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For a long time it has been a complaint that it was difficult to purchase abandoned mainland. According to one of the Second Life Blogs you can now purchase land owned by Governor Linden for 1L per square meter. To make Mainland parcels easier to purchase, we have implemented a new system that automatically takes [...]
Vote for this JIRA and help out the Gift Card Systems. Seriously, this is a fun issue. When you right click a vendor while wearing a gift card, you no longer see “Gift Card” as an option, it’s over-rode by “Touch”… which can be completely confusing for customers and completely absolutely frustrating for creators who [...]
Well, here I am on my shiny new laptop (Thanks, Hubby!) and I am attempting Second Life 2.0 Beta. I gotta say, guys – and you won’t be surprised – I am the crotchety old woman on this one. The one who just got a TV with a remote for the first time in her [...]
Oh, seriously. Now that we’re getting script limitations (understandably) I think the next step for LL is to attempt the ever-horrific fashionista’s nightmare… inventory limiting. Posted by Babbage Linden this afternoon: Second Life is a rich and engaging interactive world due to scripts. Every time you open a door, fly a plane, sail a boat, [...]
Early morning lulz brought to you in illustration by Ina Centaur on Flickr. Flickr as of yet is not paying a percentage to Linden Lab for serving Second Life residents. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Linden Lab decide or attempt to put through new policies with such swiftness. 90 days? HOLD ONTO YOU HAT [...]
I suppose this is an attempt to circumvent and have greater control over assets in SL, to contain content theft to something the Lindens can chew on. Do any of these proposed solutions appeal to you?
LL is pulling in its leash. We will create new guidelines and policies outlining the standards that third party viewers must meet in order to connect to our platform, as well as tools and programs to help the developers of third party viewers and the wider community learn about and comply with those guideline. One [...]
…so… LL made a new update. And with it… came ABSOLUTELY NO CHANGE LOG. We recently made several changes to the Second Life servers to address a potential security issue. To take advantage of the recent server upgrades and ensure that Second Life functions as you expect, we have released a new version of the [...]
Ooooh fancy. Now it includes a UUID! Ladies and gentlemen, we have PROGRESS!
Who called it? ———- Forwarded message ———- From: *** Linden Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 Subject: Re:Â SnowGlobe and copybots Additionally, the technique to stop malicious clients from stealing your clothing textures (namely, only sending out baked but not local texture data) will be in the main client in the next major release, as part [...]
The Hulk in SL – 3D Mesh – Click to view if above unsupported Debuted at SLCC, a Linden provided a demonstration of 3-D Mesh importation into Second Life. Apparent ex-Linden Qarl provided a quick bit of commentary, which included some gems such as: It speeds up rendering by computing only the final surfaces. It [...]
Yes, I’m a bit behind. RightAsRain Rimbauld made an addendum to his BuilderBot release. We did however have a pretty interesting chat after the show wrapped. Angela spoke at length about some of her concerns and I think actually I finally got some of her point. I don’t think I necessarily agree with her, but [...]
RightasRain was at Treet studios this morning recording an episode of Designing Worlds regarding Rezzable and Builderbot‘s upcoming release next week. (Of course, after Rezzable has packed up their stuff in Second Life) What you will hear at the studio, but may not hear at the final cut of the show, was what RaR said [...]
There’s some interesting rumors floating around after SLCC (Second Life Community Convention) Something like this, for you designers: Mechatiki: “At his keynote today at SLCC09, Tom Hale aka T Linden presented a sneak peak of 3D mesh import into Second Life. (…) After going on to present new media support features T concluded by mentioning the Lab [...]
…coming as soon as September. From New World Notes: In a long-expected announcement on the official blog yesterday, a Linden staffer laid out stringent policies on the sale of unauthorized virtual copies of real world products and brands. That includes avatars based on real world celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Barack Obama — those [...]
It would seem that in a sudden spur of either progression or panic (probably spurred on by Rezzable‘s recent announcement)Â Linden Lab has decided, “Hey. Maybe it would be cool if people had a place to report bad avatars or bad stores. Like a Better Business Bureau.” Ah, there are lights on sometimes at the [...]
Linden Lab upgraded the viewer and broke vendor permissions again. Vendors have been distributing items full perm all over the grid. (…) Now observe newly created “Boxed item for sale” folder in the inventory. It shows “Item for sale” in there with the correct permissions (no modify, no transfer). Now rez this “Item for sale” [...]
Ingenius idea! Made by Rezzable! Able to copy entire sims in a single bound! …wait, what? A set of tools to allow content owners to SIM2OAR = copy their prims into an OAR file OAR editor to look at XML contents and merge, replace items OAR2SL = a bot to rebuild a sim in SL [...]
Due to “sim performance issues”, residents are finding their Scion Chickens (the latest trend in Second Life has been Scion Chicken Farming) returned, effectively murdering the chickens. Scion Chickens are scripted in various ways, and taking them into inventory immediately “kills” them, rendering them useless to those who purchased, bred, and raised them. (Yes. You [...]
   Images from the Second Life JIRA, Re: broken Sculpties Sometimes Sculpties fail to rez completely. You can force them to rez by editing the linked parts that have not rezzed all the way and opening the sculpt map selector and canceling. This has been an irritating defect in the SL Viewer for months. [...]
Have you seen the new Kirsten viewer yet? Â Â Right Click > View Image for full size. Â I’m on it right now but darned if I can’t get av shadows to kick in for my Geforce 8800 GTS. Boo hiss.
A fairly lightweight Java-based application Daniel Luchador has created to preview sculpties before uploading. Instructions: Just double click SculptySee.jar to run the program. If this does not work, you probably need to obtain the latest version of Java. Information: SculptySee was written by Daniel Ruszaj (danielruszaj@gmail.com). Version 1.0 released April 25th, 2009. SculptySee is written [...]