Second Life and Virtual Worlds
iHeartsSL,com has an article from the site Mesh Body Addicts and their weekly articles on Fitted Mesh Finds. The point of the article is to report on fitted mesh items found in the past week. The contact for the site is Lil Daria (LilDaria Resident).
The Addicts can be found on Facebook and Flickr.
I think this is a great idea. I see very little fitted mesh on the grid. There is lots of standard size stuff. But, that stuff doesn’t fit me well.
Coventina Dalgleish posted in the SL Forum: General Observations On Mesh Bodys – 4/6/15. Coventina came across a mesh body that has 2 million faces. OMG!
The question asked is, don’t the Lindens have a limit on the size of mesh uploads? Well, yeah. They do. But a body is often 3 items, the hands 1 or 2 more items, the feet also 1 or 2 items, and the head another item. So, while it isn’t easy it is possible to get to 2 million faces without exceeding the Linden upload limits per mesh part, just make lots of parts with lots of materials.
In February of this year I wrote about Massively closing: Massively Closing? Today I see that Massively Overpowered launched February 10th. MassivelyOp.net is a new effort by the founding staff of the now closed Massively site, formerly part of Joystick.
See: About Massively Overpowered.
I found them because they published: MEET THE MMO THAT LIVES IN SECOND LIFE. This is another article about Remnants of Earth.
They do have a Second Life category. But, I only found two articles there. But… they have only been running this site since February.
A week or two back I covered MayaStar®, the addon for Maya® users developing Second Life™ content. I suppose many are aware of the similar product AvaStar for Blender. These are different products made by different people. They are not competitors as they serve different audiences.
Even if you are a Blender/AvaStar user there is still a bit of information here that may help you in your design work. I’ve sot of added the work flow Cathy is building into MayaStar into my AvaStar work flow.
The video is 30 minutes long.
Niran has a new release out. Black Dragon Viewer – Update 2.4.2.1. This viewer fixes 3 annoying problems. A crash from a texture error, broken Volumetric Lighting direction control, and a Sound Preference not working.
April 3rd a new RC Viewer made its way to the Beta Viewers page. Some will see this viewer replacing their current viewer, if they have Willing to update to release candidates… enabled.
This one is named: RC HeatWave Viewer version 3.7.27.300424. This is a maintenance release with 77 fixes. Normally I would use a short code to place the list in an accordion, but that feature of the web site isn’t working today as I run plug-in free. So, the long list can be found in the release notes.