Second Life and Virtual Worlds
I ran into this problem a few weeks ago. I even went through a trouble ticket with Gaia Clary, of AvaStar fame 🙂 trying to find what I was doing wrong. Today I filed a JIRA Bug Report: BUG-7185 – Animation Import Failing in ADITI.
IÂ finally imported the problem animation to the main grid and found out it works as intended there. The problem was only on ADITI. The video shows the problem in action.
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Drax has a new video out. This shows how Second Life and Oculus Rift are being used to support amputees.
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This Monday is a Holiday in the USA, Labor Day. The Lindens are off, so not much happening at the Lab today.
Maestro Linden posted Friday that because of the holiday there would be no roll of a new package to the main channel. They are postponing it until Wednesday. Then the maintenance package running on the RC channels will roll to the main channel.
This week there will be no roll outs to the RC channels. All regions in the main grid will be running the same package.
No changes in the Linden made viewers since I posted Saturday.
AvaStar is Second Life’s handiest tool for animators and clothing designers. It comes as an add-in for Blender.
The next release of AvaStar will have several changes in the menus. It is always a pain when a designers moves things and changes labels in a program we use. We users have to relearn the menus and adjust our work flow to deal with the changes. Ugh!Â
We have a bit of news from the Third Party Developers Meeting from Friday, 8/29. Chakat Northspring videos the meetings. You can follow him on YouTube and catch those meetings a few hours after they happen.
Viewer news from Oz Linden is pretty thin, his word. I’ve covered most of the viewer news earlier in the week. Oz basically said at this Friday’s Third Party Developers Meeting that projects discussed at the previous meeting are still ongoing and there is no new news on them.
I think this is basically the lull in feature development and bug fixes that comes from the Lindens stopping to work on development tools and upgrade to the new compilers. It is an analogy to car manufactures that stop production of cars to retool for production of the next model year cars.
Sovereign Engineer let me know they have released a new version of the Alchemy Viewer. That put this viewer at version: Alchemy Viewer Beta 3.7.14 – TPV Celebratory Beta. There is a nice write up on the page.
This release comes out with 64-bit versions for Windows and Mac. The 32-bit versions are available too.
This version uses a new font on the UI. It has feature to allow use of legacy profiles, but those panel have been redesigned to conform with the rest of the UI. It includes a region tracker, which I assume lets you track the online status of a region from anywhere in SL.
The download file for Windows is about 33mb. Today’s download was a bit slow. But, I was trying to download about 2:30PM, peak usage time for the Internet in my area.