Nalates' Things & Stuff

What will Character Creation be like in Project Sansar?

2016/01/20 by Nalates Urriah

First, I don’t know. Second, AFAIK no one has said anything to give us a substantial clue. But, I am curious. So, when I see Massively Overpowered writing about character creation I check it out. Following is a video showing the state of character creation in Black Desert as of September 2015. You don’t start … Read more

A Lab Chat Web Site?

2016/01/20 by Nalates Urriah

Did you know there is a Lab Chat web site? There is. You’ll find it here: LabChatSL.WordPress.com. The site is run by a team of Second LifeTM residents; Draxtor Despres, Gentle Heron, Marianne McCann, Elrik Merlin, Petlove Petshop, Inara Pey, Aisling Sinclair, Arduenn Schwartzmann, DevinVaughn, Saffia Widdershins, and Jo Yardley.

According to the blog’s ABOUT the team is planning to invite various media people from Second Life to make presentations at Lab Chat. In the first post about Lab Chat in the SL Blog the plan was stated as;

Deserts Greening

2016/01/19 by Nalates Urriah

There is a lot of climate news we don’t hear about in the mainstream media. Finding reporters without an agenda willing to report facts going against their thinking is difficult. What I am betting you haven’t heard is this new information: Deserts ‘greening’ from rising carbon dioxide.

Sansar to use Unity3D?

2016/01/192016/01/19 by Nalates Urriah

SL Press has an article up about the rumor that Project Sansar will be built using the Unity3D game engine. See: Project Sansar to run on Unity3d. The title makes it sound like a fact. While they give good reasons for saying it is Unity3D, it is still a ways from a conclusive confirmation. It also is a bit misleading to my way of thinking.

PS: 9:50 AM PST: Note Pete Linden’s comment at the end.

The latest information I can find where Ebbe Altberg says anything about voxels is to say they are experimenting with them. Early on there was more talk about using voxels. Voxels were a big thing for High Fidelity too. But, recently we haven’t heard much about voxels from either project.

Bento Casting Call Reminder

2016/01/19 by Nalates Urriah

January 19 at noon (SLT) is the Project Bento filming event casting call. It will be on Bento Island, ADITI (Preview Grid). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62hWZ4-dHeE Contact Draxtor Dupress as filming will start on the 20th. Provide him as much information about your creation for Project Bento as possible.

Second Life News Week 2 – #2

2016/01/17 by Nalates Urriah

This past week a Third Pary Develpoers’ meeting was held. Not much in the way of NEW news, but lots of updates… except for one big block buster.

Cyborg

Viewers

The Maintenance RC got prompted Friday morning and is now the main SL viewer: 4.0.1-310054. If you have been having problems and low FPS this release should help. This version is the second main viewer with the CEF. It also has lots of fixes.