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Mesh Tutorial by Robin Sojourner

2011/08/29 by Nalates Urriah

I remember Robin from when I was first learning about Second Life and how to build and texture things. She now has a new 3 part video tutorial out. These tutorials are nice because she starts at the beginning and explains all the basic concepts of how mesh objects work in SL. I think these … Read more

Review Cool VL Viewer for Second Life

2011/08/282011/08/27 by Nalates Urriah

I don’t write much about the Cool VL (Virtual Life) Viewer a viewer made/maintained by Henri Beauchamp. However, if you are using any viewer for Second Life or OpenSim, you are likely running some of Henri’s code. I won’t try to itemize all of his contributions to the SL and OpenSim communities. I will say his contributions and name shows up in many places. Today I saw that the Cool VL Viewer, formerly Cool SL Viewer, has a new release: 1.0.26.0.16 – 2011-08-27. So, I wanted to take a look at it.

You can learn about the viewer on the viewer’s web site: SLDev.free.fr. You can Download Cool VL Viewer here.

Minor Mesh Problems

2011/08/26 by Nalates Urriah

Several people have not been able to upload Mesh in ADITI, the preview grid, but they can in AGNI, the main grid. Most often this is because they have not run through the Intellectual Property thing for ADITI. Yes, you have to do it twice, once for AGNI and once for ADITI. For ADITI visit: https://secondlife.aditi.lindenlab.com/

Also, after viewer and server updates some people are crashing when the attempt to tp to the mesh sandboxes. See: VWR-26698

Also, the 3.0.0 has a video gotcha that causes some people problems. If you are having a problem, visit the Snowstorm Page and get a copy of the latest development viewer. There are some video fixes included that have helped some users.

More Info on SL Mesh Clothes

2011/08/26 by Nalates Urriah

Hamlet has a good article by Iris Ophelia on the advantages and disadvantages of mesh clothing. See: Ophelia’s Gaze: 3 Great SL Fashion Items Which Show Off the Potential — and Limitations — of Mesh. I’ve tried to get the concepts of how mesh clothes will work out. But, Iris’s explain may make more sense … Read more

#SL Server Update Week 34

2012/08/082011/08/26 by Nalates Urriah

Mesh

This week mesh made it to main grid and is officially rolled out. With the exception of regions in the Blue Steel Release Channel mesh is enabled in all regions.

Oskar Linden said,

You all already know what went live this week. Mesh! There were times I wondered if it would ever ship. We started that in late 2009. I’m not saying the release is without issues, but getting it out there has been a big step. Now we can work on polishing it. We already have a phase 2 in the works with fixes and updates.[We’re] not sure the date for that but Septemberish.

Large Prims

Along with mesh comes large prims. All our prims can now be sized to 64m in X, Y, and Z directions. The only restriction for this is your viewer. Older viewers may be hard coded to the 10m limit. Using those viewers you will NOT be able to make a prim larger than 10m. Viewers used in OpenSim, like Phoenix and Imprudence, have the options to allow limits to be overridden.

SL Crash on Start

2011/08/25 by Nalates Urriah

Dr.-Gianluigi-Zanettini_cc4ba2b82e — Well... not this bad. Image by: Dr.-Gianluigi-Zanettini on Flickr

Many people are having issues with the SL Viewer crashing. Problems started showing up in the 2.8 versions. For many the crash was at viewer launch or just after login. There are various causes depending on the viewer version and the video driver make and version in use. Newer video cards and drivers are more likely to have a problem. So, it is hard to know the cause of anyone person’s problems. However, the Lindens are fixing problems and things are improving.