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Second Life Animation: BVH vs ANIM

2017/04/11 by Nalates Urriah

There are two formats of animation file used in Second Life™. Which one to use? Medhue gives us his take on the two formats. Basically, ANIM avoids the SL Import Program’s gotchas. Medhue talks about animation priorities, for the overall animation and/or for each individual bone. Bone translation has additional options in ANIM. If you … Read more

Second Life News 2017 w15

2017/04/112017/04/11 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

This week there is no planned roll of the main channel servers.

The RC channels are getting a new package and will roll on Wednesday. According to the ‘deploys’ thread they all get the same package. This package includes:

Several internal fixes and two new internal logging modes
Another adjustment to fix issues with offline IM and Group Notice delivery reliability
Fixes an issue where large numbers of objects could be returned after a rolling restart

My understanding was the change for Estate Owner and Manager control of parcel access in a region was to be in this release but, I see no mention of it. Last week Oz, Grumpity, Caleb, and Mazidox Linden were all talking about it.

Second Life: Mesh vs Classic Bodies

2018/02/142017/04/10 by Nalates Urriah

The question keeps coming up in the SL Forum, what is a mesh body and why won’t my clothes show? I am so confused… Yeah, I can see how that would happen. So, I need something I can link them to. This is the ‘something’. I’ve tried to keep it simple for noobs without 3D modeling experience.

Basics

To understand Classic and Mesh avatars one has to understand Second Life™ has a history and understand some of the basics of 3D modeling.

Mesh & Classic Avatar 2017

SL Started in 2003, 2004 depending on what you define as ‘starting’. It started with a basic avatar that evolved over time. That is the Classic avatar. It is still with us.

If you take off everything your avatar is wearing that you can take off, you are looking at the Classic avatar. You can click the top menu Developer (press Ctrl-Alt-Q to reveal the menu item if it isn’t showing)->Avatar->Character Tests->Test Male/Female. This will set your avatar to the very basic (Classic) default-test avatar known as Ruth or Roth.

Second Life: Bento Hand Animations

2017/04/10 by Nalates Urriah

Medhue Simoni has posted a tutorial on making hand animations and a pose library. Having a pose library makes animating go much faster.

SL Third-Party Developers Meeting 2017 w/14

2017/04/09 by Nalates Urriah

Pantera Północy has his 30+ minute video of the 4/7 meeting posted. I’m just getting around to watching it.

Viewer Pipeline

Maintenance Viewer – No new news.

Voice Viewer – Vivox is not providing changes for Linux so Lab is not changing their viewer, which is mostly unsupported by the Lab in any event.

On a better note, the Lab has given up the idea of disabling viewers with older voice packages.

Second Life: Server OS Upgrade & Coming Server Packages

2017/04/07 by Nalates Urriah

The Lindens have been upgrading the server operating system. Mazidox Linden describes it, “For those of you who don’t attend regularly or just missed that meeting, DRTSIM-323 is an upgrade to the simulator operating system to bring it up to more modern standards. It won’t change anything you should notice, and could change anything, at the same time.”

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This is like a user changing from Windows 7 to 10. Everything working on 7 is supposed to work on 10. But, until you try it, you don’t know.