Nalates' Things & Stuff

#SL Failed Deliveries

2011/08/30 by Nalates Urriah

Whether you are a merchant or a shopaholic failed deliveries are a PITA. Darrius Gothly has a post in the SL Forum (A New Theory Why The Shopping Cart Causes “Failed Deliveries”) about failed deliveries and what might be done to improve things. A quick summary follows.

Concept

Darrius has the idea that we may not be have a higher rate of failed deliveries, but only a perceived higher rate. It is like not having a TV, so you don’t know about all the storms around the world. You get a TV and hear about them and suddenly start thinking there are more storms than ever. It is not the weather that changed, it is you intake of information that changed. You are now aware of what is going on.

Darrius explains how the shopping cart in the Market Place (MP) has changed the information flow so that we see more delivery failures. We personally have no increase in failures, but merchant reporting tells us about more failures and raises our awareness.

SLCC 2011 Archive

2011/08/30 by Nalates Urriah

If you missed parts of this years SLCC and would like to see videos of the missed parts, check Inara Pey’s site. She has the videos nicely listed. See: Living in a Modem World. Look in the menu for SLCC. This is a nice index to the various meetings and the videos.

SL Mesh Update Week 35

2011/08/302011/08/29 by Nalates Urriah

The Mesh User Group meeting is moving back to ADITI. The meeting has been in AGNI in the Mesh Sandboxes. Those will disappear tonight. So, a new meeting place is being selected in ADITI.

The majority of meeting participants feel ADITI is a better place for the discussion. I think the big selling point is the free mesh upload available in ADITI. Whatever the reason, Charlar decided to go with the majority and have the meeting in ADITI.

Mesh Tutorial by Robin Sojourner

2011/08/29 by Nalates Urriah

I remember Robin from when I was first learning about Second Life and how to build and texture things. She now has a new 3 part video tutorial out. These tutorials are nice because she starts at the beginning and explains all the basic concepts of how mesh objects work in SL. I think these … Read more

Review Cool VL Viewer for Second Life

2011/08/282011/08/27 by Nalates Urriah

I don’t write much about the Cool VL (Virtual Life) Viewer a viewer made/maintained by Henri Beauchamp. However, if you are using any viewer for Second Life or OpenSim, you are likely running some of Henri’s code. I won’t try to itemize all of his contributions to the SL and OpenSim communities. I will say his contributions and name shows up in many places. Today I saw that the Cool VL Viewer, formerly Cool SL Viewer, has a new release: 1.0.26.0.16 – 2011-08-27. So, I wanted to take a look at it.

You can learn about the viewer on the viewer’s web site: SLDev.free.fr. You can Download Cool VL Viewer here.

Minor Mesh Problems

2011/08/26 by Nalates Urriah

Several people have not been able to upload Mesh in ADITI, the preview grid, but they can in AGNI, the main grid. Most often this is because they have not run through the Intellectual Property thing for ADITI. Yes, you have to do it twice, once for AGNI and once for ADITI. For ADITI visit: https://secondlife.aditi.lindenlab.com/

Also, after viewer and server updates some people are crashing when the attempt to tp to the mesh sandboxes. See: VWR-26698

Also, the 3.0.0 has a video gotcha that causes some people problems. If you are having a problem, visit the Snowstorm Page and get a copy of the latest development viewer. There are some video fixes included that have helped some users.