Ebbe’s Speech Shaking Things

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Linden Lab’s CEO Ebbe Altberg spoke at VWBPE 2016, Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education. There are some interesting points made in the speech. Some are changes and others are just making it more clear what the Lab is planning with Project Sansar®.

For about 12 minutes Ebbe was talking about Second Life™ and Project Sansar. Then the question and Answer part starts. The moderators were doing an excellent job of focusing questions. That got lots of ground covered.

I’ve done my summary style index. Paraphrasing. And I’ve added links into the video for those things I think have impact.

The most impactful thing I took away from this Q&A is how often Ebbe implies and says Project Sansar and the final resulting product will not be a replacement for Second Life. He provides way more information on why not. If you’re an educator, you may well be keeping your projects in SL with… I’ll say… links to very focused experiences in Sansar.

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Black Desert Online: What do People Think?

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BDO has officially been open to western players for a week (opened 3/3/2016). People are giving out opinions like they pass along a cold. Massively Overpowered presents 9 takes on the game opinions. See: Black Desert Impressions from Around the MMO Blogosphere.

Black Desert Online
Black Desert Online – [Apparently using DoF]
Everyone seems to love the graphics and beauty of BDO. One can press Ctrl-U to hide the user interface and take screen shots. Pressing Prt Scr will send a screen capture to your My Documents/Black Desert folder.

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Second Life: Aditi Inventory Update

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For months the Lindens have been changing the inventory update process for the preview grid, Aditi. Inara made it to Tuesday’s Server-Scripting UG meeting where Coyot Linden (not a furry) announced the updates are nearing the end of the QA process and will likely rollout in week 11.

Let's go fly a kite
Let’s go fly a kite

See: SL project updates 16 10/1: SL viewer, Aditi inventory, PaleoQuest issues.

This new process will be a sync rather than an over write as previous. Your main SL inventory will be sync’d into your Aditi inventory. Your Aditi inventory will have NO influence on the Agni inventory.

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Black Desert Online: Setting Up Quickslots

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Playing BDO I find that some of the simplest things are the hardest to figure out. Or maybe I make it hard by over thinking it. I spent time over a couple of days trying to find this answer.

Black Desert Online launches have begun
Black Desert Online launches have begun

Setting Up Quickslots

At the bottom-center of the screen are the ten keyboard shortcuts for the keys 1 to 0. The game allows you to set those to what you want. Well, they can be for healing potions and in some cases for fighting moves. Not much else. I found there is lots online about why not to use them for anything other than potions and what’s best to put where. What they didn’t tell me is how to set them up.

Those that played the game while it was still in Korean, had to figure it out. But, now it is so common place to them it doesn’t occur to them to mention how you set them up. Whatever, I’ve never seen it done this way… it stumped me.

BDO Quickslots
BDO Quickslots

Setup is sort of Drag-n-Drop. In inventory click and drag an item off its square in inventory. Now you can let go of the LMB… or not. Move the item over the Quickslot you want it in. Left-click that space and the item pops into place. You can’t just click-hold, drag, and release the button. You have to click on the space where you want to put the icon.

You will see the item in inventory and in the Quickslots. If you take the item from inventory, it will disappear from the Quickslots. So, you can’t poke those things into storage.

My problem was, I expected it to be the Drag-n-Drop style I expect. I left-click and drag the icon all the way to where I want it then let go. That doesn’t work. It didn’t occur to me to left-click once more, which will snap the icon in place.

Latif Khalifa has passed away

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Latif Khalifa has passed away… age 46 I understand. I barely knew him. I would hear/see him in some of the SL user group meetings. My take is he was an interesting personality. I agree with the bloggers I’ve read that he will be missed, at least by those that knew what he was about.

You not being here just makes me cry
You not being here just makes me cry

Gimisa tells me “Diva Canto” wrote:

Latif’s contributions to the open source SL ecosystem were vast and varied. He was one of the original contributors, and the main maintainer, of libOMV, a library that embodies the LL protocol and data structures. LibOMV lies at the heart of OpenSimulator, as well as many SL/OpenSim bots developed by lots of people.

Latif also developed Radegast, an alternative viewer used by many, especially people with disabilities. He also contributed to the Singularity viewer and its offshoot, Replex. He participated in the SL Architecture Working Group, and in many technical discussions in the OpenSim-dev IRC chat channel. He was a vocal advocate of free open source software.