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No new stuff from the Server/Scripting UG. There is no roll out to the main channel this week. Nor to the RC channels. However the RC channels are being restarted. Expect a new RC package next week. Viewers Second Life Love Me Render Viewer version 5.0.2.323361 – No change, released late last week. Second Life … Read more
There just isn’t much news this last week. There was no Server-Scripting (Tuesday), Content Creators (Bento – Thursday), or Sever Beta (Thursday) user group meetings. Seems the Lindens are tasked with being at internal meetings this week. Or… they are out protesting Trump…
We do have a new RC Viewer in Alternate Viewers, the Second Life Love Me Render Viewer version 5.0.2.323361.
According to the release notes:
The main channel got an update today (Tuesday). This is the package that ran on the RC channels the previous week. With the changes:
And Simon Linden told us there were fixes to chat IM’s. Those may have been made in parts of the backend of the system and not in the server/simulator. Hard to know.
The update and rolling restarts were done by 8:30 AM PST/SLT.
The three RC channels will get a new package Wednesday (2/8). The packages is reported as being almost the same as this week’s update:
Indigo Mertel is active in Second Life™ and SL social media. She also owns and pays for East River Community land, which you’ll find as Strange Sands Beach – East River Community (SLURL), Helvellyn (URL), Hardknott (residential).
She recently contacted me writing,
There is a page in the Second Life™ Wiki listing the official user groups. Currently there are four weekly meetings;
The Bento Development group has changed to the Content Creation group. There was another Content Creation/Mesh Import group that stopped meeting in 2014. The meeting transcripts for that old group are still available. They are not the same groups but, similar.
This week and next there are no Content Creation group meetings. The next meeting is February 17.
Currently the Content Creation group meeting in Hippotropolis is the most interesting. They are dealing with the challenges of creating Bento Content. As problems come up the Lindens look at ways to make fixes or changes and users work to figure out work-arounds and better methods for creation. Various Lindens attend the meetings.
Medhue Simoni is one of the better know modelers and animators in SL. He has a post in the SL Forum containing videos that show how to make your own LoD (Level of Detail) models. See: How to make LODs / Levels of Detail