This page contains all the articles I’ve written related to Second Life scripting.
Second Life News 2014-39 #2
Not much news coming out of the Server Beta UG. CDN The Content Delivery Network for AGNI has grown a bit, more regions added to the Snack Channel: Brasil Rio Brocade Denby Fluffy Freedom City Hippo Hollow Hippotropolis Rocket City Testsylvania Sandbox Whippersnapper This is up from the original 4. Any viewer can be used … Continue reading
Second Life News Bits 2014-32 #3
Servers At Thursdays Server Beta UG meeting we learned that a prior JSON fix (BUG-6466) is unwound by this fix. It is a case of one fix breaking something else and aggravating other problems. JSON is JavaScript Object Notation and was added to the Linden Scripting Language (LSL) as a better way to deal with … Continue reading
Experience Tools Update 2014-28
Today Dolphin Linden was at the Scripting-Server User Group meeting answering questions about the Experience Tools (XP Tools) and how they will work. The made for an interesting meeting. I posted about this meeting’s coming Q&A last week. The current request for Beta Testers is for experience creators, Madpea or Loki Eliot type people. Latter … Continue reading
Second Life News 2014-28 #2
Servers Late yesterday Maestro Linden posted the Deploys post. The main channel is rolling this morning. The new package contains the changes in LSL that allow us to control Materials via script. See llSetLinkPrimitiveParams and llGetLinkPrimitiveParams. Look for the new perimeters in those named; PRIM_NORMAL, PRIM_SPECULAR, and PRIM_ALPHA_MODE. RC Channels Blue Steel and Le Tigre will get a new maintenance package … Continue reading
Second Life News 2014-27 #2
Servers There were mostly no roll outs this week. None on the main channel or Blue Steal and Le Tigre RC channels. But, the Magnum RC channel did get a roll. Next week the Blue Steal and Le Tigre package will roll to the main channel as they have not reported any problems. The Lindens … Continue reading
Second Life News 2014-23 #2
This week’s (23) server rolls returned the packages that briefly ran last week, until Wednesday evening’s re-roll that wiped them out. Yesterday (this week’s Wednesday) those were re-deployed with the only change being the security fix was added. Le Tigre now has the Group Ban project package. With a Group Ban Project Viewer you can … Continue reading
Second Life News 2014-23 #2
Coming Soon Simon Linden is working a problem to fix a problem that leaves attachments appearing to still be attached. The problem is especially noticeable when a script removes an attachment after a region crossing. See SVC-7626 – Script object detachment doesn’t appear to remove worn object in the viewer. This is an older JIRA … Continue reading
Scripting Second Life Materials Testing
We have a new aspect of Materials arriving, the ability to script materials as we script textures (diffuse map). Simon Linden has posted in the Server Beta UG agenda about the coming Materials Scripting feature to allow script control of the new Materials. Quoting: LSL support for materials is in testing Certain Aditi regions (DRTSIM-253 … Continue reading