Cool VL Viewer 1.26.2 (17) Released

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There are not many changes in the last two versions. But, the experimental version 1.26.3 has an important change for me, which is the addition of Qarl’s Mesh Defomer 0.2. Henri has done something a bit different in his implementation. In his words from the forum:

Second version of Qarl’s mesh deformer implemented (with a new “Force Mesh Deformer” advanced settings in Advanced -> rendering, to force the same behavior as in the first version, i.e. to apply deformers even to meshes which were not designed for them): the new default/normal behavior of the code is to apply deformers only to meshes which were flagged as deformer-compatible at upload time (with a new “Deform to avatar shape” option added to the “Upload Options” tab of the “Upload Model” preview floater).

This should give us the ability to see how the 0.1 and 0.2 versions of the Deformer differ.

Download

I found the download horribly slow. It basically ran at 150kbps taking 30 minutes to download. My connection will handle 31mbps according to SpeedTest.net. Other downloads were running well, so who knows…

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Blender 2.62 Released

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A new release of Blender is out. Domino Marama and Gaia Clary have been working on this version. Also, Juha Mäki-Kanto, a Blender developer, has helped with Collada Export in this version. Domino and Gaia are well known in Second Life. At least those of us that have worked with sculpties and mesh know of them.

Blender for Second Life

Gaia has published an article on the Machinimatrix.org blog: Blender 2.62 supports SL meshes.

If you have not been working with mesh, this means little to you and you haven’t run into the problems of getting mesh from Blender to Second Life. For those of us dealing with the problems this is great news.

So, the effort by Domino, Gaia, and Juha are greatly appreciated.

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Mesh Deformer 0.2 Update

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The Mesh Deformer is still alpha software. However, it is now in its second iteration. I think it works better. Well… some of it does and some of it doesn’t. Until more viewers have Deformer 0.2 code I can’t tell if it is the viewer or the Deformer that hiccups.

Another gotcha at the max breast size setting

I downloaded Nirans Viewer because Niran let me know the new Deformer code was included in version 1.25, which is a Large Address Aware (LAA) viewer. I’m on a 32-bit system so I’m not sure how that may or may not affect things. Whatever, the viewer runs and the Deformer deforms.

Enable Deformer

In Nirans Viewer 1.25 the control for the Deformer is in Preferences->General->UI Settings. Look in the upper right of the panel for Enable Qarl Fizz’s Mesh Deformer.

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#SL Server-Scripting News Update Week 7

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Oskar Linden says the voice package running on the Blue Steel and Le Tigre release channels was fixed to clean up extra voice information being sent during region crossings. With the fix crossings should be a hair faster.

Server Beta Meeting

Magnum got the Phase I region crossing change over to multi-threading.

Osker says they flubbed this roll. The main trunk code did not get rolled into the release channel packages before they were loaded into the release channels. So all the code running on the main channel is not part of the code in the RC’s.

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#SL #SecondLife Outages

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[POSTED 1:41PM PST, 16 February 2012] We are experiencing an outage which may have caused some Residents to be logged out of Second Life.  Some regions will also be unavailable. Secondlife.com, the Marketplace and our support services for tickets and live chat are also unavailable.  We are working on the outage and will update this blog as more information is available. (Reference)

This is the second significant outage in two days. Valentine’s Day saw a hardware failure that took down the Market Place and some of the web services.

Today I watched my little Concurrent User Meter drop by 17,000+ users in one tick. In about 15 minutes the logins were hitting 1,000+ per minute. I suppose everyone was trying to get back in.