Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The Imprudence-Kokua people have released Kokua Viewer version 3.6.0-28975. This version has the Materials System updates. Plus several other feature updates.
Chat got a rework of the newer Firestorm chat.
New Point-At and Look-At options were added. Top menu, Develop->Avatar->…
The Build Panel got Copy/Paste for prim dimensions, rotation, and location, which I think is a big thing. The base code for that feature came from the Zen viewer with tweaks from Firestorm added.
RL is keeping me busy this week. I am mostly skimming head lines to see what is going on in Second Life™. That results in short notes on things.
The Lab is doing a thing with Dell Computers. You have a chance to win a free laptop. If you don’t know Alienware is a company owned by Dell that makes gaming machines. I think they are expensive for what you get, but they are good machines. So… check out the announcement and see if you can win a free one.
I came to Second Life from Must Online: Uru Live. Uru is the only part of the Myst series to make it online. It didn’t do well. There is a whole saga about the game and how it earned the title: The Game that Won’t Die. Check the category here if your interested.
Uru Live is slowly going open source. The kink in this open source is the content is not going open source. That essentially means the game is still very much proprietary and restricted. So, there is never much new going on the current free Uru Live.
Everyone seems to be playing with materials. For those interested there are changes and new pages appearing in the SL Wiki. Second Life’s Light Model For Materials Case Study – Katana Using Normal And Specular Maps Case Study – Sequined Bear Using Materials Case Study – Example Wood Crate Using Materials
Here is a tidbit of data. There is an interesting poster that popped up on Facebook about Second Life™. It has a few stats about SL.
There is a good sized update on the wiki page for JSON Usage. So, if you’re considering using JSON, you should probably check it out. See: JSON Usage in Second Life.