Skin Fair 2014
2014’s Skin Fair is now open! That means lots of goodies from skin makers, makeup designers and more. Come see old favorites and find new discoveries in three sims of deliciousness. For more information, be sure to visit http://skinfair.wordpress.com/. At the Skin Fair, you’re sure to find something that tickles your fancy.
Visit in Second Life
The Skin Fair is in full swing and will be running until March 30th. Script limits will no longer be enforced as is oft the case with script limits, enforcement was causing upset. The usual reason for the upset is that people find themselves teleported home or find themselves booted out of Second Life because of teleport failure before they’ve even realised they are being informed they have breached a limit. The really bad part of this is that in many cases, the combination of a scripted device scanning new arrivals and then the teleport process of booting them out is actually causing more load on the sim than the visitor who is deemed to be too heavily scripted.
Ideally there would be a better way of doing this, some sort of arrivals area where people were kept until such time they had reduced their scripts. However that’s not an easily achieved goal in Second Life. Fairs in Second Life are often busy events and the organisers rightly want to minimise causes of latency. The problem is that all too often scripts are seen as the be all and end all, when there are many other factors, especially in terms of textures.
Therefore fairs offer an ideal opportunity for Linden Lab to discuss the concepts outlined in their good building practices wiki guide, they could even point organisers in the direction of Penny Patton’s Building A Better Second Life guide. Penny has some brilliant suggestions around reducing texture sizes and using fewer and more efficient scripts.
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