Star Wars Trailer

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I know a portion of Second Life™ users are into Star Wars®. We have tribute regions in SL. This Christmas a new Star Wars film is planned to come out. Today everyone is excited by the new trailer for the movie that just released. 🙂

Watch more than 30 hours of panels, interviews, and floor coverage, live from Star Wars Celebration Anaheim!

  • Today’s (4/16 ? 18) panel schedule includes:
    • 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. PT: New Allies & New Villains: Star Wars Rebels Season Two
    • 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT: Smuggler’s Bounty – Original Star Wars Audio Drama by Kyle Newman
    • 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. PT: Star Wars Fan Film Awards presented by StarWars.com
    • 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. PT: Mark Hamill: The Return of the Jedi

Statistics: Second Life, OpenSim, World of Warcraft

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Hypergrid Business keeps many of us up to date on happenings in the OpenSim side of virtual worlds. They currently have an article up on expansion and contraction in the OpenSim worlds: Regions, grids hit new record highs.

Garden Party
Garden Party by Gorba McMahon, on Flickr

It is a good headline. In the first paragraph Maria, author, points out that active users on public grids fell by 909 to 30,000. So, even though I consider Maria a bit of a fan-girl for OpenSim, I consider her reporting accurate enough to give us the good and bad news. 

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Second Life: Mesh Body Revolution

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Strawberry Singh has a meme called What’s Your Digits? It is about shape and mesh bodies. So, what can I add to that?

My Digits 4/2015
My Digits 4/2015

If your new to Second Life™ you may not know the viewer’s appearance editor reports the wrong height for avatars. You can check this yourself by rezzing a cube and stretching it to whatever height you think you are. Make it phantom and walk into it.

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Second Life Games Week 16

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Various games made in Second Life™ are showing up in the news. I think the reduced news flow coming out of the Lab has bloggers looking for things to write about. There is a lot inside SL to write about.

Honour has an article up about a build in SL named: End of the World as We Know It. See her article and pictures here. Some regions just can’t be done justice in a still photo.

Flying through with via camera and walking through are different experiences. I suggest walking.

Second Life: New in Scripting Week 16

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Wednesday a new package rolled to the RC channels, all three. This page has a couple of changes:

The OBJECT_BODY_SHAPE_TYPE flag returns the avatar gender type, 0=female and 1=male. Basically <1 = female. Values in between are permitted… but, I’m not sure what good they would be.

The idea is that scripts can now detect avatar gender and play the correct animations.

The OBJECT_HOVER_HEIGHT flag returns the Hover Height value, between -2.0 and 2.0. This is the value in the shape, not the newer Hover Height slider accessed by right-clicking the avatar. I have no idea how this might be used.

Linden Lab Hosting Event

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One of the Lab’s people is speaking at April’s HackbrightPRO event on Thursday, April 16, 2015 (6:00pm – 8:00pm) hosted at the Linden Lab office in San Francisco. I suppose all are invited. Register/RSVP and get more information here.

I Dream of Mars 2015
I Dream of Mars 2015 by Stark Osterham, on Flickr

There are two featured speakers; Julie Russell, IT Manager, Medium an online publishing company, and Tara Hernandez, Director of Systems & Build Engineering, Linden Lab.

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