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    Patterns - Second Life

    Nice article about @rodvik and #LindenLabs and #SecondLife and Creativity and STUFF!

    October 25, 2012 - By 

    As it happens, it’s my fifth rezday today, but the silly typist had some ridiculous singing practice thing and then was procrastinating on a web project. But hey, here’s another example of “good press” for Rod Humble, Linden Labs, Creatorverse, Patterns, and oh, yeah, Second Life. It makes perfect sense that Humble would wind up at Linden Lab, the company best known for the virtual world Second Life. It’s as successful a canvas for the communal creation of a virtual world as there’s been. It’s been a viable digital canvas for about a decade now has been populated by users…

  • Patterns

    Material properties for #LLPatterns and a few screenshots

    October 20, 2012 - By 

    I’m looking for information on the latest update of Linden Lab’s Patterns – for some reason screenshots were not working for me, where previously Steam has a hotkey of F12 that automatically sets up a screenshot and saves (in a kind of obscure folder) as private, or on their overlay console as a public shot. At the Patterns community forum, I ran across a discussion of materials testing that has been added to Wikia. Someone else pointed out there needed to be another study based on the isosceles triangular pyramid and the prism shape, so I expect the fellow will…

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    Second Life

    Kokua team provides an alternative to FMOD streaming audio. at Kokua/Imprudence Blog

    October 16, 2012 - By 

    As streaming music on Second Life is a huge, huge part of my preferred immersive experience, this may be a useful issue to track: Rumors have surfaced that the owners of FMOD have pulled from their website archives the zip files used to build FMOD libraries. Recent attempts to build 3p-fmod locally seem to confirm the rumors. Kokua uses an open source solution, openal and gstreamer010, for streaming audio. We have provided this solution to Linden Lab for inclusion in the SL viewer. The changes can also be applied to third party viewers. via Kokua team provides an alternative to…

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    Patterns - Second Life

    Major Upgrade Touted by @rodvik in interview. Does he mean other than Pathfinding? Mesh?

    October 14, 2012 - By 

    UPDATE: Linden Labs CEO Rod Humble commented on Inara Pey’s post on the new products and the “major upgrade” tease  – twice – and seems to be hinting that there may be more virtual worlds (the plural is deliberate) on the drawing board. It was kind of Inara to mention me for pointing to the Venture Beat article; the only reason I spotted it is merely the Power of The Google at work. More virtual worlds? Well, there could be some wiggle room there. Patterns (yes, yes, current obsession, yes) is not quite a world, but it’s touted as a…

  • Second Life : Keep Calm And Carry On
    Second Life

    Weekly Tweets 2012-10-14

    October 14, 2012 - By 

    @TranquillityIW I know, WEIRD. it's already 1:30 pm here. The world doesn't run on SL time, apparently? # #nowplaying Stuart Zechman's Z Files: Separation (of church and state) Virtually Speaking Feed with @TuneIn #

  • Patterns - Second Life

    #LindenLabs Update for #LLPatterns Thursday 18OCT with NEW SHAPES OOOH

    October 13, 2012 - By 

    Linden Labs announced a pending update to their Steam-based alpha game, Patterns. Our first update is right around the corner. We’re going to be updating to a bigger world, adding more shapes to find in the world and – based on your feedback – we’re adding the ability to place formations on your own creations as well as ours. We’re also fixing plenty of bugs. This won’t make Second Life Marketplace merchants happy, who’ve been trying to get some needed features and fixes done for… years, really. And it won’t make content creators happy either, who’re unhappy about weird server…

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    Chameleonic Possessions - Second Life - Steelhead St Helens

    Great Big Band Music From @RadioRiel While Getting Stuff Done, New Items on the #SLMarketplace

    October 7, 2012 - By 

    Finally had a chance to stop whingeing and Get Things Done. The Crystal Egg Floor Lamp and Desk Lamp Set – direct from the extraordinary STEAM 7 hunt! The tripod object can be used as a lamp – click to turn the lamp on and off. You may see something mysterious happening… look closely. Peer into it from different angles. What is that? The transparencies bug may bite, peer closely and from a distance until you can almost see…. click! What’s that?!? BRRRRRR-INNNNNNNG! Enjoy. Just for fun, I made a desk/tiny size lamp, too. All in 15 glorious prims! Each…

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    Second Life

    Weekly Tweets 2012-10-07

    October 7, 2012 - By 

    @neddings Hah! Well, somebody has to do it. # @isfullofcrap Rest that wrist. Are you allowed elbow-bending? # @isfullofcrap Very robotic! # @isfullofcrap ROWR! # Oh, hell. I signed up for Patterns because I am a hopeless dope. Now I'm stuck waiting for the activation. # Sigh. Got key, need update graphics drivers on this old laptop. # Hokay! Finally decided my laptop can't run Patterns. Installed on desktop. Here I go. #LindenLabs # Who else besides me was playing #SLPatterns until frickin 3am? Just me, then? Thanks, @rodvik, need moar coffee. # On the other hand, I'm now considering…