Author: Ciaran Laval

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LL Should Be Leading The Conversation

I was having a chat at some ungodly hour of Sunday night with Delicia Whipsnaps Inara Pey about Linden Lab’s lack of shouting from the rooftops about what they’re doing. Examples that sprang to mind were the new privacy controls on parcels that allow you to make yourself invisible to outsiders and outsiders invisible to yourself, numerous bug fixes, Mesh allowing you to halve the number of prims you’re using in terms of prim equivalency (or land impact as it will soon be known) when you link them, 64 x 64 meter prims and how Vanderbilt University School of Nursing have been using Second Life as a training faciltity  which is a really good use case for Second Life and one Linden Lab should be highlighting.

Linden Lab are getting on with a lot of things behind the scenes, a cursory glance at the Server deployment forum shows this week’s release includes:

  • Adding additional metric collection information
  • LSL enhancements to catch and prevent shape changes that would cause a return
  • Support for calculating Resource Weights and Land Impact for all objects
  • Several crash fixes
  • Region/parcel crossing fixes
  • Miscellaneous fixes
  • llCastRay() enabled.

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Mesh Looks Like It’s Coming To Phoenix Viewer

A thread over at SL Universe, which you can read here, points out that Mesh support looks like it is coming to the extremely popular Phoenix Viewer. This is in many ways a surprise move as most people seemed to be under the impression that the Phoenix viewer was largely at the end of its development and that they were concentrating most of their energies on Firestorm, which already has Mesh support in their beta version. I’d post a link to the Firestorm blog post but there doesn’t seem to be a way of doing that! Weird blogging software they’re using there.

The summary of the changes to Phoenix can be read here apparently a lot of the code to bring Mesh to older style viewers has been carried out by Henri Beauchamp, who releases the Cool VL Viewer, which has a version that unsurprisingly, supports Mesh.

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Talk Like A Pirate Day Events

The official blog has gone Fashion crazy with a whole slew of posts on fashion …. so sod that for a game of soldiers, let’s leave these landlubbers alone and look at what events are happening for Talk Like A Pirate Day … this is where we all say “Yarrrrr!”

Second Life is great for pirates, they can try and plunder and pillage but they can’t really hurt you …. I hope!

Pirates day Guests

There are quite a few events going on and it’s time consuming to list them all, seriously it should be easier to link to events Linden Lab! Anyway here’s a few events that caught my eye:

Vibez Gay Dance Club has a cutest pirate contest starting at 4pm SLT with a L$500 prize, DJ Trickey24Love will be spinning the tunes, more info here.

Redwood Island Docks & Fishing at Castle Redwood are holding a five hour long pirate extravaganza starting at 5pm SLT, with contests for best costumes and DJ NTropy Sellers banging out the pirate ditties. More info here.

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The Stolen Village

As exhibitions go, this one is a little different, Oriolus Oliva has an exhibition at the Cellar Gallery on the Verdigris sim of what they view as content theft of ….. pretty much their whole sim! There is another similar sim and by way of pointing out the glaring similarities Orilous has put out pictures exemplifying their content and what they view as copied content.
The Stolen Village

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Modavia Fashion Week Too Sexy For Mesh

Modavia Fashion Week has been in full swing, the odd thing about this fashion week is that the region itself doesn’t support Mesh, at all. People who arrive with Mesh clothing or avatars will get an insight on how things look to people on viewers that don’t support Mesh, but it’s a tad disappointing that Mesh has been blocked in this fashion.

 


Modavia Fashion Week

Fifty of the best couture designers will present their new autumn collections over 8 days, kicking off with the LaGyo/LG Concept partnership on Sept 8 and culminating in a showcase of emerging talent and a preview of new fall designs from Paper Couture on September 15. All shows take place on the MODAVIA sims which will also host an exclusive on-site boutique. More info: http://bit.ly/nW24HB

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