Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Gaia Clary has a new version of the Avastar/Blender tool for working with rigged mesh headed for Second Life™. The fun part of the announcement is a video showing how the tool can be used to make non-human avatars. The video runs about 16 minutes.
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You can find the announcement for RC 1-775 at Machinimatrix.org.
I had never heard of realityPaint until I saw a posting in SLUniverse: 3D Painting for Second Life characters… This program is the descendent of Blacksmith3D-Suite. Both seem to be big in the Poser community.
It seems the developer of this US$99 to $199 program, depending whether you want standard or pro, is asking the Second Life™ community what they would like to see in the program for use with Second Life.
The Beta Server meeting this Thursday was definitely attended by more Lindens than I’ve ever seen in any one place.
That is a pretty big list of Lindens.
Maestro covered the server rollouts for the week. No surprises there. But we did get a bit of information on a couple of the fixes in the Magnum RC channel.
I think we tend to forget that the problems we experience in Second Life™ are not unique to just Second Life. The growing pains in SL are common to all human endeavors. A current good example of that is the recently release MMOG SimCity™ by EA, Electronic Arts™. Try SimCity Problems on Google, 33+ million hits.
Also, it is interesting to see people’s takes on what is happening with SimCity. Erik Kain, contributing to Forbes, writes:
We have had lots of discussion in the community about tier prices. The Lab is quietly contacting educational and non-profit groups that have abandoned Second Life™ Sim’s. Hamlet has an article about it here: Linden Lab Quietly Offering 50% Discounts to Select Non-Profit & Educational Groups Who’ve Given Up Their SL Sims.
Alan Green, a Software Engineer at Google, has posted an announcement that Google Reader is to cease operation July 1, 2013. (Reference) OUCH!!!
Google Reader is a primary tool I use to track events and happenings in Second Life, technology, and world politics. It reduces my reading time and provides a means of quickly finding important news. I love several fashion blogs and bounce through pictures of the latest fashion just for fun.