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Second Life Third Party Viewer Meeting 4/8

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The HTTP/Co-routines RC viewer promoted to the main viewer 4.0.3-312816…

The RC HTTP viewer has a bunch of voice fixes too. The Vivox people say considering how their software interacts with SL voice processes, the new Vivox code should just be a drop in update for older viewers.

The successful warrior is the average man, but with great focus.
The successful warrior is the average man, but with great focus.

There are a number of robustness fixes in voice. But, this update won’t fix the big drop outs we are seeing. Those are from DoS attacks on the Vivox servers.

Vivox and the Lab are working on a feature to restore service when voice drops… Those will be in the next round of improvements. Other coming updates provide better voice privacy and better security. 

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Second Life: Project Bento Update Week 13

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Again I didn’t make it to the Bento meeting. Inara did and has her coverage and some audio here: Project Bento User Group update 10 with audio.

Last week a new project viewer was released, version 5.0.0.313150. This has bone changes and some bones’ name changes. While it is hoped this is the last change to the skeleton, work on attaching Appearance Sliders to the bones may show a need for additional changes. 

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Project Bento Update Week 12

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I made it to the Bento meeting. This was pretty much just a status update meeting. We did get word that a new version of the Project Bento Viewer will likely be out next week (13).

I still have trouble logging into ADITI. It takes 5+ minutes for me to get logged in. Others at the meeting tell me they too have the problem when they log into Last Location. So, I’ll be trying to log directly into the region by name. I’m told that works better.

The result is I missed the first 10 minutes or so of the meeting. Then the first 5 minutes or so of audio is missing. Because the viewer didn’t connect correctly. 🙁

Second Life: Custom Mesh Head Animation

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Project Bento is moving ahead. The AvaStar people are working on building tools to help people animate the new avatar. You can see a video of where they are now. YOU HAVE TO CLICK…

This isn’t something we will have access to this week or next. We may not see the final release of Project Bento for some weeks and possibly months.

We may have the AvaStar tools soon. Building the animation tool is a simpler task than building a player that works with the new skeleton and the legacy version animations.