Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The Deploy announcement is out. The GROUP BAN project is to be promoted to the main grid. That will make it grid wide. You need to get the project viewer to take advantage of the feature. But, whether you have the viewer or not, if you are banned you are banned and will not be able to re-join the group. The project viewer is only needed to DO the banning.
So, this means there will be a rollout tomorrow morning for the main channel.
NiranV announced the release of Black Dragon 2.3.9.9 (A?). The release notes are here.
It looks like this is mostly a bug fix version. The article includes a long boring video. The screen captures are interesting.
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.
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.
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.
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.