Second Life and Virtual Worlds
This was an interesting meeting. I met Horatio, a tiny polar bear AI character. I think Horatio is an excellent example of what Pathfinding can do. He/she is an awesome little polar bear.
Horatio will obey commands like ‘come’ and ‘sit.’ Plus Horatio is soooo cute. This is one of Motor Loon’s creations if I understood correctly.
Lorca Linden says they have had a few bugs in the ADITI Pathfinding packages during week 23.
I’m always interested in hearing anything about the Mesh Deformer especially when when Karl Stiefvater (aka Qarl Fizz aka Qarl Linden) is talking. So, running through the MetaReality outline on Friday is a regular thing for me. Not much new on the Deformer, but Gianna touches on some of the Avatar 2 stuff I’ve been reporting on.
I used the Outline form with time marks.
If you have not read: #SL Mesh Deformer Debate Update now would be a good time.
We have an estimate for the cost of getting the computer code written for a Multiple Base Shape Deformer. We have some of the money pledges and only need to raise less than US$1,000. Our problem is convincing the Lindens it is needed and wanted.
There is some discussion ongoing in several places. But, check out SLUniverse where I wrote:
You may or may not know or care what your Internet Protocol (IP) Address is. But, it is required for your computer and other devices to connect via the Internet. That includes your cell phone, whether smart or merely bright.
We have been running on IP V4, version 4. Today is the official… designated… tipping point day… whatever, it’s called the World IPv6 Day, for the changeover to IP version 6. The first IPv6 Day was in 2011. We are now one year into IPv6.
An IPv4 address looks like ###.###.###.### and ranges from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255. That gives us about 4.3 billion addresses. Except some ranges like 10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x, and 192.168.x.x are reserved for private networks. Offices and home generally use these. They are considered none-routable. Meaning the first router outside your home or office will refuse to forward traffic destined for one of those addresses. This lets you easily setup private networks and saves on addresses. It lets your entire office or all the computers in your office to be reached by one routable IP address. Very much like one phone number can come into a switch board and reach any phone within an office.
NVIDIA has released a new video card. New this card is retailing at US$110. It is considered a mid range video card. For Second Life® it is a decent card.
The card comes with 2 Gigabytes of Video Ram (VRAM). It uses 65 watts of power, the same as a GT 440. The card is supposed to be 40% faster than the GT 440.
The GTX cards are better than the GT and GTS cards. However, this GT 640 does pretty well for the cost.
Oz Linden created a new page in the Second Life Wiki. You can find it from the main Second Life Open Source Portal page.
I looks a bit like a Google Maps thing.
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