Second Life to Kill OpenSim?

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Hypergrid Business has an article about what Linden Lab’s® move to the cloud may mean for OpenSim grids. By knowing what may happen to OpenSim we can infer what is likely to happen to Second Life.

David Kariuki thinks moving to the cloud will allow Linden Lab to run on demand regions. Meaning if no one is in the region, the region would spin down and drop out of the servers, go offline. When someone is on the grid next door or TP’s there, the region loads into a server and spins up.

Brand New Colony (Sept. 2017)
Brand New Colony (Sept. 2017)

The result is fewer servers would be needed, a huge cost saving in hardware and electricity.

It sounds to me like this could be a performance problem. Would we have to wait while the region spins up? Or can a region load fast enough we wouldn’t notice? We don’t know.

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Second Life – What… SLURL vs URL

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Updated: 2019-06-28. Fixed link rot. A bunch of bloggers don’t know the difference between a URL and a SLURL. The simple explanation, if a web page link opens a web page, image, video, whatever in a web browser it is a URL. If it opens a viewer, then it is SLURL. A URL: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Echo%20Cove/197/193/25 A SLURL: secondlife://ECHO%20COVE/197/193/25 … Read more

PSA – Talk Like a Pirate – Can you?

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This is a benefit with an in-world component. It looks fun. The announcement is: Issued: September 15, 2017 PRESS RELEASE IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT Caledonia Skytower, Seanchai Library caledoniaskytower@gmail.com Seanchai Library Goes Salty for International Talk Like a Pirate Day Second Life – They are dusting off their cutlasses, refreshing their command of “The Code” … Read more

Blender 2.79 Released – What’s Do for Second Life?

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We have a new release of Blender as of 9/12. I always want to know what is the new release going to do for me in my work flow for Second Life. So, the TL:DR take is it messes up some things I do. But, not too bad. It looks like 2.8 will trip me worse. Still, for production, you’ll probably want to stay with 2.78c for a bit longer.

Blender 2.79 Splash – Sept 2017

For those working with Sansar, this is going to be an improvement. It will probably mess up your work flow a bit too. But, you’ll be getting advantages you can use in Sansar, like PBR. I’ll have to figure out if there is any ‘serious’ advantage for me in SL.

The release announcement is here: Blender 2.79.

I haven’t learned enough, yet, to comment on 2.79 accurately. So, these are the videos I think give us the information we need. This one is pre-release of 2.79. The short one first. This is about the video Blender can output when rendering. Mikey obviously hasn’t kept up on what is being done with Blender 2.8.

This next one is the better presentation of new features. It is a quick overview and at 18 minutes it should give you an idea of how much new stuff is in 2.79. 

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