Black Desert Start Up

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As of February 28 UTC 08:00 Pre-Order Packages can be downloaded. Today I downloaded mine, at least started. The first download is about 49MB. That bootstraps to a 32GB download.

Black Desert Login
Black Desert Login

My router is pegged to max traffic most of the time, but few collisions. My 50-70mb (not MB) connection is running at only 1-5mb/sec for this connection. So, it looks like their server is busy and this is going to take about 4 hours. 

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Second Life: Handy Blender Add-ons

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I found some Blender Add-ons that have been around for a while. I’m just seeing them. I list them after the video. I see ways to use some of them with my Second Life™ creations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihrQU4LNtC0

  1. UV Squares – As you saw in the video some surfaces/shapes just don’t unwrap the way we would like. This add-on helps with that problem in some cases.
  2. Vertices to Grease Pencil – The example in the video shows this is not a major player. But, I can see where it would be handy for me.
  3. BoolTool – I can see where this would be way handy when I am making ‘things’. I don’t see much use for clothes…
  4. Node Wrangler – I suppose if I were good with nodes this would be handy… I’m still learning and my understanding of nodes is shallow, so…
  5. One Vertex Mesh – I didn’t understand…
  6. Ivy Generator – I think this could be awesome if you wanted to add ivy to a building…
  7. Multi Edit – OH! This has possibilities. Not having to change from Edit to Object to Edit mode to change which object I can edit looks way handy.
  8. Floor Generator – This looks handy. In Second Life people just have to remember this is not for making the hi-poly LoD object. It is for making the hi-poly model used to bake the normal map for a lower hi-poly LoD.
  9. F2 – Meh. I don’t see where I would use it. But, I can see where some might like it.
  10. Sapling – I don’t usually need to make trees…
  11. Parent to Empty – This is for the more advanced, I suppose. I have uses for it in some of my models, but not often.

Torley Linden Interview

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One of the better people in Second Life™ is Torley Linden. When I first started playing in Second Life I soon found Torley How-To videos. His personality comes through as fun and joyful. I can’t imagine a better spokesperson for Second Life and Linden Lab.

Now Exolymph has an interview with Torley. Check it out: Technological Abundance: Interview With Multimedia Artist Torley.

JIAN Dino Buddies :: 12. Fast Biter - Brown - MIGHTY DINO RIDERS
JIAN Dino Buddies :: 12. Fast Biter – Brown – MIGHTY DINO RIDERS

Firestorm Viewer News 2/26

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We are to the final stages of a new Firestorm Viewer release. Jessica Lyon, team leader, says they have pushed all new work into a new development branch as the finalize testing on their release candidate. This next release will have TLS 1.2 (Transport Layer Security).

Would you refer a friend to Second Life? Take my latest survey.
Would you refer a friend to Second Life? Take my latest survey.
See: Canary Dec 2015

TLS is sort of part of SSL and sort of a replacement. It is enough to know that it is the part of the viewer that secures all the viewer’s money handling communications. I forget the cutoff date, but there is a date coming soon when a viewer MUST have TLS 1.2 or the SL servers will refuse to talk to the the viewer for money things. You can use your viewer and run around SL. But, you won’t be able to buy things.

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Second Life TPD News Week 8

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Friday (2/26) saw the Third Party Developers user group meeting. It lasted about 40 minutes. We have some interesting news and even a few specific details. You can watch the video of the meeting here, thanks to Pantera Północy.

Third Party Developers UG Meeting 2/26
Third Party Developers UG Meeting 2/26

There isn’t much change in the Viewer pipeline. Work is proceeding but some of the problems have taken time to resolve. The RC viewers are revealing problems, which is the whole point of having RC versions.

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