Maya Survival Kit for Second Life

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AvaStar users have Gaia Clary’s survival kit for Fitted Mesh. Now       Astrid Kaufmat has put a survival kit for Maya users up in the SL Forum. See: Maya Survival Kit (for fitted mesh).

Maya Logo
Maya Logo

Neither Gaia not Astrid are claiming these kits are the end-all-be-all solution for working with Fitted Mesh. But, they will help you survive the current state of affairs.

Astrid recommends getting the plugin ngskintools, which you can download from here. She links to guides and tutorials for using the plugin in her post, link at top.

Astrid’s basic work flow is to weight to the mBones as Maya users have prior to Fitted Mesh. Then copy the weights to the collision bones we have now. She uses a script named abweightlift, which can be downloaded from the creativecrash site. Her post explains how to use it. 

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Second Life Login Problem/Fail

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Inara Pey made it to the Beta Server meeting I missed due to RL work. In that meeting Monty Linden discussed a login problem some have been encountering. See her article: SL projects news week 8/1: server, viewer and log-in issue PSA.

In the meeting Maestro spoke about login problems a small number of people are running into.

BUG-5130 – Cannot connect to second life as it comes up with error message saying: cannot connect to simulator. That pretty much says it all, so the additional details are not important.

Whirly Fizzle provided some troubleshooting steps for Purity Davi in that JIRA item. I’ll put them out here where they can be seen by anyone. 

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Blender AvaStar 2014-8 #2

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Gaia posted a comment yesterday letting me know that AvaStar 979 was repaired. I got a new copy this morning. Gaia did not change the file name as the problem was just a compilation problem. This file installs as expected.

I won’t get to test anything else until later today or this weekend.

Second Life JIRA Change Coming?

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In early September 2012 a JIRA update was rolled out. It wasn’t just a software update. How the Lindens used the JIRA was changing and most of that change was in how Second Life™ users used the JIRA. Basically user freedom in the JIRA was severely curtailed. Most SL users can only read JIRA items in the BUG project that they create. Now that may change.

Innula Zenovka got a comment from Ebbe Altberg about the JIRA. It is being widely quoted in numerous blogs.

Funny, both engineering and product heads here also didn’t like that jira was closed and want to open it up again. Proposal for how is in the works! I hope we can figure out how to do that in a way that works/scales soon.

This comment suggests that Mr. Altberg is open to the idea of opening the JIRA up. Ciaran has an article that covers problems and benefits of having an open JIRA. See: Ebbe Holds The Jira Door Ajar. I think I will be a bit more succinct then he was.

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Second Life and RL Bits & Pieces

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Myf - Does she look like an Adult or Child?
Myf – Does she look like an Adult or Child?

 I saw this in Second Life™ hunt and think it is hilarious: Battle of Boobs Hunt. I understand it just started and runs until March 20. Get more information here.

If you are into hunts, there are usually a bunch in progress. Fabulously Free in SL lists their top twn hunts: Today’s Top 10 Hunts. Also, if you like freebies, Fabulously is a great site. It selects the ‘good’ stuff to tell you about. This saves you going throw all the junky freebies.

Versu – Ciaran Laval has a speculation or two in Versu Should Get A Second Life. He wonders if it might be released to open source. 

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