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SL In-World Viewer Help

2011/04/20 by Nalates Urriah

You may know that most Third Party Viewers (TPV) have in-world groups for user support. You may not know that there are in-world groups for the Second Life Viewer (SLV). There are some other groups that are for SL support too. The Groups: SL Open Source Contributors Second Life Beta AW Groupies (See: SL Wiki) … Read more

Interesting Second Life News

2011/04/20 by Nalates Urriah

New World Notes has an interesting article on new user sign up rates since the release of the Basic Mode Viewer. Hamlet has marked up an image from Tateru’s Second Life Stats to show what has been happening. I’ve marked up a copy here. The blue vertical grid lines are mine. There does seem to … Read more

Second Life Mesh Status Week 16

2011/04/18 by Nalates Urriah

Work continues on the development of mesh for Second Life. This week a couple of interesting bits of information came up in the Mesh Group.

Second Life Mesh

Bones… people want to stretch and shrink your bones… It’s not all that ghoulish. When making various avatars it is going to be necessary to create different skeletons. The Lab is not ready for that. They are still getting the skeleton we have to work right with mesh. Adding a couple more arms or legs could be fun but it is technically complicated and way down the road.

Second Life Mesh Week 15

2011/04/15 by Nalates Urriah

Mesh development continues moving forward in Second Life. The rumor that Mesh release is planned for the end of May continues too, in spite of the rumor having been traced to a Linden running a contest for building a mesh avatar that ends then. There are some new developments.

SL Mesh Upload Costs

Mesh Cost – Equivalency

The current Mesh Project Viewer is reporting high prim costs for mesh uploads. Those numbers are buggy. An 800 triangle mesh is not going to cost 3 to 6 prims. That is an anomaly from the viewer and the server being out of sync. There is code in the viewer that bases its calculations on information calculated and sent by the server. If the two sets of equations are not working together one gets bogus information, which is the case right now. So, don’t have a heart attack if you upload a small mesh and it looks like it will cost a fortune.

Winter Usage Rates in SL

2011/04/14 by Nalates Urriah

The Dwell On It blog provides lots of great statistical information about Second Life and what residents are doing. Today Tateru has an article about whether or not there are more users in Winter than in Summer, which is the intuitive idea most Americans, I think, have about SL residents. I certainly thought so. Here is Tateru’s chart of the data. I’ve added my coloring and year numbers.

Modified Chart — Second Life Usage Stats - See Dwell On It

I’ve added the light blue line and the red stuff. The blue vertical bars are the usage numbers. The red shows the LACK of users in the winters of 2006, 2007, and 2008. They pretty much shoot down the idea that Summer has fewer users.

SL Market Place – Direct Delivery

2011/04/13 by Nalates Urriah

Everyone has had trouble with the Market Place’s delivery system failing. Plus the in-world magic boxes have been an annoying pain. Moving them is a pain. Having a place for them is a drag. Well, things are going to change.

You may have heard that our inventory starts to have problems when we exceed more than 250 or so items in a folder. As the inventory API changes that soft limit is changing to something like 10,000 items per folder. That could be part of the change to support Direct Delivery.

SL Mesh Upload Costs Mesh Cost – Equivalency

SL Mesh Upload Costs

Mesh Cost – Equivalency