Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Mesh Body Addicts is running their first survey of 2017. Please stop by and answer the questions. There are only 13… Luckily it isn’t Halloween. No fear.
See: Mesh Body & Head Survey 2017
I’ll have more to say about this video in a following article.
Daria lists 26 bodies in the survey when asking which you wear most often. 26! Plus, “other”… Amazing. In only a few months we have a load of competing brands and models.
Have you heard about people losing inventory? Probably. Seems there is a bug on the loose that can clean you out.
I answer lots of questions on the SL Forum. I hear a constant stream of “I lost…” Mine and several other people’s best answer has been the Firestorm Wiki page: Missing Inventory. But, those steps do not work for this problem.
Today I see there is currently a more serious problem. And even worse, my best-informed authority on such matters, Whirly Fizzle, says there is no fix, for now. Ouch!
Here is what people describe happening. They get a popup saying Trash is full or overflowing. It has a button to empty Trash now. I suggest always selecting LATER. Avoid emptying trash from the popup.
They click EMPTY NOW and poof stuff they are certain was not in trash poofs away.
Oz Linden has his 64-bit viewer crash for the first time since he’s been using it. I’ve used it for weeks and only seen a couple of crashes.
The HTTPAssets Viewer got an update in week #20.
Voice is the same version. It has an ‘elevated’ crash rate. They haven’t yet figured out why. So, it won’t be promoting any time soon.
The maintenance viewer has the new Estate Manager controls. This is the more likely viewer to get promoted.
Expect a 64 bit RC release in a couple of weeks (#22 or #23). The last functional update has gone to QA. Expect it to update in week 21.
I thought this was neat. The hands are the only only Bento change I noticed. We are still a bit of distance from Bento facial animation.
This is pretty neat. I think it impressive animation. You’ll find the animation is from Abranimations (Map URL).
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RL is complicating my being at the Content Creation meetings. Fortunately for me, Medhue is live-streaming and recording the meetings. The video is here: Medhue @ Content Creation. My summary follows.
Vir Linden had nothing new on viewers. He often tells us about what he is doing with a specific viewer.
This week Vir has been working on the Animated Objects. Currently the work is in the nature of proof of concept. Next week he will start to look at server side changes that will be needed.
A total trivia bit is: Vir uses a SL Birthday Bear for his animation test subject.
Internet debate often gets abusive. People site facts and present well reasoned arguments only to be shot at with abuse. Scott Adams has an answer for why that is.
See: How to Know You Won a Political Debate on the Internet.