Catznip Viewer R7 Soon

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A new post on the Catznip site announces the coming Spell Check and Auto-Replace features coming to Linden Lab’s Beta Viewer. The LL version is from Kitty Barnett and I think first seen in Catznip R6, the current release of Catznip.

In the back-and-forth development to submit the code to the Lab the features have undergone some change. The Catznip Team considers this to be one of the largest third party submissions via the Contributor Agreement process.

See: Catznip Spellchecker Official LL Beta.

 

 

MetaReality Week 25

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MetaReality has a new audio out. That seems to happen about every Thursday or Friday. 🙂

Metareality Podcasts

00:00 Introductions

01:15 – It’s SL9B! – Discussion on SL9B and how it has come together.  People’s participation and their experience of SL9B are covered. Some of the people contributing to its success are mentioned.

04:15 – Cookie Bear and cats. 6:50 – Soft bear 08:15 Qarl Bear

07:00 – Loki’s kids eye view of Linden Lab.

08:30 –  Reflecting on past birthdays

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#SL News Week 25

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Remember the Cloudy, Blurry Avatar issue that Nyx Linden was working on? Nyx says they are making some progress. They have some work-around fixes for a subset of the issues that is running on Blue Steel. This would be the pre-rendered avatars in the inventory thing.

Nifty Avatars

There is a team working on a general fix for blurry avatars. But, Nyx says they are not far enough along to be ready to say anything about that. I suspect that means they are experimenting with a collection of fixes to see what works best and what side affects the fixes may have.

So, while we don’t know much, we do know the Lindens are working on it.

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AviewTV Opens Newly Renovated Machinima Gallery: Eight Films Featured

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You can find the gallery in world at: AviewTV Machinima Gallery. The following is a press release I received.

AviewTV, the one-stop machinima resource of Second Life, is opening its brand new renovated gallery this week, featuring eight unique films from some of SL’s most dynamic creators, a new focus on machinima career options, more hands-on project development, film festival networking and an awareness mission to relate the importance of new media to virtual worlds in the fields of arts preservation and mainstream media accessibility.

According to AviewTV CEO LaPiscean Liberty, ‘Machinima in virtual worlds, has had an impact on the cost of production and processing. Its relationship to virtual worlds is one of archiving delicate or lost art, due to an ever changing canvas. This has also lead to one of SL’s greatest marketing tools as a platform and for the community to engage within mainstream media. The goal is to promote the Artist and the Art’.

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Pathfinding Week 25

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Sandboxes

Most of the sandboxes in the main grid are now running the Pathfinding version of the server software. Some are reporting an unusually high crash rate for the sandboxes.

There is a rumor that causing collisions in a PF enabled sandbox will crash the region.

Simon Linden has said they have a number of crash fixes in the coming releases.

So Cute

Pathfinding Navmesh

The Lindens are at work changing how the Navmesh is edited. Your viewer will now consider the Navmesh unfrozen… thawed… meaning it is editable. Just the Navmesh around the avatar. The change rolled out to the Beta PF regions, I think in the main grid AGNI.

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