Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Monday was a US holiday, Labor Day. So, scheduled things are off this week. As of 9:45 AM this morning and 3:45 PM this afternoon there is no Deploys thread post in the forum. However, my mainland home region did restart this morning.
There probably was no roll and this was just a 2-week restart for performance’s sake.
RL pulled me away today and I missed the Server-Scripting UG meeting… 🙁
Have you seen? Erratic, a Maitreya exclusive merchant, is thinking about making clothes for other bodies!
Strawberry Singh has the story in an article titled I’m feeling so Erratic. Plus, she made a video.
In the $L50 Friday event an Erratic L$50 top (Fat Pack) is on sale for multiple body styles including Hourglass and Original. I am interested in Erratic clothes for the Slink bodies. So, I ran down and bought a copy for the Original body.
The sales of this top will be the deciding factor in which bodies Erratic Rain plans to make clothes for in the future. So… if you want more Slink, visit and buy… the free market voting with its dollars… http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LE%20LOOK/131/139/2001
On the 22nd there was a Web Users’ UG meeting. I missed it. But, Grumpity Linden posted a list of Marketplace fixes, Recent Marketplace Deploys.
Quoting:
You may have astutely noticed that we had released a number of changes to the Marketplace recently. Some of them were unintentional (more on that below), but here’s the good stuff:
- Gift email was missing if the gift message was blank. Everyone should get a gift email!
- Residents with the last name Resident couldn’t leave product reviews. That was bad, and is fixed.
- Character count of product description included newlines and so was obviously wrong. Righted that wrong.
- Favorites which are no longer available are now marked as such, and can all be removed with a single click
- Email changes on SL now propagate to the Marketplace.
- Allow merchants to choose to list multiple “Custom Avatar Brand Names”
- Retain “Sort By” preferences between pages and sessions. Makes sense.
- You can now remove items from the Related Items popup.
- It’s “Land Impact” not “Prim Count”
- The Mesh Quiz is a thing of the past. It will stay in the past, but will surely live on in our memories.
But wait, there’s more! Coming soon: Wish Lists, Favorite Sellers, Autocomplete brand names, Fix for BUG-225307 (Related inactive items) , Fix for BUG-225309 (Sorting bug)
These are all welcome fixes.
This week has seen discussion on the ARC/ACI values and how broken they are. See the SL Forum thread: Rigged mesh LoD bug. I knew ARC/ACI weren’t all that accurate. But, I thought they were reasonable comparisons. I still believe once up on a time they were. But, in light of this new information I can’t prove that.
ARC = Avatar Render Cost
ACI = Avatar Complexity Index
The purpose of ACI is to influence users and designers to buy and create more efficient mesh content. Something along the lines of Consumer Reports, but free and in your face.
A couple of things have happened that has not only changed ACI’s usefulness but distorted it and pushed us away from its goal. Possibly even making it counterproductive
Yesterday I couldn’t make the user group meeting, RL lunch meeting. So, I’m relying on Inara’s coverage and the Deploys thread for what came out in that meeting.
There was no roll planned for the main channel. My main channel home region did not get a restart. It continues to run version #18.08.10.518612.
AFAIK, the RC channels did restart all updating to version #18.08.24.519036. This is some backend change needed to get the new land auction system working.
By meeting time, the Voice RC viewer had promoted to the main viewer, 5.1.8.518593. They have already found one new bug. Still, voice should be better on this version.
The RC version of the Animesh was waiting for a merge with voice, but, in the meeting, Kyle Linden told us it had passed Q&A and should be up on the Alternate Viewers page by the time you read this.
So, you may see some frozen characters scooting around the grid, which is what you see when you do not have an Animesh viewer and look at Animesh.
The Love Me Render RC viewer needs to update with voice. We’ll likely see that this week, 35.
Next week another Maintenance RC viewer w/bug fixes should pop up on the page.