Win a Second Life Dream Home

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Starting on May 2 the Lab began running a Sweepstakes. The sweepstakes started at 10AM SLT on Monday, May 2, 2011 and ends on Monday, May 16, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. SLT. What You Win You win a Grayson Linden Home on 1024 sq meters with 234 prim limit (I assume the house prims do … Read more

Land Purchase Changes

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I’m not big on buying land in Second Life. So, I have no idea if this is an improvement or what. Vogy Linden has posted in the Second Life Blog → Land and article about the changes in how land can be purchased. The big change is one no longer has to go through support … Read more

SL Mesh Status Week 18

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The latest news on the mesh front…

 

The Linden’s are telling us the mesh data format is going to change. This means the meshes uploaded to this point will no longer work. Mesh objects will have to be uploaded again. While this is a pain for many the change is made to get more stable mesh objects.

SL Mesh Changes
SL Mesh Changes

The changes have to do with renaming fields in the mesh data and removing some fields that are not going to be used. Additionally some meta-data is being added to allow mesh to rez faster. The document outlining Linden Lab’s mesh data format is started, per Runitai Linden.

These changes will roll out this week in ADITI. The changes will also necessitate a viewer change. So, you will need to get a new Mesh Project Viewer.

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SL Community Help

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Some of you know about the changes that have been going on in the resident run and volunteer help groups. Some months ago Linden Lab disbanded the existing Linden run help groups because stats were showing new users getting help from the group were less likely to stay in Second Life. So, some other type of user support was/is needed.

With the forum changes we are seeing an effort to reshape the community and support systems. We have a new knowledge base and an answers section in the community forum… blogrum… wikrumog… whatever that thing is we have now. Also the team responsible for getting it working is having open meetings, office hours. You can find them at: Community Tools User Group

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Second Life Gets Physics Materials

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So what is a Physics Material? These are materials that can be applied to an object. They allow one to adjust friction, density, gravity multiplier, and restitution… and I have no idea what the restitution part is about. So, with a material you could make a balloon that floats away. Balloons are more fun indoors. … Read more