Second Life – Page 232

January 21, 2012January 21, 2012

Oh For Goodness Sake LL, Link My Alts!

I’ve just discovered, after reading this thread in the official forum, that people who aren’t PIOF or haven’t passed the Mesh quiz, can’t list Mesh items on the marketplace. A couple of things stand out here, one, I can’t upload a Mesh model and hand it to my NPIOF alt to list on the Marketplace as partially Mesh or 100% Mesh, my NPIOF alt can still list it, they just can’t select that category.

Secondly, people who sell full perms Mesh kits will have customers in the same boat, people will be able to list it, but they won’t be able to click the radio buttons for partial or 100% Mesh. I can understand the passing the Mesh quiz requirement to a degree, I really can’t understand the PIOF requirement because a Mesh model in Second Life should, unless there’s a major flaw, have only been uploaded by someone with PIOF.

However we’re back to an old bugbear of mine, why do I have to put PIOF on my alts to get PIOF rights? I have PIOF, it should cover all my alts for that flag, so once more I have to point to Argent Stonecutter’s Jira-6212 – Create a Master Account.

Continue reading “Oh For Goodness Sake LL, Link My Alts!”

January 21, 2012January 21, 2012

SOPA Fallout – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

The fallout from the postponed SOPA legislation has at times got ugly, at times is has shown the bad and there has been a very little bit of good. There are also other external factors that show current legislation has teeth, uncomfortable teeth I should add. Yahoo News Reporting that Megaupload has been shutdown is a little disturbing, although really it’s for the courts to decide exactly what they’re guilty of, a Dutch citizen being arrested in New Zealand and a Hong Kong based website being shutdown suggest there’s not much need for SOPA. Those who had legitimate content on Megaupload are out of luck too, which is one of the problems when actions like these occur.

Then there’s the very disturbing case of British student Richard O’Dwyer as reported by The Daily Mail , who is fighting extradition to the USA to face charges related to running a website that posted links to downloads of copyrighted content. The website was allegedly managed from the UK and hosted in The Netherlands, so quite why he’s fighting extradition to the USA is baffling, if his activities are illegal or a case for the courts, any trial should be happening in the UK.

These issues are happening now, without the need for SOPA or PIPA. Yet Hollywood wants more, the MPAA Twitter account links to articles supporting their stance on SOPA, do they support the extradition of Richard O’Dwyer?

Continue reading “SOPA Fallout – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly”

January 20, 2012January 20, 2012

Creating Basic Mesh Steps In Blender Using The Array Modifier

This is going to be a very basic tutorial, I am not going to cover super efficiency, texturing, UV Mapping or anything like that, although if you want your steps to be bloody useful, you’ll want to learn those aspects. Nor will I deal with reducing vertices, removing doubles and other tricks, although they’re useful, I’m not a teacher, I work in education but I’m not a teacher! Really what I want to do here is show how useful Mesh can be by demonstrating how to create a basic set of steps that will come in at One prim. Ideally Torley would be doing this with friendly greetings, however I’m not Torley and I’m not friendly!

I should also point out here that if you don’t know how to login to the beta grid, you should learn to do so! The beta grid is great for playing with Mesh as you don’t pay for uploads there, so perfect your Mesh on the beta grid. Details on how to login to the beta grid are here, but please note, you’ll need to pass the Mesh quiz for the beta grid too, even if you’ve passed it for the main grid!

Ok so to start with we need to open Blender, then press the N key so we get the properties up, which will show this menu:

The x, y, z dimensions work just like they do in Second Life, you have to do something to make them ideal, but it’s just like setting them in Second Life. For my steps I’m going to use settings of 0.750, 3.000 and 0.500 for my x,y,z settings, which is a nice size for step, choose whichever settings you think work best but remember this is for just one step.

Continue reading “Creating Basic Mesh Steps In Blender Using The Array Modifier”

January 16, 2012January 16, 2012

llSetMemoryLimit Mono And A Bit Of Confusion

I’m going to talk here about a relatively new scripting function, llSetMemoryLimit, this may not work the way one thinks it does, but it basically sets the upper memory limit your script can use. I’m far from being a scripting expert but this looks like a function that people should get used to using where they can, even if it might not actually save memory for a sim the way we may think it should, I’m not sure how the server handles the space.

Anyway, when you create a new script, if Mono is ticked, it has an upper memory limit of 64kb, if you don’t compile the script as Mono, it compiles as LSO, and that has an upper memory limit of 16kb, with LSO it’s a hard rule, all LSO scripts have an upper limit of 16kb, llSetMemoryLimit won’t work with LSO, with Mono however you can set a lower limit. In this post I’ll show how this works with a very basic script, a notecard giver.

I’ll start by visiting LSL Wiki and going to the llGiveInventory section. LSL Wiki isn’t as up to date as the LSL portal but I often find the discussions and examples on LSL Wiki more helpful. So all I want is a notecard giver, I rez a prim, go to the contents tab, click new script, get the default hello world script, delete everything and replace it with this (with apologies for the horrid coding style):

default
{
state_entry()
{
}
touch_start(integer total_number)
{
llGiveInventory(llDetectedKey(0),llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_NOTECARD, 0));
}

Then I make sure there’s a notecard in the contents of the prim and when I touch it, I’ll get a Notecard. However this is a Mono script so it defaults to an upper memory limit of 64kb:

So let’s look at how we can reduce that using llSetMemoryLimit()

Continue reading “llSetMemoryLimit Mono And A Bit Of Confusion”