{"id":6072,"date":"2017-09-08T22:30:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2017-09-08T22:34:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T21:34:50","slug":"sansar-introduces-terrain-editing-obj-import-running-web-audio-streams-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6072","title":{"rendered":"Sansar Introduces Terrain Editing, .OBJ Import, Running, Web Audio Streams and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linden Lab&#8217;s Sansar have announced a whopping new list of features in their latest release notes;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help.sansar.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115004418046-Sansar-Release-Notes-for-September-8-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sansar Release Notes for September 8, 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most eye catching will be features such as :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Terrain Editor<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>You can now sculpt your own terrain in Sansar! Make mountains and craters, which you can paint using Sansar\u2019s default presents. Simply drag and drop the terrain plain from the system objects panel. <a href=\"https:\/\/help.sansar.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115004562526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The ability to add your own terrain textures and height maps is coming soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to look at this yet but this looks like a very interesting development indeed. \u00a0The link to read more explains how you can create terrain in Sansar and then raise, lower, flatten, soften, harden etc. These terms will be familiar to those who have experience in virtual worlds such as Second Life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>.OBJ import<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Sansar now supports .obj file import. See <a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/help.sansar.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115002888226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> for some .obj import tips.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sansar had previously supported the .FBX format but this release means it now also supports .OBJ format, which I&#8217;m sure will please many creators as .OBJ is a very popular format.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Web Audio Streams<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Stream live radio stations and more in Sansar. You can now stream Shoutcast, Icecast, and other services using MP3-based URLs (Several other formats, like OGG, also work. AAC isn&#8217;t supported.). <a href=\"https:\/\/help.sansar.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115004444303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ability to live stream radio stations, or more importantly, Shoutcast, Icecast and other services is a pretty damn important development in putting the social into Sansar, so this is a very welcome development.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Running<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A long-awaited and frequently requested feature is now in your hands. It\u2019s time to run like the wind in Sansar!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hurrah! Walking around Sansar was a slow process. The reason for the slow pace was due to an issue with Virtual Reality mode not being happy with fast moving avatars, it looks like that issue has been overcome so now you can run around Sansar to your hearts content.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet worked out how you run mind you, indeed I&#8217;m in a very confused state because the latest update took me back to the avatar customisation screen and when I logged in I had a different default avatar, which came as a surprise but is easily rectified by going back to &#8220;My Looks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are a shed load of other updates that look interesting too, please <a href=\"https:\/\/help.sansar.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115004418046-Sansar-Release-Notes-for-September-8-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read the release notes<\/a> for full details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linden Lab&#8217;s Sansar have announced a whopping new list of features in their latest release notes;\u00a0Sansar Release Notes for September 8, 2017. Most eye catching will be features such as : Terrain Editor You can now sculpt your own terrain in Sansar! Make mountains and craters, which you can paint using Sansar\u2019s default presents. Simply &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6072\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sansar Introduces Terrain Editing, .OBJ Import, Running, Web Audio Streams and More&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[996,997,14],"tags":[19,1129],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-1zW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6075,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions\/6075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}