Second Life and Virtual Worlds
[Posted 2:10pm PDT, 4 June 2012] We will be performing rolling restarts for all regions shortly. They will begin today, June 4 at approximately 2:15PM PDT. Please refrain from rezzing no copy objects, making inworld L$ transactions and remember to save all builds.
I suppose this is due to the Tp Griefer attacks.
Today we are seeing new griefer toy creating chaos.
The new Linden Realm’s Advanced Creator Tools currently in Magnum is being user to create teleporters with broken permissions. When taken outside Magnum the toys will teleport people without their permission.
This morning I got to see the Cornfield for the first time. Then they teleported a load of people into the Scripting UG Meeting.
An immediate fix is for a region owner to turn scripts off.
Or, if your region is in the Magnum Release Channel it is immune.
Otherwise expect chaos until the Lindens figure out a fix, which may be to roll the package running on Magnum to the main grid.
PS: Motor Loon says, “Hi mom!”
UPDATE: The server updates rolled late Monday seems to have fixed the problem.
Ginette Pinazzo sent me this bit of news.
***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***
SLACTIONS 2012: Research conference on virtual worlds will include Machinima Contest this year
SLACTIONS, the international research conference on virtual worlds, is including a Machinima Festival this year as part of its exploration of met averse creativity. The RL/SL conference will occur November 15 – 17 with the Machinima track on the first day, and virtual film directors are encouraged to submit their works for consideration in this global event.
Now in its fourth year, SLACTIONS is an annual international conference held simultaneously in several countries on the topic of metaverse platforms. Topics range from educational research to content production, from gender studies to media distribution, and from metaverse-based branding, advertising, and fundraising to emerging mash-ups and technology applications. SLACTIONS is unique in its format too, as a one-of-a kind event conducted both in a metaverse platform (Second Life) and on-site in multiple countries throughout the world. SLACTIONS contributes to the current redefinition of the way we think about hybrid online and on-site scholarly collaborations. The show concept is “Life, imagination, and work using metaverse platforms”
PATHBUG-136 – llSetRot() completely broken in RC PF 12.05.10.256473. This is a problem only on the Pathfinding (PF) enabled servers/regions.
Andrew Linden thinks he has this one fixed and believes the fix for that was deployed yesterday, Thursday. I’m not sure if he meant to AGNI or ADITI and didn’t think to ask him at the time.
Andrew has moved on to fixing Keyframe bugs in the Pathfinding.
There was a problem where rebaking the Navmesh would go into a perpetual pending state. Falcon Linden thinks he has that fixed. The change rolled to the AGNI (I think) PF Test Regions Friday morning. Falcon wants you to report if that happens again. Include the time and region name in your report.
I’ll do the indexing to this podcast a bit differently, just because… I used the outline from MetaReality’s page and added to it. Hear the podcast here: The Status of Virtual Worlds.
Again I paraphrase things. What I write is my take away from what I heard. This is a good discussion and has some good information on the possible future directions of Second Life. It also is the first I’ve heard of someone criticizing the mobile Apps explosion and putting it in realistic terms. I’ve wondered how people were going to deal with data caps on their phones.
There was lots of debate on the Mesh Deformer and whether it should have a single default shape as the basis for deformation calculations or whether it should have multiple base shapes. That question is still undecided. Discussion has kinda died down, at least in my circles.
If you are unaware of the sides of the debate, see: The Great #SL Deformer Debate.
One of the prime questions I asked in the article is how it will be funded. That is not likely to be a problem.
Another problem is what it would cost to add the capability. Emma Gilmour asked Qarl what it would cost, not that much. We are certain we can raise the needed money in a very short time. We have almost half of it covered now.
So, a couple of questions are down and the possibility becomes much more likely.
The next challenge is where are we with the Lab and Avatar 2.0?