Second Life and Virtual Worlds
I could not make the Office Hours Meeting Thursday to hear the discussion on the coming Open Beta on Collada Meshes. I went through the transcript today. I’m excited. Here are the highlights.
It will be possible to make mesh clothes that move with the avatar. One will attach the mesh to the avatar skeleton. You’ll hear the skeleton referred to as an armature and attaching mesh to it referred to as rigging.
New World notes did a quick blurb on articles about the Microsoft Buyout Rumor of Linden Lab – Second Life. See: Second Life Bloggers Blogging About Linden Lab. One of those articles is by Dusan Writer in which Dusan writes an imagined conversation between Phillip Rosedale, Linden Lab’s CEO, and investors. Prior to the imagined … Read more
I cam across this tip in the SL blogrum. Help! I messed up my sculpty-mesh Gaia Clary, of Machinimatrix.org, commented on the problem. Gaia does great tutorials and clear explanations. Donations at Machinimatrix.org are appreciated and split between Gaia and Domino.
Blue Steel and Le Tiger Release Channels (RC) were both running the same RC last week. They had problems and are going into another round of testing with new fixes applied. However, Le Tiger is getting a different RC for testing. This is the first time the channels have had different candidates. This is sort of building the pipeline and then filling it.
McCabe is the primary developer of the Imprudence Viewer. Seems his laptop is wearing out and about to fail. So, over on the Imprudence blog they are asking for donations. If you are using the viewer and like it, please chip in some bucks. The donate button is at the bottom of the Imprudence blog … Read more
I had lots of problems with Phoenix 225. So, I’ve been looking forward to Phoenix’s next release. Yesterday I was reading the Phoenix Release Notes/Change Log and looking all over for the 373 download. They put it up today. This version is much nicer.
Download Size – The first Phoenix I used was in the 40+ mb range, and 225 was 33 mb. This release is down to 28 mb.
The install remembers your settings and your cache location setting. Yay!
WARNING: On the download page they advise you to clear your cache before logging in. This means open the Phoenix viewer, click Edit->Preferences->[Network] and click Clear Cache. Then close the viewer. The cache clears on the next viewer start.