Second Life and Virtual Worlds
You may be ahead of me on this. Blender updated July8th and I am just noticing it… a month later. There isn’t much that affects those using it for building Second Life Models.
See: Blender.org
Obviously I’m not working on my Blender stuff… RL work is picking up. Yay!
The list of new features is here (also download). About the only change that helps Second Life™ users is the Decimate modifier being improved.
Second Life’s Strawberry Singh has an article on Avatar Physics (booby bounce) with mesh bodies: Second Life Avatar Physics. It includes a link to this video: (dancing starts about halfway in)
Strawberry’s berries bounce…
Strawberry points us to Firestorm’s tutorial on Avatar Physics, which teaches you how to make your own physics layers. She has made her own layers for the Maitreya Lara mesh body. These are almost free (L$1).
Hamlet has an article where he is pointing to Kat Alderman’s comment (here) on Hamlet’s article: Second Life No Longer a Creation Platform, But an End-Point Display for Creativity.
Kat’s statements that caught my attention are:
Other bit of news from the Third Party Developer’s meeting (7/31):
RSS feed for Grid Status is moving to new platform. The URL will not change just the format is changing from RSS1 to RSS2. But, if you read the status pages, the change is visually significant.
The setup is said to be coming soonish, but seems to be working now. A temp URL will let TPD’s test the feed. See: http://beta.status.secondlifegrid.net which redirects me to https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Status-Grid/bg-p/status-blog.
From Second Life’s Third Party Developer’s meeting we learned the Lindens have been thinking about the issues people have filed in regard to how System Damage is working …or not working. They now have a list of Simulator and Viewer changes to support the planned behavior changes:
Oz Linden said little about what is going on with viewers at the July 31 Second Life™ Third Party Developer’s (TPD) meeting. What we do know is:
RC Second Life VMM Viewer version 3.8.2.303891 – A new version came out in week 31. They had little in the way of stats at the time of the meeting. But, so far it was looking good. This will likely be the next viewer promoted, if things continue well… basically baring any catastrophic problems. They seriously want to release it. So much so they did not release a viewer last week when one would normally release. That was done to avoid releasing two versions close together.