Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
Some people are experiencing losing attachments when they cross to a new region or teleport. I’ve had it happen a couple of times. It is apparently a significant problem for a number of people. A thread about it is here: Avatar attachments continually being detached.
There are a number of JIRA Bug Reports, Whirly says thousands:
Oz Linden was saying on last Friday that one more bug fix coming for the RC Second Life Bento Viewer version 5.0.0.321250. Then it will be a candidate for release as the main viewer. This means we will very likely have Project Bento this year and may be before Thanksgiving.
RC Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 4.1.2.321183 is doing well. It could and likely will release before the Bento viewer.
While the order of release is not clear, inside or outside the Lab, the Lindens do expect one to release before Thanksgiving, in a couple of week and the other will become the default a couple weeks after first of December.
I’ve reported on the rumors that started in earnest Tuesday. There was a trickle of rumor the week before… what happened was the RC channels got the update from 15,000 prims to 22,500. A few people noticed and wondered, speculated. But, on Tuesday the main channel got the server upgrade that raised the limit on … Read more
The main channel got an update this morning. The package is said to fix BUG-40735 – Paying an object with [slgaming] in the object name (most skill game machines) fails on the RC 16.10.14.320687 and some ‘Internal Changes’.
The RC channels did not update and continue to run the package now on the main channel.
No new information the 40 regions named HR/HC/HIH.
Some people have noticed the prim limit on their parcels increasing after the server update. I concentrate only on how many prims I have available and I don’t pay a lot of attention to that. I look if I have to rez something. So, while I think I have more prims available after this update, … Read more
Strawberry Singh has a video out on the Catwa mesh head. It covers the features of the mesh head very well. Her article, Catwa Catya Bento Mesh Head, provides more detail. Some of the minor problems with the head are touched on. Most impressive are the facial expressions (TM 12:00). The last half of the … Read more