Pathfinding Week 25

by

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.

Read more

Mesh Deformer Update Week 25

by

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.

Reading Between the Lines

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.

Read more

Male Mesh Clothes Needed

by

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.

Drama

by

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…