Second Life and Virtual Worlds
A few Second Life bloggers are covering Cloud Party, a new 3D virtual world on Facebook. Hamlet at new World Notes has posted an interview with Cloud Party’s CEO, Sam Thompson.
The current version of Cloud Party is a beta version. They are 9 months into development, which I think is pretty awesome.
I’ve been busy the last couple of days solving video display problems of MP4, WEBM, OGG, and SWF file for a web client. I missed the mesh meeting in SL9B because of that, which really bummed me. Fortunately Inara Pey did a good summary of the important Mesh Deformer part of the meeting. Read it here: Mesh deformer: interview with Qarl Fizz. Note: Look below the Rate, Share, and Like parts of the post for the page links for pages 2 to 4.
With the information that Karl Stiefvater gave us in the MetaReality posdcast (MetaReality Week 24) and what he has said in the SL9B meeting we can piece together a better picture of what he is expecting the next version of the Deformer to be like.
We know that considering each vertex’s normal in addition to its position will be added to the math of the Deformer. Nothing said at SL9B changes that.
We still need more clothes for male avatars for the Deformer test.
Last week at this time I ran an article about Oz Linden’s request for more male clothes for testing. (More #SL Mesh Clothes Needed) As of yesterday, when I asked him, Oz has not received any new test garments for males. We need to either make some for testing or get some designers to provide some test versions.
For those of us making test clothes it takes some time. We have no idea how much time is left. We know a new version of the Deformer is in process. Then the code has to make it to the Deformer Project Viewer. We can expect some re-uploads to be needed once a new project viewer comes out. We need more test clothes for that new project viewer.
If you are planning to submit test clothes, please add a comment. Thanks.
And… more clothes for either gender in general are needed for testing.
I saw this in an email a friend sent. It had me thinking of Second Life drama. It is a cute ad from TNT, the television people. I thought it too fun not to share.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316AzLYfAzw
Now if we could just find the ‘button’ for Second Life drama…
I haven’t been following Massively for some time. Coverage of Myst-Uru and Second Life fell off and so did I. But, I saw a Plurk by Indigo Mertel about an article: Free for All: Second Life, the little 75 million-dollar engine that could.
It is an interesting read in the light of SL9B.
In my article #SL News Update Week 24 I wrote about SCR-79 and a possible new group matching function.
Many tasks in Second Life® would benefit from a better function for group membership checks. It would help scripters and residents. Residents would not have to pay as much attention to which group they have active. Scripters would not have to deal with getting residents to change their active group to get free group gifts or access to restricted locations.
But that is not to be. Kelly Linden was hoping to be able to add a better group check. Kelly relates what he found. I’ll try to explain provide context for the decision after the quote.