Day: January 8, 2025

Cica’s Dreamworld in Second Life

Posted on by Inara Pey
Cica Ghost – Dreamworld, January 2025

Dreamworld is the name Cica Ghost has given to her first installation of 2025, as just as the new year tends to be a time when we look positively towards the bright promises of the incoming year and all we might dream and achieve, so Cica offers a bright, happy setting that puts a spring in the step and a smile on the face.

This is a setting sort-of dominated by the feline form – I think that like me, Cica has a love of cats -; but one that comes in a light-hearted and whimsical way. The cats in the case are of enormous size and come in a variety of forms: literal catfish, equally literal cat houses, kitty seats … There’s also a little touch of Jerry among the Toms, including a mouse house and little mouse buggies to drive around in.

Cica Ghost – Dreamworld, January 2025

Among all of these, and within the patchwork landscape might be found long-horned cows, lama, and birds – and a rather large frog, complete with crown, as if waiting for a prince (or princess?) to come along and land it a kiss.

As might be expected with Cica, there are opportunities to sit and pass the time, to dance, to enjoy times on the water aboard a little boat – even to blast off in a rocket and experience some weightlessness.

Cica Ghost – Dreamworld, January 2025

The installation is accompanied by a quote from Brazilian lyricist and novelist, Paulo Coelho de Souza:

Love is what dreams are made of!

It’s a marvellous sentiment – one reflective of much of de Souza’s writing, much of which has been born of a life rich in experience: from being committed to a mental institution by his parents at the age of 17, through forsaking his dream of being a writer in order to meet the approval of those same parents, to being deeply involved in the hippie culture in the 1960s to his career as a lyricist and – eventually, procrastination being one of his strong suits, a writer.

Cica Ghost – Dreamworld, January 2025

Here, the quote reminds us of the power of love – and the need to show it; as does the brightness of Cica’s setting – indeed, of Cica’s library of work. So, why not hop along and share in Cica’s love and enjoy your own dreams (and don’t forget to pick up your gift!).

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2025 week #2: SL SUG meeting summary

Posted on by Inara Pey
Omerta Island, November 2024 – blog post

The following notes were taken from the Tuesday,  January 7th, 2025 Simulator User Group (SUG) meeting. They form a summary of the items discussed, and are not intended to be a full transcript, and were taken from Pantera’s video of the meeting, which is embedded at the end – my thanks to her for providing it.

Meeting Overview

  • The Simulator User Group (also referred to by its older name of Server User Group) exists to provide an opportunity for discussion about simulator technology, bugs, and feature ideas.
  • These meetings are conducted (as a rule):
  • Meetings are open to anyone with a concern / interest in the above topics, and form one of a series of regular / semi-regular User Group meetings conducted by Linden Lab.
  • Dates and times of all current meetings can be found on the Second Life Public Calendar, and descriptions of meetings are defined on the SL wiki.

Simulator Deployments

  • On Tuesday, January 7th, 2025, the simulators on the Main SLS channel were restarted with no update.
  • On Wednesday, January 8th:
    • The BlueSteel RC should be updated with the Apple Cobbler simulator update, which includes: llGetAttachedListFiltered(),llGiveAgentInventory(),llMapBeacon(),llTransferOwnership(), and a modification to llModPow, so it should work faster (however, it does not correctly handle the full range of positive 31-bit integers -and Leviathan Linden is working to define the range for which it supplies correct answers, so check the wiki page for updates).
    • The remaining simulators on the RC channels are to be restarted without any update.

SL Viewer Updates

  • Release viewer: version 7.1.11.12363455226, formerly the ExtraFPS RC (multiple performance fixes, aesthetic improvements and UI optimisations), dated December 17, promoted December 20 – No Change.
  • Release Candidate: none at present.

In Brief

Please refer to the video below for the following:

  • A discussion on llSetAgentRot and extending it, with Rider Linden noting:
I left the API open to be able to use any rot. Unfortunately there are a lot of assumptions in both the simulator and the viewer about the agent only rotating around Z. Changing that is going to be a much larger project.
  • Questions were asked on improving the quality of Linden Water effects and reflections. Such questions are best dealt with via the Content Creation User Group (summaries here).
  • An intertwined discussion with the above about Linden Water and swimming options.
  • There have been requests for a llSetObjectMass() function. Whilst this doesn’t currently exist, this SL wiki page has been created to provide a (hopefully) equitable capability, with Leviathan Linden noting:
Vehicle developers were asking for an llSetMass() method so they could standardize the mass of the vehicle after the agent had sat down. It turns out that LSL function is not necessary, there is a way to do it with existing LSL functionality, but it is a little tricky for multi-prim objects.
  • A further discussion on improving vehicle interaction with parcel bans – something LL is hoping to address – such as the potential for putting banline information on the mini-map, with other suggestions being put forward.
    • This led to a broad discussion on issues of parcel privacy and access, security and forced teleporting of unwanted visitors.
  • Requests have been made to modify Experience permissions so that creators can set them to “only this time” or “work like phone apps“. This led to a discussion on Experiences  and the format of the permissions dialogue, etc.

 

† The header images included in these summaries are not intended to represent anything discussed at the meetings; they are simply here to avoid a repeated image of a rooftop of people every week. They are taken from my list of region visits, with a link to the post for those interested.