Monthly Archives: January 2005
A cool trick for low-end graphic cards
I always wondered about the claim that Linden Lab made that the “average” user of Second Life® was able to get 10 fps overall in the game. I certainly did not! My humble Apple PowerBook G4 had an average of perhaps 3 or 4 fps – low, but enough for “not feeling lag”. It has more to do with a psychological feeling, but as soon as you get things below…
A template for clothes design
Chip Midnight is often in the forums telling people how to design perfectly-matched clothes. His “secret” is developing wonderful new templates, based both on Linden Lab’s own, and on images he has captured in-world to understand where the many avatar polygons join together. This uppr body template is an attempt of using both Chip Midnight’s templates (his layers are marked CMFF) with the rest of the “standard” templates. I also…
Second Life® Jobs
Second Life® is quite unlike a MMORPG in the sense that you need skills to get a job – or rather, make a living in SL – but, unlike MMORPGs, the skills you need – are your own! So, there are no buttons to press on dialog boxes that make you “instantly” upgrade an artificial skill which will bump your character into the world of professional services. Instead, you have…
The New World Order
Recent changes announced by Linden Lab have shattered the whole of the community. Unexpectedly, in a maneuver claimed to reduce inflation (ie. the amount of money in circulation), LL has decreed that it will not support contest events any more. Ratings will go up to L$ 25 apiece, instead of the “token” L$ 1. And the extra weekly stipends will be cut in half. One thing is the economic side…
DEC Fundraising Event in Second Life®
We are all shocked by the images we get from the TV news and online sites, on how millions of people have lost their homes (or even their cities…), and over a hundred thousand are dead or nearly dead after the rage of the tsunami waves who hit the coast in Asia, after the earthquake early on the 26th of December.All charities in the world quickly started to raise some…
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