I was surprised to see the RC Tools Update Viewer version 3.7.28.300918 promote to the main viewer. This is two updates in one week…
That leaves two RC viewers on the list this morning.
Second Life Viewers Week 17 #2
My Blog Week 17
Yesterday my Internet was down. It will be down again April 29 to May 3. I’ll still have access to the net via my phone. I even have the WordPress plugin that lets me manage and post from my phone. But, it is far too tedious to type or dictate articles on my phone. So, it is unlikely I will be posting during that time.
Also, I’ll be traveling this week and next week. So, my posting will be intermittent. It will probably be May 8 or so before I return to more regular posting.
This morning I’ve updated the WordPress software and database. It has lots of nice changes for WP admins and authors.
Second Life: Smile Shape Tutorial
Alicia Chenaux has made her first video tutorial. It is a pretty neat idea that she presents. You can see it here: Smile Shape Tutorial. Iris Ophelia pointed me to this from her article in NWN: Learn How to Make the Perfect Smiling SL Avatar Shape With This Video Tutorial.
If you have ever used the built-in smile, you know it is pretty hideous. But, Alicia shows you how to fix it by adjusting your shape. In her tutorial she demonstrates how to fix the built-in smile emote.
Second Life: Layer Limits Viewer
RC Layer Limits Viewer version 3.7.28.301019 updated this afternoon, after I published my viewer updates. :/
My viewer attempted to update to this version. I had an in viewer notice that a new version had downloaded. I clicked to have it go ahead and install. That was a mistake. It could not install and I started getting a series of install problems. I finally canceled out of the install and restarted the viewer.
On restart I got a notice that a problem with the update had occurred and was given a link and instructions to download the viewer and install the download. The manual download and install worked without a problem. The viewer launched and logged in without a problem.
Second Life Viewers Update Week 17
The Main Viewer has updated to 3.7.27.300636. This version was the RC Maintenance release with a load of fixes (Release Notes). This viewer first appeared as an RC Viewer 3/18. I found it to be a good improvement over the previous main viewer, 3.7.26.299635. Some of the improvements are targeted at performance.
Second Life’s MadPea UNIA
Bryn Oh has a short article up about MadPea’s UNIA opening the 27th of this month. See it here: MadPea’s UNIA.
The UNIA countdown clock is here: UNIA The Game. As of today, 4/20, we are 7 days out.
UNIA is a project MadPea started in 2012. It was planned to be an interactive, immersive game with 1st person shooter elements. The plan was to develop the game in stages, mostly due to the limitations of Second Life™, the game platform in this case.