This viewer seems to silently update. The current release is dated 2014-06-07 and is labeled version CoolVLViewer-1.26.12.3-Windows.
The page with Linux and Mac versions is here: Cool VL Viewer.
Second Life Bits 2014-23
Mesh Clothes
It isn’t common to see people making all four LoD (Level of Detail) levels. But, we can do the polygon reduction thing for making a lower poly model for use with a normal map. The challenge is in making the lower poly models. Now Mixamo has a ‘decimator’ online that we can use. It is free to use until July 12, 2014.
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You’ll find it here: Optimize Your Polycount the Fast and Easy Way.
Second Life Avatars & Clothes
Bits of News
The new ‘fitted mesh’ avatars for new users were initially released as no-mod. It appears that has been corrected and the new mesh bodies are now mod-ok. Linden Lab announced the change: Updated Mesh Starter Avatars Are Now Available.
Update: Dagger Faulkwing finds that ONLY the shape of the avatars is mod-ok. So, these avatars still really suck.
There were also problems with some avatars’ feet sinking into the ground. They say that is fixed too.
Slink is rumored to be preparing a mesh body for release. A picture of it leaked. I am using the Slink hands and feet now, flat and high. The hands I love. The feet are OK. All the appliers for various things make both way too fun. I love the gloves and nails I can use.
Kokua & Imprudence Viewers
The team building the Kokua and Imprudence viewers has announced they have moved their bug reporting and code repositories to Source Forge, a well know repository for open source projects.
The Imprudence Viewer’s bug reporting is here.
The Kokua Viewer’s bug reporting is here.
You can read the brief announcement here: Issue tracker move to SourceForge.
Second Life News 2014-23 #2
This week’s (23) server rolls returned the packages that briefly ran last week, until Wednesday evening’s re-roll that wiped them out. Yesterday (this week’s Wednesday) those were re-deployed with the only change being the security fix was added.
Le Tigre now has the Group Ban project package. With a Group Ban Project Viewer you can try out the feature. It is not 100% and won’t be until the update is rolled to the entire grid. This means for now you can group ban people. But, there are ways around the ban and those only close once the roll is grid wide.
Feedly Down
Today Feedly, a news aggregator, is down. That means I am out of touch with the world. Here is their announcement:
Denial of service attack
2:04am PST – Criminals are attacking feedly with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop. We refused to give in and are working with our network providers to mitigate the attack as best as we can.
We are working in parallel with other victims of the same group and with law enforcement.
We want to apologize for the inconvenience. Please know that you data is safe and you will be able to re-access your feedly as soon as the attack is neutralized.
We will update this blog post as soon as we have more information:
Thank you for your understanding,
/Edwin and Seb
The time shown in the post cannot be right. That is probably a time zone error in a server setting.