mine are:
* Ability to sell a piece of land with the objects that are on it. UI for this feature is on the "Objects" panel of the "About Land" floater. Includes: See who has objects on their parcel, and how many, and return them to owner.
* Allow content creators to dynamically set the price and sell type of an object using llSetForSale.
And, I grudgingly agree that
- Video streaming: In much the same way as streaming audio, both live and on-demand
video can be streamed into Second Life and played back on any textured surface in-world. The Quicktime engine is used for streaming playback, allowing support for open standards like MPEG-4. Requires that QuickTime be installed. (See Note Below)
has some potential for dynamic rendering of text. Not entirely sure this will work, but we will see.
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blaze Spinnaker
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03-02-2005 23:46
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Olmy Seraph
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03-02-2005 23:55
Those all sound nifty, but I probably won't use them as much as these:
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Oz Spade
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03-03-2005 00:05
I like the new hats!
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Nolan Nash
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03-03-2005 00:07
So blaze you've previewed it before it's official announcement?
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Lianne Marten
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03-03-2005 00:14
My favorite new feature of 1.6 is it's ability to go back in time and create lots of meaningless threads before it is released.
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Unhygienix Gullwing
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03-03-2005 00:14
I love the rush of eager new residents, excited, trembling
Rushing up to the new horse, to open its mouth, inspect its teeth, and declare it NOT GOOD ENOUGH. It's exciting, and I imagine (for the lindens) rewarding, to see how quickly some residents clamor to tell them what an awful job they did giving us all these new features, what poor choices they made in prioritizing, and how they clearly favor some goody-twoshoes residents over others. Yay! |
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Oz Spade
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03-03-2005 00:16
Now that you mention it... the hats could be a little shinier.
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blaze Spinnaker
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03-03-2005 00:20
yeah well, bicker until my point is made, because eventually you'll all end up agreeing with what I'm trying to say.
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Cristiano Midnight
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03-03-2005 00:31
My favorite new feature is the video, which surprises me, because when I heard about it originally, I was not enthused until I saw it in action. While we all know it will mean giant walls of porn, it will also mean some amazing new creativity as well. Seeing a video clip playing on 20 prims at once is impressive - almost otherworldly. Video is a bit cumbersome to implement right now and is lacking some controls, but I am sure it will rapidly improve. Just seeing a video on some hoochie hair was enough to convince me that the technology is pretty cool.
The inventory search and ability to see whose objects are on your land and return them are both very nice and sorely needed. The one that excites me the most is the web integration, even if it is just a link at this point - it opens up a lot of possibilities. 1.6 is still a little rough around the edges but it is impressive as hell. _____________________
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03-03-2005 00:32
I love the rush of eager new residents, excited, trembling Rushing up to the new horse, to open its mouth, inspect its teeth, and declare it NOT GOOD ENOUGH. It's exciting, and I imagine (for the lindens) rewarding, to see how quickly some residents clamor to tell them what an awful job they did giving us all these new features, what poor choices they made in prioritizing, and how they clearly favor some goody-twoshoes residents over others. Yay! _____________________
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Huns Valen
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03-03-2005 00:44
how about if they actually release it and then I'll get back to this thread
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Zuzi Martinez
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03-03-2005 01:07
for me it's:
1. texture preview 2. ability to see what objects people left on my land 3. Flash movies on a prim 4. view movement option when editting everything else looks good too. i couldn't be happier with the potential of this update unless it had havok 2 which is probly the next time i'll be this happy with an update.  |
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Kris Ritter
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03-03-2005 01:17
I'd gladly have none of these features if I could just teleport or cross sim borders. Or have a reply to just one of the several dozen bug reports I've raised in the last few months.
Frankly I can't get excited by new features when I can barely play the game and LL are more interested in adding cute features than fixing the fundamental basics or answering customers. Especially when, if 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5 were anything to go by it just means weeks of unplayability while they iron out a couple of the worst new bugs. |
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Roberta Dalek
Probably trouble
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03-03-2005 01:18
International keyboard support! Yay!
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Huns Valen
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03-03-2005 03:00
I wonder if they fixed the sound engine in 1.6.
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03-03-2005 04:22
yeah well, bicker until my point is made, because eventually you'll all end up agreeing with what I'm trying to say. But... but... Your not saying anything! That said, the inventory and land management tools have a ton of promise, and I'm personally /really/ hyped about the ability to offset linear motor thrust, though it remains to be seen how well this was implimented. _____________________
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Shiryu Musashi
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03-03-2005 04:40
That said, the inventory and land management tools have a ton of promise, and I'm personally /really/ hyped about the ability to offset linear motor thrust, though it remains to be seen how well this was implimented. Yeah, that actually thrills me a lot as well, one thing comes to mind: drifting  Maybe LL wants to compete with GT4  _____________________
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Cienna Rand
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03-03-2005 08:50
Seeing a video clip playing on 20 prims at once is impressive - almost otherworldly. Video is a bit cumbersome to implement right now and is lacking some controls, but I am sure it will rapidly improve. Just seeing a video on some hoochie hair was enough to convince me that the technology is pretty cool. Bah... 20 prims? Hoochie hair? Try a plywood particle rain with streaming badgers. Sadly, no media align for particle textures, and no alpha. _____________________
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Kex Godel
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03-03-2005 08:59
More streaming video on huge particle showers:
http://flickr.com/photos/kex/5794906/ Amazingly enough, this did not seem to slow down my video framerate any more than the typical particle shower of this magnitude would. How about playing the old SL promotional video *in SL*: http://flickr.com/photos/kex/5794304/ The video stuff is nifty, but really my favorite new features are: #1) Ability to disable automatic camera movement #2) Inventory search #3) Unicode support |
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Travis Lambert
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03-03-2005 09:18
My favorites are:
Ability to see who rezed prims on your land Ability to track back to the owners of particles These two features will definately help me combat grief. Its not perfect - I mean, ideally I'd rather have the tools to actually prevent grief *before* it happens. But this is better than what we have now, and definately a step in the right direction Travis (Oh, and the video is kinda cool.... just hope streaming audio (shoutcast) and streaming video (quicktime) aren't mutually exclusive) |
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03-03-2005 09:51
Please don't ever mention the streaming badgers again, ok, please?
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Ghoti Nyak
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03-03-2005 09:52
1. Inventory search (OMG its so useful)
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Icon Serpentine
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03-03-2005 10:23
I love the rush of eager new residents, excited, trembling Rushing up to the new horse, to open its mouth, inspect its teeth, and declare it NOT GOOD ENOUGH. It's exciting, and I imagine (for the lindens) rewarding, to see how quickly some residents clamor to tell them what an awful job they did giving us all these new features, what poor choices they made in prioritizing, and how they clearly favor some goody-twoshoes residents over others. Yay! Damn straight. For the record, I think 1.6 is amazing and I'm thankful. LL has been working hard it seems and I can finally close minimized windows. It's impressive and I look forward to the full roll-out. _____________________
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Tiger Crossing
The Prim Maker
Join date: 18 Aug 2003
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03-03-2005 11:36
Alt-zoom in on a control panel you are aligning, scripting...
Hit ESC to exit menu mode so you can try out the controls... CAMERA DOES NOT MOVE!!! Play with the controls, then hit ESC again... Camera goes back to over-the-shoulder default. Sweet! Sometimes the littlest things make all the difference... _____________________
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Huns Valen
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