Issanou Kamardine is sharing the 3D brushed developed for Issanou’s personal use. The video show them in action. There is also an addon that is supposed to improve sculpting work flow.
More info and download links on Blender Nation.
New RC Login Viewer
Login Viewer version 3.7.25.298971 – Some time ago we got the multi-login buttons viewer. This version is a reversion to a single login button. No one has offered any explanation. I assume the Lab is watching stats and making decisions. I don’t see a related JIRA item.
I sort of like the multiple login buttons.
Project Managed Marketplace Viewer version 3.7.25.298865 – This Project Viewer was updated on the 13th. The release notes list 22 fixes for this version.
There are 3 RC Viewers and 5 Project Viewers. Click the download link above to see them.
OSGrid Assets Recovered
Yesterday a new post appeared on OSGrid News: osgrid update for 2015-02-16.
The assets have been recovered and loaded into the asset servers. Now the network configuration is being setup to put the servers online. There is no ETA for completion of this work.
There are discussions ongoing about how the OSGrid will be restructured. They say no drastic changes. But, there is some plan to modernize some aspects of the grid, whatever that means.
The next update for users is planned to be 2/22 or 23.
Firestorm’s Tuesday Tip 2015-08
This week is the power users tool: Contact Sets. They have a 6 minute video.
This is a must know tool for those team combat games. It allows you create groups of people and to set those people to show as a specific color on the mini-map.
If you work with lots of people in any way, this is a tool that will make life easier.
The tip from 2 weeks ago, Auto Replace, has been watched about 9,000 times. Last week’s tip, People Panel, is showing about 3,000 views. This is not a lot of people considering the number of people using Firestorm.
If you point people to SL tutorials, please add this YouTube channel to your list of place to refer people to.
Second Life Continuing … for real…
Inara posted a transcript and audio recording of Oz Linden talking about Second Life’s future. I referred to the same comments and loosely paraphrased them in Sunday’s post. For a more exact sense of what was said listen to the audio recording. “We are building a new product *in addition* to Second Life”
Bookmark that article. You will eventually find a low information resident babbling like Chicken Little. It will be a handy link to give them.
We know from talking with Simon and Oz Linden that there is a Next New Thing and they have said it is a large project. Simon said ‘huge’. They aren’t saying anything else.
Firestorm Viewer 4.6.1 to be Blocked
The Firestorm Team announced last Friday (2/13) that they will be blocking their viewer version 4.6.1. Versions 4.6.5, 4.6.7 and 4.6.9 will be the only versions that can log into Second Life. They strongly advise that you upgrade to and use version 4.6.9.
Official Firestorm Announcement is here.
An exception is being made for version 4.4.2 on the Mac side. The problems from Apple’s change to Cocoa have been the reason for this version being allowed to stay on the grid. The Linden position is the problems are from Apple’s upgrades and they are fixed in new Apple Operating System (OS) versions. I understand the updates are free, so there is little reason not to upgrade. But, old hardware can be a problem. But, some decent machines are going for US$200 on eBay.