Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Loki Eliot is sharing what he has learned about making mesh clothes for small avatars. He has published: Three years of Loki Mesh clothes – what i’ve learnt.
If you are making clothes for child avatars or petites, this is an article to check out.
Daniel Voyager and Hypergrid Business (HB) both have articles out about the Kitely Grid’s market place going live. This is news and a good step forward for the OpenSim grid. You’ll find the Kitely Market here. But, I am reading all these articles on how great this is going to be and going: Really!?!
I’m not up on the in’s and out’s of this new market. I am not using it. While I watch advances in OpenSim I haven’t been logging into OpenSim grid much during the last year. But, I do know some of the problems regarding merchandise sales in OpenSim and I’m not seeing them discussed or reported. So, I’m going to take some shots.
Drax has a new video in the World Maker series out: Episode 10 Robin Sojourner. This is the T-Shirt lady from Second Life™.
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Of course I don’t know if the white bearded guy is her husband or if she is even married. But, I’m sure he is Santa Clause.
It is not Second Life™, but it is interesting. US$100k is always interesting…
You can get additional information at: GeForce eSports | World of Tanks $100k Open.
You can watch the broadcast of the competition at: http://www.twitch.tv/worldoftanks September 1 at 7PM PDT.
Or on demand at: YouTube WoT.
Cloud Party™, the other virtual world, announced yesterday the development team has released a new feature: animated attachments, think avatar wings and tails. I suppose one could use the attachments for ears too.
The team warns against animating faces as they are working on facial customization.
Without digging into how they work I can’t say much. But, the new attachments apparently get passed emote information. They have a picture of wings drooping as the avatar slimps in response to the ‘sigh’ emote.
Cloud party is steadily moving ahead. Last week, or a couple, they released new ‘regions’. The land choices in Cloud Party now go beyond just sky-islands.
Slowly, or quickly – depending on your perspective, Cloud Party is getting all the features of Second Life™
There seems to be another ToS change. I have not looked to see what it is, but I did get a prompt to agree to the ToS today. I was in a hurry to be some place, so I didn’t read it.
All the planned changes covered Tuesday have rolled out. All seem to be working. So, there really isn’t any ‘news’ for that part of Second Life™.
The server change that allows a server to restart as soon as all avatars are out of the region is on the RC’s. For now this is a region owner or estate manager tool. But, the plan is to move it into the Server Update Roll Out process to speed up the process.
There has been some discussion of having the server trigger a shutdown-coming-event in scripting. This would allow viewers and scripts to respond to a shutdown. One could have a viewer TP you to another region rather than let you get logged out. Expect such a feature to be a third party viewer feature first.
For now this is just talk.