Second Life and Virtual Worlds
This viewer is dated Dec 4 2013 04:55:18 (Second Life Release) in Help->About… But, it just updated on my machine today as a required update. Meaning I needed to install it before logging in. I still find that annoying.
But, the release notes for Second Life Release Viewer version 3.6.13.284757 just popped up on the wiki. So I expect to see another update soon.
Changes in 3.6.13 are:
A new version of the Kokua Viewer is out. This viewer includes the Second Life (SL) Viewer 3.6.11 (GPU Table cohort) and 3.6.12 (Name Updater cohort). The updates make no user discernible changes to the viewer.
There are changes to the Kokua Viewer UI and a British English option has been added.
See: Kokua-3-6.12 is released.
Today I found some additional information about what Linden Lab is doing with the avatar.
In the JIRA there is an item: STORM-1800 – The vertex weights of the default character mesh could be better. Recently Alexi Reggiane added a comment (
Over on SLUniverse there is a short discussion about photography in SL and how it is done. Lots of good suggestions. See: Photos taken in SL.
Form the discussion I found a new set of photography tutorials: My Fictional Insanity.
Oz Linden tells he came across some numbers on Materials use in Second Life. Quoting:
Over half of regions and around 10% of avatars now have at least one thing with Materials properties. I’m not sure how that [avatar] number was derived… I’m guessing worn, but I don’t really know.
What happens to Deformer Mesh Clothes now? I was curious about that, so I asked Oz. Nothing happens to them. They will remain in your inventory and you can still wear them. But, they are not going to deform as intended. They will behave just as any rigged mesh clothing does. They will still move with the avatar. But, they will not follow your size changes. Like standard size clothes they will be a single unchanging size.
The asset servers saved these Deformer targeted items with special information in the asset’s header. Only the Deformer Project Viewers would act on that header information and use the Deformer code. Normal versions of viewers ignored the information and treated the mesh as if it were just another rigged mesh attachment.