Posts tagged Second Life
Fourmile with Shadows
December 4, 2011
When did Second Life viewer have shadows added as an option? Oh well… found the setting now and it looks cool! Perhaps it’s due to the fact that my previous graphics cards couldn’t handle it. Here’s a picture of the entrance to Fourmile Castle resplendent with shadows. Problem is what to do with my objects that have “fake” shadows while you have to assume most people don’t have shadows showing.
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Ee’s SLideshow Viewer and Second Life 2.0
April 7, 2010
So, Linden Labs caught everyone by surprise and made the Beta 2.0 viewer the main release for new residents, despite there being numerous bugs that still need to be fixed. Pertinent to Ee’s SLideshow viewer are the new shared media facilities, or more precisely changes to parcel media.
Upgrades to SLideshow Viewer will soon incorporate prim media, allowing interaction with websites loaded in the viewer, but a concern is that until you can be certain that all residents are using viewers that support it you have to ask yourself whether presentations you are setting up are accessible by those who want to continue using the 1.23 viewer. I suspect that before long, and without much warning, Linden Lab will make upgrade to 2.0 mandatory, so getting rid of this worry. In the meantime however there are some annoyances that everyone needs to be aware of using parcel media which is the SLideshow Viewers current mechanism for displaying html and streaming media, I don’t intend to release any upgrades to deal with these yet since most will hopefully be fixed quite quickly (see JIRA links later): (more…)
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Christmas on Warwick University Maths Island
December 21, 2009
A freak snowstorm has hit the tropical Second Life island of the Warwick University Maths department (SLURL: http://tinyurl.com/56ykb2), conincidentally just in time for the Christmas break!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Boy Lane’s Rainbow Viewer for Netbooks
October 19, 2009
Since my “recent” post on the Meerkat Viewer and it’s plus points for use on netbooks I have come across a version of Boy Lane’s excellent Rainbow Viewer optimised for use on Netbooks. This has recently been updated to comply with the official viewer’s forced upgrade (currently version 1.2). It requires an official SL viewer in version 1.19.0.5 as a foundation (which can be downloaded from the SL viewer archives).
I’ve had it on my Eee for a couple of weeks now, and performance is much improved on that obtained by the official viewer (including tweaks in the configuration files).
For more information and download links please see the Boy Lane blog entry, or start at the main page for news on all his projects including the excellent Cool Viewer.
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