Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The OpenSim people are working to get a better physics engine for their worlds. Work is coming a long nicely. This video shows a prim torus,made physical, with a vehicle animation script. The track is made from cubes made to look like a steel framework and they are made physical too.
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This works amazingly well.
A new post popped up in Feedly on the HF blog. Apparently published 4/24. Gee, just 6 days to get to Feedly, or at least for me to find it. See: High Fidelity System Architecture. As the name suggests it explains how HF will work. The blog has the image I show and you can get a PDF version of the image.
The blog article is open to comments. People are asking questions and Philip is answering. There is interesting information in there. I also found it interesting which questions he didn’t answer.
This is a great demonstration of what can be done with Second Life.
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Quoting Drax: Wendy Keeney-Kennicutt from Texas A&M University is excited about the preliminary findings of her study about how the unique affordances of virtual reality platforms like Second Life can facilitate and enhance the learning process.
I found out today there is a workflow outline for working on Slink Feet with AvaStar. It is a written thing.
I haven’t tried to work with Slink Feet so I have no idea how good or bad this work flow may be.
Find it here: Workflow for Classic Rigging with Slink Feet.
I see there is a new video out on AvaStar and the Second Life Avatar. It is a mix of promotional information and ‘How To’.
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The current release candidate of the AvaStar plug in for Blender is still avastar-1-1-1057_blender-2-65.
When talking about what AvaStar plug in does the wording is much better. There are numerous things we can do in Blender to replicate what we see in Second Life. But, several of those things cannot be transferred into Second Life.
AvaStar, since the 1057 candidate, does a pretty good job of showing how what we model in Blender will behave once inside Second Life. It is certainly better than the 1054 version I was previously using.
To see Gaia’s videos on AvaStar and Fitted Mesh visit YouTube – Gaia Clary. To learn more about AvaStar and modeling with it visit Machinimatrix.org.
The main channel got a roll out today. The package running on Magnum was promoted to the main channel. This is the ‘maintenance’ release with some bug fixes. The only notable one being: “llTeleportAgent() and llTeleportAgentGlobalCoords() can break any script in any attached object that contains a change event.” (BUG-5533).
All three channels will run the Sunshine package with the AISv3 changes. Blue Steel and Le Tigre ran the package last week (17). They will all get the updates the main grid received. The release notes provide no new information on what changes may be in the AISv3 package this week. I suspect there are some.