Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Tapple Gao is providing a free tool for those doing movement animations, e.g., walking. You’ll find a copy in the marketplace here: Walking and Turning Test Treadmill. It is free. The idea for the tool was to provide a way to eliminate skate from animations you create. With some walking and running animations my avatar … Read more
They surprised me! Project Bento, server side, arrived at the main grid Tuesday. Torley Linden has posted about the Lab enabling the project on the main grid. See: Project Bento Testing Is Now Live on the Main Grid! This is a testing release. You will need the Project Bento Viewer to upload animations and meshes, and … Read more
This got released Friday (2/5) and I didn’t catch it until today. The post is here: Drax World Makers Episode 36: Project Bento. There was a preview released Wednesday (2/3). I think after watching the two the plan changed at some point. Both are neat videos in their own right…
January 19 at noon (SLT) is the Project Bento filming event casting call. It will be on Bento Island, ADITI (Preview Grid). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62hWZ4-dHeE Contact Draxtor Dupress as filming will start on the 20th. Provide him as much information about your creation for Project Bento as possible.
Inara has an update from the last meeting that looks complete and has audio from the meeting. See: Project Bento User Group update 2 with audio. She has broken the audio clips up by topic, which is handy.
For those short on time, the meat from the meeting:
The first meeting of Second Life’s™ Project Bento User Group was held today. There was a good turnout, about 33 residents and 3 or 4 Lindens. We got new information about the Bento Avatar and lots of questions were answered.
The meeting is Lindens in voice and residents mixing text and voice. The plan is to have the meeting each Thursday at 1 PM SLT. But, scheduling conflicts will push that around so all are encouraged to see the Bento UG page to confirm the meeting time.