Second Life Bits 2018 w07

Dance – Crap Mariner has an article about dance in the One Billion Rising event. You’ll find it on Inara’s blog: Who Puts the Dance into One Billion Rising? Long, interesting. Restarts – When the simulators are restarted it usually takes just a few hours. Some are experiencing way long times for restarts. Caleb Linden is … Read more

Interesting Second Life Avatar: Snokra Snake

It is a cute avatar. But, I find it interesting because of what is included in the package, which makes this an awesome deal. Snokra Snake (SL Marketplace) The features currently available with V0.9 are; Well over 130 animations Bento support, with tons of hand poses, tail poses and tail animations Expressive face, with several … Read more

Second Life Content Creation 2017 w37

I’ll use Medhue’s video again this week. Busy with other stuff and missed the meeting. Medhue apparently missed the first 8 minutes or so. Index 00:30 – Server-Side Baking update. Presently in QA and impact analysis. 01:15 – Inverse kinematics… not currently in the works.

Second Life – Content Creation 2017 w35

This was the first meeting in 3 weeks, Vir Linden, the meeting facilitator, has been on vacation. Next week there is no CC UG meeting because of the monthly Linden Staff meeting conflicts. So, savor this one. Medhue streams the meeting live on YouTube. (With his new 21:9 ratio monitor.) The video remains on YouTube … Read more

Second Life – No CC UG Meeting

This week and next Vir Linden is on vacation. As he is the lead on all things Animesh, including the meeting, there is little to be said without him. Next CC UG meeting is August 31.

Testing the AvaStar Model vs LL Avatar Model

About 5 years ago I was testing the various models available for use in Blender and comparing them to the SL default avatar. Now Gaia of AvaStar has done that for you. Check it out. I think it is really nice to have this information. But, there isn’t much use for it. Mesh clothes built … Read more

Second Life – Content Creation UG Meeting 2017 w27

The crowd at the Content Creation UG meeting is growing. I think that is mostly due to Medhue live-streaming the meetings. These meetings are somewhat just small updates on the week-to-week progress the Lindens are making on Server-Side Baking and animated mesh objects, animesh. While there isn’t much new, we are learning more about animesh. … Read more

Second Life – Content Creation UG Meeting 2017 w26

I missed the first 10 minutes of the meeting as RL was intruding. There are Two interesting parts. Toward the end of the meeting a discussion of copybot issues starts. That section and an hour long post-meeting is in another video. When I get it uploaded, I’ll link to it from this article. I’ve used … Read more