Second Life News 2013-19 #2

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Server & Scripting Meeting 2013-19
Server & Scripting Meeting 2013-19

AO Functions

You’ll know they are there, if they work. I think Maestro Linden means they are grid wide now. He explained it this way:

Ah, see the next line, Inara:

* Changes since 13.04.26.274926
** Includes changes from Second Life Server 13.04.29.274986

That 13.04.29.274986 version has all the AO goodies.  I’m removing the “Changes since 13.04.19.274370” section from the 13.05.04.275247 release notes to prevent further confusion.

Direct Delivery

I don’t say much about the Market Place. It is too frustrating and the Lindens working on it stay hidden. But, this morning I see new forum posts about the SL Market Place Product Reviews not working. One person wanted to leave a comment on their product about a problem mentioned in a review being corrected. They couldn’t.

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Second Life New ToS

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Today I hit the new Terms of Server agreement. You can read the thing, if you can stay awake or get the highlights here: Updated Second Life Terms of Service. They tossed in a 2 minute video: [youtube NtY3qU3IueM] The primary change is the Lab is limiting the purchase of Linden$. You will only be … Read more

AO Functions Rollout

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Maestro Linden has posted in the Deploy thread answering Inara’s question on when the AO functions would be rolled out. The answer: today. The release notes have been changed to avoid making it sound like the AO functions were being taken out.

Second Life Baking Dance

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You probably know about SSA – Server Side Appearance by now. But, as we move into it and more people try it we are finding an oddity here and there. Today I heard of a new one.

As things are planned your viewer will handle your appearance during editing in Appearance Mode ( as right click on avatar Edit My Outfit ) always has, baking things locally and quickly. But, when you go into Appearance and pop on an Outfit, does the SSA system try to find a cached bake of the Outfit? Or does it just start baking the Outfit? Either would take some time. Does the viewer have to wait on the server?

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