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Third-Party Dev UG Meeting 2017 w40

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Rider Linden filled in for Oz Linden for this meeting. Rider is the guy doing the Windlight changes. So, he generally has his head buried in EEP and apparently isn’t that much into general viewer status. We didn’t get much detail.

In server news, the first stage in sending to only to verified email addresses rolled out. Next will be a server roll and viewer change to enable/disable the checkbox in the viewer for Send Email. The server will tell the viewer to disable that checkbox in Preferences if you have not verified the email address you use with your Linden account.

Next meeting November 3rd.

For Alex Ivy, the 64-bit viewer, the Lindens are working on a potential fix for the texture crashes.

Another voice update is coming.

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Protesting in Second Life

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Hamlet has run a couple of articles about fat chicks protesting a store with the sign ‘No Fat Chicks’. (Link) Everyone commenting seems to think this is a serious ‘body shaming’ issue.

Hamlet made an effort to avoid promoting the store with The Sign, ‘No Fat Chicks’. But, the brand name is visible in the images he used so it doesn’t take long to figure out which store is being talked about, Back to Graceful.

The Protest

It is hard to tell how the protest is going. Hamlet saw a bunch of people protesting. This morning there are 2 and they show as AFK. I suppose protests are boring…

Reading the articles and the follow-on comments, no one talks about basic principles or philosophical ideals. Seems most espouse narcissistic arrogance, situational ethics, and personal preferences. Protesters never seem overly bright to me. Emotional, yes. Activists seem to hold the brain trust. But, what’s the difference?

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Second Life News 2017 w40

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Servers

Main channel updates to #17.09.22.508905. This version has improvements to email sending, requiring you to have verified your email address. I am a bit confused if they have activated this feature making verification mandatory or not.

without words to tell
without words to tell

Blue Steel, Le Tigre, and Magnum update to #17.09.29.509228. This version fixes that object return stuff after a roll-update as described in;

Discussion at the Server-Scripting UG makes it clear the EEP (Extended Environment Proj – or Improved Windlight) has no effect on SL Wind.

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Second Life – Content Creation UG Meeting 2017 w39

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I am using Medhue’s video for my index. He has one of the new 21:9 ratio screens. So, you’ll likely see a big letterbox display like I see on my 16:9 screen. Medhue streams the meeting live. The resulting video gets saved as 720p video, which is fuzzy if you take it full screen.

INDEX

00:00 – Medhue setting up and getting the stream going.

03:30 – Vir Linden says they are submitting a project viewer to QA soon. Provided they do not find something horribly wrong, we will soon have a project viewer. I think there is a good possibility we will see a viewer in October… if things go well.

04:00 – Vir is working on transform matrices for attached animesh. He feels he has it to the place users can start helping with the testing. So, a project viewer will soon release.

Transform matrices are about how the animesh’s vertices get moved as the avatar moves and the animesh animates.

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Second Life News 2017 w39

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Servers

The main channel is being restarted and updated with version #17.09.14.508549. The updated is described in the release notes as; Improvements to address some problems that could degrade simulator performance in rare cases. I think these are the fixes for some of the recovery problems we see after the SL system goes down. Users attempting to login in mass after an outage create a rare and unique set of problems for the system.

Server-Scripting UG 2017-09-26

Blue Steel and Le Tigre are possibly going to update, but maybe not. As of this morning as I write the Lindens have not decided.

Magnum is getting #17.09.22.508905. This is an update described as; Improvements to email verification logic. My understanding is a hand comes out of the screen, grabs you by the neck and shakes you, then compares your face to the one DMV has on file… The improvement is in the system response message being updated from ‘Yeah, it’s them’ to a stately ‘Verified’.

…Actually… I have no clue… But, from the Server-Scripting meeting today the word is this is part of the change that will eventually refuse to send email to unverified email addresses. For now, they are still sending. But, someday.

There also have been some glitches with the Glytch creatures. I suspect lots of people are playing the new game. So, this may be an overload thing.

It will be interesting to see if stores start adding Glytches to their regions to attract people.

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