is still a mumbled blur.
The video is 1080.
The news on Bento is we are nearing the end of phase one. Several people expect the Project viewer to change to RC status soon.
I’m surprised someone already has a Bento head out. And they are selling it, L$99. You have to join a group to get it. Also, it’s not a final version, at least I suspect it isn’t.
Strawberry Singh has a video showing the head and writes a bit about the project. See: Project Bento Mesh Head Preview from Akeruka. Nice head and looks well done.
Strawberry is guessing we may see Bento merged into the main viewer soon, she is in the 1 to 4 week range. I’m guessing too but, I’m in the 4 to 8 week range. I am pretty sure we will see the project viewer advance to RC Viewer status very soon, 1 to 2 week range. Then it takes some time to get through the RC stage. Also the Lindens want to soak up some feedback from a larger group of users. The more they want the longer it takes.
Gaia Clary has released AvaStar 2 Alpha 7. This version has what we think is the final avatar skeleton. The big change in this version is Matrice has the Blender-AvaStar sliders working as they do in Second Life, an impressive feat. We still have to use the Bento Project Viewer to see and upload Bento … Read more